ch. 23 Political Paralysis in the Gilded Agex
- The Birth of Jim Crow in the Post-Reconstruction South
- Class Conflicts and Ethnic Clashes + the "Century of Humiliation"
- Makers of America - The Chinese (blue section)
- The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
compromise of 1877
Electoral count Act
withdrawal troops from remaining southern states, Florida
15 members from senate, House, Supreme court
Hayes become president
construct transcontinental railroad
sacrifice civil rights of Southern blacks
Civil rights act of 1875
14th amendment
end reconstruction
black people faced problem
unemployment, eviction, and physical harm.
forced into sharecropping
crop lien system
farmers in debt
Jim crow laws
segregation blacks from whites
disfranchisement of the South’s freedmen
Plessy v. Ferguson
separate but equal
raicist imbalace southern society
railroad company had lots of profit
begin to low wages
workers' struct back
Hayes call troops
racial and ethnic conflict
Irish vs Chinese in CA
poor, uneducated single from china
not a Chinaman’s chance
Denis Kearney
violence for chinises
competition of cheap labor
Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882
NO immigrant from China
birthright citizenship
civil rights among 14th amendment
century of Huiliation
after 1st opium war
invasion from Europe, US, Japan
loss of power
imperialism
labor around world
exploding population
short of terriotiry
farm, mining
help transcontinental railroads
pig selling
civil rights to
Chinese immigrants.
treaty by Anson Burlingame
Chinatowns whenever economic opportunuties present
community, safety
anti-chinese