1. 1A. The Populist movement was one of the most interesting political movements of American History, and as such, faced significant challenges. The first was integrating African-Americans into the party. Many southern whites refused to accept them and few African Americans were jumping at the prospect of leaving Lincoln's party. Moreso, they faced attacks from democrats in the south, in the same fashion as the republicans; intimidation of black voters, stuffing ballot boxes, as well as many other dishonest tactics were used to keep them out of office. Next, the populists failed in the way of urban voter appeal. Their platform was either in direct conflict with the urban American’s interests, or made little difference to them. In addition, …show more content…
The turn of the century saw the rise of the southern redeemers. African Americans now faced additional trials and tribulations. First, the reduction of public programs caused a drastic decrease in the availability of education, and hospitals. Second, they drastically increased the ability for the police to arrest who they so chose (vis. African Americans), and commit them to a slavery sentence. Second, working class African Americans were segregated to very few jobs indeed. Third, in this period we see the drastic decrease of African American votership. This is because of laws that targeted them for disenfranchisement, such as literacy tests and poll taxes. This quickly lead to an exclusively white southern government which passed extreme segregation laws. Next, we see the north mostly lose sympathy for the southern black population. Finally, and certainly the most extreme example, we see the lynching of African Americans all across the south. These were mostly said to be caused by the African American raping a white woman, though this is quite suspect in the VAST majority of cases. All in all, this was a hard time for African …show more content…
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, race was an important issue. On the homefront, we saw white power reassert its stranglehold on the south, through the politics of the democrats. These “redeemers”, as they called themselves, attempted to abolish any policy put forth by the republicans during the reconstruction. Taxes, particularly on landed property, were slashed, leading to drastic decreases in public spending. Among the most affected were hospitals and schools. In fact, louisiana became the only state in which literacy among the white population dropped between 1880 and 1900. If the white schools were this bad, imagine the African American schools. This fact is especially important as, in an effort to reduce African American voting, many states instituted literacy requirements for voting. While this, and other voting requirements (poll tax, an understanding of the state constitution and so on), mostly had an effect on African Americans, 80,000 whites also lost their right to vote. However, this in no way lead to a decrease in their representation in D.C., as the Fourteenth amendment requires. This reduced the freedom of ALL americans by increasing the proportional power of those who make decisions for them. Last, in 1893, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could expel any Chinese alien without due process of law. As always, legal creep allowed this to be used to create a law barring anarchists from entering the country. This was later extended to
The social conditions throughout the era were extremely poor. Legal discrimination was around and African Americans were denied democratic rights and freedoms. The southern states would pass strict laws to normalize interactions between white people and African Americans. For example, Jim Crow signs were placed above regularly visited places by everyone, such as water fountains, public facilities, door entrances and exits, etc. Even the most basic rights such as drinking from a water fountain was taken away from African Americans. They would also have separate buildings for African
In all the history of America one thing has been made clear, historians can’t agree on much. It is valid seeing as none of them can travel back in time to actually experience the important events and even distinguish what has value and what doesn’t. Therefore all historians must make a leap and interpret the facts as best they can. The populist movement does not escape this paradox. Two views are widely accepted yet vastly different, the views of Richard Hofstadter and Lawrence Goodwyn. They disagree on whether populists were “isolated and paranoid bigots” or “sophisticated, empathetic egalitarians”; whether their leaders were “opportunists who victimized them” or “visionary economic theorists who liberated them”; whether their beliefs were rooted in the free silver campaign of the 1890s or the cooperative movement of the 1880s; and finally whether their ideal society was in the “agrarian past” or “the promise of a cooperative future”. They could not agree on anything, over all Richard Hofstadter seems to have a better idea of the truth of populism.
The Populists and Progressive were form of movement that occurred during the outbreaks of the workers union after the civil war. The populists began during the late 1800s.The progressive began during the 1900s. There are many differences between these two movements, but yet these movements have many things that are similar.
Throughout the 1800’s and 1900’s in the southern region of the United States, all African Americans were treated like they didn’t belong here in this country. Almost all white males that were wealthy owned a plethora of African Americans as their personal slaves. They would work days upon days for their respective owners. Whether it was picking cotton or doing whatever their owner asked of them, they were pretty much treated like they were anything but a human being. They were treated poorly and their living conditions can probably be considered as inhumane. The quality of life for the two races in our beloved country had a huge difference. This era was more commonly known as the Jim Crow era. “Jim Crow describes the segregationist social system
In an era of addressing social issues and inequality, many African Americans were segregated and divided; they fought for justice but racial tensions still formed. The Progressive Era: a time of major movements of the American population. During the decades between the 1890s and 1920, Americans were faced with many challenges and in turn, they entered a modern era of change. The states and cities were experiencing a newly diverse and urban society. There were new technological advances and industrial economics were growing rapidly since the Civil War. Although, not all innovations made during this time were beneficial. With the large innovations in society and the progressive mindsets, the lives of African Americans dramatically changed. The
A time of trial and tribulation, the early 1900’s often became a perilous experience for those who were of a skin color other than white, predominately the black race. New laws were made concerning the livelihood of black people at this time, often marking them as subservient to their white counterparts. Laws such as the Jim Crow era laws are examples of this. After the Civil War, life was very difficult for everyone, as the country had faced severe losses in the north and south, not to mention the conditions of southern land. After the Civil War, black people were technically free, but to have a life all of their own was a very difficult feat, as they had been provided for by their masters
The South was a complete mess after the Civil War. The early part of the 20th century brought many changes for African Americans. There was a difficult challenge of helping newly free African American slaves assimilate among their white counterparts. They suffered from crop failures, economic hardships, and the early failures of Reconstruction in the south. So as result many Southern African Americans migrated to northern cities in search of employment and a chance at a better life. However, Southern African Americans migrating to northern cities quickly discovered that they were not able to enjoy the same social and economic mobility experienced by their European immigrant counterparts arriving around the same time. There were many questions that had to be asked and answered not just among politicians, but the entire white and black populations. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois and John Hope all attempted to conquer these tough issues based on their own experience and cultural influences by sharing their opinions.
Toward the end of the Progressive Era American social inequality had stripped African Americans of their rights on a local and national level. In the 1896 Supreme Court case of Plessey vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court sided with a Louisiana state law declaring segregation constitutional as long as facilities remain separate but equal. Segregation increased as legal discriminatory laws became enacted by each state but segregated facilities for whites were far superior to those provided for blacks; especially prevalent in the South were discriminatory laws known as Jim Crow laws which surged after the ruling. Such laws allowed for segregation in places such as restaurants, hospitals, parks, recreational areas, bathrooms, schools, transportation, housing, hotels, etc. Measures were taken to disenfranchise African Americans by using intimidation, violence, putting poll taxes, and literacy tests. This nearly eliminated the black vote and its political interests as 90% of the nine million blacks in America lived in the South and 1/3 were illiterate as shown in Ray Stannard Baker’s Following the Color Line (Bailey 667). For example, in Louisiana 130,334 black voters registered in 1896 but that number drastically decreased to a mere 1,342 in 1904—a 99 percent decline (Newman ). Other laws prevented black...
As black and white southerners moved west and north it was most frequent that they would settle down into a community made up of their own race. Even white northerners had social differences than the white southerners who may have moved in next to them as most neighborhoods in the industrial north held second-generation immigrants of European descendants. As Gregory phrased it “residential dispersion meant that for most white migrants, the resettlement experience would be an exercise in integration.” (pg.164) As religion started to build on black empowerment the people started to back the civil rights movement more. They started to make political powers in the North that were not accessible in the South and had a high “rate of electoral activity given the poverty and recent arrival of most of the population.” (pg.241) The civil rights era marked a huge turning point for African American’s rights and political involvement because they were able to influence the country into making a change that otherwise would leave us with a very different America
There were many problems in the late 1800s. Most of these problems came from social issues in society. The two main issues this paper will address is the exploitation of farmers and workers, and how they tried to change things by reform movements.
And for example, under a New Electorate, we surprisingly noticed that black Southerners outnumbered white voters by one hundred thousands. In other words, black Southerners led (or held) voting majorities in 5 states. Except the political equality mentioned above, black southerners were also now free in so many different areas of the society such as education, civil rights, they had the right to their own labor, had a sense of autonomy, could attend black churches and they could even seek lands. There were even blacks like Hiram Revels and Blanche K.Bruce from Mississippi serving in the U.S Senate. Even better than that, during that period, as one of major results of the improvement, large numbers of blacks participated in American government for the first time in the state constitutional conventions of 1867-1868. Property qualification for office holders was abolished and made more equitably redistricted state legislatures. My last point about the ways black were now free, is about the fact they were now able to attend schools because of the creation of public-school system (which was almost non-existent in the
Porter's article pertaining to populism, although highly insightful, seemed to over-extend itself at times. To be fair, though, his inclusion of the varying aspects is understandable considering how many there are to consider. The over-arching theme is most certainly that of the role of artificial intelligence in the continued rise or somewhat hopeful fall of populism. This article is certainly one with remarks on the weight of how this issue may not only change the future of the political system (moreover, its leaders), but also that of the contentment, or rather, discontentment of those who inhabit said nation and how such people will shape the system. Certainly this is not written from a realist point of view. Something interesting that
of land, and other reforms that would give the people more power in controlling the political process. The populist movement wanted to do away with the laissez-faire attitude. which the farmers felt was responsible for their current economic situation. They wanted the government to be involved so that the monopolies could no longer take over the The American economy.. The Populist movement gave a voice to the people who weren’t being heard, and gave them a chance to have a say in their community and their own lives.
The issue is Racial Education in the united States.Racial Political remains a major phenomenon.Racism continued to be reflected in socioeconomic inequality and had taken on more modern,indirect form of expression,most prevalently symbolic racism.Racial stratification continues to occur in employment,housing ,education, leading and government.White homesteaders were able to go west and obtain unclaimed land through government grant while the land and rights of African Americans were rarely enforced.There were also the threats of lynching to any African American who achieve success.There were many problems that would cause violence between whites and African American if a black person Achieve something.It would have been more easier if blacks
Massive protests against racial segregation and discrimination broke out in the southern United States that came to national attention during the middle of the 1950’s. This movement started in centuries-long attempts by African slaves to resist slavery. After the Civil War American slaves were given basic civil rights. However, even though these rights were guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment they were not federally enforced. The struggle these African-Americans faced to have their rights ...