Warm Ups and Short Answer Responses

Warm Ups andShort Answer Responses Unit 2D: Issues of the Gilded Age

SA: Boss Tweed “When the notorious political boss William Marcy Tweed was accused of having a corrupt hold on political elections in New York, he snarled, “As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?” Thomas Nast, a reformer and talented cartoonist, decided what he would do about it. He sat at his drawing table and took pen in hand.” • Define political machine. • Identify who benefited most from Boss Tweed’s control of New York City. • Describe how Boss Tweed is portrayed in the Thomas Nast cartoon above and explain the symbolism. • Include historical details and examples in your response. SCORE_____

SA: Thirty Years of Lynching &the New Ku Klux Klan in America (1889-1918)

SA: Thirty Years of Lynching &the New Ku Klux Klan in America (1889-1918) • According to the map, which state had the most lynchings? • Using the map, determine the number of and identify the states with 10 or fewer reported lynchings? • According to the figures provided by the map, which state outside the old Confederacy had the largest number of Ku Klux Klan members? • Using the map, determine the number of states with a quarter of a million or more KKK members. • Which two states or territories had no KKK members?

SA: Thirty Years of Lynching &the New Ku Klux Klan in America (1889-1918)

SA: Thirty Years of Lynching &the New Ku Klux Klan in America (1889-1918) • According to the map, which state had the most lynchings? • Using the map, determine the number of and identify the states with 10 or fewer reported lynchings? • According to the figures provided by the map, which state outside the old Confederacy had the largest number of Ku Klux Klan members? • Using the map, determine the number of states with a quarter of a million or more KKK members. • Which two states or territories had no KKK members?

SA: Thirty Years of Lynching &the New Ku Klux Klan in America (1889-1918) • According to the map, which state had the most lynchings? • Using the map, determine the number of and identify the states with 10 or fewer reported lynchings? • According to the figures provided by the map, which state • outside the old Confederacy had the largest number of Ku Klux • Klan members? • Using the map, determine the number of states with a quarter of • a million or more KKK members. • Which two states or territories had no KKK members?

Booker T. WashingtonThe Atlanta Exposition Address Read Booker T. Washington’s “The Atlanta Exposition Address” and respond to the tasks below. • Describe what Washington advises African Americans do in order to improve their lot in life, and assess Washington’s advice (does he make a valid point?). • Describe Washington’s argument regarding the impact of compensation on the growth and development of African Americans. • Explain whether you believe Booker T. Washington’s philosophy betrayed the interests of African Americans. SCORE_____

W.E.B. Du Bois “Of the Spiritual Striving” • Identify THREE (or more) obstacles African Americans faced in the forty years following emancipation. • Identify THREE (or more) symbolic interpretations of the “veil” from Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk. • Explain what Du Bois meant when he asserted “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line”. • Explain how Du Bois believes African Americans and the U.S. can overcome the obstacles they face. • Evaluate the positions of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois (who is right?). VEIL AFRICAN AMERICANS

The Veil OBSTACLES LACK OF POLITICAL POWER DISCRIMINATION AFRICAN AMERICANS KKK SEGREGATION 2ND CLASS CITIZENS

SA: Booker T. Washingtonvs. W.E.B. Du Bois • Explain how Du Bois believes African Americans can overcome the obstacles they face in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th Century (1900s). • How do Du Bois’ views differ from those of Booker T. Washington? • Who is right? Explain. SCORE_____

SA: The Woman Question, Early 1900s Look at the diagram below. • Describe the arguments for TWO of the rights above that women were demanding for themselves. • Explain the rationale behind ONE of the arguments above against women’s rights. • Evaluate the issue of the “Woman Question” in the early 1900s. • Include relevant historical details and examples in your response.

Abigail to John, March 31, 1776 “I long to hear that you have declared an independancy– and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I support it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation. “That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing of Friend. Why then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the Lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity? Men of Sense in all Ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your Sex. Regard us then as Beings placed by providence under your protection and in immitation of the Supreem Being make use of that power only for our happiness.” • What is Abigail asking for? • What does she indicate women will do if they don’t get this? • Does she seem educated? Why the misspelled words?

John to Abigail, April 14, 1776 “As to Declarations of Independancy, be patient. Read our Privateering Laws, and our Commercial Laws. What signifies a Word. “As to your extraordinary Code of Laws, I cannot but laugh. We have been told that our Struggle has loosened the bands of Government everywhere. That Children and Apprentices were disobedient– that schools and Colledges were grown turbulent– that Indians slighted their Guardians and Negroes grew insolent to their Masters. But your Letter was the first Intimation that another Tribe mo numerous and powerful than all the rest were grown discontented.– This is rather too coarse a Compliment but you are so saucy. I wont blot it out. “Depend on it. We know better that to repeal our Masculine system. Altho they are in full Force, you know they are little more that Theory. We dare not exert our Power in its full Latitude. We are obliged to go fair, and softly; and in Practice you know We are the subjects. We have only the Name of Masters, and rather than give up this, which would completely subject Us to Despotism of the Petticoat, I hope General Washington, and all our brave Heroes would fight. I am sure every good Politician would plot, as long as he would against Despotism, Empire, Monarch, Aristocracy, Oligarchy, or Ochlocracy.A fine Story indeed. I begin to think the Ministry as deep as they are wicked. After stirring up Tories, Trimmers, Bigots, Canadians, Indians, Negroes, Hanoverians, Hessians, Russians, Irish Roman Catholics, Scotch Renegadoes, at last they have stimulated the [women] to demand new Priviledges and threaten to rebell!” • Does John say they can fulfill his wife’s request? Why or why not? • With what problems does he indicate the ‘Signers’ are also dealing?

SA: New 20th Century Entertainment • Identify the new forms of entertainment and recreation Americans were enjoying at the turn of the 20th century. • Describe the role of compulsory education in creating a larger market for newspapers and magazines. • Explain how the growth of cities led to the new kinds of performances and recreation you identified above. • Be certain to include relevant historical details and examples to support your response. Many factors at the turn of the 20th century “[fueled] a whole new commercial recreation industry designed to supply inexpensive entertainment for all Americans.”

SA: Spain’s Sense of Justice Look at the political cartoon below. • Define “yellow journalism”. • Identify whom you think is depicted in the political cartoon. • Describe the cartoonist’s point of view. • Explain how this cartoon is an example of yellow journalism. • Include relevant historical details and examples.

Warm Ups and Short Answer Responses