Gilded Age and Expansionism
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Trigger Words
"A Scarcity of Teachers, A Question of Morals" - NY Times (11/13)
This is a short article about how there are few teachers around to educate children, as well as adults. In this short article, a clerk at an grocery store does not acquire the knowledge of math and gives the visitor attitude when asked for change. Due to the clerk's lack of education, he simply gives the visitor more sugar instead of giving them the exact change necessary.
Alexis S |
White Women Protest the Hiring of Black "Wage-Slaves"
This is a letter written by poorer white women workers in Atlanta who have to work with black women. They see it as a ploy by manufacturers to weed them out of the jobs because "black wage-slaves will work cheaper"and think that "the majority of self respecting black citizens" will also see it as a cheap ploy by greedy owners who want to make more money.Since factory jobs are really the only area women can work, and since their jobs are going to cheaper people, they are angry and disgruntled and are asking for higher wages and job security.
The significance in this is that it illustrates social divisions among the lower classes as well as the fine line between racism and prejudice.Meaning, although the letter makes the women workers seem racist in not wanting to work with black women or be replaced by them, you could also argue that the white women were, in a way, trying to advocate higher wages for black women too because they see it as insult to the "majority of self-respecting black citizens" that they would be paid much lower wages for harder work.
Bronte D. |
David G |
Chinese Immigration to San Fransisco (1874)
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/1874.html Summary: This newspaper article printed in 1874 depicted the rising conflict and issues in California regarding the rising of the already exponentially large Asian immigrants and how they are interacting with the previous or new coming European immigrants.
Significance: This article bears significance since it shows how much of a problem the Asian immigrants were becoming to the European Immigrants as well as the nativists. This also shows that the government were also starting to take a role in this seemingly rising problem in the northwest that could outcome in mistakes that would take years to fix. Verick R |