ENG 483 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Social Science, Social Darwinism, Darwinism
12 Oct 2018
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Fall 2018
Narratives of Unrest: 1865-1914
1. 1861-1865
a. Civil War- 2% of Popilation Dead
b. 6.4 million relative to today
2. Assassinations
a. Lincoln: April 1865
b. Garfield: July 1881
c. McKinley: September 1901
3. Financial Panics of 1873 and 1893
a. Depressions
b. Dramatic unemployment, labor unrest
c. People don’t see much hope
d. Due to rampant speculation on the stock market
e. Devastating because of big levels of poverty
4. Yawning gap between the wealthy and those who are not wealthy
5. 14th Amendment
a. Personhood
b. Theory
c. All people born in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S.
d. No state shall make a law which deprives person of life, liberty, or property
without due process
e. Equal protection of the law
f. Ratified July 9, 1868
6. In practice, the 14th Amendment became the basis for Jim Crow
a. This also led to the personization of corporations
b. Plessy v. Ferguson, which allowed separate but equal under this amendment
7. Leads to violence
a. Strikes
b. Racism
c. Protests
d. Socialism
e. People’s party
f. Anarchists
8. U.S. in perpetual conflict with Native Americans
9. Darwinism and the rise of science and social science
a. Move toward a secular view of the world
b. Appropriation of Social Darwinism
10. Literature
a. Romance
i. Main genre
ii. Adventures
iii. Big ideas
b. Realism
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c. Regionalism
d. Naturalism: people have no power over nature and biology
e. Utopia
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