...1861 to 1865, the Civil War was in full spring. Tales of brother against brother, father against son, and friends against friends were not obscure in these five long years of bloodshed that negatively impacted both sides from major war exhaustion. In this war, there were more casualties of American heritage than any other war the United States of America has been through in its fairly small timespan combined, including the Revolutionary War, WWI, WWII, and the Vietnam War. The Union and the Confederacy fought against each other in many bloody, grim battles, large-scale and small-scale alike. Because of the large variety of these scuffles amongst these two nations, a difference in military tactics between them was sure to appear. Therefore, two historians, Perry Jamieson...
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...10 distinguished social classes. 23 This led to many party nominations being men who were brilliant statesmen, but stood for policies that helped people of their own social strata within their own regions, and not the masses. This became plain during the election of 1836 as the Whigs could not decide upon a single nomination. Their votes became split, allowing Democrat Martin Van Buren to win the Presidency. Though the selection of a party nominee is meant to be by popular vote, it can still be influenced by prominent figures. Such was the case with Martin Van Buren, Jackson’s “successor” to the Presidency. Van Buren was considered a puppet of Jackson, without any of the zeal of the original. Unfortunately for Van Buren, he inherited the problems of Jackson’s Presidency. One issue he had was jealousy within the party. Many democrats resented Van Buren for being Jackson’s favorite, and for winning the White House only with the general’s influence. The biggest of the problems Van Buren inherited, however, was Specie Circular. It had stopped speculation in its tracks while at the same time leading to the financial crash and panic of 1837. The Panic of 1837 arose from a multitude of errors...
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...What were the major cause and consequences of the populist movement of the 1880’s and 1890’s? The populist movement was a number of initiatives that began in response to the sentiment of society. The Populist Party is also call the People’s Party and the populist movement was the first important movement by citizens against what they believed was the corruption and the greed of our government. One of the causes was the Homestead Act which brought many new farmers to the West after the Civil War. Farmers then purchased the new farming machinery on credit in order to expand and produce more. The next cause of the populist movement was economic recession. The weather wasn’t cooperating with the farmers, crop prices dropped and farmers couldn’t pay their loans back and cover their debt. Farmers started losing their farms because the banks started foreclosing on them. The tariffs also were a cause of the populist movement because they made the cost for their farming equipment increase. Then the railroads were charging the farmers higher prices because they felt secure in the knowledge that they didn’t have any competition. The farmers wanted the government to do something about all of this, so they created two laws. The first was the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) which was put into place in order to regulate what the railroads could charge and then the second was the Sherman Anti- Trust Act. The populist movement is responsible for silver...
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...Introduction Over the past 50 years, there have been many changes within the social movement in the United States. Some of these changes have been for the better and some not so great. These changes were made with the hopes and dreams of making life better for all cultures, species, families, and environment. Now the question is, how did these change come about, and what were these changes about? Social Life of the 1950's In the early 1950's was a new beginning for the United States. With the end of the Great Depression and World War II, people felt that they could start living, and have things they thought they would never have, like a home, cars, a wife or husband, and children. With the new beginning, families started moving from large city life to the suburbs, for the reason that life in the suburbs was considerable less hectic and peaceful than what city life was like. Due to the Great Depression, many men and women put off getting married or starting families for the reason of lack of money or homes, and with the War, many were afraid they might not come home. However, with the new feeling of security and peace couples were able start the family they always wanted and so began the Baby Boom years. People moving to the suburbs triggered a trend of shopping centers within the suburbs, as well as movie theaters, bowling allies, fast food drive-ins, motels, and an interstate highway. Even...
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...example, Martin Luther King Jr. with his famous 'I Have a Dream' speech. However Huxley is also saying that words have the power to allow people to the level of the 'oppressors'.This is seen in Gloria Naylor's essay "The Meaning of a Word". I am also a believer of this doctrine. “Words start wars and end them"(Roy Williams, Web). A little over 50 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and delivered one of the memorable and influential speeches in history. During this time period, there were many civil rights movements occuring throughout the entire nation. The majority of African Americans in the U.S.A. especially in the south were faced with racial discrimination and Jim Crow Laws which allowed the legal segregation of black and white people even though "All men are created equal" (Thomas Jefferson, Web). These 'Laws' meant that colored people could not use the same bathrooms, parks, educational systems, bus stations and could not even use the same churches as whites and had to sit in the back of the buses while whites sat in the front. In 1955 an African American lady by the name of Rosa Parks sparked the fire that intiated these major civil rights movements. In Montegomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of...
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...Chapter 9 The Market Revolution 51. Complaint of a Lowell Factory Worker 1. The female factory worker compared her conditions with those of slaves because she felt like they were being treated like slaves by not being allowed to speak for themselves. She felt that they were awed into silence by wealth and power and was under tyranny and cruel oppression 2. She doubt the sincerity of the Christian beliefs of the factory owners because they talk benevolence in the parlor, compel their help to labor for a mean and paltry pittance in the kitchen. They manifest great concern for souls of the heathen in distant lands and care for nobody else besides their own. 52. Immigrants Arriving in New York City 1. The tone the reporter adopted regarding the immigrants is hostile because of how he describes the immigrants and how they looked. He described them having degraded faces with many stamps of inferiority. 2. The aspirations the reporter thinks are uppermost in the immigrant’s minds is hope, freedom, and a chance to work, and food to the laboring man. 53. A Woman in the Westward Movement 1. Moving west altered tradition expectations of women’s roles by proving that they could endure rough conditions from moving west. They were left to be lonely and the burdens of pioneer life. 2. Mrs. Noble’s main complaints about her situation on the frontier was carrying her infants and not being able to sleep because of thinking about wild beasts. She...
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...against Frederick Turner's assessment of Andrew Jackson's home county of Waxhaws to the detailed retellings of Jackson’s rise to prominence in the South; Chatham does a fine job at bridging his theory with relevant historical information, even when facing down counter views. From a normal citizen's standpoint, the idea that Jackson was more of a Southern rather than a Westerner or vice versa means little, though the common debate amongst historians is important for anyone truly wishing to understand the mind of Jackson. For me, the educational standpoint of what title best first Jackson’s person and his actions as a President is beinfitnal when discussing him with a future...
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...Trinity Lloyd Brady, K ENG 2D0 Thursday, December 17, 2015 Identity Crisis Your identity is what makes you the way you are. When you lose sight of your identity your beliefs and expressions are clouded, and insanity follows suit. In William Golding’s award winning novel Lord of the Flies this is revealed to the audience through multiple examples. The loss of your own identity can lead to insanity due to losing your physical identity, integrity, and accepting your true form, which Golding tells us, is insanity and savagery. To adapt to your surroundings, people usually alter or strip away their physical identity. For instance, clothes held the boys on the island to their physical identity, at first they kept them on to avoid getting sunburnt, but when they adapted to their surroundings, they strip away their clothes becoming slightly less civilized, the book states, “He [Ralph] undid the snake-clasp of his belt, lugged off his shorts and pants, and stood their naked, looking at the dazzling beach and the water” (Golding5). In society, rules were against stripping down, but since there was no authority on the island, Ralph sees no need to keep on the clothes he wore in civilization. In addition, Piggy’s glasses symbolize knowledge and reason. Physically the glasses are meant for vision, vision means sight, and sight is a metaphor for knowledge. When the glasses are broken, they are misused, no longer a symbol for knowledge and reason. “The chief led them, trotting steadily...
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...year in presidency. Kennedy’s presidency mainly consisted on managing relations with the Soviet Union, serving speeches for fellow citizens, and having an impact on the Civil Rights Bill. John F. Kennedy’s presidential actions led to the people having two perspectives of him. John F. Kennedy had quite a positive and negative effect on the citizens of America. People consider their views of John F. Kennedy to be either a pro-Kennedy liberal, or an anti-Kennedy revisionist. It is interesting how Kennedy seems to have an equal proportion to both pro-Kennedy liberal, and anti-Kennedy revisionist...
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...have your brain be your worst enemy. The boys were at target for this at a very young. Their brains haven't developed making them dependent on their parents who are not there. Boys who are left alone and frightened, turn to their largest instinct, there savagery. Isolation took them and changed who they were, well behaved British boys now savages. They were isolated from everything as soon as they got onto the island. The boys changed their personalities and the way they were because they were isolated. Isolation made it so that they were away from everything that was familiar to them changing their total point of view of their lives and what would become of them. The boys were forced to subject to their new life and be in a place they weren't comfortable even though they wouldn't have been comfortable at home either because of the war. Isolation started the fear and starting the main thing that was turning savage. Savagery and civility were the main problems in this book meaning that isolation could be...
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...By giving Asian Americans an “honorary white” status white people expect Asians to be grateful and quiet, ignoring racism and siding with white oppression in exchange for their status. The “model minority” is a conditional acceptance of Asians as long as they stay in their place. “What seems to infuriate some people…is the thought of Asians siding with other people of color, presumably against whites. They want to hold onto their notion of Asian Americans as docile honorary white people whose very existence…proves that racism does not exist in U.S. society,” states Kim. The appeals made by the Asian American community in the 20th century were only accepted as a tool for white politicians to discredit other more dangerous minorities and their complaints. Since then it has been used as a tool to bait racial minorities against each other, each striving to attain or keep the "honorary white status", distracting us from the real issues of inequality spread throughout the Asian, Hispanic, and black American communities alike. The “model minority” stereotype creates a decisive divide between Asian...
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...century, the two world wars, the cold war and Vietnam, space exploration and the dramatic impacts of automation and technology on everyday life, culminating with the popularity of personal computers and the birth of the internet towards the end of the millennium, arguably no other decade had as significant an impact on popular culture as did the 1960’s. What we witness is a transition from a conformist society at the start of the decade to a counter-culture of anti-war protests, pushes towards racial and sexual equality, free love and drug influences like never before. As...
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...Anonymous Professor Writing 201 6 August 2015 Gun Control It Now “Here’s your gun sir, with a side of no strings attached. Enjoy!” Throughout history, weapons , such as guns , were designed to protect and kill. Whether it was an issue over love, property, or even war, weapons were a necessary means if there was a disagreement. However, times have changed and guns have become dangerous and deadly weapons often used for no purpose at all, other than to harm innocent individuals. Although there are gun restrictions in California; an individual must complete a safety and handling course, be a legal citizen of the United States, and pass a thorough background check; including a fingerprint check. On occasion, it is still possible to obtain an illegal weapon through the black market; therefore, it is easy to buy an unregistered and untraceable gun, which can lead to detrimental effects. The Constitution is the foundation for laws and social norms for the United States. In the second amendment, it states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Nevertheless, the Constitution can be interpreted in many different ways. Although the Constitution permits the “right to bear Arms” a certain level of control is necessary in order to keep peace and stray away from anarchy and chaos. Unfortunately, it has become very easy for people to obtain weapons of mass destruction and preventative...
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...There once was a proud race of very spiritual people that were later known to us as Native Americans. Native American people were indigenous to the country we now refer to as the United States of America. The Native American people will later be called the American Indian. There is documentation to show Indians have inhabited North America as far back as 150000 B.C. Native Americans are a culture of proud spiritual nations with strong values and heritage. They were once free to wonder vast lands in a quest of survival without boundaries, regulations, and politics as we know it . Native American people were broken up between tribes, bands and rancherias each with various beliefs, needs, demographics and characteristics. There was a sacred prophecy told throughout the land of the arrival of different people that would bring disease, sickness and death to the native people. In 1492 the prophecy began to show true. Christopher Columbus reports of a new world began the introduction of European colonization “white man” to this native land. The introduction of the white man to America would have lasting effect on every Native American throughout history. From the first encounters to present day Indians, life would forever be changed. One of the first European descriptions of the New World and the people who inhabit it was written in a letter to Luis de Sant Angel, Tresurer of Aragon. In this letter Columbus, C. (1493) writes ...
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...Alexander the Great Alexander the Great, the King of Macedonia, was born in July 356 BC in Pella, Macedonia. He was one of the best military leaders in the history. He won much of what was then the civilized world, driven by his great ambition of the world conquest and the creation of a universal kingdom. He was the son of Philip of Macedon, who was a brilliant organizer and general. His mother was Olympias, princess of Epirus. She was brilliant and hot-tempered. Alexander inherited the best qualities of his father and mother. As a child he used to get discouraged after listening news that his father have conquered and taken another territory. This was because he was upset and worried that there would be nothing more left for him to do (John, 1996). By the time he was twelve, he was quite mature. This can be partially credited to the fact that he used to hang around his father's army for in his childhood; he was also running through the groups of army ever since he could walk. Even as a boy Alexander was strong and fearless. He tamed the brave and beautiful Bucephalus, a horse that no one else dared to ride or even touch. Later, this brave horse carried him to India, where it died. Alexander was very upset; he then built the city of Bucephala in memory of his beloved horse. When Alexander was about 13 years old, he became the student of Aristotle. He was always keen and ready to explore new things. He used to take part in sports and other daily exercise to build a...
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