The Presidential victory of the Republican Party in 1860 and the secession of the powerful agrarian states of the South placed the federal government in the hands of the business interests of the North and East. In the years that followed occurred the fundamental change from an agriculture/industry nation to a unified industrial nation. The political changes of the Civil War and Reconstruction were the violent manifestations of this profound change. Statistics of the nation’s economy provide ample evidence of the rapid growth of business and urban life. The Republican Party, the political instrument by which the machinery of the federal government was managed by business interests, enacted a number of laws highly favorable to…
In the time span of 40 years after the end of the Era of Good Feelings in 1824, the United States of America experienced economic crises regarding banks, the upcoming of popular sovereignty, and the insurrection of conflict for women’s suffrage (to no prevail). When President Lincoln was elected into office in 1860, the nation had fragmented into two: the Northern Union and the Southern Confederacy, no longer being a “united nation”. The apportioning standards between the Union and the Confederacy dealt with the issues of slavery and black citizenship, political division between Democrats and Republicans, and the unstable economy within the South due to the Reconstruction with North booming from industry and those useful interchangeable parts causing America to develop into a nation divided in two.…
Although a “corrupt bargain”, the election of 1824 began a period in American history in which the needs of the “common man” were addressed instead of those of the New England Federalists or aristocratic plantation owner. One of the most remarkable changes surrounding the Jacksonian Period was the advent of universal white male suffrage. In addition, presidential campaigns had to evolve in order to reach a mostly uneducated, uninformed majority. Finally, reform movements sprung up that contributed to the political changes that benefited the “common man.” Although, the Jacksonian Period celebrated the common man through political enfranchisement and reform, the era did limit the inclusion of non-white males.…
The professors argue that the progressives not only recognized the diversity of cultures, but also compromised and wanted to diminish the conflict between social and economic groups. They explain that there would be no reason to blame the progressives for the failure of their new ideas and that they should eliminate all the arguments of an industrial city. Asking the progressives why it was that the adopted measures, which tended to disguise and obscure economic and social conflict would be understandable as it happened as soon as they uncovered it. Although attempts to reduce divisions sometimes came off as trying to impose their ways on the urban middle class, it wasn’t intended to come off that way. In result, the progressives never had lived their dream of eliminating social conflict. All of these are the different reasons are why progressivism did not live up to the standards of its intentions. The social lives and personal lives of people were also affected greatly by progressivism. These problems that the progressives faced are still problems that the Americans have challenged ever since. Progressivism was also known as a source of strength, which is now missing from…
Although initially the Northern press expressed deep sympathy for Brown, saying that “we would be glad to avert the axe which hangs over the old man's head”, the impending secession crisis and the coming presidential election of 1860 required Northern press to be very careful with their political opinions. At that moment, the North’s chief political endeavor was to prevent rather than hastening Southern states from seceding. In one of its editorials, Chicago’s Press and Tribune characterized this raid as a “fanaticism action” and stated sincerely that “as long as we are a part of the Union, supporting the constitution and the laws”, Old Brown was answerable for the “legal consequence of his act”(2). The Northern newspaper had done their best to calm the slaveholders down and persuade them to stay in the…
During the late 19th century and early 20th century, immigration to the United States was wrought with challenges. The newly arriving aliens were met with racist native-borns who feared that they would threaten their way of life. This tension between these new groups facilitated the U.S. government’s anti-immigration laws, which also caused political outbursts from those who supported immigrants.…
James Knox Polk was a slave-owning Tennessee Democrat who devoted his private life to profit from plantation slavery and his public career to his party and his section. He was, in short, a fierce Southern partisan. Yet this reality has been masked by generations of shallow scholarship or outright Southern apologetics. Biographies of the eleventh president have gloried in his aggressive territorial expansionism with little thought to motive or context; they have celebrated his strong leadership as chief executive without understanding his principles, goals, or personal ideology; they have taken his words as a Democratic partisan and successful planter-politician at face-value, failing to sufficiently explore party agenda and mechanics. Moreover, studies of the Mexican War or the broader antebellum era do not adequately uncover the partisan Polk, though several do a fine job of placing him the context of party and section.…
CHAP TE R 21 Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House 1890–1916 CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading and studying this chapter, students should be able to: • Explain grassroots progressivism including its proponents, and why they targeted the city for reform. Understand why activists formed alliances with the working class and under what circumstances those alliances proved successful. • Recognize the intellectual underpinnings of progressivism.…
Thomas A. Bailey’s, The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1966), presents a view that would claim the that the actions of the Northern ‘carpetbaggers’ and ‘scalawags’ were both “selfish and idealistic” in regards to the Republican government in the Southern states. Meanwhile, Bailey paints a sad picture of the once enslaved and uneducated Negroes of the Republican government, a role that he attributed as “pathetic and tragic.”…
As we know it is very statistical for people of the dominant race to have a high position in the work force and usually people who have this position tend to look down to people who they believe are less than them. Especially in the workforce this is one place where it was always competitive and constantly having the knowledge that if you're not doing what needs to be done, you can easily be replaced without any hassle. In addition the factors that are related to work most prominently has three main components which include race, gender, and education. Unlike others some would disagree and say that I’m wrong and the factors to getting a job just deals with education, and in that manner they would be considered wrong. Moreover I say this because…
Why can’t you stop hating everyone that doesn’t look like you? You guys started a protest in Charlottesville because you didn’t want the statue of Robert E. Lee taken down. As a result of this protest, one person who was killed and much more were injured. For some people that statute only represents history but for you, it represents something much bigger. It represents a time when people were enslaved just because of their skin color.…
Although a “corrupt bargain”, the election of 1824 began a period in American history in which the needs of the “common man” were addressed instead of those of the New England Federalists or aristocratic plantation owner. One of the most remarkable changes surrounding the Jacksonian Period was the advent of universal white male suffrage. In addition, presidential campaigns had to evolve in order to reach a mostly uneducated, uninformed majority. Finally, reform movements sprung up that contributed to the political changes that benefited the “common man.” Although, the Jacksonian Period celebrated the common man through political enfranchisement and reform, the era did limit the inclusion of non-white males.…
The reevaluation that America faced during the Reconstruction era was a result of a tumultuous political epoch, a social caste-system already established in the south, and a period of economic distress and uncertainty. The political constituencies in both the north and the south proved to be in a constant contestment for power; as the era continued, the corruption and dislike for the opposing party became predominant. This rivalry also helped the racial and socio-economic casting to become a principal rite in southern society. By aggravating the southern whites with laws and regulation created for the purpose of revenge, northern Republicans caused the white men and women of the south to further distance themselves from the Black race. This issue of separation and segregation, accelerated also by the growing economic tension in the south, became one of the major problems that the south encountered. When the economy worsened to the point of a depression, the country became entangled in a web of corruption, racism, and persecution, which continued far after the reconstruction ended. This dimly lit period continues to be the most tragic point in American history, as demonstrated by the macabre and senseless violence and corruption that occurred throughout the era.…
The many troubling aspects regarding slavery and racism can arguably be described as the most controversial issues that American politics has ever had to face. Dating back to the very first settlers, our nation has always been at odds with how to tackle this highly disputed matter. Although slavery played a very contested role in forming the United States, it wasn’t until the late 1850’s that these issues came to an absolute breaking point. With new legislation being passed to help create equality for enslaved blacks, the South became increasingly skeptical on the direction that the federal government wanted to take. Soon after the election of republican Abraham Lincoln in 1861, white southerners decided that they had had enough and the American Civil War quickly ensued. In order to restore order in the Union, President Lincoln passed many pieces of legislation in efforts to abolish slavery and rebuild the nation. This legislation passed during Lincoln’s presidency created many obstacles concerning social and economic policies in regards to racism for the administrations of the ensuing Reconstruction Era.…
I strongly agree with the findings of this study dealing with malleable and fixed nature traits. Although, a person may have been raised under strict beliefs and even to have hatred toward a certain group of people or topic, this is not an indication that those individuals are not capable of altering their beliefs. The four studies that were done, just prove that regardless of the beliefs we carry that we commonly feel are set in stone, are capable of being modified. Four studies done by these researchers explain just how malleability can overcome any fixed traits about an individual or a group for that matter. They provide us with the first study which involves a broad sample of Israeli Jews, they were assessed based…