The Era of De-Industrialization The United States shifted from a manufacturing to a service-based economy in the 1980s. The shift was more commonly referred to as deindustrialization. Deindustrialization triggered the reemergence of mass unemployment. Around the mid 1980s‚ Americans began to suffer the effects of a downfall in urban communities. Good paying‚ manufacturing jobs that once provided a living wage vanished. The decline of manufacturing jobs in America led to excessive drug and crime
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Ryan Guzzardo History 144A Mr. Dvorak Racism: A Cause of Failure for Reconstruction The Civil War was a horrible conflict which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of young American lives all because of a racial inequality and civil liberties. After the conflict‚ a major reconstruction was begun to unify the country as a whole and slavery of the Negro population was abolished. Though the black community was technically free from slavery‚ the racial tension prevented the overall liberty of the
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History 2620 Midterm #1 Study Guide Identifications: Reconstruction amendments Free labor Presidential Reconstruction Sherman’s Order No. 15 Andrew Johnson Freedmens’ Bureau Black Codes Poll Taxes Vagrancy Laws Ku Klux Klan Radical Reconstruction Reconstruction Acts Ulysses Grant Enforcement Acts Sharecropping Liberal Republicans Redeemers The Compromise of 1877 Plutocracy Allotment Acts Recapitulation theory Grandfather clause Segregation Plessy v. Ferguson New Immigration Populism The Tariff
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Marcus Pando Period 4 Chapter 22 Key Terms Describe and state the historical significance of the following: 7. Freedmen’s Bureau Initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. At the end of the war‚ the Bureau’s main role was providing emergency food‚ housing‚ and medical aid to refugees‚ though it also helped reunite families. Later‚ it focused its work on helping the freedmen adjust to their conditions of freedom. Its
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1. The Wounded Knee Massacre took place on December 29‚ 1890‚ but the tensions that led to this eruption in conflict had long been developing. For years the United States government had been seizing land that belonged to Native Americans through “trickery… deportation… and murder”‚ including that of the Lakota Sioux‚ who were the victims of the massacre. Not only that‚ “Americans had shown ‘democratic energy and enterprise’ in ‘driving back the Indians‚ or annihilating them as a race’”‚ demonstrating
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mhawkins@cerritos.edu Spring 2014 Office Hours: by appointment MW 2:00-3:15 SS 310 History 102: Political and Social History of the United States until 1877 Welcome to the Course! Course Description: This is an introductory survey of United States history from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The first goal of the course is to impart to students a strong foundational overview of the key events and transitions from this period. Students will
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Gabrielle Kirshman Yavor APUSH – 1st January 13‚ 2011 1996 DBQ: Social and Constitutional Development in America (1860-1877) During the post-civil war era‚ America‚ specifically the south‚ was undergoing a period of reconstruction. The general goal of reconstruction was to successfully readmit the former Confederacy back into the Union as smoothly as possible‚ as well as enacting specific safeguards of freedmen’s liberties. The social and constitutional developments in America between
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nature of government through a bizarre story that follows the actions of the men on a train attempting to save themselves through a parliamentary process. The scenario represents the often misguided collective conscience of the government in Twain’s era‚ and unfortunately‚ today as well. The men‚ trying to hold on to human values and not succumb to their instincts‚ fail miserably as they attempted to remove their guilt of eating each other by justifying it through “Robert’s Rules of Order.” The cannibalism
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4) What was the Underground Railroad? The Underground Railroad was a chain of “stations” (antislavery homes/safe houses) through which scores of “passengers” (runaway slaves) were led by “conductors” (white and black abolitionists) from the slave states in the south to the free sanctuary of Canada. a. Who was called “Moses” and why? Harriet Tubman was called “Moses” because during 19 forays to the south‚ she rescued more than 300 slaves (including her aged parents). 5) What was
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During both the civil war and civil war reconstruction time periods‚ there were many changes going on in the Union. The Emancipation Proclamation‚ as well as legislation such as the thirteenth‚ fourteenth and fifteenth amendments‚ was causing a new awakening of democracy; while the renouncing of secession by the South marked a definite triumph for Nationalism. As well‚ the government was involved in altercations of its own. During reconstruction‚ the legislative and executive branches eventually
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