Between 1880 and 1930‚ despite heavy restrictions on immigration‚ millions of people from Eastern and Southern Europe emigrated to the United States. As they settled into the urban cities‚ native-born and second-generation American citizens saw these immigrants and their foreign values and behaviors as a threat and thus sought to “Americanize” and assimilate them into the mainstream American society. However‚ Americanization in the eyes of the native-born was different from how immigrants understood
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The Lakota Indians had the sad and unfortunate luck of becoming personally acquainted with the westward thrust of American development when the Americans’ attitudes toward Indians had grown cynical and cruel. This interaction caused the Lakota culture to change a great deal during the nineteenth century. Horses and guns brought about a dramatic change in the Lakota’s culture. They “enabled them to seize and defend their rich hunting grounds‚ to follow the great migrating herds of buffalo that shaped
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PLAINS INDIANS The American Indians are among the best known of all Native Americans. These Indians played a significant role in shaping the history of the West. Some of the more noteworthy Plains Indians were Big Foot‚ Black Kettle‚ and Crazy Horse. Big Foot Big Foot was also known as Spotted Elk. Born in the Northern Great Plains‚ he eventually became a Minneconjou Teton Sioux chief. He was part of a tribal delegation that traveled to Washington‚ D.C.‚ and worked to establish schools
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from active military duty overseas. That cultural pattern saw its origin in the late 19th century where “ethnic identities proved to be a part of ... (white European foreign immigrants) self-identity and affected the way that they related to others.” The data presented in the reading reflects a rise in the white population and a corresponding drop in all non-white groups over the time period from 1860-1900. American Indians‚ for example‚ dropped from nearly 5% of
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desperate for any means to return them to their once great life of living free on their lands‚ undisturbed by the white race. By the 1890s‚ many took comfort in the preachings of a Paiute shaman called Wovoka. Claiming himself as a Messiah‚ he encouraged performing what was known as the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance was meant to be a way of combating the white race by ensuring that they would perish from natural disasters. It also would protect the Indians that performed it‚ ensuring their survival by gaining
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The Populist Party was a short-lived political party in the United States in the late 19th century. It flourished particularly among western farmers‚ based largely on its opposition to the gold standard. Although the party did not remain a lasting feature of the political landscape‚ many of its positions have become adopted over the course of the following decades. The very term "populist" has since become a generic term in U.S. politics for politics which appeals to the common person in opposition
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corners. c. The Indians had little bit of furniture. Their beds were made from buffalo robes‚ skins with the hair left on. They also had back rests. Food‚ clothes‚ and belongings were stored in parfleches. A parfleche was a pouch made of buffalo. d. . They also built wigwams. The wigwams protected the teepee from rotting. The wigwam was used to store food. IV) Religion A) The plain Indians had many religions. There are polytheisms. Animist was important to the Plains Indians life. They believe
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right to vote during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Since then‚ Feminism has turned into a mass movement‚ through the refusal of being silent in exploring the social constructs of gender‚ and gender roles. This was
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- Why we chose policies? = We now have an industrial society so Exporting is needed. - (we wanted trade with China) We have most trade with Japan (1940’s) - Why trade with China? Sell our goods‚ We want natural sources that we don’t have‚ [Economy pushes us to imperialism. Main reason] - Main reason of why we’re in the mideast? - Oil B. Reasons for expansion C. Foreign policy approaches. (1867-1900) D. The lure of Hawaii and Samoa - We’ve been interested in Hawaii since 19th century
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Topic: The immigration of East Indian indentured workers to the Caribbean in the 19th century could be regarded as a new system of slavery. Slavery was the initial labour system used by Europeans on their plantations in the Caribbean. It was implemented in the 1600`s‚ the Europeans forcefully took people from the African continent to the Caribbean on various trips. The path in which the slaves were carried between Africa and the Caribbean is known to historians as the Triangular Trade. These Africans
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