essay plans Flashcards
‘The main reason for the growth in the US economy from 1865-77 was improvements in transport.’ Assess the validity of this view.
- transport = railways
- population growth = immigrants
- cooperations and trusts = robber barons
‘The main effect of reconstruction for African Americans was the introduction of the Jim Crow Laws.’ Assess the validity of this view.
- Jim crow laws = KKK, discrimination and Black codes
- Emancipation of the slaves = freedom, amendments
- Hayes compromise = losing all that was gained
‘The main reason for westward expansion 1865-77 was the ‘Manifest Destiny’. Assess the validity of this view.
- Manifest destiny = tuner essay, cowboys
- legislation = homestead and Dawes act/availability of land
- economic interests = gold rush, mines
‘Reconstruction was a failure.’ Assess the validity of this view.
- Hayes compromise = everything was lost
- legislation = amendments, freeing the slaves
- economic growth of the North = big business and cooperation
‘The main reason for westward expansion 1865-90 was the development of the railroads.’ Assess the validity of this view.
- railroads
-legislation = land, pull factors, Dawes and homestead act - economic interests = gold rush, farming
‘The greatest threat to the position of African Americans in the South in the years 1865-90 was formal segregation.’ Assess the validity of this view.
- formal segregation and lack of opportunities = black codes, Jim crow laws, sharecropping, no represented, lack of schools
- KKK, white supremacists and discrimination
- Hayes compromise = loss of all gained
‘The main effect of increased immigration to the USA in the years 1865-90 was the growth of nativism.’ Assess the validity of this view.
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‘The end of Reconstruction by 1877 was due to the violence of the Southern segregationists.’ Assess the validity of this view.
- violence of southern segregationists = KKK, discrimination
- Hayes compromise = loss of everything
- Lost of interest by the North = rise of robber barons and the economy
‘Between the end of the Civil War and 1890, the position of African American in the United States significantly improved.’ Assess the validity of this view.
- emancipation of the slaves and amendments
- sharecropping and being more represented e.g in southern gov due to tenure of army
- Black codes, Jim crow laws, segregation, KKK and lynching
The rapid growth of the US economy in the years 1865 to 1890 was due to the expansion of the railroads. Assess the validity of this view.
- railroads
- lassies fare attitude = lack of government control on robber barons e.g Vanderbilt, Rockefeller
- rise of immigration = cheap labour for factories, higher demand for food and goods
To what extent had any progress made by African Americans during Radical Reconstruction been lost by 1890?
- Hayes compromise = most lost, more discrimination and violence
- amendments and emancipation stayed the same, had freedom
- no more support from the north = focused interests on westward expansion and the economy boom in the north
‘Between 1890 and 1920, the foreign policy of the United States continued to be dominated by isolationism.’ Assess the validity of this view.
- was partly isolationist = Wilsonian and neutrality
- police policy = Roosevelt corollary and perclusive imperialism
- end of westward expansion so needed to find new frontier = accidental empire, progressive imperialism, economic interests
To what extent was the growth of imperialism in the years 1890-1912 due to the search for new markets?
- new markets and economic interests = recovery from 1893 depression
- percusive imperialism = American values are higher e.g Philippines,
- progressive imperialism = stopping other countries from taking it e.g Latin America, Samoa, Hawaii
