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Question 1

How did the southerners and northerners differ based on how they got their money

Answer 1

S = agricultural 
N = industrial

Question 2

What was life like in the south before the war

Answer 2

Well they had many crops and fields that needed attending so that’s why they had their slaves

Question 3

What happened once the war was over in the south

Answer 3

Well slavery was abolished and the southerners had no one to rlly tend their crops

Question 4

What did the southerners come up with?

Answer 4

Sharecropping - where the worker gave seed and supplies to the worker (black person) for a share of the harvest
They had to sign a contract bounding them to the plantation and owner = coerced servitude

Question 5

What was the era after the civil war known as

Answer 5

The reconstruction era = to rebuild

Question 6

How did the reconstruction era end

Answer 6

The compromise of 1877

Question 7

In your essay Michelle

What do you write about after the reconstruction era

Answer 7

Well how after the war people needed a fresh start needed to move somewhere new that where we have the western migration moving to the frontier

Question 8

Why would people move west

Answer 8

For independence, self sufficiency it was a land of opportunity

Question 9

What was life like in the west economically

Answer 9

Well farming was big and it wa s being taken over by machines
There were small farmers who weren’t able to access to having these machines

Question 10

Was it only hard for the small farmers

Answer 10

No also the big farmers due to the industrial trust - which kept manufactured goods at a high cost and the manufactured goods also benefited the big farmers

Question 11

What other change affected the farmers

Answer 11

The high rates of railroads - they used railroads to sell their crops and and get goods

Question 12

How did the farmers react

Answer 12

They revolted against the railroad forming the national grange movement

Question 13

What did the national grange movement do

Answer 13

It created laws to regulate the rate of railroads

Question 14

How would this be enforced

Answer 14

Through the interstate commerce committee

Question 15

What is imperialism

Answer 15

Expansion of one country’s political economic and military influence over another country

Question 16

What was the arguments over imperialism

Answer 16

Well there were two sides

The imperialists and anti-imperialists

Question 17

What did the imperialists have to say

Gold, markets, social Darwinism, navy

Answer 17

Since Alaska had gold they made the conclusion that there may be more gold out there

Wanted to secure new markets for American made goods including both manufactured and agricultural

Used social Darwinism- survival of the fittest - biggest eats the smallest - big wins
Just like european countries got big from taking over countries in order for America to be a world power we have to do the same

Alfred Theyrt Mahan wrote a book arguing that any country that is strong is due to their robust navy -> Congress opened constructive of a massive new steel fleet of ships

Question 18

What did the anti imperialists have to say

Answer 18

Self determination for nations - nation should decide for itself who should rule and what laws should be passed

Question 19

What did yellow journalists fo

Answer 19

Published exaggerated stories of how Spanish were treated Cubans - American themselves felt that the us must intervene

Question 20

So what happens btwn Spain and America

Answer 20

One of the Spanish ships blew up with 200 Americans ( was by accident but at the time thought it was on purpose
America calls war on Spain - we win and Cubans are free
As a result the Cubans have the platt amendment - saying the us is allowed to intervene militarily if economic interests were threatened

Question 21

What happens after Spanish American war

Answer 21

We go full empire - annexation of phillipenes from Spain

We sent out fleets and began bombarding the Spanish fleet there
From there allied with Filipino nationals and mounted a land envision that ended with the overthrow of spain

Question 22

Hawaii

Answer 22

American settlers overthrown Hawaii monarch - annexation happened in 1898

Question 23

American empire through economics:
Open door policy
With who what is it

Answer 23

China
China was overtaken by Europe and split up into European spheres of influence
McKinley secretary Hay saw American opportunities in China disappearing so he saw an opportunity to act quickly
Hay sent open door policy to Europe - which they didn’t respond to but hay saw it as victory and America held on some trading rights in China

Question 24

What was the internal conflict abt imperialism

Answer 24

Well we still had the Monroe doctrine signed in 1823 stating we won’t start with foreign countries, unless they start with us
And later on it was hard to keep because as the frontier closed and foreign trade was helping the us economy
People were in favor of imperialism just taking over the country
Yet while with some countries we were diplomatic like alaska - there are some places we were harsh with like Hawaii and we helped Cuba but started a war with Spain and in return took one of their countries they had imperialists on = phillipenes

Question 25

Who were the progressives

Answer 25

Group of people who worked on issues like the growing power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy that erupted due to the panic of 1893
Worked on the issue btwn labor unions and their employers
Wanted to break control of political machines
Deal with alcohol

Question 26

How did progressives bring attention to social problem

Answer 26

The journalists known as the muskrats by teddy roosevelt
They focused on the underbelly of America the corruption aspect to it
Upton Sinclair focused on the unsanitary aspect of meat packages - few thumbs fell in there
Ida tarbell exposed John d Roosevelt standard oil company (major big business)
Jacob riis- took pictures how the other half lives in unsanitary conditions diseasease ridden tenements

Question 27

How did progressives bring attention to political problems and what was their goal

Answer 27

Expansion of democracy

Ex: in Tammany hall - wanted voting power back into the hands of the ppl = secret ballot

Before there were high political bosses who handed out favors in exchange for people to vote for them

Passed direct election of senators - during gilded age many of the senators were in the hands of millionaires and big business pol and they got their position bc of the state legislatures who belonged to those big businesses (17th amendment)

Passed 18th amendment - American prohibition- made the manufacture and selling of alcohol illegal

Question 28

What’s initiative

Referendum and recall

Answer 28

Expansion of democracy
Initiative - voters could require legislature to consider a bill that they chose to ignore

Referendum- voters themselves could vote on the adoption of proposed laws

Recall - established a way to remove a corrupt politician before their term is up

Question 29

How was the gilded age

Progressives

Answer 29

Ppl were left helpless in the face of big business ainterest and govt in many ways
They got ppls backs

Question 30

Fredrick Taylor

Answer 30

Published book about how factory work should be more efficient
He actually went to the factories timed them and gave them how much they should work
And it increased productivity and earning way more profits

Question 31

What did black progressives do

Answer 31

Worked to achieve social justice among races

Two organization were formed to abolish all forms of segregation and education for black children

Question 32

How were the things that the progressives were fighting for/pushing for actually come about

Answer 32

When teddy got elected he was known as the trust buster - broke up monopolies - Sherman Antitrust act

He passed the food and drug act and meat inspection act for consumer protection make sure everything is good