...The Emergence of Modern America from Reconstruction to an Industrial Power (1865 – 1890) Student’s Name Institution The Emergence of Modern America from Reconstruction to an Industrial Power (1865 – 1890) Reconstruction of modern America was not a missed opportunity because of rapid economic growth and prosperity, unified nation with a powerful government and political and business reforms (Carnes, Mark & Garraty, 2011). During this period in the 19th century, America emerged as an industrial power and agricultural power mostly in the North and the West and not in the South. This phase of reconstruction made America dominate as the World’s largest economic power. America also rose as a superpower nation with one of the strongest governments in the world (Kennedy, David, Cohen & Lizabeth, 2012). Another positive effect of reconstruction of America is that it led to an end of the infamous Trans-Atlantic slave trade. In this trade, slaves were sourced from West Africa and were sold in the slave markets in America, slaves were sold to be exploited as cheap sources of labor, they were treated inhumanely. Reconstruction, therefore, ended this commerce and gave the slaves their right of citizenship. Actually, in 1867 and for the first time slaves were allowed to vote. Reconstruction era also led to social and business reforms in America. These changes resulted in the expansion of government and education, curtailment of excesses, recognition of the...
Words: 365 - Pages: 2
...WOMEN IN AMERICA 1 ! Women In America Katarina Davison HIS204: American History Since 1985 Laverne Peralta February 2nd , 2015 WOMEN IN AMERICA 2 ! In the history of the world, women have ruled the world, shaped the world, and changed the world and in the United States, women have had a storied and grand history that has evolved the role of women from typical housewife to leaders of women's rights movements and has shown their true worth and true potential to their male counterparts. In this paper, I will be talking about six key events and time periods that have changed not just women's history but the overall history a nation. Three of these events and time periods will be before 1930 and three of them will be after 1930 to give the reader an overall sense of the evolution of the role women have played. The events that I will be talking about are the roles that women played in World War One beginning in 1914, the second historic event is the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, the third time period I will be talking about before 1930 is that of the roaring 1920s. After 1930, the changes were still happening for women and World War II was a major point in the evolution of what it means to be a woman, this time period was quickly followed by the baby boom. The final time period I will discuss is the Feminist Movement in the 1960s and how those efforts have led to a lasting impression of who women are in today's modern era. WOMEN IN AMERICA Annotated...
Words: 1613 - Pages: 7
...The Kosovo war was one of the first wars in this modern age. The technologies gained through the cold war with the USSR have been on the back burner for a while until they were called upon to perform for NATO. The bombing campaign lasted about 3 months start to finish. During the campaign there were 1,000 different aircraft that flew more than 38,000 combat missions. Almost every country helped during the campaign so everyone had a chance to test their technology at war. Some of that new technology included smart bombs and smart missiles like new self-guided fire and forget missiles to the new Tomahawk cruise missile which was fired from about every plat form that were able to carry it. Ultimately, Milosevic’s military was no match for NATO’s air power without Russia’s help. When Milosevic found out that Russia wouldn’t help them in a ground war with NATO forces he quickly pulled his troops out of Kosovo. With that said, I don’t think that the “air war” was the deciding factor and the war wasn’t won with just air power. No war will ever be won with just airpower. Ground troops will still have to put boots on the ground to maintain order and peace during the transitional stages of war. This couldn’t be more evident than in the wars we fight today in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq was quickly brought to its knees in Desert Storm and again in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Saddam’s air power was no match for the US forces and was quickly destroyed. However the ensuing ground war took...
Words: 317 - Pages: 2
...History of Immigration in America Ethnic, cultural, and religious of immigrants in differences from both late nineteenth and prior to late twentieth century led to widespread assertions of the whole nation that it had made a new America. “Can We Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigration”, by David Kennedy, divides two greatest immigrants came to the United States. The author examines two historical migratory waves both in positive and negative consequences effected to the nation. America is the land of opportunities and freedom, where people come and work, seek for new better life. In either negative or positive results caused by immigrants in our economy and social culture, this country still be able to continue supporting new migrants and it will remains as the nation of immigrants. Through-out nineteenth century, mass urban and rural immigrants came from many different countries in different social culture and religious. After the first World War, population growth in Europe shipped million people out of the continent, that “population boom was the indispensable precondition for Europe to export people on the scale”. Especially by the late of this period, there were at least half of 70 millions “had left Europe” migrated to the United States. They made a huge impact to the nation and made American changed drastically and permanently. There were Italians, Jews, as well as many others from Northern and Eastern Europe. They carry with them the America Dream, in which they...
Words: 713 - Pages: 3
...Bank of America is a multinational and financial services banking corporation headquartered in North Carolina. The bank is one of the largest bank holding companies in the United States by assets, and serves clients and consumers in more than 145 countries. Also of note, in 2008 the Bank of America (the Bank) acquired investment bank Merrill Lynch; one of the largest investment banks and wealth managers in the world. In March, 2013 the Bank stated it intended to buy back up to $5B in common shares, and redeem approximately $5.5B in preferred stock. Heritage isn't just about history. It's about people and their stories. The stories that shape who we are, tell where we've been and show where we're going. At Bank of America, our history covers...
Words: 389 - Pages: 2
...Shakespeare once wrote, “if music be the food of love, play on”. Hundreds of years later, music continues to be a influential part of society. Although music affects the lives of many, culture is the largest influencer of music itself. As wars are fought and history is made, music continues to allow the majority and minority voice to be heard. The progression of cultural viewpoints in America created many musical compositions expressing varying opinions of their respective era. During a time of impending war, patriotism was at an all time high, but an underlying tone of unrest among civilians became prominent as well. Much of the early 20th century was structured around the first World War. While they attempted to boost morale both on the frontlines and at home, songs like “You’re a Grand Old Flag” began to spread across the country (Cohan, “You’re a Grand Old Flag” 1906 http://www.loc.gov/teachers/lyrical/songs/old_flag.html ). With catchy lyrics claiming “every heart beats true for the red, white, and blue,” people began to feel pride and supported any endeavors to protect their flag’s reputation. And while many people fell into this norm of patriotism and hoo-rah mentality, many began to fear the havoc the war could bring. This was evident in songs like “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier,” a ballad where a mother expresses her concern and uneasiness at the thought of her son at war (Bryan, Piantadosi, “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to be a Soldier” 1915 https://www.archeophone...
Words: 1029 - Pages: 5
...History of Euthanasia in America 1973- The American Medical Association issues the Patient Bill of Rights. The groundbreaking document allows patients to refuse medical treatment. 1976- The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that the parents of Karen Ann Quinlan, who has been in a tranquilizer-and-alcohol-induced coma for a year, can remove her respirator. She dies nine years later. 1979- Jo Roman, a New York artist dying of cancer, makes a videotape, telling her friends and family she intends to end her life. She later commits suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. 1985- Betty Rollin publishes "Last Wish," the story of her mother's battle with ovarian cancer. The book reveals that Ida Rollin killed herself with a sedative overdose. 1990- Dr. Jack Kevorkian performs his first assisted suicide, using a homemade machine, to end the life of Alzheimer's patient Janet Adkins. Meanwhile, after protracted legal wrangling, the parents of Nancy Cruzan, who has been in a coma for seven years, are allowed to remove her feeding tube. Friends and co-workers testify in court that she would not have wanted to live. 1991- Hemlock Society founder Derek Humphry first publishes "Final Exit." The controversial suicide "how-to" book later becomes a national best seller. 1994- Voters in Oregon pass a referendum making it the only state in the country that allows doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs for terminally ill patients. The hotly contested law was not put into effect until...
Words: 950 - Pages: 4
...Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | History of the Tuskegee Airmen | History 130 Term Paper | 8/24/2015 | Abstract During the course of World War II members of the 99th Pursuit Squadron, later changed to 99th Fighter Squadron, fought bravely for a nation that didn’t respect them. The Red Tails became one of the finest groups of aviators in American aviation history. They were an effective and efficient group and earned 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Bronze Stars, and 8 Purple Hearts. They also received 3 Distinguished Unit Citations, 2 for the 99th and 1 for the entire fighter group (Martin, 2014, p. 78). They accomplished all this with less training, inadequate facilities, and less rest than their white counterparts. Their bomber escort missions proved they were willing to sacrifice their own personal glory for the safety of others and the completion of the mission. The Red Tails of the 332nd were true American heroes and valued aviators! The story of the Tuskegee Airman is one that has helped shape America’s perception of not only aviation but the role that the black community could play in this country’s development. The idea that a black man could fly a plane as well as the whites was very controversial and thus not even considered. Due to the racism of this period in America blacks had to put up with bigotry everywhere they turned. The Tuskegee Airman changed a lot of people’s minds on how blacks in America were perceived. In May 1939 Chauncey...
Words: 2796 - Pages: 12
...Racism has been around in our nation since the start of it. It has plagued our nation harshly. Since the 1700s when our forefathers have founded our nation in the form of slavery. It all was supposed to get better when Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves in the 1860s. In which it did. The African Americans were no longer slaves to the Caucasians. However, they faced a new challenge in the form of segregation. Segregation is defined in the dictionary as the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. Segregation was horrible in America after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. JIm Crow laws were made halting the expansion of the African American influence on America. There were laws that...
Words: 1120 - Pages: 5
...American History X is a strong and powerful movie. This controversial film was written by David McKenna and directed by Tony Faye (who is also the cinematographer) making his directors debut. With a starring cast of Edward Norton who plays an intelligent super-neo-Nazi-skinhead, named Derek Vinyard and his younger brother Danny played by Edward Furlong, who idolizes Derek and wants to follow in his footstep, but lack the intelligence like Derek. Their family also plays a role in the films storyline. Their mother who is always chronically sick, they also have a sister who Derek fights with a lot, bu. T in the end they have a powerful scene of tough family love. However, it is their father a firefighter, as well as the leader of a neo-Nazi gang who is the main reason as to why these boys are the way they were. The film’s story is defined by racism the embracement of Nazi antics of the lives of two brothers Derek and Danny who grow up in Venice, California. Their firefighter father (who was a skinhead) was killed trying to fight a fire in a black neighborhood. This is where Derek’s life started to head down the wrong path and Derek became the leader of the neo-Nazi gang after his father. One night Derek spots two black men breaking into his car; he shoots them killing them both, and is sentenced to three years in prison leaving Danny to follow his brother’s footsteps. Derek was faced with many obstacles while in prison. The fact was no matter what race you are everyone...
Words: 1342 - Pages: 6
...The African American’s History in the United States 1865-Present Gina R. Carter Hist:204 Instructor Ronnie Peacock April 8, 2013 The African American’s struggles have been many as well as continuous throughout the centuries. However, this race despite the trials and tribulations thrown at them, stood fast when faced with adversity, discrimination, oppression and segregation. They are a people once condemned by the country that stole their heritage and identity, forced them into slavery and labeled then subhuman. After imprisonments, the loss of lives, much sacrifice and an undeniable refusal of contentment, they are now America’s doctors, lawyers, priests, educators, judges and Secretary of State. From slavery to the White House, the African American took control over its fate and today continues to orchestrate its own destiny. After many years of involuntary servitude, beating, rapes and hangings, the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865, stating, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.", the African American slave finally had a taste of freedom, so he thought. Even though the Thirteenth amendment was the Constitutional end of slavery in the United States, this was not the end of slavery. Instead the American southern states introduced slavery by another name. American History 1865-Present | End of Isolation states;...
Words: 2842 - Pages: 12
...bonds, and art, for example. When Andrew Mellon became the 49th Treasury Secretary under President Harding in 1921, he cut the bottom and top income tax rates to 0.5% and 24%, respectively, and raised exemptions. In doing so, only 2% of Americans paid any income tax. What happened? Tax revenue went up! (After all 73% of nothing is nothing, whereas 24% of something is something.) In 1921, tax revenue was $719 million, and by 1929, it grew to $1002 million. In fact, the national debt went down, from $24 billion to $16 billion (the surplus grew at an average of $20 per second!). The annual growth rate was 5.2%, and the lowest misery index in American history was during President Coolidge's tenure (Mellon was still Treasury Secretary and remained so until 1932): 4.3% (3.3% unemploynent plus 1% inflation). As a result, America witnessed a boom in invention and technology. It was during this time that air conditioning, the radio, scotch tape, and the zipper were invented — things we cannot live without today. The number of people using vacuums increased, even. What caused the Great Depression? The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the largest tax increase; an increase in the interest rate, taxes on foreign item, and retaliatory export tariffs. By impeding the free market, the economy took a drastic tumble. When FDR came into power, he increased the income tax for those making more than...
Words: 762 - Pages: 4
...History and Significance of Race in America Race prejudice abounded in the colonial America, shaped by cultural connotations of blackness in medieval Europe and Judeo-Christianity. The existence of Slave trade is arguably the root of subsequent conceptualization of the black-Americans. The Native Americans population of the country’s labor force proved drastically reduced after the whites were decimated by violence and diseases. The voluntary European labor force used was unsustainably costly and detrimental to their home county labor and competitiveness. The introduction of slavery of the Africans who were brought in large numbers and their labor was cheap, made the agricultural plantations in America much profitable. The 19th century saw an introduction of institutionalized racism and legal discrimination against the black Americans. Racial discrimination, expression and segregation concerning supremacy of the white people increased hence increasing the levels of anti-black violence that included both race riots and lynching’s of the black people. The African American activists and politicians advocated for the peoples civil rights in the 20th century, this saw the peaking of human rights movement with the desegregation of education in the year 1954 thus leading to the organization of a widespread strike across the United States under the leadership of the young generation activists. Martin Luther King was the catalyst for most strikes which led to the passage of the civil...
Words: 676 - Pages: 3
...The console video game craze started off in November 1977, the year the Atari 2600 was released. It sold for 200 dollars and was an instant hit. The killer app for the system was the game Pong. This game consisted of a ball bouncing back and fourth on the screen, the player had to hit the ball with a paddle and the other player or computer would return the ball in the same manner. Atari offered many other games but none were as popular as Pong, until space invaders came along. Released in Japan in 1978 and 1979 in the US, Space Invaders became a world wide craze. According to an article found on http://retrogamer.merseyworld.com “kids stoppedlisting to music, playing sports or going to the movies, they played Space Invaders. Space Invaders Greatly increased the popularity of the Atari 2600, video gamesbecame the new hot thing. Everything was going great for Atari until 1984 when the Atari 5200 was released. The system was a flop and it seemed to kill the video game industry in the US. While the US video game craze seemed like it was over, a new craze was starting in Japan. In 1983 a little company named Nintendo released a console named, Famicom. The system sold for 100 dollars in Japan and was very popular; however it was not released in the US due to the video game crash of 1984. In late 1985 The Famicom was released in the US as the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). By February 1986 the NES had already sold over 30 million. The original US set came with two controllers...
Words: 829 - Pages: 4
...A concise history of America Name Institution The diverse nature of the American society today serves as a direct indication of a long history of social, economic and political struggle. The society as it is today possesses some uniqueness in the manner in which different groups have managed to live together in respect for values that define each of them. The formation of this society can only be understood by going through a long journey of understanding the process of its formation. This journey is provided in the book “America: a concise history”. Chapter 1 of the book provides a deeper insight into the European society before their movement into America and the lives of the American natives before the colonialists arrived. The most notable thing is the difference that existed between the two societies in terms of economic and technological stature (Henretta, 2012). The Europeans were well advanced and ahead in resource utilization. This chapter clearly places the renaissance period at the core of the explorations that Europe undertook across the world. It is after this period that colonialist ideology was born....
Words: 680 - Pages: 3
