The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction, written by Edward Ayers does not deal predominantly with one overall thesis. Instead Ayers writes in a narrative tone and depicts the story of how the south began to grow after the Civil War through Reconstruction. He uses a very optimistic tone when discussing the growth and movement of the south, never really taking a side when it comes to topics such as segregation or the movement towards a more industrialized nation. He uses personal stories
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Study Guide For Final Examination 1. Examine the process and the transition from the more traditional "putting-out" system to the rise of the factory system. What would be the economic and social implications of this change? (Class notes and Bentley & Ziegler, chapter 29) World population was growing, so there was a demand for more finished products. Before the factories, products were produced out of people’s homes and the process took a lot of time. The factories opened and centralized the
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Snowball is, who Leon Trotsky was, similarities and differences between these two characters, and the author’s purpose of using Snowball to represent Trotsky in his novel. Snowball is a Napoleon’s rival who contends for control of the Animal Farm after the rebellion. In Animal Farm, chapter two on page 16, it describes Snowball as an eloquent, inventive, and vivid leader. He is most clearly attuned to Old Major’s thinking and devotes himself to actualize it. Snowball insists that in order to defend
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Joseph Stalin: Man of Steel Only a few years after the end of World War I, a new leader came to power in Russia. This man quickly became a threat to any potential enemies of the Soviet Union by showing his competence militarily. His military leadership would prove itself more admirable in World War II. Also, being a leader in a leader in an underground revolutionary group and a member of the Bolsheviks could only add to his intimidating persona. The name most commonly matched to said persona is
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The Progressive Movement America went through a period of modernization and industrialization and some groups realized undesirable political and social issues resulted. These groups, the “Progressives”, from both republican and democratic parties, began a movement to promote change in the social and political life of America. The idea of the movement was the government should be accountable to all people. Leaders involved in the movement ranged from U.S. Presidents, business leaders, farmers, to
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enacted movement of these African Americans. At the end of the civil war, the bulk of these freed men stayed in the south because they had no means of going anywhere and were stuck sharecropping. During this migration, for the most part, the early migration at the end of WWI and during WWI occurred in some 8 northern major cities, like New York, 2/3 of these African Americans moved to these major cities. It’s almost different after WWII, but to western and northern cities cites like Denver. The
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explorers often talked about the “fine veins of coal” that spread across the region. Thomas Jefferson referred to the massive amounts of coal in his Notes on Virginia. The ending of the Civil War brought about a significant change and the Unites States entered a tremendous industrialization period.
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States. Just two months after came the union’s victory in the Civil War on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee signed their surrender at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. This war has devastated the south, despite draining the nation’s resources and heavily dividing the nation’s people; the war also concluded with the hope of unity and restoration for the future. President Lincoln’s victory came to a quick end, though. Just six days after the end of the war, an event
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Jason Hayes 7/24/2014 History- Strayer University I. The three major aspects of industrialization during 1865 and 1920 that influenced U.S. society, economy, and politics. a) Geography b) Entrepreneurship c) Legislative II. The half-century or so following the Civil War was a period of extraordinarily rapid economic growth in the United States. a) As the much higher growth rates of total compared to per capital GDP suggest, the economy expanded more by adding new
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reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War. 2. Amnesty- the act of granting a pardon to a large group of people. 3. Pocket veto- indirectly vetoing a bill by letting a session of Congress expire without signing the bill. 4. Freedmen’s Bureau- bureau established by congress as a solution to the refugee crisis. 5. Black codes- laws passed in the South just after the civil war aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners
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