Government: X-Factor

During the Progressive Era, the United States were in a state of change. The United States became recognized as a global powered. The country stilled faced multiply of problems. The country used a lot of capital during the Spanish American War, this had a negative affect on the country. The United States wasn’t just having problems as a whole country, in small places they had corrupt systems of government. This all changed during the Progressive Era. The government played a huge role in reforming the American social, economic, and political life during the early twentieth century through establishing a minimum wage, separating municipals, and the elimination of the "machine" in many cities throughout the country.

The government played a huge role in reforming the American social life through establishing a minimum wage. This was a very important to the development of the social life of the American people. Also establishing maximum hours was a big accomplishment. The employers even had children working in factories trying to support their families, this was banned. A lot of the country was struggling, their income were insufficient to support them. It was a repeat of the late nineteenth century when their were only the prosperous class and the poor class. The middle class was diminishing.

The government role during the twentieth century was great in reforming the American economic life by separating municipals. This process of separating the municipals, helped spread the wealth of the country. Especially since only one percent of the country popularities controlled the half of the country’s capital. The separating of this power will overall benefit the country by making the country more prosperous as an whole. The government seperated the railroad companies, to create more competition, also approved the Underwood Tariff. The Clayton Anti-trust Act was establish to break up monopolies, this will spread the wealth throughout the country. The Federal Reserve Act also help the government regulate the currency throughout the country.

The government played a big role in reforming the American political life through eliminating the machines from the politic. The government eliminated the New York machine which was called the Tweed Ring. This machine was brought to the public attention by Thomas Nast in a series of cartoon drawings. The National Mulicipal League was a direct response to the “Machines”. The machines wasn’t just locally they even had a President, who was a member of the Kansas City Machine.

In conclusion, the government played a big role in reforming the American life. They helped changed socially through the establishment of the Owen Child Labor Act. The government helped reform economically through the Federal Reserve Act. It also help politically with the elimiantion of political machines. This is why the government played a huge role in the reforming the American social, economic, and political life.

WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR?

During the early twentieth century, the United States had an imperialism mind setting. The country was in hustling to gather as much land as possible. They did this because they believed that the more land equal more power. The United States was even killing Native Americans to cointinue their migration west. The United States became greedy which strated the Spanish American War. The United States wasn’t justified in going to war against Spain in 1898 because of political, economic, moral, and diplomatic factors such as: the Ostend Manifesto, the war was hurting the economy, Cuba belong to Spain, and the fact that the government was going behind the citizens back.

The United States wasn’t justified in going to war against Spain because of political reasons such as the Ostend Manifesto. The Ostend Manifesto was the document that President Pierce sent to Ostend with some proslavery representatives. The representatives basically said that if Spain won’t sell the United States Cuba, then the United States will take it by force. This was one of the major reasons for the Spanish American War. The Ostend Manifesto was completely useless, and didn’t have any reason to happen.

The United States didn’t have a rational reason for the Spanish American War because of economic reasons, such as the economy was losing money because of the war. Even though the Spanish American War was the “splendid little war” it cost the country more than hundred and fifty million, and that’s before the US even declared war on Spain. Cuba had a lot of economic advantages for the country, such as sugar and fuel. The overall damage was completely worst then the gain. The war was costly for the United States. The rebels from Spain and Cuba was costing the United States a lot of money. Since the country was in war the demand on the business increase significantly, which also didn’t assist in the economic situation

The United States had no business being in war against Spain because of moral reasons such as the fact that Cuba belong to Spain. The war was completely immoral. Even though the country got in the war to so call free the Cubans from the annex. It wasn’t the main reason that the US wanted Cuba, which was for the sugar and the fuel. Cuba just had a lot of good resoures that will benefit the country. Even the newspapers was making up stories about the Spanish American War, they were call Yellow Press. They reason that the Yellow Press did this was to increase sales. The country morality was significatly low.

The United States had no reason to be in a war with Spain because of diplomatic factors such as the fact that the government was going behind the citizens back. Besides going behind the citizens back the US wanted to have slavery in Cuba. Despite the fact, that Slavery was abolish in the thirteen amendment in 1865. This was completely against the whole setting of the United States. Besides the fact the country had few causalties the country, it still lost a lot. This also set up the presidential Election of 1900, which gave President McKinley, it just gave him the chance to finish the war he started.

In conclusion, the Spanish American War was fruitless. This is because the economic problems that it put the country in, the depression of 1893. The immoral motives of the war, which were never achieved. The dirtiness of the Ostend Manifesto and President Pierce. The illegalness of the United States in trying to recondite their thirteen amendment.

What do the constitution means to me?

I believe at first the constitution was just a document that only helped the majority. The only thing the constitution did at first was just gave people the legal right to do immoral acts. Honestly, the constitution really didn’t deal with the country as a whole until 1920. Before that the constitution just made the wealthy men in control, dominant over the rest of the country. When the constitution represented everybody, that when I started to believe that the constitution was the backbone that the United States was build on. It is the major document that help the country run efficiently. I still do believe that some of the constitution is primitive, but its balanced out with later amendments. So, I believe that the constitution is the most important document in United States History, forever. Despite, the fact that I disagree with some of the earlier amendments.

Congrats on the Success

The end of the Civil War leads to many uprisings of economic and problems throughout the states. The north won the war which leads the rebirth of the union. Many of the problems came to the surface post Civil War. Most of the problems were associating with the work force. The problems ranged from the length of the work day all the way to racial and gender problems. The trade union movement was extremely successful in the Post-Civil War Era because the many labor forces, the organization of the strikes, and the achieveiment of their economic goals such as the National Labor Force, Pullman Strike, and the rise in the gross national profit.

The trade union movement in the Post-Civil War Era was predominately successful because of the many labor forces such as the National Labor Force. The National Labor Force was a more moderate work force they fought for eight hour work days and higher wages. Another work force was the Knights of Labor they fought for racial and gender equality. The American Federation had the highet number of members; there were nearly a million members. The other labr force was the Industrial Workers of the World; they fought for increase in wages. The many of the organizations fought against the many monopolies during this period.

The trade union movement during the Post- Civil War Era was very successful because of the many strikes that they had such as the Pullman Strike. The Rail road stroke of 1877 was the first post-Civil War strike. This was the strike between the workers in Baltimore and Ohio, whom rebelled because the companies lowered their wages. It was broken up by President Hayes once he called for the United Army to break the strike up. Besides this strike there were three more strikes. The Haymarket Square Riot of 1866, which took place in Chicago, the other strike is the Homestead Strike of 1892, which took place in Pennsylvania. The final strike was the Pullman Strike of 1894. This was a strike lead by the employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company, whom rebelled because their wages was cut to keep the dividends of the company stockholders. This lead to a rebellion by the employees, they even started a boycott. This shows the organization of the trade unions.

The union movements were successful because of the achievement of their economic goals such as the increase in the gross national profit. Many of the high tariffs played a huge factor in this. Since the tax on imports was so high on imported goods, the domestic companies gross profit increase. This also caused the Gross National Profit to increase as well. This was cause because of Social Darwinism, the means that if the wealthy was being watched out by the federal government.

In conclusion, the trade union movement was extremely successful during the Post-Civil War. The trade unions were very successful in their organizing. This lead to them being the major factor in the strikes. Even though the gross national profit increases the country was still in a depression. Social Darwinism was the cause of this many problems, since the government looked out for big business many of the employees wasn’t taken care of. The trade unions fought and they won even if the government assisted the business, the companies had to compromise with their employees to survive.

WHAT THEY FOUGHT FOR 1861-1865

The first chapter “ The holy cause of Liberty and Independence” is about the reason that the Confederate army fought. The reasons that the Confederates was fighting because they believed that the Union was trying to take away their independence. They wanted freedom to their property and way of life, they felt that the northerners was not trying to let them do this. A lot of the southerners consider it to be another revolutionary war. They believed that the Union was being a dictator just like Britian was doing to the colonies. So, they felt that they were fighting for their right to live in peace, or for liberty and independence from their ‘dictator’. A lot of people was against the Twenty Negro Law, which said that a slave owner with twenty or more slaves caused for one white man of the family to be drafted. (pg 15 WTFF) This became a big problem for some people. The civil war soldiers wrote a variety of things in their diaries ranging from the reason the was fighting to they want to return home. A lot of the soldiers in the Confederate army died from a variety of deaths, but mostly from wounds that just killed them. Some people even felt that they just had to fight the war. They had the attitude never give up never surrender.

The second chapter “ The Government on God’s Footstool” is about the reason the Union fought. The Northerners fought for their forefathers to uphold their legacy. The Union fought for the Patriots, or their forefathers during the American Revolution. I also believed that some people fought for the equal rights of all. This is portrayed in this letter by Irish American soldier. He states that this is as much his land as it is the next man. Also a sheriff who died at Gettysburg said that he wish that the United States was really the land of the free. The north fought to contain the Union, or to keep the Union the same. Since the south succeeded they said that they were against the backbone that the country was built on. The Union soldiers fought perserve the Union.

The final chapter, “ The War Will Never End Until We End Slavery” is about how Lincoln realize that slavery is the key to the end of the war. During this period the price of the average slave rose in the south. After the Emancipation Proclamation, this shown that the heart of the civil war was slavery. This was when the North became against slavery, contrasting the south belief in slavery. During the end of the war the Confederate Generals got despaired and started to let slaves fight in the war on the side of the Confederate army. This was kind of oximoron that the slaves were fighting against the people that were trying to release them from their troubles. The Unions been allowed blacks to fight in the civil war. The war ended by General Lee surrendering to the Union. This was the end to slavery, the old south way of life.

IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT

During the early nineteen century their were numerous of conflicts between the North and the South. The North was more liberal, and open for change. While the people in the south believed in slavery, and wasn’t willing to change. Slavery played a huge role in the conflicts between the north and the south. It was the dominate reason for the civil. Slavery played an immense reason for the Civil War because of economics, politics, and social reasons such as; the north’s manufacturing versus the south’s plantations, the Compact theory versus the Contract theory, and that some of the people believed that their race was dominate over the next.

The dominate reason for the Civil war was slavery because of economic reasons such as the north’s manufacturing against the south’s plantations. The north and the west united together, since the north had manufacturing and the west had agriculture. This made the north a dominate force in the United States economy. The south dominate force was in cotton, or known as “ King Cotton”. Since cotton was in a high demand at this time, the south total economy depended on the slaves. Without slavery the south total economy would of come to an complete stop. The total market of the south will be in digression. The south sold their cotton to the Northern states as well as France and Britain.

Slavery was the key reason for the Civil War because of politics such as the Compact and Compact theory. The south believed in the Contract Theory which believed in that the federal government makes up the Union not the people. While the Northern states believed in the Contract Theory, which is the people make up the Union not the federal government. The overall conclusion to the Compact theory is succession. The government came up with numerous of compromises to prevent succession. The Missouri Compromise which says slavery can’t pass the 36 30 lattitude line, and also made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state. The next compromise was the Compromiose of 1850. This was the birth of the Fugitive Slave Law, also that no slave trade in Washington D.C, New Mexico and Utah will receive popular sovereignty, and finally California will enter the Union as a free state. The final compromise was the Kansas Nebraska Act. Which was the complete workings of Senator Stephen Douglas, whom did it to run a railroad from Illinois to the west. It also will give him a personal profit. This compromise divede the Nebraska territory into Nebraska and Kansas, and also gave them popular sovereignty. All of these compromises was to hault the conflict between the Southern states and the Northern States, which all deal with slavery. The more states with slavery mean that the Southern States will have control over the government, and the more free states mean that Northern States will have control over the government.

The main cause of the Civil War was slavery because of social reasons such as, that some of the people believed that their race was dominate over the next. Many people in the south believed that they were better than blacks. The southerners who didn’t have slaves didn’t agree with slavery, that was seventy-five percent of the people in the south. The Dred Scoot decision, exemplify this because the Supreme Court said that slaves aren’t people they are property. So, the fifth amendment justify the judgment of the court. This anger many abolitionists, but an abolitionist name John Brown. He lead an rebellion in Virginia against plantation owner. Slavery caused another bloody battle in Kansas after the Kansas Nebraska Act, it was called Bleeding Kansas. This was when the boarder ruffians were killing people passing through Kansas.

In conclusion slavery was an immense reason for the Civil War. Slavery was the major purpose for all the compromises that the government made, which just hide the problems not fixed it. Slavery also was the major purpose for the social mishaps and problems. The politics all depende on slavery, the north wanted to end slavery while the south wanted to perserve slavery. Slavery was just the center of all the drama that was going on during the nineteen century.

SO SO

The Age of reform was a time of change. Soon as the century started it was a religious revival, a lot of people started to believe in individualism. As a result the Second Great Awakening occurred, this was a time that the churches was motivating people to come to church. Especially since the sudden decline in the attendance at church. Women normally were the center of the revival of the church, but in the south this was not possible because of the no tolerance attitude that the Southern men contain. Charles Finney was another leader in this the revival of the church preached that through hard work and good deeds, people could find salvation. This lead to the many reform movements during the Age of Reform. The grassroots movements in the Age of Reform was reasonably successful in achieving their goals because women's rights through the Seneca Fall Convention, abolition through the actions of William Lloyd Garrison, public education through the McGuffey's Electric Readers, and prison reform through the efforts of Dorthea Dix.

The grassroots movements was reasonably successful in achieving their goals because of the women's right movement through the Seneca Fall Convention. Women's right during this period was limited, they were a step above a slave. Women's right was increased when Republic Motherhood was introduced. But the women's right still were limited, so the women's right advocates met for the Seneca Falls Convention. This is where women like Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott met to discuss the rights of the women in America. The women at the convention came up with a list called the Declaration of Rights Sentiments, which later included obtaining the right for women to own property. This document stated that all men and women are created equal and they should have the same rights. As a result of this Republic Motherhood was eventually replaced with Cult of Domesticity. Which was similar to Republic Motherhood, but was now more respected by the respected by the men. Women still was unable to vote despite the Declaration of Rights Sentiments. This period was called the antebellum period.

The grassroots movements was reasonably successful in achieving their goals because of abolitionist such as William Lloyd Garrison. There were many abolitionist during the Age of Reform. William Garrison believed in the immediate emancipation of slavery, he wrote about this in the Liberator. He was also head of the American Colonization Society, which was the first organization to help out with the Abolition Movement. The southern was furious at the action of the abolitionists, they felt that the north was taking away their economy. The people in the south hated the abolitionist so much that they attacked Garrison, and killed an abolitionist name Elijah Lovely in Illinois. Also they rebellion of Nat Turner, slave that lead a rebellion in Virginia, lead the southerners to detest Garrison and the other abolitionists. The southern came up with a list of five reasons why the slavery is right, all which had nothing to do with the immoral reasons for it being wrong.

The grassroots movements was reasonably successful in achieving their goals because of public education through the McGuffey's Electric Reader. The McGuffey's Electric Reader was the first book that taught kids reading, writing, and arithmetic. It was the past replica of the present day textbook. Another big player in public education is Horace Mann. He wrote a document called the Common School Journal and the Annual Report. In his document the Common School Journal, Mann pointed out the problems that he had with the public school system. Especially the factor that schools shouldn't remain ignorant and free, he believed in a popular education. Horace Mann also believed that the schools should be diverse. The public school system that Horace Mann set up in Massachusetts became the base of all public school systems in America.

The grassroots movement was reasonably successful in achieving their goals because of prison reform through the efforts of Dorthea Dix. Physical abuse and neglect was the way that they contain control in prisons as well as mental institutes. Dorthea Dix was against the inhuman treatment of the insane. She lead to the humane measures through the discipline and the moral improvements of the inmates. Dorthea Dix encouraged the state governments to provide hospital. She help build the first flock of American mental institutes.

The grassroots movement was reasonably successful in achieving their goals. This is through the action of the many reformers during the Age of Reform. Women's Rights was not completely achieved but they improved a little even though they were still treated like second-class citizens. Abolition was not also completely achieved, William Garrison goal was to emancipate slavery. After the southern was not complying this lead to the creation of the Underground Railroad. The public education reformers were successful, through the actions of Horace Mann and also the McGuffey's Electric Reader. The prison reformers were also successful through the action of Dorthea Dix, whom set up the first generation of American mental asylum.