THE LEGACY OF CIVIL WAR
- The American North and South fought a civil war.
- The South wanted to have slavery in the new states on the other hand the North did not.
- The North won the Civil War. After the Civil War , African American men got to right of vote and freeing all slaves.
- There are the key terms of the legacy the civil war:
- Jim Crow Laws
- Literacy Test
- Voting Tax
- Grandfather Laws
FDR( FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT)
Born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio in 1921. He became the 32nd U.S. president in 1933, and was the only president to be elected four times. Roosevelt led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, and greatly expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal. Roosevelt died in Georgia in 1945.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
The wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt changed the role of the first lady through her active participation in American politics.Born in New York City on October 11, 1884, Eleanor Roosevelt—the niece of Theodore Roosevelt—was one of the most outspoken women in the White House. She married Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1905.Eleanor died of cancer on November 7, 1962, at the age of 78.
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its nadir, some 13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed. Though the relief and reform measures put into place by President Franklin D. Roosevelt helped lessen the worst effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s, the economy would not fully turn around until after 1939, when World War II kicked American industry into high gear.
WWII
1939-1945. during the war a lot of people died.The start of the war in Europe is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Japanese on 7 July 1937, or even the Japanese on 19 September 1931.
ACADEMIC ENCOUNTERS
LAWS OF THE LAND
- Many people from Great Britain and other countries in Europe came to U.S. for different reason.
- The first settlers did not want any part of the government to have too much power. They divided power among three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial.
- Only federal government can have an army.
- congress makes laws. However,can veto them.
- The government is not permitted to support any specific religion.
- Free speech does not include speech that encourages violence.
- European American settlers pushed native peoples off their land and onto special reservations.
- Immigration rates in US are not the only factor in recent population growth.
A DIVERSE NATION
- When European settlers arrived in North America at the end of the fifteenth century, there were approximately 10 million native people who spoke over 300 different languages.
- The fist Europeans believed they had landed in India, so they called the native people Indians.
- European American settlers pushed native peoples off their land onto special reservations.
- In the 17th and 18th centuries, most of the immigrants to the american colonies came from western Europe, primarily England, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, and Germany. Some were looking for adventure, some wanted cheap land to farm. Others were escaping wars, revolutions, or religious persecution. However ,most of them were simply poor people hopingfor better economic opportunities.
- Most immigrants had difficult lives, but Chinese and The Irish faced particular hardships in the second half if the 19 the century.
THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUALITY
- Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the Unite States. Before he became president, he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
- Rosa park was riding a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The driver ordered her to give her seat to a white man and move to the back of the bus, bur she refused, so the police arrested her.
- Almost 100 years after the declaration of Independence, the United States fought a civil war that involved the issue of equality.
- The literacy tests and the tax were effective ways to prevent African Americans from voting.
- Madam C.J. Walker was one of the first American women to became a millionaire.