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1) Amendment Essay: Impact of Amendments (government action, events etc.) Need historical background and impact. of 2

15th Amendment: 1869

Historical Background—Reconstruction Era, post-civil war • “Radical” Republican phase of reconstruction—Republican congress sought to secure ex-slaves rights w/variety of institutions: Freedman’s Bureau and using martial law. • 15th amendment was a final guarantee of blacks right to vote (it also forced some northern states to allow African Americans the right to vote). • Republicans motivated by keeping majorities in congress (i.e. blacks would vote for Republicans who freed them).

Impact: • In the short term …show more content…
Economic ($100M in trade and $50M in plantations) c. Yellow Journalism: William Randolph Hearst’s NY Journal & Joseph Pulitzer’s NY World. Sensational coverage of the abuses by Spain in Cuba. d. DeLome letter: stolen from Havana post office. Written by Spanish minister in DC. It belittled McKinley as weak and incompetent, e. Sinking of the Maine 1898: Battleship The Maine blows up in Havana Harbor. Spain is blamed for the explosion, last event before war c. Results: a. Cuba free: But Platt Amendment to their constitution allowed US to intervene in Cuba to preserve Cuban independence and granted land for US naval base (Guantanamo Bay) and prevented Cuba from signing treaties w/other countries. b. Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to US c. Philippines sold to US for $20M

Success: Large expansion of US military territory, leads to further expansion under Roosevelt and US entering world politics/conflicts

Containment/Cold War

Historic Background a) Yalta Conference: End of WW2 (1945). FDR, Stalin and Churchill meet and decided to divide the world into zones of control and set up an idea of democratic elections in all the freed
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