Zinn Chapter 11 Questions (Partial through Emma Goldman) 1. What was the technology that transformed the work-place from 1865-1900? What economic and social effects did the new technology have on American society? 2. Why did it “take money to make money” during the period of rapid economic expansion after the Civil War? 3. How many railroad workers were killed or injured in 1889? Why did so many workers die on the job? 4. How did J.P. Morgan justify his methods of doing business? 5. Are there
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move people to the West. The government passed the Indian Removal Policy in the year 1830‚ which called for the removal of Native Americans from the Tennessee‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina‚ and Georgia areas. It also moved the Seminole capital‚ Echota‚ in Tennessee to the new capital called New Echota‚ Georgia and then eventually to the Indian Territory. The Indian Territory was declared in the Act of Congress in 1830 with the Indian Removal Policy. Elias Boudinot‚ Major Ridge‚ and John Ridge
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AP United States History 7 January 2014 Period 4 Zinn Chapter 11 Manifest Destiny gave reason to go to the West for opportunists. The more common name for these opportunistic Americans were industrialists. These people came on the rise as Robber Barons. What would become household names were simply paving their ways towards success in these days. This brand of people became a part of American culture‚ forever changing it and embellishing their names within it‚ such as Rockefeller‚ Standford
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Elizabeth Nichols 2nd period 3/20/10 The Indian Removal Act Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. This act called for the government to make treaties that required Native Americans to relocate west. Jackson thought that this policy was “just and liberal.” He thought the Native Americans would be able to keep their way of life. He was wrong. The Indian Removal Act brought a lot of hardship to the Native Americans. It also forever changed the relationship between whites and Native
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The Native Americans fought in court to stay on their land and even though they won President Jackson still forced them to leave. In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act because white settlers didn’t want to live with the Native Americans. Andrew Jackson’s reasons for defending the Indian Removal Act were fraudulent and in the eyes of the Native Americans would be unfair and irrelevant. A few reasons would be the Trail of Tears‚ the Five Civilized Tribes‚ and the fact that the Cherokee Nation
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having the rights‚ which the fathers planned‚ in their favor. The U.S. see them as an evil eye unlike many other Indian tribes. Many of the members of the tribes are changing the culture and they agree that the American soil is not the land of their birth and affections. Jackson’s Indian Removal (1829) 1) The information that Jackson provided to support his position about the Indian policy
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practically stationary there was no progress occurring. 6. Why did the countries not tell their citizens about the casualties? f. Because the casualties were in the extremes and they did not want to scare their citizens to back out of the war. 7. What was the first action that caused Wilson to rethink isolationism? g. The Germans threatening to sink all of the merchant ships sent to their enemy. 8. What were some of the consequences of the war? h. As soon as the war started
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the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Indian Removal Act was where Cherokee indians were forced to move from their land and walk thousands of miles to relocate to present day Oklahoma. Over four thousand Cherokee indians died along the way because of the environment conditions that includes the snow‚ rain‚ ice‚ freezing temperatures‚ starvation‚ illnesses‚ etc. They experienced diseases‚ starvation and exhaustion on their heartbreaking journey. It is recorded as a time of despair for the indians that
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Indian Removal Essay More land is benefit for a country of course americans want to make their country grow better so they need more land‚ so now we gong to talk about should Indians move? Of course that the Cherokee should move‚Cause of the threat from the U.S.invaders ‚and the U.S. leaders of already signed the Indian removal act‚and they move is for avoid more sacrifice of their people‚ the whole nation. In first reason they should move is because that the U.S. government will give
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Tiffany Escandon APUSH Zinn Chapter 9 Summary Period 8 ZINN CHAPTER 9: “Slavery without submission‚ emancipation without freedom” Zinn chapter 9 talks about slavery before and after the Civil War‚ it describes the United States Government’s support of slavery until Abraham Lincoln’s approach to end Slavery. It mentions how the slaves were kept into slavery by whipping‚ religion‚ separating families and even killing. There were many failed attempts to abolish slavery prior
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