week 14

 The Vietnam war was a crazy time for the Americans. its to be called the longest war in American history and it was very unpopular. Many people died over 60,000 actually and heard to be 2million Vietnamese deaths. Many Americans ask if this war was nectary, I do not think it was. I feel as if it was, they were just helping their allies. They just wanted to bully them and show who was more dominant, but we lost many men and women because of it. The Americans where on the side of the south while the north tried to start with the south. The Americans sent over 2,000 troops to support the south, but that number grew.  In 1963 the number went up to 16,300. In 1963 the south lost fertile Mekong delta to the Viet cong. During the year of 1965 President Lyndon Johnson turned the war up. He sent air strikes to north Vietnam and ground forces. It was a total of 536,000 troops there by 1968. In 1968 Tet offensive by the north turned Americans against the war. This all changed because our next president brought our troops back and gave the south most of the responsibility for the war. Then came 1970 Nixon attempted to slow the flow of north Vietnamese sol dried and supplies by destroying community supply bases in Cambodia. this violated Cambodia neutrality and provoked antiwar protest on the nation’s college campuses. This was not posed to be done but the Americans did it anyway. Now that I’m reading more on it the Americans should’ve let the south have most of the responsibility from the jump, they could’ve helped but they have to look out for our troops as well. I feel like they did not do that all but they are doing a better job at it now which is good because those people are someone’s family.

Week 13 Reflection

During the 1960s it was a lot going on for African Americans and so many others. These times where very rough for many. I commend and thank them for everything because without them we would not be where we are today. That goes for feminist, Mexican, and native Americans, they walked so we can run. The African Americans did many sit-ins, freedom rides also march to stop the miss treatment of blacks. They fought against segregation, poverty, and unemployment. Due to all the fighting the African Americans did it made the federal government pass the Civil Right Act of 1946. The Act means that they cannot discriminate anymore. Also, the 24^th amendment and the voting rights act of 1965 allowed all African Americans to vote. Women also fought for their own rights for better education, employment opportunities. This help women make their mark in society. The things they did help shape who women are today strong and beautiful, and women can do anything a man can do. Mexican Americans had to work for their education, unionization of farm workers, improved job opportunities, and more say so in the political world. The Mexicans felt as if they were getting left out and not treated with the respect they deserved. The natives also wanted control over their land and resources, they wanted to save their natural culture and their self-government. The native had to work hard for the things they had and would fight hard to keep it.  The gays and lesbians also wanted something out of this, and this was to be treated fairly like the others and not to be discriminated. They are human to and the way they were treated was wrong. I learned that everyone is equal no matter who they are if they black, white, blue it does not matter. We have all humans and should be treated as such and nothing less. Its crazy to think that even though our people did all these things for us Blacks, Natives, Mexicans, Gays that we still do not get treated fairly. Its not as bad as it used to be, but they do it in different ways which have a long way to go and I hope someday we get there. That way everyone would be looked at as equal and not less than.

Week 12 Reflection

The 1950s was a great time for America but also bad due to racism. The economy had amazing growth after World War II.  The industrial production grew due to the cold war. There was a mass production of cars. The standard consumer package of the 1950s was a Home, TV set and car. The bad that was still going on was the racism. 7 million whites left the cities and moved to the suburbs, while 3 million blacks moved into the cities. The whites started the profile where the blacks stayed as ghetto places of crimes, poverty, and welfare. The government provided much more for the whites and the middle class than they did the poor. Which is crazy because those are the ones who need the most help. A lot of things happen such as the gross national product grew by 250% and the baby boom happened before which increased the population by 20%.  Also, America became “Consumers republic” this means all citizens were encouraged to consume because it was good for the nations and its economy. The suburban life was segregated, and it was a black suburb. People of the same income usually lived in the same neighborhoods. Many highways were created during this time 40,000 miles of highway were built in the 1950s to link suburbs and cities. The reason for doing this was to make people get cars and drive. The other reason highways were made was because of President Dwight Eisenhower that way it was easier to move troops and military equipment around. What’s crazy is that it took Eisenhower 62 days to travel unpaved roads from Washington D.C. to San Francisco. today that trip only takes 72 hours. Which is amazing how much the improvements have done. As of today, there are 46,300 miles of interstate highways, which cost a lot approximately good $129 billion to build. I’m happy that this was done because I couldn’t imagine trying to travel without them it’ll be very bad. Things would take forever. The 1950s was a very busy time and a lot went on bad and well.

Week 11 Reflections

after reading about this it was very crazy and sad in other words. How they were treating people was crazy man and so unfair. the way the treated the Japanese really stood out to me. it’s said to be over 30 year that this went on. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the hungry miners, longshoremen and fisherman of the frontier town piled into the greasy spoon. tanaka and others was incarcerated for several months and then sent off to internment camps that were all over the country. There were 120,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans detained in World War II internment camps. This wasn't right at all. they are humans to and should be treated as so just because they were Japanese doesn’t mean anything. The U.S. internment camps had so many people in them and the poor living conditions was unbearable. he is living conditions of Japanese American internment camps were very hard for the Japanese because of housing, food, and the daily experiences Japanese went through. they treated them as if they were so different from other just because of their ethnicity. Tanaka and many others were held at their will at the short lived-camps. when they had to leave, they home they only had 2 days and they could only take a few things. there were so many families that were taken away from each other and people lives were just messed up. I couldn’t imagine just getting taken away from my family for nothing. This made it hard for Asian to live in America. the racism the Japanese faced in America still goes onto today and its sad because many Americans still have that mind set. Many Japanese people came to America for the freedom and a better living for themselves and kids. then you think to yourself is better because they still are looked at is as if their nobodies.

Week 10 Reflection

The great depression was the worst economic downturn in history it was crazy it lasted from 1929 to 1939. I learned that before all this had happen the country was booming. The economy was growing, and the nation’s wealth had doubled between the years of 1920 and 1929. The great depression had begun after the stock market had crashed in October of 1929. This had sent wall street into a panic and took away millions of investors. The next couple of years everything was just going bad. Business wasn’t making enough money, people getting laid off from their jobs it was a nightmare. When it had got to its lowest point 15 million Americans was unemployed nearly half the country. Many people don’t know that during this great time when the everything was booming stock market was expanding. There had already been a decline in production and unemployment had risen. That means that stock prices where higher than they should’ve been. So instead of buying stock for something that’s worth 50$ you’ll now be paying 100$ for it. Once this began to happen people started to go in debt because they didn’t have the money to pay for it and jobs where cutting people so people would have no money. So that’s just debt just growing. While all this is going on the stock prices continued to rise and its nothing was being done. I feel as if the U.S. or the business could’ve paid people more that way, they’ll be able to afford the things and wouldn’t be in debt. Till this day the country is still trying to recover from the depression slowly but surely. I feel as if a lot could’ve been done to if not stop to at least stop it from getting so bad. One thing they did do is create something called the new deal that help recovery from the great depression. The TVA and WPA made a job program the employed 8.5 million people from 1935 to 1943. This was such a big boost it was a start but still had a long way to go. Also in 1935 the country passed a act called the social security Act and this allowed Americans with unemployed, disability and pensions for old age. The county was going in the right direction to get things back on track everything started to go back up and improve.

Week 8 Reflection

In the 1920 the modern was good it had great economic growth . They had great migration of African American to cities in the north. The technology grew in mass production. The automobile was the key leader in mass production. The United States produces half of the worlds manufactured goods.  I believe this was an era of progress because great things happen. From creating more jobs, creating new goods. Also many businesses thrived. Where women liberated yes and no. I say that because yes things changed they got to open up and wear more but they wasn’t necessarily free to wear what they want. There was still rule of sort you could show skin but only so much. So I would say yes and no. Did the consumerism lead to more freedom I would say no just because things changed for the good doesn’t mean it changed for everybody. The African Americans still had to go through it the struggle, the unfairness but some hood things did come out of it. The experience for African Americans was good and bad. Lets also talked about my favorite part of the 20s The Harlem Renaissance. IT was a golden age for African American artists, writers and musicians. It gave these artists pride in and control over how the black experience was represented in American culture and set the stage for the civil rights movement. The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s. Im actually from New York so hearing about this growing learning about it always been my thing. It was a lot of good and bad that came out of the 1920 but it was a very interesting time .. 

Week 6

World War I began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire which were known as he central powers fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States know as the allied powers. The new military technologies and the trench warfare, World War I saw so much  carnage and destruction. When the war became to come to an end  and the Allied Powers claimed victory, over 16 million people were dead. World War I probably had  many consequences. It had more than any other  war. From a political stand point it resulted in the downfall of four monarchies  which was Russia in 1917, Austria-Hungary and Germany in 1918, and in Turkey in 1922. It contributed to the Bolshevik rise to power in Russia in 1917 and the triumph of fascism in Italy in 1922. It started colonial revolts in the Middle East and in Southeast Asia.World war 1 really messed up the economy especially the European economies. When that happen it allowed the United States to become the world's leading creditor and industrial power. The war also brought many social problems that wasn’t needed, including the mass murder of Armenians in Turkey and an influenza epidemic that killed over 25 million people worldwide. It got way out of hand nothing anybody seen coming. No one thought a war like world war 1 could happen it caught everyone off guard. It really messed up both the people who won and who lost. In a single day at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, more than  100,000 British troops plodded across no-man's land into steady machine gunfire.  The German trenches a few yards away,  Some 60,000 soldiers were killed or wounded. At the end of the battle, 419,654 British men were killed, missing, or wounded.

Week 5 reflection

As I read through this week we are speaking on the modern day. Also the way we’re  thinking in the US. This which is called the Progressive Era. This Era was a period of wide range of economic , political, social , and moral reform. This happen around  the United States it went from the 1890s to the 1920s. The reason the Progressive era came about is to fix the problems the came with industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. This is where the phrase “Uncle Sam”  was created. They began adding income tax and tariff tax into America. This trend started in Texas around the 1800s. What’s crazy is ever since then taxes have been hurting many Americans. Also another thing that happen was the struggle the women had to go through. They had to fight everyday for their equality. When the American revolution came about it raised many womens expectation. This is when women start to demand that they got treat fairly. The women’s academics started to flourish. In the early 1900’s American women had the highest female literacy rate in the world. It was crazy because men thought it wasn’t possible but the women had something to prove.  Then the white males started to deny the vote for free blacks and also in New Jersey where women briefly won the right after the revolution. The women was trying to change the way they was looked at and want to be treated just like the men because they felt like they was just as equal and had a voice and wanted to speak it.it was a lot of hard work but it was done the women got what they wanted and it was all worth. I feel as if it helped the United States in the long run allowing women to do the things men did the country runs smoother.

Week 4

During the year of 1879, there was an army officer by the name of  Richard H. Pratt. Officer Pratt opened a boarding school for The kids that are Indian. The boarding school was located  in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. His plan was to use education to take American culture to another level to make it mainstream in other words. That year, 50 Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Pawnee arrived at his school. He began to cut their hair. the kids were required  to speak English.they was not able to show or do anything that related to their culture. Things such as Indian clothing, dancing, or religious ceremonies. Pratt's wanted  to "kill the Indian and save the man." What’s crazy to me is that it continued in the 19th century, reformers called for the government to support  their decision so that schools  would teach Indian children "the white man's way of life,". That’s so wrong how they take people and tried to make them one of them basically remaking them. Also they wanted end corruption on Indian reservations, and their tribal organizations. The  government thought on it and used some of their ideas. Then the reformers took away corruption in the Indian Bureau, which had been set up in 1824 to provide assistance to Indians. In 1869, one member of the House of Representatives said, "No branch of the federal government is so spotted with fraud, so tainted with corruption...as this Indian Bureau." To end corruption, Congress established the Board of Indian Commissioners in 1869. I feel so bad for them because nobody should have to grow through that. Them being changed and not being able to live there life they want and being able to be themselves. It was evil . At the end of the 19^th century so much of this has happen that the Indian population decreased by a lot. They broke up tribes they changed everything you wouldn’t even know they was Indian anymore. 

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Week 3 Reflection: Industrial Capitalism

I found it interesting that the Pullman strike of 1894 is assumed significant because it promotes the use of railroads as a better mode of transportation. Which was also a company called the Pullman company that sold mainly railroad cars. It excluded minority groups from joining the union. Later the Pullman railroad company laid off workers and cut their wages, the American railway lead a national strike that shit down the country’s railroad systems. When the video talked about what happened in the U.S. history the railroad traffic was distributed in the Midwest in the United States. The homestead strike is well known to be an industrial lockout and strike which began on July 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. Which was. Related by Andrew Carnegie and the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick the strike beakers who had been hired and worked for the company. Also talks about how the strike lost its momentum and ended on November 20, 1892 with the amalgamated association virtually destroyed, Carnegie steel moved quickly to institute longer hours and lower wages. The homestead strike showed that strikes could become violent, that military could call for supporters. The myth it began in the 19th century which is when it became industrialize. Between the years of 1890 and 1910 typewriter, hand-held cameras, telephones, electricity and more came about . Then became a new way of producing goods. This is called Taylorism it made skilled workers not needed. Also made hiring easier and labor strike hard labor strikes difficult. The expansion of the railroads did great things for America. It created a lot of jobs for people. They were able to transports goods at a high amount which did good for companies. Many think that the United States became industrialized by the free market, they are mistaken. They did not become an industrialized nation because of the “free market.”  The government was very involved. This week was basically about them trying to gain power. Trying to be able to control everything and have all the money. That way they’ll be able to do whatever they wanted. The crazy thing is money helped the country out a lot. It was able to create business that way people had more jobs. It also helped with education so people would be able to learn. Then when it came to neighborhoods making them better for people that lived in bad environments and didn’t have much. That’s what I got from this week it was a bad thing but also a good thing.
 

Week 2 reflection: History of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow

After the war, all-white Southern legislatures passed a law that didn’t allow blacks the right to buying or renting land. They tried to force former slaves to work on plantations. This led The Republicans to gain control of Reconstruction from President Andrew Johnson. That denied  representatives from the former Confederate states their seats. Then they passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Also the draft of the 14th Amendment which extended citizenship rights to African Americans and guaranteeing equal protection of the laws. In 1870, the 15th Amendment gave voting rights to black men. former slaves joined with white Republicans to govern the South. The freedmen, in alliance with the northerners and southern white Republicans which were called scalawags, gained power for a short period of time in every Confederate state except Virginia. There was over 600 African Americans served as legislators in Reconstruction governments. Southern Republicans wanted to advance the South by building railroads and providing free education and other social services. The Reconstruction governments made up democratic state constitutions which expanded women's rights. They also provided debt relief, and created the South's first state-funded schools. The failure of reconstruction had long-term negative consequences. Racism became more deeply embedded in American society. It got so bad that The South's economy became  entirely dependent on a single crop, cotton without that they wouldn’t have nothing. also an increasing number of People from the south were reduced to tenant farming. One-off the political party, the Democratic Party, monopolized political power. The Violence was so bad that it kept immigrants from even going to the region. In most of the South, the end of the war was followed by a lot  of white rage. White mobs whipped, clubbed, and murdered ex-slaves. When that happen the vast majority of former slaves stayed away from seeking vengeance against their former masters. Instead they tired to achieve social and independence by forming separate lodges, newspapers, and political organizations.The roots of half a century of southern poverty had been planted. Before the Reconstruction happen there were no statewide tax supported education systems in the South, except in Tennessee. Freedmen's academies set up by educators from the north to educate former slaves provided the outline for state education systems.the first institutions  for blacks were established in the South. A few black colleges that were founded during the Reconstruction included Fisk University in Nashville in 1866, Howard University in Washington in 1867, and Virginia's Hampton Institute in 1868. former slaves invested their savings in the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company. The trust company and savings  had been chartered by the Federal government to teach the value of thrift. It later failed after the financial panic of 1873, and the federal government did nothing to help them get out of it.they let them struggle. Somehow they seemed to make it through spite everything they’ve been through.a lot of great things came out of this and lot of and things. It’s was all worth it even though I wish it didn’t have to go that way but without them fighting , I wouldn’t be living how I’m living today.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=8&smtID=1

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Introduction to Justin Steele

Hi my name is Justin I’m a freshman and so far I’m really liking the school. I play football and run track. Being able to play 2 sports in college is a blessing. I thank God everyday for the abilities he’s given me. Without him I don’t know where I would be. Always Take full advantage of your opportunities never take it for granted because you never know when it’ll be over.  My goal is to be the best 2 sport athlete to touch this earth . To go pro in both sports. Many would say it’s far fetched but I’m not like others. Just because you can’t do it don’t mean I can’t . I don’t have limitations . With that being said I hope the things I do give me a platform to motivate others to let them know anything is possible. Also just to lead people In the right direction. I just want  the people that look up to me in anyway to know never let someone tell you what you can and can’t do. If it’s something you want just grind and go for it never quit just keep pushing because you never know when it’s your time. You have to stay ready so you won’t have to get ready. One of the people I look up to is missed hussle the things he did for his community the business he owned and just the man he was really inspired me and I tend to watch his videos and learn from him. He’s one of the reason I want to create my own business so my major is business with a minor in entrepreneurial. That way I’ll be set to get my business of the ground and make it thrive. Some hobbies I have is basketball, video games, watching YouTube, and wwe. I’ve always liked basketball even though it wasn’t on a organized team. It’s just fun and something that helps me stay in shape.i also play video games such as fortnite, Madden, 2k and others. I play games to get my mind off of things and to occupy free time. I watch YouTube to get good laughs and watch many different things that interest me. Then when it comes to WWE I’ve been watching It since a kid and always loved it. My favorite wrestler is Sasha banks, and edge. It’s so entertaining even though I know it’s not real it still grabs my attention. A little bit about myself is I’m from Georgia . I’m the youngest of 4 I have 3 brothers 1 sister.  I’m Irish and  favorite colors is blue, green and red . A few of my favorite rappers are J.Cole, gunna, meek mil, rod wave and a few more.  I really like 90s music I listen to it more than my own. Something else about me is I love wings I can eat that everyday.  Also I just love to be around my friends just chilling having good talk and having fun.

Just vibe

Just vibe .