They Called Themselves The K.K.K by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In this book Bartoletti explains the history of the Ku Klux Klan. Bartoletti tells of how the Confederate individuals were not typically allowed to do business or have political positions for a period of time following the civil war. Many of these confederate people were used to being very busy so they were angry and had a lot of time on their hands. The K.K.K started in Pulaski, Tennessee as a social club founded by six people who had been in fraternities in the South at one point. These people put sheets over their heads and engaged in horseplay at first, the club seemed to be harmless. However the K.K.K later grew into a hate group that committed many terrible crimes. As the K.K.K grew, the meaning of them wearing white sheets was to portray themselves as ghosts of confederate soldiers. The K.K.K began to commit crimes against African Americans and they were afraid that eventually black people would enslave white people. Bartoletti describes beating that the K.K.K gave to black families, including whippings, hangings and other sorts of murder. Black individuals couldn't find any political help at the time because most people in the court were still racist. Bartoletti tells about President Johnson and how he supported many confederate beliefs and was far too lenient with the K.K.K and was almost impeached. After President Johnson lost power, President Ulysses S. Grant came to power and was not lenient with the K.K.K, Grant eventually passed the Ku Klux Klan act which allowed the federal government to step into states with internal problems and help the oppressed individuals if their rights were being altered. Grant moved Federal judges and Marshals in with the army and began to round up mass members of the K.K.K. Members were brought to court and many freedmen gave their claims against the members. The K.K.K was scattered and was not allowed to call themselves a clan for years after their prosecution, as Grant left office the K.K.K was punished and disbanded even though they reunited as a clan later on, they have not been as violent as they were.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Earth Day/ Environmentalist movement
Part 1.
In the film "A Fierce Green Fire" the beginning of the environmental movement in the 1960's was discussed. We now live in an age where Human Industrialism has grown to a point to where it threatens our Earth and people became aware of this in the 60's and started the Environmental movement. In the 1960's an environmental group called the Sierra Club Used techniques including raising environmental awareness and advertisement to successfully stopped the production of 15 dams in the Colorado river and a dam that would be in the Grand Canyon that would render its river dry. In the late 60's people began to protest air/water pollution, leading to governmental acts that helped slow the problem, later in the 70's Earth day was established. A topic of environmental controversy, regarded a neighborhood, being effected by chemicals being dumped in a nearby canal. Many of the citizens in the area tested positive for birth defects, in fact 56% of children had birth defects. After a heated debate that eventually ended with Government compensation the citizens got justice and got relocated, However, this event ignited The Environmental Justice Movement; citizens demanding to live in a clean, chemical free area. In the mid 70's Green Peace was founded as a Non-violent organization, dedicated to Ecological Preservation and anti-war movements, Green Peace used non-violent techniques to try and stop Whale and Seal hunting, after many years of this eventually congress passed a bill in 1992, making whaling illegal. Chico Mendez organized a non-violent group dedicated to protecting the forests in the Amazon, these people often stood in front of trees without moving to protect them. Chico Mendez was later killed but his movement continued resulting in the Brazilian government making 40% of the Amazon forest off limits for production.
Part 2.
Pollution/mass-industrialism of the Earth is a growing issue regarding environmentalism that speaks to me. Since the age of industrialism humans have been abusing earths resources and polluting the ozone; air pollution occurs as a result of combustion, construction, agriculture and warfare from humans. Motor vehicles, nuclear plants, power plants etc. All of these are exponentially growing in use by humans and the result of this is a peak of Co2 in the air along with many other pollutants. The mass air pollution generated currently; threatens humans health along with the health of almost all other living beings on earth, it also leads to extinction of animals, climate change and mass planet-deformation. Mankind is also responsible for destroying much of the earths natural habitats, which has actually led to the extinction of many species and has threatened others. Roughly 400 million metric tons of hazardous waste is generated worldwide each year, the U.S is responsible for 250 million metric tons of hazardous waste each year, U.S citizens consist of only 5% of the total population of earth, this 5% is responsible for half of the hazardous waste produced in the world. The chemical waste produced annually ends up polluting the air and the physical waste, which there is a lot of, ends up in many natural environments(like the ocean) and it directly affects these habitats. All of these pollutants; including chemical pollutants and trash pollutants, combined with the industrialism and destruction of natural habitats could easily reduce the earth to a nearly uninhabitable environment for many species on earth, including humans.
To prevent pollution and industrialism from destroying the earth as we know it; Humans (specifically China, America, India and Russia)would have to decrease their emission of fossil fuels, reduce waste output and use sources of clean energy. Meaning everybody would have to drive less, be mindful of waste(recycle, not litter, make sure nothing man-made ends up in natural habitat), Nuclear power(power plants, etc.) would have to be eliminated, Natural Habitats and animals would have be left alone meaning less consumption of meat, paper from trees would need to stop and the forests and oceans would have to be untouched, with the exception of minor use for obtaining human goods like fish or cows.
sources;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution#Sources_and_causes
https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/pollution
http://www.greenstudentu.com/encyclopedia/pollution
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/pollution
In the film "A Fierce Green Fire" the beginning of the environmental movement in the 1960's was discussed. We now live in an age where Human Industrialism has grown to a point to where it threatens our Earth and people became aware of this in the 60's and started the Environmental movement. In the 1960's an environmental group called the Sierra Club Used techniques including raising environmental awareness and advertisement to successfully stopped the production of 15 dams in the Colorado river and a dam that would be in the Grand Canyon that would render its river dry. In the late 60's people began to protest air/water pollution, leading to governmental acts that helped slow the problem, later in the 70's Earth day was established. A topic of environmental controversy, regarded a neighborhood, being effected by chemicals being dumped in a nearby canal. Many of the citizens in the area tested positive for birth defects, in fact 56% of children had birth defects. After a heated debate that eventually ended with Government compensation the citizens got justice and got relocated, However, this event ignited The Environmental Justice Movement; citizens demanding to live in a clean, chemical free area. In the mid 70's Green Peace was founded as a Non-violent organization, dedicated to Ecological Preservation and anti-war movements, Green Peace used non-violent techniques to try and stop Whale and Seal hunting, after many years of this eventually congress passed a bill in 1992, making whaling illegal. Chico Mendez organized a non-violent group dedicated to protecting the forests in the Amazon, these people often stood in front of trees without moving to protect them. Chico Mendez was later killed but his movement continued resulting in the Brazilian government making 40% of the Amazon forest off limits for production.
Part 2.
Pollution/mass-industrialism of the Earth is a growing issue regarding environmentalism that speaks to me. Since the age of industrialism humans have been abusing earths resources and polluting the ozone; air pollution occurs as a result of combustion, construction, agriculture and warfare from humans. Motor vehicles, nuclear plants, power plants etc. All of these are exponentially growing in use by humans and the result of this is a peak of Co2 in the air along with many other pollutants. The mass air pollution generated currently; threatens humans health along with the health of almost all other living beings on earth, it also leads to extinction of animals, climate change and mass planet-deformation. Mankind is also responsible for destroying much of the earths natural habitats, which has actually led to the extinction of many species and has threatened others. Roughly 400 million metric tons of hazardous waste is generated worldwide each year, the U.S is responsible for 250 million metric tons of hazardous waste each year, U.S citizens consist of only 5% of the total population of earth, this 5% is responsible for half of the hazardous waste produced in the world. The chemical waste produced annually ends up polluting the air and the physical waste, which there is a lot of, ends up in many natural environments(like the ocean) and it directly affects these habitats. All of these pollutants; including chemical pollutants and trash pollutants, combined with the industrialism and destruction of natural habitats could easily reduce the earth to a nearly uninhabitable environment for many species on earth, including humans.
To prevent pollution and industrialism from destroying the earth as we know it; Humans (specifically China, America, India and Russia)would have to decrease their emission of fossil fuels, reduce waste output and use sources of clean energy. Meaning everybody would have to drive less, be mindful of waste(recycle, not litter, make sure nothing man-made ends up in natural habitat), Nuclear power(power plants, etc.) would have to be eliminated, Natural Habitats and animals would have be left alone meaning less consumption of meat, paper from trees would need to stop and the forests and oceans would have to be untouched, with the exception of minor use for obtaining human goods like fish or cows.
sources;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution#Sources_and_causes
https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/pollution
http://www.greenstudentu.com/encyclopedia/pollution
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/pollution
Friday, April 25, 2014
Great Depression Outline/Study review
I Intro-
In 1929 the most tremendous failure in the US economy occurred, causing many Americans to lose their jobs, homes, possessions and their savings. It took the government quite a while, but eventually America was brought back to economic stability after 3 presidential terms, tons of money spent by government and an abundance of preventative bills and organizations designed to aid US citizens in regaining their money and provide work for people after massive, widespread joblessness.
In 1929 the most tremendous failure in the US economy occurred, causing many Americans to lose their jobs, homes, possessions and their savings. It took the government quite a while, but eventually America was brought back to economic stability after 3 presidential terms, tons of money spent by government and an abundance of preventative bills and organizations designed to aid US citizens in regaining their money and provide work for people after massive, widespread joblessness.
II Causes-
A. over speculation (Define, how important)-Lots of people invested their money in lots of stocks in hopes that the stock prices would continue to rise. Investments were made not in anticipation of the companies future but as a short-term gamble to make easy money, this happened because of the really good economy and stock prices, people in the 1920's were very confident in their investments because of The long bull run so tons of people invested tons of money right and left. Figuratively speaking America put all their poker chips into the middle. Then the economy crashed and America lost all their chips.
B. Govt Policy-When the government lent money to the banks in order to help them stay open because the banks all invested in the stocks and lost money, the banks invested with speculation that they'd make more money back but when the market crashed everybody came and got their money so the banks were left with huge debts to pay and no money to pay it with.
C. Unstable Econ-Stock market crashed, Tons of people lost their jobs and became poor, with no money to spend, the demand for products of all sorts dropped. causing economy to plummet.
1. uneven prosperity-since everybody lost so much money, nobody could afford to buy things slowing production so factory workers all lost their jobs and became poor as the rich factory owners did not lose any money because they didn't have to pay their workers.
2. overproduction-As demand for products basically came to a stop, factories kept making things people couldn't buy causing factory workers to lose jobs.
3. worker issues / farm issues-overproduction caused widespread job loss, Farmers in the midwest were hit by dust bowl that killed all their crops and ruined their fields/soil, causing massive drop in farming and making many farmers homeless.
III Effects
A. Poverty- Tons of people had debt but couldn't afford to pay their mortgages and tons of people lost their homes and possessions and became hobos.
B. Society-everybody became poor or at least financially unstable, lots of people became hobos and lived in Hoovervilles, lots of people turned towards entertainment for a pastime, economy was very bad, many people were looking for work.
C. World-The US couldn't continue production of exports to foreign countries, which negatively affected their economy also creating debt to other countries who wanted imports, pretty much all countries receiving US imports were in debt.
IV Solutions-
A. Hoover-Republican who was not favored by majority of people because he was blamed for not fixing the depression when he said he would, he did kinda try though.
1. Volunteerism- President Hoover came up with and funded programs where people volunteered to help out other people in many different ways like providing charity items or helping in a soup kitchen.
2. Public Works-President Hoover funded projects for construction that gave people jobs, taxes were raised to help funding which financially hurt some people.
3. Hawley Smoot-The tarriffs were raised a ton to eliminate foreign production competition also foreign imports and exports came to a slow.
4. RFC=Reconstruction Finance Co. gave loans to help fund railroads and banks etc. This didn't really help.
B. Roosevelt-Elected president during depression, created the new deal
1. new deal-FDR's idea to end the depression consisted of a ton of different organizations that helped aid people and the economy in different ways
a alphabet soup-name for the organizations included in the new deal.
example- CCC(Civilianconservationcorp.)- used to find tons of young people to put to work
building stuff and helping enviroment.
example-CWA(civilworksadmin)- gave people primarily construction jobs
example-NRA(nationalrecoveryagency) regulated industry production
example-TVA(Tennesseevalleyauthority) built power plants and dams
b. Criticsim?- conservatives thought FDR's policies were too much, liberals though they weren't doing enough.
2. 2nd new deal-when FDR was re-elected he made more reforms to help economy and people
a-NLRB(nationallaborrelationsboard) made in order to create more unions
b-WPA(worksprogressadministration) also did construction that gave people jobs.
c-CIO(committeeforindustrialorganization)provided assistance to industrial unions
V. Criticicism-many americans didn't think the government had enough funding
B. Political Criticism- Many democrats and bankers thought the government gave to much support and money away.
A. Conservatives- Were afraid that the development of a lot of government policies/acts would develop a socialist government.wanted state government to help.
B. Liberals-wanted federal government to do more
Ex.were not concerned about possible socialism
ex.wanted more federal widespread reforms
VI Effectiveness
A. Changes in US- FDR altered his policies in order to provide more federal assistance
B. Unions-became more powerful and adjusted to provide for people more.
C. Culture- US citizens eventually became financially responsible
VII Conclusion-
The Great Depression had a tremendous impact on America, President Hoover's attempts to fix the economy did not prevail but were not without minor success mostly regarding Hoovers public works or Volunteerism ideas, when FDR was elected he was more succesful in his two terms, being responsible for the New deal and the 2nd New deal, FDR gave work to many people and also passed many bills regulating certain economic actions, those of which were part of the reason why the depression occurred. The depression was a historical event that attributed to the knowledge now known and used to prevent another economic failure.
The Great Depression had a tremendous impact on America, President Hoover's attempts to fix the economy did not prevail but were not without minor success mostly regarding Hoovers public works or Volunteerism ideas, when FDR was elected he was more succesful in his two terms, being responsible for the New deal and the 2nd New deal, FDR gave work to many people and also passed many bills regulating certain economic actions, those of which were part of the reason why the depression occurred. The depression was a historical event that attributed to the knowledge now known and used to prevent another economic failure.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
WW2 Propaganda and Posters
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| The 1940's cover of The 4 favorites |
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| A US recruiting poster originally used for WW1 became so popular that is was used again in WW2 |
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| A US propaganda poster reminding troops the tactical advantage of keeping their watches wound. |
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| A US poster reminding people of the importance of Home efforts in America |
Sources-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_propaganda_during_World_War_II
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-wwii-propaganda-posters.php
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