Both of the images I picked where focused on the economical changes in the South. In my first image, it showed what the South looked like following the Civil War. By this picture you can see that there was a lot of damage done due to most of the fighting being down there. To fix up the South after an event like that, it would have to take a lot of money to rebuild it. My second image was a cartoon from the era depicting a northerner moving to the South to take advantage of its damaged condition to make money for themselves. Most Southerners saw people like this as selfish and greedy and called them carpetbaggers. By putting the two images together, you can conclude that during reconstruction the South needed a lot of help economically to rebuild itself. You can also conclude that many southerners thought that many Northerners took advantage of this and went there to make money for themselves instead of helping the South.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443890304578008573749823206.html#articleTabs%3Darticle http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323622904578129593156349934.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2012/09/12/the-price-of-oil-is-the-new-economic-spoiler/ In the West a radical amount of Gold was discovered. With the discovery of gold comes thousands of Boomtowns that eventually fell. After finding the gold the settlers would hit the lode and deplete it to 0 remaining gold. After they would rid of all of the gold sources they would abandon the town. Little did they know they began the beginning of the depletion of most resources? Today Oil is the black gold. Now that the industrial revolution has begun we are now relying on oil 100%. Oil drillers are at large now thinking they can make millions. But according to Forbes the price of a tank of oil has dropped 70% from $140 to $40. With all of this oil mining they have to constantly relocate after they remove all of the available oil. This resembles the same concept as boom towns. The only difference is we take everything from the lode3 rather than leaving remnants of gold deeper than we have dug and or drilled.
I agree that oil has a great effect on the economy. It effects everything we do and without it, transportation and such would be very difficult. After the industrial revolution, oil sky rocketed. It seemed as thought there were new oil rigs every where. Many oil rigs also means a lot of new jobs so that very much helped the unemployed.
In trying to expand the West and growing the economy many hardships were faced mostly aimed for the Native Americans. The Native Americans just wanted to live a peaceful life without any disturbance from the outside world. They wanted to live their nomadic lives living on reservations and catching buffalo. These buffalo were considered sacred and when the Americans shot then down, they were considered to be wasting it. The Natives were promised land, but yet that promised land was taken away from them for America's selfish reasons. But when expanding west, the lives of Natives turns upside down. Natives were forced out of their daily lifestyles from catching buffalo, to becoming farmers. The Native American removal is stripping the Native Americans from all their rights and things they deserve. They didn't have a say in it and when they tried to fight for it, they got massacred. These two pictures show the injustice against Native Americans which was clearly unfair.
http://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/progress.html http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/hine-dust.htm During the Progressive Era they were slowly changing the environment at a workplace and to end the labor of children so they could get an education and be in a safer, nonhazardous environment. One of the primary documents show a picture of a protest against child labor and how they want to get an education. It also says “more school less hospitals”, referring to how kids died in factories and mines from dust and gases that they inhale and destroy their lungs. The second picture shows children in a mine and how the conditions are for them, cramped up and unsanitary. The worst part is there is man standing there with a stick that would watch the kids and keep them obedient.
Prohibition began when women started to protest of the negative effects due to men abusing alcohol. In these images, it is represented the different viewpoints of Prohibition. Women say that alcohol was ruining our country and that men beat their wives and children when drunk but not when sober. Therefore they often rioted and rallied against alcohol, with slogans similar to the sign within the picture. Eventually Congress passed the bill, and the 18th Amendment was ratified in 1920. In the second image it is a visual of how the United States was being “drowned,” or pulled under by Prohibition, due to the increased crime levels and the illegal selling of alcohol due to gangs and mobsters. Eventually Prohibition was repealed within the 21st Amendment to prevent a crash in the stock market in 1933, becoming the first ever amendment to the constitution to be undone.
The Progressive Era was a time for change and progress, in the workplace, cities, education, and within government. One problem that stood out among all the others during the Progressive Era was the slowly ending problem, of child labor. Many children dropped out of school at young ages, and joined the workforce. Children sometimes dealt with long harsh conditions and work hours with little pay, depending on where they were employed. The first image above is a picture of a girl being surrounded by machines at a factory type setting, the image below is a group of children workers. These images describe how many children didn't receive good education, because of how much of their time and effort went into working. Some worked because there families couldn't survive without them working. Many reformers at the time believed in shortening the work hours for children, and thought of ways of improving the conditions, children had to deal with.
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Both of the images I picked where focused on the economical changes in the South. In my first image, it showed what the South looked like following the Civil War. By this picture you can see that there was a lot of damage done due to most of the fighting being down there. To fix up the South after an event like that, it would have to take a lot of money to rebuild it. My second image was a cartoon from the era depicting a northerner moving to the South to take advantage of its damaged condition to make money for themselves. Most Southerners saw people like this as selfish and greedy and called them carpetbaggers. By putting the two images together, you can conclude that during reconstruction the South needed a lot of help economically to rebuild itself. You can also conclude that many southerners thought that many Northerners took advantage of this and went there to make money for themselves instead of helping the South.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2012/09/12/the-price-of-oil-is-the-new-economic-spoiler/
In the West a radical amount of Gold was discovered. With the discovery of gold comes thousands of Boomtowns that eventually fell. After finding the gold the settlers would hit the lode and deplete it to 0 remaining gold. After they would rid of all of the gold sources they would abandon the town. Little did they know they began the beginning of the depletion of most resources?
Today Oil is the black gold. Now that the industrial revolution has begun we are now relying on oil 100%. Oil drillers are at large now thinking they can make millions. But according to Forbes the price of a tank of oil has dropped 70% from $140 to $40. With all of this oil mining they have to constantly relocate after they remove all of the available oil. This resembles the same concept as boom towns. The only difference is we take everything from the lode3 rather than leaving remnants of gold deeper than we have dug and or drilled.
I agree that oil has a great effect on the economy. It effects everything we do and without it, transportation and such would be very difficult. After the industrial revolution, oil sky rocketed. It seemed as thought there were new oil rigs every where. Many oil rigs also means a lot of new jobs so that very much helped the unemployed.
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In trying to expand the West and growing the economy many hardships were faced mostly aimed for the Native Americans. The Native Americans just wanted to live a peaceful life without any disturbance from the outside world. They wanted to live their nomadic lives living on reservations and catching buffalo. These buffalo were considered sacred and when the Americans shot then down, they were considered to be wasting it. The Natives were promised land, but yet that promised land was taken away from them for America's selfish reasons. But when expanding west, the lives of Natives turns upside down. Natives were forced out of their daily lifestyles from catching buffalo, to becoming farmers. The Native American removal is stripping the Native Americans from all their rights and things they deserve. They didn't have a say in it and when they tried to fight for it, they got massacred. These two pictures show the injustice against Native Americans which was clearly unfair.
http://www3.nd.edu/~rbarger/www7/progress.html
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During the Progressive Era they were slowly changing the environment at a workplace and to end the labor of children so they could get an education and be in a safer, nonhazardous environment. One of the primary documents show a picture of a protest against child labor and how they want to get an education. It also says “more school less hospitals”, referring to how kids died in factories and mines from dust and gases that they inhale and destroy their lungs. The second picture shows children in a mine and how the conditions are for them, cramped up and unsanitary. The worst part is there is man standing there with a stick that would watch the kids and keep them obedient.
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Prohibition began when women started to protest of the negative effects due to men abusing alcohol. In these images, it is represented the different viewpoints of Prohibition. Women say that alcohol was ruining our country and that men beat their wives and children when drunk but not when sober. Therefore they often rioted and rallied against alcohol, with slogans similar to the sign within the picture. Eventually Congress passed the bill, and the 18th Amendment was ratified in 1920. In the second image it is a visual of how the United States was being “drowned,” or pulled under by Prohibition, due to the increased crime levels and the illegal selling of alcohol due to gangs and mobsters. Eventually Prohibition was repealed within the 21st Amendment to prevent a crash in the stock market in 1933, becoming the first ever amendment to the constitution to be undone.
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The Progressive Era was a time for change and progress, in the workplace, cities, education, and within government. One problem that stood out among all the others during the Progressive Era was the slowly ending problem, of child labor. Many children dropped out of school at young ages, and joined the workforce. Children sometimes dealt with long harsh conditions and work hours with little pay, depending on where they were employed. The first image above is a picture of a girl being surrounded by machines at a factory type setting, the image below is a group of children workers. These images describe how many children didn't receive good education, because of how much of their time and effort went into working. Some worked because there families couldn't survive without them working. Many reformers at the time believed in shortening the work hours for children, and thought of ways of improving the conditions, children had to deal with.