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Entry 1: Chapter 16 America's Gilded Age, 1870-1890

When Americans started trekking towards the west coast, they destroyed Nomadic Indian

Life. They killed the animals that the indigenous peoples needed for food, the bison population

of North America declined rapidly. The federal government introduces tribal reservations, they

systematically herded the native Indians into these specific areas and destroyed their homes.

They were forced to change their entire way of life. The natives used to be very agricultural

people and they had the land to be so, but now they don’t have the land to grow the food they

used to be capable of. This caused mass fighting between both the Americans and the natives.

There were massacres of those who refused to move to reservations. The only way the US could

solve these issues of violence were to sign treaties for peace with the native people.

Entry 2: Chapter 17 Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and abroad, 1890-1900

In the late 19

century, the farmers began to revolt, they didn’t want to face the economy

in its current state of disarray. They were looking at increased economic insecurity and

instability for farmers in the US. If they continued growing food s they were, there would be no

telling how they would do financially. The market prices for crops were fluctuating heavily so

there was wild instability in the farming market. Nobody wanted to be a farmer in those

conditions so many of them revolted. They aimed to improve farming conditions by forming the

Farmers Alliance. That helped regulate farming conditions and many of the revolting farmers

returned back to the farming industry. In the end, the revolt actually improved working life for

the farmers so it was a very successful revolt indeed.

Entry 3: Chapter 17 Freedom's Boundaries, at Home and abroad, 1890-1900

The Populist Party emerged later out of the Farmers Alliance of the 1890’s. The party

was a voice for all of the producing classes in America. They had an end goal of both

community organization and universal education. They embraced new, modern technologies

that are emerging at the time such as the telegraph and the railroad. They pushed the federal

government to regulate these newfound technologies in the public interest. To this day, the

Populist Party is still a very prevalent platform of American reform. The populists made

remarkable efforts to unite both black and white farmers with a common political and economic

goal. Lots of African Americans were hesitant to abandon Lincoln’s platform but many of them

did choose to leave it in favor of the Populist Party.

Entry 4: Chapter 18 the Progressive Era, 1900-1916

This era was the last time in American history that cities and farms grew together, at the

same rate. Afterwards, the cities became the prominent focus of progressive politics and the

newfound consumer society. A new generation of trouble makers emerged with the journalism

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industry. They were known as muckrakers, they worked for national, mass-circulation

magazines and favored exposure of industrial and urban life. Many modern novelists, such as

Upton Sinclair, also took a similar scathing approach in their writings. During the early 1900’s a

mass immigration into the US was happening through Ellis Island in New York. Immigrants

also entered through Angel Island off the coast of California. Millions of foreign immigrants

entered the United States during the first fourteen years of the 20

century.

Entry 5: Chapter 18 the Progressive Era, 1900-1916

These new immigrants in the US were coming in search of freedom. They were on a

quest to be free from whatever oppression they were facing at home. They imagined the United

States of America to be the land of freedom. The immigrants also lived in clustered

neighborhoods often sorted by their ethnicities. They all liked to live near other people from the

same place they were from. Traditional gender roles also changed dramatically during this time

period, women actually began to work for wages. Even married women began working. Female

emancipation soon became symbolized by the image of the working woman. It was a very

exciting and prosperous time for both women and foreign immigrants coming to the United

States.

Entry 6: Chapter 19 Safe Democracy: The United States and World War I, 19196-1920

In comparison to his predecessors, Roosevelt was more active in foreign policy and international

diplomacy. The pursued a strong policy of intervention throughout Central America, specifically in Panama.

The US had a right to exercise an international police power throughout the western hemisphere, so they

exercised that right. They activated that police force in the Dominican Republic. Taft had emphasized

economic investment from American banks to foreign countries, instead of direct military investment. He

called this strange policy dollar diplomacy, he chose to execute it throughout the western hemisphere wherever

he could. Instead of offering foreign countries the military aid they truly needed, he offered loans and

investment strategies. It didn’t give them the help that these countries actually needed.

Entry 7: Chapter 19 Safe Democracy: The United States and World War I, 19196-1920

In this time, a period of moral imperialism began across the United States. President Wilson promised

the people a new foreign policy would be implemented, one that would respect the new independence of Latin

America. This moral imperialist policy produced an exponential amount of interventions in Latin America.

No president before or after Wilson has ever implemented any such plan that created more military

interventions. His plans was extremely costly for the US. The Mexican revolution began in 1911, when a civil

war broke out there. Wilson then ordered military troops to land in Mexico at Vera Cruz. These troops were

not treated as liberators, rather they were treated as violent invaders. The Mexicans fought against the

American troops coming to their aid.

Entry 8: Chapter 20 From Business Culture to great Depression, The Twenties, 1920-1932

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