Frederick Douglas question

According to "The Narrative of Frederick Douglass," discuss the importance of education and freedom. How does he become educated and how does it change him? Why does he believe that education will set him free? Identify and explain the instances when education becomes a burden to him. Explain your answers. Use specific examples from the narrative.


1) Don't know his birthday
2) Mrs. Auld taught him A,B,C then spell three and four letter words
3) Mr. Auld - "If you teach a nigger how to read, there would no keeping him
-- it would make him discontented
4) He now understood how the white man is able to enslave the black man
-- From that moment Douglass knew that the way to freedom from slavery was reading
-- From what he most dreaded, I most desired
5)Making friends of little white boys he met on the streets
-- get a quick lesson from then when running an errand
6) Constantly reading the "The Columbian Orator"
-- interesting thoughts of my own soul
-- Sheridan's denunciation of slavery
-- the readings of these documents enabled me to utter my thoughts and meet the arguments brought forth to sustain slavery
7) At times I would feel that learning to read had been a curse
-- it had given me a view of my wretched condition with a remedy
-- envied fellow slaves' ignorance
8) Teaching other slaves to read at Sabbath school
-- greatest days
--  any moment they could be taken and given a whipping
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Reconstruction Question

According to the "The American Promise," discuss the difficulties that faced freed people during Reconstruction from 1865-1877. What did freed people expect after emancipation? How did the government leaders and legislation participate in the transition from enslavement to emancipation for freed people? Explain the efforts to aid them. Why did the efforts to aid them fail? Use specific examples from the textbook.

Expectations
-- desire for education
-- equal treatment before the law
-- civil rights
-- land

Legislation
-- 13th Amendment: abolish slavery
-- Freedman's Bureau Acts distributes food and clothing
-- Civil Rights Act of 1866 gave full benefit of laws and end legal discrimination in state laws
-- 14th Amendment makes blacks citizens
-- Military Reconstruction Acts - impose military rule
-- 15th Amendment prohibits racial discrimination in voting
-- Civil Rights Act of 1875 outlaws discrimination in transportation, public accommodations, and juries

Failed
-- South found ways to get around 15th amendment and continue to disenfranchise blacks - literacy, property
-- no state constitution confiscated and redistributed land
-- no state constitution disenfranchised ex-rebels
-- Jim Crow laws aimed at segregation
-- Supreme Court hamper enforcement of 14th and 15th amendment
-- Grant not enforce
-- Congress abandoned reconstruction
-- Northern voters tired of the Negro question
-- Compromise of 1877
-- Failure to protect blacks

Compromise of 1850

Compromise of 1850

• Brokered by Stephen A. Douglas
• Basically the same plan Henry Clay proposed 
• California entered the Union as a free state
• New Mexico and Utah became territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty
• Texas accepted its boundary with New Mexico and received $10 million dollars from the Federal government
• Congress ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia
• Congress enacted a more stringent fugitive slave law
• Signed into law by President Millard Fillmore

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The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World - looks like they use Google Maps with historical data to display cities and geography in Roman times.

Industrial Revolution and Imperalism before 1900

Discuss the positive and negative effects of the changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution and Imperialism by the beginning of the 20th century.

Industrial Revolution
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Postive

• Greater standard of living
• Family could live on one wage earner
• Non-married women and widows could find jobs outside the home
• Increase trade
• Demand for iron, steel, coal, and lumber
• Expand markets and territories
• Textile industry brought clothing for all
•  Steam Engine
• Help extract coal
• Move steamboats
• Railroads
• Faster Transportation
• Canals were built to link the major rivers with manufacturing and agricultural markets
• Railroads - faster, covering long distance
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• Communication
• Telegraph
• Railroads
• Working class
• Rise of trade unions, democratic political parties, and socialism

Negative

• Pollution
• Urban slums
• More powerful war weapons
• Laborers in unsafe factories
• Loss of craftsmanship ownership - now people work on only part of a product
• Marxism, Communism
• Too much power in too few hands - Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, JP Morgan, Carnegie

Imperialism
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Positive

• Almost nothing
• Education in India
• US got -Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
• Panama Canal
• Missionaries wanting to eradicate slavery in East Africa, bring medicine and education
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 Negative

•  China, India, Middle East and Africa were overwhelmed by European economic and military power. Latin America too.
• Take raw materials and natural resources from subjugated country 
• Mining - copper, silver, gold, coal
•  Conviction of racial superiority
• Loss of self-sufficiency  agriculture
• Dependency theory in Latin America
• Push manufactured goods onto subjugated countries while not developing any internal manufacturing and infrastructure
• Expand land grab for raising export crops
• Foreign powers used their political and military influence to protect their economic interests
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