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02-18-2009, 07:54 PM
Alright guys, tomorrow is my midterm for US history and i was sick a few days from class so i'm missing a few notes:(. Can you guys please help me out with these questions, Thank you !!:goodjob:
this is the list of questions my professor sent me, although i knows some of them but i would like to see smart people inputs here on IA
REps will be given :D
Why was Andrew Johnson an unsuitable President for the Reconstruction years? Why did American cities experience explosive growth in the late 19th century?
According to Alexander Stephens, why did Southern states secede from the United States?
Why can we call Reconstruction a success?
Why can we call Reconstruction a failure?
Why were department stores invented?
Why was the Gilded Age’s middle class so concerned with conformity?
Why did the Gilded Age’s middle class travel to “exotic” locations?
Why couldn’t the majority of African-American men vote in the US South, after 1877?
Why did the US Supreme Court rule, 8-1, Plessy v. Ferguson, that segregation was OK?
Why are historians of today pretty reliable?
Why did most white Southerners insist upon segregation in public facilities and private businesses?
Besides the easy answer of “racism,” why did segregation exist at all?
Why did lynching occur? A type of entertainment
Why was the NAACP established?
Why was the rural South the scene of most lynching at the turn of the century?
Why did poor whites take part in lynching?
Why was lynching justified by the charge of rape, or assault upon a white woman?
Miss Ida Wells, a nice respectable woman, had believed that white lynched black men in retaliation for raping white girls. Why did Ida Wells change her mind about lynching?
Why was Miss Wells’ friend, Tom the grocer, lynched?
According to Miss Wells, why did white men lynch black men?
Why did Ida Wells move to Chicago?
Why did the Wilmington Insurrection occur?
Why were the fusionists so unpopular among Democrats?
Why did white men restore Wade Hampton & men of the upper class to political power in Wilmington in 1898?
Why did the city fathers of Atlanta decide to displace and to agitate against the lower classes on Decatur Street downtown, in 1906?
Why was William Jennings Bryan in Atlanta in 1906?
Why did white Atlanta fear the votes of African-American men in 1906?
In 1906, why did white Atlanta want investors from outside of the city?
If you were a white country boy, newly migrated to Atlanta in 1906, with no money, no prospects, no vote, why would you riot against black guys in pretty much the same position?
Why would Democrats fight with each other for the gubernatorial seat in Georgia in 1906?
Why did the Atlanta Constitution stir up the riot of 1906?
Why were numerous all-black towns established during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Some people are conspiracy theorists. They suggest that Leon Czolgosz was not so much an anarchist as an assassin paid by a rival Republican faction to assassinate President McKinley. Some even think that Czolgosz was a government agent. Why would a conspiracy theorist come up with such a theory?
Why do we care about the motives of William McKinley’s and James Garfields assassins?
Why did the Republicans – William McKinley – win the election of 1896?
Why do we remember William McKinley’s presidency?
Why is Theodore Roosevelt best remembered for his foreign policy?
Why did the United States support the revolution of Panama against Colombia?
Why was Theodore Roosevelt’s approach to foreign affairs popular?
Why did Theodore Roosevelt’s theory of national interest have such an impact upon US foreign policy in the 20th century?
Why did Theodore Roosevelt dine with Booker T. Washington at the White House?
Why did Theodore Roosevelt’s administration initiate the national parks and national forest systems?
Why were the contributions of Mexican-Americans on “riparian rights useful to the US economy during the 19th century?
Why did German immigrants tend to migrate to the Midwest?
Why did the Irish migrate to the United States in the mid-19th century?
Why was ethnic bloc voting an expansion of democracy for the US?
Why was ethnic bloc voting counter-productive to the US republic?
Why did European immigration to the US spike in 1905?
Why are urbanization and economic revolutions linked?
Why does global urbanization occur when a transnational economic revolution occurs?
Why were dumbbell tenements dangerous?
If you were an immigrant from Greece to the US in 1900, why would you be young and strong?
Why would an immigrant man sell his vote?
Why did the managerial ethos take hold in the US, Japan, and England between the Civil War and WWI?
Why did Frederick Taylor advocate a single “best way” to do a job?
Why did Taylor call for the “complete mental renovation” of the workers?
Why did the new managerial class in the US employ a “blacklist”?
Why is the middle class society of the Gilded Age called a material culture?
Why did middle class people travel to “exotic” locations such as Florida or New Orleans?
Why were home and family so critically important to the Gilded Age man?
Why did fashions of the Gilded Age pinch in a woman’s waist?
Why did even Protestants of the Gilded Age middle class admire “Mary, Mother of God”?
If you had waited through the Civil War for your sweetheart to return home, and set up housekeeping, why would you have a much easier time settling down together than you would have had in 1859?
Why were department stores invented?
Why did department stores employ investigative agencies during the Gilded Age?
Why was credit linked to conformity during the Gilded Age?
Why did African Americans start up many all-black towns at the turn of the century?
Why did so many black-owned businesses prosper at the turn of the century?
Why was “lifting as we climb” the slogan of the National Association of Colored Women?
Educators such as Anna Julia Cooper, Booker T. Washington, Mary Bethune, and Nannie Burroughs became opinion makers at the turn of the century. Why?
Why was Palmer Memorial Institute controversial?
Why was Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of accommodation a good idea at the turn of the century?
Why was Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of accommodation a bad idea at the turn of the century?
Why did W.E.B. DuBois & others stress the need for African Americans to obtain college educations?
Why was the AFL so hostile toward the IWW?
Why did the IWW mock bigotry within the working class?
Why did the IWW die?
Why did the Niagara movement begin?
Why was Niagara’s 1905 “Declaration of Principles” a pioneering document?
Why was education a sort of theme song for black opinion makers at the turn of the century?
Why does citizenship in the US involve both rights and duties?
If you were an ordinary stock broker in New York City, why might you be perturbed while walking down Fifth Avenue from your snug midtown club to your Wall Street office?
Why were working class people so angry at the turn of the century?
Why did anarchists call for a rally at Haymarket in 1886?
Why did police fire wildly into the crowd at Haymarket Square in 1886?
Why would it be irresponsible to declare decisively that one group or another was responsible for Haymarket?
Even though there was no evidence, eight German-Americans were convicted of conspiracy, and three were executed, in the Haymarket affair. Why German-Americans?
Why did Lucy and Albert Parsons, both principals in the Haymarket Affair, draw the fatal attention of the authorities?
Why did 250,000 people line the streets of Chicago to watch a funeral procession in 1893?
Why did steelworkers at Homestead go on strike in 1892?
Why did George Pullman establish a town for his employees, a town called Pullman?
Why did Pullman employees go on strike in 1893?
Why did rioters burn down seven buildings at the Chicago Exposition (World’s Fair) in 1893?
Why did the Pullman workers ask Eugene Debs for help in 1894?
Why were injunctions able to destroy the Pullman strike, when even murders had not stopped them?
Why was the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association so successful in Oxnard, CA, in 1903?
What caused the US to enter into war with Spain in 1898?
Although defense of a traditional way of life is a plausible explanation for racially-motivated violence, it is not an entirely logical explanation. Why not?
this is the list of questions my professor sent me, although i knows some of them but i would like to see smart people inputs here on IA
REps will be given :D
Why was Andrew Johnson an unsuitable President for the Reconstruction years? Why did American cities experience explosive growth in the late 19th century?
According to Alexander Stephens, why did Southern states secede from the United States?
Why can we call Reconstruction a success?
Why can we call Reconstruction a failure?
Why were department stores invented?
Why was the Gilded Age’s middle class so concerned with conformity?
Why did the Gilded Age’s middle class travel to “exotic” locations?
Why couldn’t the majority of African-American men vote in the US South, after 1877?
Why did the US Supreme Court rule, 8-1, Plessy v. Ferguson, that segregation was OK?
Why are historians of today pretty reliable?
Why did most white Southerners insist upon segregation in public facilities and private businesses?
Besides the easy answer of “racism,” why did segregation exist at all?
Why did lynching occur? A type of entertainment
Why was the NAACP established?
Why was the rural South the scene of most lynching at the turn of the century?
Why did poor whites take part in lynching?
Why was lynching justified by the charge of rape, or assault upon a white woman?
Miss Ida Wells, a nice respectable woman, had believed that white lynched black men in retaliation for raping white girls. Why did Ida Wells change her mind about lynching?
Why was Miss Wells’ friend, Tom the grocer, lynched?
According to Miss Wells, why did white men lynch black men?
Why did Ida Wells move to Chicago?
Why did the Wilmington Insurrection occur?
Why were the fusionists so unpopular among Democrats?
Why did white men restore Wade Hampton & men of the upper class to political power in Wilmington in 1898?
Why did the city fathers of Atlanta decide to displace and to agitate against the lower classes on Decatur Street downtown, in 1906?
Why was William Jennings Bryan in Atlanta in 1906?
Why did white Atlanta fear the votes of African-American men in 1906?
In 1906, why did white Atlanta want investors from outside of the city?
If you were a white country boy, newly migrated to Atlanta in 1906, with no money, no prospects, no vote, why would you riot against black guys in pretty much the same position?
Why would Democrats fight with each other for the gubernatorial seat in Georgia in 1906?
Why did the Atlanta Constitution stir up the riot of 1906?
Why were numerous all-black towns established during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Some people are conspiracy theorists. They suggest that Leon Czolgosz was not so much an anarchist as an assassin paid by a rival Republican faction to assassinate President McKinley. Some even think that Czolgosz was a government agent. Why would a conspiracy theorist come up with such a theory?
Why do we care about the motives of William McKinley’s and James Garfields assassins?
Why did the Republicans – William McKinley – win the election of 1896?
Why do we remember William McKinley’s presidency?
Why is Theodore Roosevelt best remembered for his foreign policy?
Why did the United States support the revolution of Panama against Colombia?
Why was Theodore Roosevelt’s approach to foreign affairs popular?
Why did Theodore Roosevelt’s theory of national interest have such an impact upon US foreign policy in the 20th century?
Why did Theodore Roosevelt dine with Booker T. Washington at the White House?
Why did Theodore Roosevelt’s administration initiate the national parks and national forest systems?
Why were the contributions of Mexican-Americans on “riparian rights useful to the US economy during the 19th century?
Why did German immigrants tend to migrate to the Midwest?
Why did the Irish migrate to the United States in the mid-19th century?
Why was ethnic bloc voting an expansion of democracy for the US?
Why was ethnic bloc voting counter-productive to the US republic?
Why did European immigration to the US spike in 1905?
Why are urbanization and economic revolutions linked?
Why does global urbanization occur when a transnational economic revolution occurs?
Why were dumbbell tenements dangerous?
If you were an immigrant from Greece to the US in 1900, why would you be young and strong?
Why would an immigrant man sell his vote?
Why did the managerial ethos take hold in the US, Japan, and England between the Civil War and WWI?
Why did Frederick Taylor advocate a single “best way” to do a job?
Why did Taylor call for the “complete mental renovation” of the workers?
Why did the new managerial class in the US employ a “blacklist”?
Why is the middle class society of the Gilded Age called a material culture?
Why did middle class people travel to “exotic” locations such as Florida or New Orleans?
Why were home and family so critically important to the Gilded Age man?
Why did fashions of the Gilded Age pinch in a woman’s waist?
Why did even Protestants of the Gilded Age middle class admire “Mary, Mother of God”?
If you had waited through the Civil War for your sweetheart to return home, and set up housekeeping, why would you have a much easier time settling down together than you would have had in 1859?
Why were department stores invented?
Why did department stores employ investigative agencies during the Gilded Age?
Why was credit linked to conformity during the Gilded Age?
Why did African Americans start up many all-black towns at the turn of the century?
Why did so many black-owned businesses prosper at the turn of the century?
Why was “lifting as we climb” the slogan of the National Association of Colored Women?
Educators such as Anna Julia Cooper, Booker T. Washington, Mary Bethune, and Nannie Burroughs became opinion makers at the turn of the century. Why?
Why was Palmer Memorial Institute controversial?
Why was Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of accommodation a good idea at the turn of the century?
Why was Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of accommodation a bad idea at the turn of the century?
Why did W.E.B. DuBois & others stress the need for African Americans to obtain college educations?
Why was the AFL so hostile toward the IWW?
Why did the IWW mock bigotry within the working class?
Why did the IWW die?
Why did the Niagara movement begin?
Why was Niagara’s 1905 “Declaration of Principles” a pioneering document?
Why was education a sort of theme song for black opinion makers at the turn of the century?
Why does citizenship in the US involve both rights and duties?
If you were an ordinary stock broker in New York City, why might you be perturbed while walking down Fifth Avenue from your snug midtown club to your Wall Street office?
Why were working class people so angry at the turn of the century?
Why did anarchists call for a rally at Haymarket in 1886?
Why did police fire wildly into the crowd at Haymarket Square in 1886?
Why would it be irresponsible to declare decisively that one group or another was responsible for Haymarket?
Even though there was no evidence, eight German-Americans were convicted of conspiracy, and three were executed, in the Haymarket affair. Why German-Americans?
Why did Lucy and Albert Parsons, both principals in the Haymarket Affair, draw the fatal attention of the authorities?
Why did 250,000 people line the streets of Chicago to watch a funeral procession in 1893?
Why did steelworkers at Homestead go on strike in 1892?
Why did George Pullman establish a town for his employees, a town called Pullman?
Why did Pullman employees go on strike in 1893?
Why did rioters burn down seven buildings at the Chicago Exposition (World’s Fair) in 1893?
Why did the Pullman workers ask Eugene Debs for help in 1894?
Why were injunctions able to destroy the Pullman strike, when even murders had not stopped them?
Why was the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association so successful in Oxnard, CA, in 1903?
What caused the US to enter into war with Spain in 1898?
Although defense of a traditional way of life is a plausible explanation for racially-motivated violence, it is not an entirely logical explanation. Why not?