I need help with US History >>midterm is tomorrow<<
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 !!
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
- 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?
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