Section 1 Question # 2
Between the late 1890’s and late 1920’s, many African Americans struggled for survival and equal prosperity, especially after the effects of the reconstruction period. Many blacks had to live in the rural south, and make a life for themselves through lots of indentures to support both themselves and their families. This time period, was a huge disenfranchisement for blacks being that they had to deal with discriminatory behaviors, social, political and economic disparity, and even problems such as lynching and the eminent KKK. African Americans would not see a rise in racial equality until the late 1960’s.
If I was an African American living between 1890 and 1928, I would be living a basic lifestyle, with me and my family. …show more content…
This particular era was an age of reform and movement and many of the members were never a unified party although they advocated for the same reform, and they were all different individuals that consisted of upper class, middle class, industrial workers, women as well as presidents with a series of separate ideas for the future. The most important things that characterized this age of strict reform was immigration, women 's suffrage, reform of the political system, reform of the industrial system, and the three presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and …show more content…
He also created and revised his own doctrine of the original Monroe Doctrine where the US could intervene in international affairs of US Territory. I feel this helped with the superiority of the military and our expansion. Now with Woodrow Wilson, I feel that his presidency leaded more to chaos instead of success even though he promoted neutrality and foreign policy, and help alleviate a lot of tension, yet creating it as well. He set patterns for the way that America would fight in the future and his idea of isolationism that would eventually involve America in WW1 with Germany. His 14 points that was enacted by Congress in 1918 that helped end WW1 helped with expanding freedom of trade which would lead to a new way of Americanism for the roaring 1920’s. All of the presidents were progressives in their own ways since progressives weren’t initially in a group, they had their own innovative ways of trying to advocate for reform; however, they possessed on common goal of
Between the late 1890’s and late 1920’s, many African Americans struggled for survival and equal prosperity, especially after the effects of the reconstruction period. Many blacks had to live in the rural south, and make a life for themselves through lots of indentures to support both themselves and their families. This time period, was a huge disenfranchisement for blacks being that they had to deal with discriminatory behaviors, social, political and economic disparity, and even problems such as lynching and the eminent KKK. African Americans would not see a rise in racial equality until the late 1960’s.
If I was an African American living between 1890 and 1928, I would be living a basic lifestyle, with me and my family. …show more content…
This particular era was an age of reform and movement and many of the members were never a unified party although they advocated for the same reform, and they were all different individuals that consisted of upper class, middle class, industrial workers, women as well as presidents with a series of separate ideas for the future. The most important things that characterized this age of strict reform was immigration, women 's suffrage, reform of the political system, reform of the industrial system, and the three presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and …show more content…
He also created and revised his own doctrine of the original Monroe Doctrine where the US could intervene in international affairs of US Territory. I feel this helped with the superiority of the military and our expansion. Now with Woodrow Wilson, I feel that his presidency leaded more to chaos instead of success even though he promoted neutrality and foreign policy, and help alleviate a lot of tension, yet creating it as well. He set patterns for the way that America would fight in the future and his idea of isolationism that would eventually involve America in WW1 with Germany. His 14 points that was enacted by Congress in 1918 that helped end WW1 helped with expanding freedom of trade which would lead to a new way of Americanism for the roaring 1920’s. All of the presidents were progressives in their own ways since progressives weren’t initially in a group, they had their own innovative ways of trying to advocate for reform; however, they possessed on common goal of