Part One-Jim Crow
The Jim Crow system was a post-Reconstruction series of legislation that established legally authorized racial segregation of the African American population of the south. The Jim Crow system ended in the 1950s with the beginning of the civil rights movement. As Hewitt and Lawson wrote, “these new statutes denied African Americans equal access to public facilities and ensured that blacks lived apart from whites.” With the 1896 Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson the court upheld the legality of the Jim Crow legislation. The court ruled that as long as states provided “equal but separate” facilities for whites and blacks, Jim Crow laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. With this …show more content…
The United States, unlike other countries did not start an imperialist policy until the late nineteenth century. However, once on board the United States made “a burst of overseas expansion from 1898 to 1904, the United States acquired Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines and Puerto Rico; established a protectorate in Cuba; and exercised force to build a canal through Panama.” The United States had a prolonged desired for Cuba because of its economic resources and tactical location in the Caribbean. When the Cubans revolted against Spain in the mid-1980s, the United States grabbed its chance. Jumping into the war with Spain before the Cubans won on their own the United States staked their claim on the outcome and the aftermath controlling the situation to best fit their needs. The Spanish American War was “a splendid little war” between the United States and Spain in 1898 had lasted four months, lost fewer lives than expected, and it ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S acquisition of territories in the Western Pacific and Latin …show more content…
Saying “I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” Twain is saying that the United States should stick to the United States and not subject other countries to their whims. Americans should have help protect and free the Philippines then let them make a government for themselves instead of colonizing the Philippines in a way that resembles how the British took over and colonized the United States centuries ago. In its place Americans should strive for the Philippines “not to be a government according to our ideas, but a government that represented the feelings of the majority of the Filipinos, a government according to Filipinos
The Jim Crow system was a post-Reconstruction series of legislation that established legally authorized racial segregation of the African American population of the south. The Jim Crow system ended in the 1950s with the beginning of the civil rights movement. As Hewitt and Lawson wrote, “these new statutes denied African Americans equal access to public facilities and ensured that blacks lived apart from whites.” With the 1896 Supreme Court ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson the court upheld the legality of the Jim Crow legislation. The court ruled that as long as states provided “equal but separate” facilities for whites and blacks, Jim Crow laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. With this …show more content…
The United States, unlike other countries did not start an imperialist policy until the late nineteenth century. However, once on board the United States made “a burst of overseas expansion from 1898 to 1904, the United States acquired Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines and Puerto Rico; established a protectorate in Cuba; and exercised force to build a canal through Panama.” The United States had a prolonged desired for Cuba because of its economic resources and tactical location in the Caribbean. When the Cubans revolted against Spain in the mid-1980s, the United States grabbed its chance. Jumping into the war with Spain before the Cubans won on their own the United States staked their claim on the outcome and the aftermath controlling the situation to best fit their needs. The Spanish American War was “a splendid little war” between the United States and Spain in 1898 had lasted four months, lost fewer lives than expected, and it ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S acquisition of territories in the Western Pacific and Latin …show more content…
Saying “I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” Twain is saying that the United States should stick to the United States and not subject other countries to their whims. Americans should have help protect and free the Philippines then let them make a government for themselves instead of colonizing the Philippines in a way that resembles how the British took over and colonized the United States centuries ago. In its place Americans should strive for the Philippines “not to be a government according to our ideas, but a government that represented the feelings of the majority of the Filipinos, a government according to Filipinos