“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future” stated by Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout history in America from 1865-1940’s, America has strived to reconstruct the brokenness of America’s North and South, to get African American right to vote as well as women’s rights and minorities. The railroads being an important key for trading in America and immigrants coming to America for fresh new start. The First World War as well as the Great depression and the New deal that came into effect during this time. These are just a few key points to the bigger picture of what happened during 1865-1940’s. Well reading in Give Me Liberty the pictures in the book are worth a thousand words, while I was reading I picked one photo from each chapter 15 to 21 that I believed that told a story of what was happening during this point in time in history. (564)
Chapter 15, the Reconstruction Era, the …show more content…
Right away this photo is showing Uncle Sam lecturing kids with different colored skin with the label of Porto Rico, Hawaii, Philippines and Cuba. As well as a Native American in the back reading a book upside down and an African American cleaning the window as well. It shows once again shows that American racial attitude towards other races. “Many Americans embraces a more restricted definition of nationhood. The elusiveness was evident in the pages of popular periodicals, filled with derogatory imagery depicting blacks and other lesser groups as little more savage and criminal incapable of partaking in freedom” (655). The basic question arises is America becoming a Republic or an Empire? So Americans believe in this time period that they are still better and should enforce their practices onto these other countries, but in the end Americans wanted to be “benevolent imperialism, rooted in a national mission to uplift backward cultures and spread liberty across the globe”
Chapter 15, the Reconstruction Era, the …show more content…
Right away this photo is showing Uncle Sam lecturing kids with different colored skin with the label of Porto Rico, Hawaii, Philippines and Cuba. As well as a Native American in the back reading a book upside down and an African American cleaning the window as well. It shows once again shows that American racial attitude towards other races. “Many Americans embraces a more restricted definition of nationhood. The elusiveness was evident in the pages of popular periodicals, filled with derogatory imagery depicting blacks and other lesser groups as little more savage and criminal incapable of partaking in freedom” (655). The basic question arises is America becoming a Republic or an Empire? So Americans believe in this time period that they are still better and should enforce their practices onto these other countries, but in the end Americans wanted to be “benevolent imperialism, rooted in a national mission to uplift backward cultures and spread liberty across the globe”