Week 15
Monday November 30th
Reconstruction
Songs
• Fleetwood Mac, “Black Magic Woman” (2:54):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xFWXMcYs34
• Otis Rush, “All your Love I Miss Loving” (4:11):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-jdL5xwi4
Finals and Test #3
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Final Test:
https://jts1301.wordpress.com/assignments/
Next Semester Classes:
11930.201620: 2016-Spring: HIST-1301-P29-United States History I, T/R 11:30-12:50
11988.201620: 2016-Spring: HIST-1302-P41-United States History II, M/W 2:30-3:50
12069.201620: 2016-Spring: HIST-1302-P26-United States History II, T/R 2:30-3:50
Final Exam schedule:
M/W 11:30 class meets Wednesday Dec 9th at 11:00 to 12:50.
M/W 1:00 class meets Wednesday Dec 9th at 1:00 to 2:50.
M/W 2:30 class meets Monday Dec 7th at 2:00 to 3:50.
M/W 4:00 class meets Monday Dec 7th at 4:00 to 5:50.
T/R 4:00 class meets Tuesday Dec 8th at 4:00 to 5:50.
Civil War
• I (11:28)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9zHNOjGrs&index=20&list=PL
8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s
Civil War
• Was the Civil War inevitable?
• Was a northern victory inevitable?
Civil War
• II (10:20)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzTrKccmj_I&list=PL8dPuuaLjXt
MwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=22
Week 15
Wednesday, December 2nd
Reconstruction
Songs
• John Coltrane, “Naima” (4:20):
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx-TxiBi43c
Questions Facing the Union
• What should the government do with the South after the
destruction of resources and infrastructure?
• What does the government with the leaders and officers of the
Confederacy who had just led a rebellion?
• Who should pay for a civil war?
• How to reestablish the Union afterwards?
Civil War
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Lincoln/Douglas Debates
Secession
Trent Affair
Morrill Land Grant
Homestead Act
Emancipation Proclamation
What kind of country emerged?
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Politics
Technology
Culture
Economics
What kind of country emerged?
• Politics
• Incredibly strong federal government
• Massive standing army
• Transcontinental Railroad (gave away millions of acres to private
business)
• Income Tax
• Absentee Voting
• Postal Service
• Bureau of Pensions (welfare)
• Idealism (prisons, mental hospitals, reform, eventual perfection)
What kind of country emerged?
• Culture
• Wartime living (cultural clashes and combos)
• Newspapers (2,500 in circulation in 1860)
• Photography
• Dealing with Death
• Loss of a generation of boys
• Opens the west (the race begins to kill or remove the last of the
“wild” Native Americans
What kind of country emerged?
• Economics
• Increasingly close relationship between industry and government
(production becomes policy)
• Issue of “Greenbacks”
• 1st National Banking system, ties government to banking interests
• Electricity replacing steam, greater efficiency
• Industry exploding in the north, lasting economic depression in the
South
• Oil, steel, and machine industries supplant cotton/textiles
What kind of country emerged?
• Technological
• Improvement in railroads
• Improvement of the telegraph
• Improvement of the photograph
• Canned Food
• Meat “industry”
• Standard clothing sizes, left and right shoes
• Medical techniques
• War fighting technology
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What was really going on:
Decades of labor struggles came with industrialization, 1857 economic crisis, hundreds of thousands rioting
War supplants class conflict in North and South
Contract Labor Law of 1864: companies sign contracts with foreign workers who gave 12 months wages to
pay for emigration, cheap labor, strikebreakers
Injuries and wrongful death considered “risk”, if workers broke contract, no wages, businesses would be paid
for services rendered up to contract breaking
Morrill Tariffs, raised tariffs on foreign goods essentially allowing American Manufactures to raise prices, key
to Republican Party paltform
Conscription, substitution and draft riots
Homestead Act, land could be purchased outright for $1.25, rampant speculation
Soldiers put down strikes and riots
30,000 imprisoned by Lincoln for dissent
Public money for white expansion, nothing for freed slaves
Fully initiated modern capitalism and the exploitation of wage workers
Indian massacres
Sioux Uprising 1862, (3:02)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXT2X56lqAk