Assignment #7-Slavery and Reconstruction
STEP#1
Please watch this short film on lynching in America from the authors of the book Without Sanctuary.
Be aware this film contains graphic images.
STEP#2
Take a look at this clip from the film Birth of a Nation. What do you notice about how the African American Congressmen are portrayed in the film?
(Bear in mind, this film is not meant to be taken as a comedy. It is meant to be taken as an historical reenactment of what actually happened.)
STEP#3
From the book Lies My Teacher Told Me, please read Chapter 5, “Gone With the Wind.”
Please include your 5 five things on Discussion Board.
STEP#4
Complete the discussion board assignment
Assignment #8-The Gilded Age
STEP#1
Please click the image below to watch the South Park episode “Something Wallmart This Way Comes.”
STEP#2
Please watch this documentary about Wal-Mart. How does this issue tie in to the Gilded Age and what we are studying about the late 1800s?
STEP#3
Please read the chapter “Robber Barons and Rebels,” from Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the United States.
Please be prepared to discuss at least five things from this chapter you thought were interesting!
STEP#4
Complete the discussion board assignment
Assignment #9-The Progressives
STEP#1
Please click the title above to take you to the PBS Frontline productions entitled “A Dangerous Business” AND “A Dangerous Business Revisited” concerning the working conditions of one of today’s iron foundries.
Pay special attention to the time period.
STEP#2
Please read the chapter entitled “The Socialist Challenge,” from Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the United States.
Be prepared to discuss this on Discussion Board.
STEP#3
Please read chapter 7 “The Land of Opportunity,” from Lies My Teacher Told Me.
Be sure to have at least 5 things to discuss on discussion board!
STEP#4
Complete the discussion board assignment
Assignment #10-Imperialism
STEP#1
Please watch the following film on the far-reaching consequences of our imperial designs throughout Latin America in the early 20th century:
STEP#2
Please read the chapters “The Empire and the People” and “War is the Health of the State” from Howard Zinn’s book A People’s History of the United States.
Please be prepared to discuss at least five things from this chapter you thought were interesting in Discussion Board.
STEP#3
Please click the image to watch this graphic novel presentation of Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of American Empire.”
After watching the film and reading the chapter, how does our involvement in Cuba and The Phillipines begin to shed light on our current situation in the Middle East?
STEP#4
Albert Beveridge to Congress:
Mr. President, the times call for candor. The Philippines are ours forever, “territory belonging to the United States,” as the Constitrltion calls them. And just beyond the Philippines are China’s illimitable markets. We will not retreat from either. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for a task worthy of our strength, and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world.
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Mr. President, this question is deeper than any question of party politics: deeper than any question of the isolated policy of our country even; deeper even than any question of constitutional power. It is elemental. It is racial. God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing hut vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has given its the spirit of progress to overwhelm the forces of reaction throughout the earth. He has made us adepts in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples. Were it not for such a force as this the world would relapse into barbarism and night. And of all our race He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America, and it holds for us all the profit, all the glory, all the happiness possible to man. We are trustees of the world’s progress, guardians of its righteous peace. The judgment of the Master is upon us: “Ye have been faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many thing.”
From Congressional Record(56th Cong., 1st Session) Vol XXXIII, pp.705, 711.
STEP#5
Complete the discussion board assignment
American Domain
Attached Files:
American Empire? (80.655 KB)
Please click the link to see a map of all the countries in the Pacific Ocean the United States took over by 1900 in an effort to get to China.
