Post US Civil War
by Stephanie Gonzalez
1. Congress prepared for war due to this
1.1. Americans won the war
1.2. Spanish fleet was destroyed
1.3. Americans lost 460 soldiers in the war, which less than what they had lost during the Civil war
2. In 1866-1877, Reconstruction was implemented by congress
2.1. It aimed to reorganize the Southern states after the Civil War
2.2. defined why whites and blacks could live together in a non-slave society.
3. The USS Maine enters Havana Harbor on January 25, 1898
3.1. Maine was the only second class battleship, and the largest ship to enter the Havana Harbor.
4. A sudden explosion came upon the Maine
4.1. It was blown up and sinking.
5. Spanish sent many Cubans to concentration camps
6. Napoleonic War
6.1. led to domestic manufacture growth
7. Census of 1850 were the first to include a class called "Mulattoes"
8. The Red scare linked anti-immigrants with anti-working sentiment in 1919.
8.1. It was fueled by an economic depression
9. There was fear of revolution due to the anti-communist and anti-immigrant segment
10. "Racism fused with eugenies in scientific circles"
10.1. "Eugenies circles overlapped with the nativism of white protestant elites."
11. Racism shaped the armies development of intelligence test
12. In 1882, Whites workers in the West exposed racism that made laws including and expelling the Chinese
13. Jewish were the first Euro-Immigrant groups to enter college in large numbers
13.1. they were proud of the academic skills that gained them access to great schools
13.2. Jews made most of the population of students in colleges
14. 'The Us emerged from the war with the strongest economy in the world."
15. "Radical Republicans in Congress imposed federal military rule over most of the South."
16. Rosa Parks started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in December 1955
17. Brown V. Board of Education
17.1. Its main goal was to expand the legal rights of African Americans.
18. Ireland was governed under a series of codes called the Penal Laws
18.1. Catholics weren't allowed to vote or serve in Parliament or hold public office in any military or civil service.
18.2. They regulated every aspect of Irish life, civil, domestics, and spiritual.
18.2.1. By the mid 18th century, Catholics held seven percent of Irish land.