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Category Archives: 1865-1877
Chinese Exclusion Act
Photocredit: University of California at Berkeley
This political cartoon from the late 1800s depicts the seething animosity towards Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s. White immigrants and white Americans alike joined in accusations of the Chinese for stealing jobs and lowering wages. They rallied to drive the Chinese out of their neighborhoods and forced them into concentrated slums all over the country and called it “Chinatown”. This cartoon depicts a Chinese person with sub-human characteristics, as with many cartoons during that era. It was a systematic attempt to dehumanize the Chinese population as to make whites feel more superior. My film will highlights the discrimination and struggles of Chinese immigrants during that period.
Posted in 1865-1877, 1880-1890, 1890-1900, 1900-1916, 1916-1920, 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Cultural History, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged chinese, chinese exclusion act, chinese immigration
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Evolution of Freedom [1865-1945]
The Evolution of Freedom begins in 1787
One of the iconic songs based of the Woodstock concerts was “Freedom” by Richie Havens. This video highlights a freedom revolution that occurs in 1969 but is based off a culmination of events before it. My documentary shows how freedom was subjective to the American populations and had different meaning evolve for it throughout the years. Foner does make a mention of this as the chapters progress, or in our case as we looked back at history. The documentary will begin and end with this song.
Freedmen
This youtube clip examplifies the period of recontruction covered in my movie script proposal.
Posted in 1865-1877, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, freedmen, reconstruction
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Reminder and Thanks
A final reminder to all that the final paper is due at midnight tonight. Your paper should be sent as an email attachment. I will write back confirming receipt. You should also publish your blog post (part of the final assignment) by midnight.
Many thanks to all of you for your contributions to the course. I commend all of your hard work and diligence. I wish you the best in the future.
And one last thing: there were two final lecture slides that I didn’t get a chance to show last night. They give the definition of scalawag and carpetbagger. You probably learned the definitions from your textbook, the movie clips we watched yesterday, or some other source, but just in case, here they are (they are also posted on the “slide lectures” page, which is now complete).
Political Cartoon of Carpetbagger
Carpetbagger:
A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
Scalawag:
A white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation.
Posted in (admin only) Assignments, 1865-1877
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