Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous- 1900 Spanish-American War- A “splendid little war” between the United States and Spain that started on April 25th and ended on August 12th, 1898. The conflict was started when the United States became involved in the conflict between the Spanish and the inhabitants of Cuba. When the USS Maine went to Cuba to project American and exploded in the harbor the United States blamed the Spanish and declared war. The war was relatively short and one-sided since the United States was a rising world power and the Spanish were losing their long-held empire. When the conflict concluded the United States won Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. Filipinos that expected independence after the defeat of the Spanish were disappointed by the U.S. occupation and fought a violent rebellion which was brutally suppressed.
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Jim Crow Jim Crow were a set of laws that seperated the blacks and the whites in public places. They rules were set primarily in the south but not exclusively. The rules restricted blacks from using the white bathrooms, restaurants, and any other place that it would be seen that blacks and whitets were mixing. The segregation was de jure meaning that it was inacted though a fixed set of laws. The laws may differ slightly from town to town but the single mindset of the southern american white male was that blacks could in no case come near the whites. However not all whites enacted the ideals of Jim Crow. Those that didnt were heavily scrutinized and many of the whites within the town would turn against them. The blacks were thought to be unclean and filthy and in all cases inferior to the white american, even though the adopted slogan was "seperate but equal." Quickly the blacks became tired of the treatment that they recieved, and started forming groups. These early groups eventually gave rise to what we know today as the Civil Rights Movement.
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Pancho Villa  **__PANCHO VILLA__** ** Born as Dorote Arango Arámbula but best know as Pancho Villa was a Mexican Revolutionary General. To the poor peasant Mexicans he is know as a hero, but the Americans on the other hand see him as a bandit. Mexicans saw Pancho Villa as a hero because he was like a modern-day Robin Hood. He would steal cattle, rob shipments of money, commit crimes against the wealthy. Everything he stole he would give to the poor peasants. All of this stared when he was 16-years old working at a hacienda he saw the owner of the hacienda rape his younger sister. When he saw this he shot the man and ran away and became a bandit. Living as bandit Villa joined with Franciso Madero revolutionary forces. They together formed the Dicision del Norte. The skills that Villa had as a fighter and the skills of a leader he was made a general. When Venustiano Carranza was running for presidency, Pancho Villa he wasn't very happy. The US government supported Carranza and his presidency so Villa retaliated by raiding the US border towns. The US goverment for years tried to find him to but couldn't. He lived in Parral,Chihuahlua until he was assassinated in July 20, 1923.**

Federal Reserve Federal Reserve- The Federal Reserve System is the central banking used across America but is located in Washington DC. The bank was started in 1913. There are 13 other branches to the system that are located in major cities all over the United States. The Federal Reserve System was made for the simple fact of all of America’s government would be placed in the bank; Woodrow Wilson was the president at the time to pass this law. The main headquarters is in Washington DC, the chairman is a man named Ben Bernanke; the currency is the US dollar. The Base borrow rate of the system is 2% and the base deposit rate is 3.5%. The whole purpose for this bank to be made is to address the bank panics.
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Birth of a Nation "Birth of a Nation" A very influencial film that was very popular when it was made in 1915. The general public thought that is was very realistic. People were amazed because the scenes were well produced. The director of this film is D.W Griffith. The film was set during and after the Civil War and was released on February 8, 1915. This film introduces two juxtaposed families the Northern Stonemans, consisting of abolitionist Congressman Austin Stoneman. The Stonemans boy meets this girl and he falls in love with her. Then when the war starts all the members that are involved get geared up and go. This film is also about the blacks and whites how they were very disrespectful to each other. For example, the white males would would scare all the blacks away by pretending to be scarecrows. This film gave a false image of blacks living in the south, also made people in the north scared.
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**William Jennings Bryan  ** Joined the prosecution in the " Monkey Trials" (Scopes Trial) against the teachings of evolution in schools, he was supposed to be an expert on the Bible, but was made to look silly in the case and died soon afterward One of the most popular speakers in American history, he was noted for a deep, commanding voice. Bryan was a devout Presbyterian, a supporter of popular democracy, a critic of banks and railroads, a leader of the silverite movement in the 1890s, a leading figure in the Democratic Party, a peace advocate, a prohibitionist , an opponent of Social Darwinism , and one of the most prominent leaders of Populism in late 19th- and early 20th century. Because of his faith in the goodness and rightness of the common people, he was called "The Great Commoner." In the intensely fought 1896 election and 1900 election, he was defeated by William McKinley but retained control of the Democratic Party. For presidential candidates, Bryan invented the national stumping tour. In his three presidential bids, he promoted Free Silver in 1896, anti-imperialism in 1900, and trust-busting in 1908, calling on Democrats, in cases where corporations are protected, to renounce states rights to fight the trusts and big banks, and embrace populist ideas. His most famous speech called the "Cross of Gold" encouraged the government to change the monetary system.

David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism — scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity." His lifetime efforts for the African American community were focused on confronting the racism of the day directly and demanding that equal rights be granted immediately.
 * William Edward Burghardt Du Bois** ((February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, public intellectual, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95.

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