HISTORY 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pago Pago, Jingoism, Alaska Purchase
7 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lecture 7: new approaches, american expansionism, and the spanish-american war. The quagmire of reconstruction: lincoln"s assassination: lincoln is re-elected and passes the 13th amendment. In april, he is assassinated by john wilkes booth: revenge vs reconciliation: as soon as the war ends, lincoln wanted to reseat the government with pro-union or pro-reconciliation people. Question was are we going to punish the south or help them? / what do we do with the africans that has been released? : the ultimate failure of reconciliation: andrew johnson becomes president (southern. As soon as the war ends, violence becomes extreme against african americans. At first, us tries to intervene with the military, but it is too small (decreased size after the war). The kkk rises: the corruption of the political machine : this time period was called the gilded age stated by mark twain. This was saying that it may look nice, but it was very problematic.
