Saturday, September 19, 2009
World Fair of 1893
The World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1893. It was to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival to the New World. The fair was designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. The event covered more than 600 acres and had 200 new buildings. The fair had a very unique effect on architecture, the arts, and Chicago's image. The fair had a huge influence on all the World's Fairs. Many of the ideas there have shaped modern America. Its legacy ranges from popular and high culture to changes in the nation's power.
" The fair was one of the most widely attended events of the nineteenth- century United States. More than 27 million people visited the 200 gaudy buildings erected at the sprawling fairgrounds south of downtown Chicago at a time when the total population was only 63 million. The fair's 65,00 exhibits presented a truimphant history of american innovation and promised a great future for the prosperous nation." book internet
"The World's Exposition, which was commemorarted the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to america, was held from April to October in 1893. The monumental event welcomed twenty-eight million visitors, covered six hundred acres of land, boasted dozens of architectural wonders, and was home to some sixty-five thousand exhibits from all over the world." book internet
The World Fair's is a good example of the Gilded Age which characterized the industrial growth and class violence that started the era of reconstruction. When the World Fair opened only 28 years had passed since the end of the Civil War. The cost to enter the fair were and twenty-five cents for the kids and fifty cents for adults to enter. Though it was very expensive for most people, it was worth spending the money on it.
At the fair people enjoyed all kinds of fun. There were theaters, music, shopping and consessions to entertain the them. There was a circus with animals and the most important ride there was the first Ferris wheel that held over 2,000 people at a time. And still today it is used in modern fairs.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Obama's health care plan
President Obama signed the Children’s Health Insurance Act on February 4, 2009. It provides health care to 11 million kids. He had said in which 4 million who were already previously uninsured. The Act protects health coverage for 7 million Americans who lose their jobs. It also invests $19 billion in computerized medical records that will help to reduce costs and improve quality. Obama tells us that $1 billion will go toward the prevention and wellness to improve the health of people and help to lower the costs for health care. He said that also $500 million will go toward the health workforce to help train the next generation of people to bring up doctors and nurses.
The united states spends about $2 trillion on health care every year for people. It offers the best medical technology and research in the world today. Yet many people cant pay for health insurance. It was said that less than 4 cent is spend on prevention and public health. Supposedly to Obama he said that with his health care plan he can fix this and many other problems we have within our health care system. "It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. it will provide insurance to those who don't. And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government." Barack Obama
Obama's health care will provide coverage for all children and provide affordable health insurance for all Americans, regardless of illness or pre-existing conditions. The downside is it will require employers to contribute to workers’ health care insurance. but will offer small businesses a refundable tax credit of up to 50%. The president had said he would pay for his plan by falling back on Bush's tax cuts and making $250,000 a year. He has not said to when this plan will be passed and has not said that it will bring a great change.
The united states spends about $2 trillion on health care every year for people. It offers the best medical technology and research in the world today. Yet many people cant pay for health insurance. It was said that less than 4 cent is spend on prevention and public health. Supposedly to Obama he said that with his health care plan he can fix this and many other problems we have within our health care system. "It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. it will provide insurance to those who don't. And it will lower the cost of health care for our families, our businesses, and our government." Barack Obama
Obama's health care will provide coverage for all children and provide affordable health insurance for all Americans, regardless of illness or pre-existing conditions. The downside is it will require employers to contribute to workers’ health care insurance. but will offer small businesses a refundable tax credit of up to 50%. The president had said he would pay for his plan by falling back on Bush's tax cuts and making $250,000 a year. He has not said to when this plan will be passed and has not said that it will bring a great change.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Radical Reconstruction
The radical reconstruction was a time during which the states that had followed the Confederacy were controlled by the federal government. When the Confederate forces surrendered in April 1865, the American Army started out on a mission, the postwar that determined process of reconstruction. The president at the time viewed the reconstruction as a weapon to remove Southerners from their allegiance to the Confederacy and end the war sooner. The radical reconstruction in the South attempted to deal with the problems that the Civil War had left and the get rid of slavery. " The driving force of Radical ideology was the Utopian vision of a nation whose citizens enjoyed equality of civil and political rights secured by a powerful and beneficent national state. With the radical reconstruction, the civil war wedded new conception of powers and potentialities of the national state. More fully than the Republicans, the Radicals embraced the wartime expansion of national authority, determined now to allow federalism and state' rights to obstruct a sweeping national effort to define and protect the rights of citizens." Book Internet
"Period after the American Civil War in which attempts were made to solve the political, social, and economic problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 Confederate states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war. Pres. Abraham Lincoln planned to readmit states in which at least 10% of the voters had pledged loyalty to the Union. This lenient approach was opposed by the Radical Republicans, who favoured the harsher measures passed in the Wade-Davis Bill." Book Internet 'After the North defeated the South in the Civil War, politicians faced the task of putting the divided country back together. There was great debate about how severely the former Confederate states should be punished for leaving the Union. With the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865, it was up to President Andrew Johnson to try to reunite former enemies. The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union." (Reconstruction)
The radical Reconstruction was the violent, dramatic, and still considered a conflicting era following the Civil War. "Even among the Republicans in Congress, there was considerable disagreement about the proper approach to Reconstruction—disagreements that reflected the same factional division (between the party's Conservatives and Radicals) that had created disputes during the war over emancipation. The Conservatives advocated a mild peace and the rapid restoration of the defeated states to the Union; they insisted that the South accept the abolition of slavery; but beyond that they did not propose to interfere with race relations or to alter the social system of the region. Some Radicals favored granting suffrage to the former slaves, as a matter of right or as a means of creating a Republican electorate in the South. Other Radicals hesitated to state a position for fear of alienating public opinion— few Northern states permitted blacks to vote." (reconstructing the nation)
"The constitutional amendments and legislative reforms that laid the foundation for the most radical phase of Reconstruction were adopted from 1865 to 1871. By the 1870s, Reconstruction had made some progress in providing Freedmen with equal rights under the law, and they were voting and taking political office. Republican legislatures, coalitions of whites and blacks, established the first public school systems in the South. Beginning in 1874, however, there was a rise in white paramilitary organizations, such as the White League and Red Shirts, whose political aim was to drive out the Republicans. They also disrupted organizing and terrorized blacks to bar them from the polls.[2] From 1873 to 1877, conservative white Democrats (calling themselves "Redeemers") regained power in the states." (Reconstruction era of the United States)
"The Republican radicals (ultra-liberals) in Congress had very different ideas about Reconstruction. They thought Lincoln was "too soft" on the South, and wanted to “revolutionize Southern habits, institutions and manners”; they wanted to see the South rebuilt according to a new order. Northern Republican newspapers such as the New York Tribune agreed. Radical believed that the South should be treated as "conquered provinces, and that the rebel states had committed "political suicide." They claimed that no state governments could exist in the South until Congress restored them under any conditions it deemed necessary." (Reconstruction)
"Period after the American Civil War in which attempts were made to solve the political, social, and economic problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 Confederate states that had seceded at or before the outbreak of war. Pres. Abraham Lincoln planned to readmit states in which at least 10% of the voters had pledged loyalty to the Union. This lenient approach was opposed by the Radical Republicans, who favoured the harsher measures passed in the Wade-Davis Bill." Book Internet 'After the North defeated the South in the Civil War, politicians faced the task of putting the divided country back together. There was great debate about how severely the former Confederate states should be punished for leaving the Union. With the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865, it was up to President Andrew Johnson to try to reunite former enemies. The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union." (Reconstruction)
The radical Reconstruction was the violent, dramatic, and still considered a conflicting era following the Civil War. "Even among the Republicans in Congress, there was considerable disagreement about the proper approach to Reconstruction—disagreements that reflected the same factional division (between the party's Conservatives and Radicals) that had created disputes during the war over emancipation. The Conservatives advocated a mild peace and the rapid restoration of the defeated states to the Union; they insisted that the South accept the abolition of slavery; but beyond that they did not propose to interfere with race relations or to alter the social system of the region. Some Radicals favored granting suffrage to the former slaves, as a matter of right or as a means of creating a Republican electorate in the South. Other Radicals hesitated to state a position for fear of alienating public opinion— few Northern states permitted blacks to vote." (reconstructing the nation)
"The constitutional amendments and legislative reforms that laid the foundation for the most radical phase of Reconstruction were adopted from 1865 to 1871. By the 1870s, Reconstruction had made some progress in providing Freedmen with equal rights under the law, and they were voting and taking political office. Republican legislatures, coalitions of whites and blacks, established the first public school systems in the South. Beginning in 1874, however, there was a rise in white paramilitary organizations, such as the White League and Red Shirts, whose political aim was to drive out the Republicans. They also disrupted organizing and terrorized blacks to bar them from the polls.[2] From 1873 to 1877, conservative white Democrats (calling themselves "Redeemers") regained power in the states." (Reconstruction era of the United States)
"The Republican radicals (ultra-liberals) in Congress had very different ideas about Reconstruction. They thought Lincoln was "too soft" on the South, and wanted to “revolutionize Southern habits, institutions and manners”; they wanted to see the South rebuilt according to a new order. Northern Republican newspapers such as the New York Tribune agreed. Radical believed that the South should be treated as "conquered provinces, and that the rebel states had committed "political suicide." They claimed that no state governments could exist in the South until Congress restored them under any conditions it deemed necessary." (Reconstruction)
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