American History Homework Nine Answers - Student Nineteen

Deborah B.

1\. In your opinion, the 2008 election that concluded on Tuesday is most similar to which election in history, and why? I think the election of 2008 was very similar to the election in 1824, between Jackson and Adams. It was a very close battle to the very end (similar to McCain and Obama). It came down to Andrew Jackson running against Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams. Clay knew he had no way of winning, so he withdrew from the election and endorsed Adams. (Mike Huckabee did the same thing in the months before election). In the end, Jackson won.

Good analysis, though the withdrawal by Huckabee is not quite analogous to 1824, when Clay withdrew after the election.

2\. Imperialism: a good or bad thing? Imperialism started out a good thing and then eventually went down hill, in my opinion. In the early 1800s, when Imperialism started happening, the fact that the United States decided to show other countries who normally bullied them around because of their young age who was REALLY boss was extremely helpful in increasing the size of the United States. But then, towards the later years, in 1899, it encouraged the trading with China, which now is having catastrophic results because we are so much in debt with them. For the most part, though, imperialism was helpful in the growing of the United States.

Good, and excellent point how it can boomerang later (as in China)!

3\. Your thoughts on the progressive movement, please. The progressive movement was a very influential time period in American History, from 1900 to 1920. It started with a Republican governor of Wisconsin named Robert LaFollette and with the movement “better government.” The view, summed up in one sentence, is basically “let's run government in a smarter manner.” I think the progressive movement was important to America. It seemed to have encouraged more laws helping the common man rather then laws that wouldn’t really effect people firsthand. Things like women suffrage women got to experience, or child labor laws, the children were able to feel the burden of hours upon hours of working in hard factories lifted off their back.

Good analysis.

4\. Please explain the cartoon in the Minnesota Tribune, having the caption at top, "WHAT WILL HE DO!" and the caption at the bottom, "The eyes of the world are upon him." Include your description of the point of view of the cartoonist. The man with the sinister look on his face is representing President McKinley. The terrified young boy he is gripping around the neck represents the Filipino people. The cartoon is portraying what went on after the fighting stopped in the Philippines, when people started opposing the release of the Philippines back into Spain. Afraid that Spain would treat the Filipino’s cruelly, the globe with a face is representing the world watching eagerly, waiting to see if McKinley was going to release them back into Spain. The rocky cliff labeled “To Spain” shows the view of the cartoonist was against the release of the people into Spain, because it is portrayed as letting them go to their death. The cartoonist obviously did not have much faith in President McKinley’s NOT releasing them into Spain, which shows the cruel, menacing look on the man’s face, leading the poor scared boy to his death.

Excellent!

Terrific work. Score: 40/40!--Aschlafly 21:16, 15 November 2008 (EST)