Obama and NATO Go After ISIS – Radical Republicans Go Try to Eliminate Confederacy In the past week or so, President Obama and other NATO political leaders have begun to take a stand and speak out against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an extremist militant group spread throughout the Middle-East. After the beheading of Americans had pushed us over the edge, Obama decided it was time to work and down and finally annihilate all traces of ISIS. Soon after that, the president addressed the nation, out lining a plan along with other NATO members to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the militant group through air strikes over Syria and Iraq, along with continuing training local armed forces in those same nations. Within the next week, these statements gained more sustenance when a British man was also executed by ISIS. Leaders from around the world promised their efforts to eliminate ISIS from the face of Earth. The situation is very similar to one the United States has seen before. Like Obama and NATO leaders in our modern society, the Union, specifically Radical Republicans, had high resolve to completely destroy the Confederacy at the end of the Civil War and throughout Reconstruction. Today, we are taking action in the Middle-East with air strikes at select targets, following the trail of ISIS. During the end of the Civil War, the Union made similar military efforts, chasing the Confederates around in their own territory, engaging in overwhelming battles. Following the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse and Lincoln’s death, Radicals began extreme campaigns to limit the abilities of ex-Confederate states and officers and to eliminate their effect, such as the Reconstruction Act’s ban on ex-Confederate voting, elimination of old South state governments, and military supervision. This is very much like the currently adamant international effort to eliminate the harmful effect of ISIS, which hopefully succeeds similarly. Jared Martin
Summary: The first primary resource listed above consists of eleven articles that are written about President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment. The articles can be summarized to the fact that the President unlawfully fired a government official and so Congress impeached Johnson, or removed him from office. Andrew Johnson removed Edwin Stanton from his position as Secretary for the Department of War, which is illegal due to the Tenure of Office Act, which says the President cannot fire anyone without the Senate’s consent. But Johnson did not confirm his decision with the Senate, so they held a trial to decide if he should be impeached or not. The trial lasted eleven days and at the end, Congress decided to impeach President Johnson due to his “high crimes and misdemeanors”. The second primary resource is a ticket to President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment. It says, “U.S. Senate: Impeachment President. Admit the Bearer. March 13, 1868.” These tickets became hard to come by, making them extremely valuable.
History Synthesis: These two primary resources show that President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment and the time in which it happened was full of extremely rare and shocking events and “first-times”. This was the first impeachment of a President, but not the last. Clinton was also impeached due to an affair he had. Johnson’s trial lasted eleven days and was full of articles speeches because everyone wanted to make sure that they were doing the right thing and that they weren’t messing up something as big as this. The tickets were so treasured because this impeachment was a huge event in history. Everyone wanted to be able to say that they were there when Andrew Johnson was impeached because nothing like this had ever happened before. Though it was a sad occasion, no one wanted to miss it. The people wanted to experience it. The impeachment was only one of the many new and appalling occurrences in this time period, because America was starting Reconstruction and making many new decisions.
Both of the primary sources relate to the miners. The first source is sheet music, written in 1875 in California. This song is called ‘The Miner’. The lyrics include phrases like, “A thousand feet in the earth”, “with hammer and pick”, and “the bright golden glow”. It talks about the miner’s actually mining. It also explains a little bit about why they are mining. The second primary source is a photograph of miners working underground. They are amongst piles of dirt and ruble. They are dirty, and have hammers in their hands, and many other tools around them. It shows the space in which they were mining in, and gives us a visual on the size and amount of space miners had to mine in. The photo also showed the dim candles on the walls. The two documents focus on the hard lives of miners in the 1800s. The sheet music talks about a miner’s hard work. “Toil for me and for other’s rest”-are some of the lyrics. It’s talking about how the miner is stuck doing all of the hard labor. They are physically working very hard. Then the lyrics go on to explain that the miner is living off their hard work. Their town and family depend on the miner’s success. Many individual miners weren’t very successful because they didn’t have the machinery to dig deeper to the gold. the photograph displayed the dangerous and difficult aspects of mining. Miner's worked in a dangerous environment and they often felt with deadly explosions. The photograph shows the sketchy looking logs that were holding the ‘roofs’ up. The ceiling was also very low, and they were mining in a very tight, cramped space. The men were shown in dirty pants and the one man looked a little tired. Both of the primary sources showed how hard life was for the miners, during the westward expansion following the Civil War.
The primary sources that i read were about the miners in the 1800’s. The first primary source is a picture of an African American miner in California. The man looks dirty, tired, and is wearing ratty clothes. These things indicate that he was working long, hard hours. The picture shows that miners back then had to work underground in dangerous conditions, under intense pressure to provide for their family. The second primary source was an excerpt from The Miners’ Fight for American Standards. It was about how the miners were not treated fairly were forced to work long hours underground, doing hard manual labor. They felt as if they should be treated with the same s tandards and respect as other working people. These two primary sources connect to what we are learning about in class about settlement in the West. The miners were one of the groups of people who first went to the west in search for fortune. The picture of the African American was taken during the California Gold Rush which was one of the events that attracted people to the West. Lots of people embraced the hard life as a miner in hope of becoming rich when they struck gold. Of course not many people actually got rich from mining and lots of people suffered from the hard labor and injuries that went along with it. The second primary source connects to the miners wanting more money for the hard physical labor that they were doing. It was a dangerous and risky job that they were taking on, with only a slim chance making enough money to support themselves and their family. These sources both show the hard life of a miner in the West, and they weren’t being treated up to today’s standards
Both the primary sources are about mining in California in the 1800s. The first primary source is a song on a piece of sheet music, called “I’m off for California”. The song talks about being one of the “darkies” which means the songwriter was an African American who was mining with other African Americans. It talks about receiving a telegraph from California talking about “eleven pounds of gold”. The second primary source is a drawing from a newspaper that shows Chinese immigrant’s mining life in California. It shows mountains in the back and tents set up with tired-looking Chinese workers. In front of the mountains in the picture it shows some immigrants mining with pick-axes and shovels. These two primary sources relate to the settlement in the west in many ways. In the sheet music it describes a group of African American miners known as the California Gold Mining Company who were heading to California during the gold rush. The California Gold Rush can be defined as a moment in history where all sorts of people from different places rush to California in seek of fortune. Chinese and Irish immigrants, African Americans, and most whites mined for gold, but only a few actually got rich off of it. In the second primary source, which was a drawing of Chinese miners, in a newspaper, showed the immigrants mining for gold. It demonstrated the hard lives of the miners, due to the fact that many of them travelled a long way and weren’t getting that rich off of the mining, along with the harsh conditions. Both of the primary sources show the effect the California Gold Rush had on the expansion of the west, and how people from all around the world came and settled in the west, to seek fortune.
Summary: In the first document I chose, the primary source talks about Jefferson Davis' Inaugural Address. It states that Davis argued that separation from the Union was a "necessity, not a choice." His speech was made in order to inform the nation on his opinion on succession between the union and the confederates. In the second primary source I picked, it discusses President Lincoln’s famous A "House Divided" speech. It also states President Lincoln’s opinion on the way he sees the nation and how he believes on bringing the nation together again. History Synthesis: Both of these documents prove that in this hard time for the US, there was a lot of disagreement and confusion on what the states should do as far as coming together as one nation. Davis was the president of the confederates. All confederates believed in seceding from the union. While Davis was a confederate, Lincoln was a part of the union in which they believed in staying together as a nation. This shows the disagreement on whether or not the southerners (confederates) and the northerners (union) should come together again. This was also a time of confusion because neither the north nor the south knew for a fact on whether it was the right or wrong choice to secede from the states or not.
Brian Osafo-Mensah Links: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2678465/Rob-Ford-admits-using-cocaine-marijuana-magic-mushrooms-hes-alcohol-office.html http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-blames-woes-drugs-article-1.1852701 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-on-drug-use-you-name-it-i-pretty-well-covered-it-1.2693774 Summary: Each individual link I provided discussed the same topic; Toronto Mayor Rob Ford had confessed to abusing drugs such as; marijuana, cocaine, and hallucinogenic mushrooms. The website explains that Rob Ford had used “'every drug you can probably think of”. It talks about Rob Ford returning to city hall after him being in rehab for two months. Also it says that he was going to run again for mayor and that it was the public’s choice if he won. The second link again talks about Ford coming back to city hall from rehab and confessing that h had done many drugs, and also this link talks about how his decisions tainted the Canadian Image. But the site insists that Ford is trying to stop his drug abuse. The Last link is the same as the other links except it has a section where it talks about Rob’s cooperation with the police because he was company with known drug dealers, and if he is worried about running again. History Synthesis: This idea of Rob Ford and his abusing of drugs as a political official relates to class because we talked about the idea of Corruption in the government. Rob Ford showed the corruptness in government when he chose to do drugs in his position and decided to run again. Also this relates to class in the sense that after Ford was charged of doing drugs there were many media-workers who swarmed on the news and tried to spread it to the public fast to try to help the public, and to make money. This relates to the Progressive era, where we talked about the Muckrakers and how they were people who reported news in effort to make a change in their community.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/obama-vows-degrade-ultimately-destroy-isis-n196686
ReplyDeleteJared Martin
1. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/obama-vows-degrade-ultimately-destroy-isis-n196686
ReplyDelete2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2755133/President-Obama-promises-destroy-ISIS-wake-beheading-British-hostage.html
3. http://time.com/3319658/obama-isis-speech-iraq-syria/
Obama and NATO Go After ISIS – Radical Republicans Go Try to Eliminate Confederacy
In the past week or so, President Obama and other NATO political leaders have begun to take a stand and speak out against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), an extremist militant group spread throughout the Middle-East. After the beheading of Americans had pushed us over the edge, Obama decided it was time to work and down and finally annihilate all traces of ISIS. Soon after that, the president addressed the nation, out lining a plan along with other NATO members to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the militant group through air strikes over Syria and Iraq, along with continuing training local armed forces in those same nations. Within the next week, these statements gained more sustenance when a British man was also executed by ISIS. Leaders from around the world promised their efforts to eliminate ISIS from the face of Earth.
The situation is very similar to one the United States has seen before. Like Obama and NATO leaders in our modern society, the Union, specifically Radical Republicans, had high resolve to completely destroy the Confederacy at the end of the Civil War and throughout Reconstruction. Today, we are taking action in the Middle-East with air strikes at select targets, following the trail of ISIS. During the end of the Civil War, the Union made similar military efforts, chasing the Confederates around in their own territory, engaging in overwhelming battles. Following the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse and Lincoln’s death, Radicals began extreme campaigns to limit the abilities of ex-Confederate states and officers and to eliminate their effect, such as the Reconstruction Act’s ban on ex-Confederate voting, elimination of old South state governments, and military supervision. This is very much like the currently adamant international effort to eliminate the harmful effect of ISIS, which hopefully succeeds similarly.
Jared Martin
Summary: The first primary resource listed above consists of eleven articles that are written about President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment. The articles can be summarized to the fact that the President unlawfully fired a government official and so Congress impeached Johnson, or removed him from office. Andrew Johnson removed Edwin Stanton from his position as Secretary for the Department of War, which is illegal due to the Tenure of Office Act, which says the President cannot fire anyone without the Senate’s consent. But Johnson did not confirm his decision with the Senate, so they held a trial to decide if he should be impeached or not. The trial lasted eleven days and at the end, Congress decided to impeach President Johnson due to his “high crimes and misdemeanors”. The second primary resource is a ticket to President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment. It says, “U.S. Senate: Impeachment President. Admit the Bearer. March 13, 1868.” These tickets became hard to come by, making them extremely valuable.
ReplyDeleteHistory Synthesis: These two primary resources show that President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment and the time in which it happened was full of extremely rare and shocking events and “first-times”. This was the first impeachment of a President, but not the last. Clinton was also impeached due to an affair he had. Johnson’s trial lasted eleven days and was full of articles speeches because everyone wanted to make sure that they were doing the right thing and that they weren’t messing up something as big as this. The tickets were so treasured because this impeachment was a huge event in history. Everyone wanted to be able to say that they were there when Andrew Johnson was impeached because nothing like this had ever happened before. Though it was a sad occasion, no one wanted to miss it. The people wanted to experience it. The impeachment was only one of the many new and appalling occurrences in this time period, because America was starting Reconstruction and making many new decisions.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/impeach/articles.html
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ImagesDetailsPage/ImagesDetailsWindow?total=17&query=OQE+andrew+johnson+impeachment&prodId=UHIC&windowstate=normal&mode=view&limiter=&displayGroupName=Images&u=pl3687&currPage=1&displayGroups=&sortBy=relevance%2Cdescending&source=fullList&p=UHIC%3AWHIC&action=e&catId=&view=docDisplay&documentId=GALE%7CEJ2210007610
Emma Ford
1. http://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1875.10716.0#seq-6
ReplyDelete2. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a28672/
Both of the primary sources relate to the miners. The first source is sheet music, written in 1875 in California. This song is called ‘The Miner’. The lyrics include phrases like, “A thousand feet in the earth”, “with hammer and pick”, and “the bright golden glow”. It talks about the miner’s actually mining. It also explains a little bit about why they are mining. The second primary source is a photograph of miners working underground. They are amongst piles of dirt and ruble. They are dirty, and have hammers in their hands, and many other tools around them. It shows the space in which they were mining in, and gives us a visual on the size and amount of space miners had to mine in. The photo also showed the dim candles on the walls.
The two documents focus on the hard lives of miners in the 1800s. The sheet music talks about a miner’s hard work. “Toil for me and for other’s rest”-are some of the lyrics. It’s talking about how the miner is stuck doing all of the hard labor. They are physically working very hard. Then the lyrics go on to explain that the miner is living off their hard work. Their town and family depend on the miner’s success. Many individual miners weren’t very successful because they didn’t have the machinery to dig deeper to the gold. the photograph displayed the dangerous and difficult aspects of mining. Miner's worked in a dangerous environment and they often felt with deadly explosions. The photograph shows the sketchy looking logs that were holding the ‘roofs’ up. The ceiling was also very low, and they were mining in a very tight, cramped space. The men were shown in dirty pants and the one man looked a little tired. Both of the primary sources showed how hard life was for the miners, during the westward expansion following the Civil War.
Michaela Rosle
Sources:
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http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/PrimarySourcesDetailsPage/PrimarySourcesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=UHIC&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=PrimarySources&limiter=&u=pl3687&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&source=&search_within_results=&p=UHIC%3AWHIC&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ2164000195
The primary sources that i read were about the miners in the 1800’s. The first primary source is a picture of an African American miner in California. The man looks dirty, tired, and is wearing ratty clothes. These things indicate that he was working long, hard hours. The picture shows that miners back then had to work underground in dangerous conditions, under intense pressure to provide for their family. The second primary source was an excerpt from The Miners’ Fight for American Standards. It was about how the miners were not treated fairly were forced to work long hours underground, doing hard manual labor. They felt as if they should be treated with the same s
tandards and respect as other working people.
These two primary sources connect to what we are learning about in class about settlement in the West. The miners were one of the groups of people who first went to the west in search for fortune. The picture of the African American was taken during the California Gold Rush which was one of the events that attracted people to the West. Lots of people embraced the hard life as a miner in hope of becoming rich when they struck gold. Of course not many people actually got rich from mining and lots of people suffered from the hard labor and injuries that went along with it. The second primary source connects to the miners wanting more money for the hard physical labor that they were doing. It was a dangerous and risky job that they were taking on, with only a slim chance making enough money to support themselves and their family. These sources both show the hard life of a miner in the West, and they weren’t being treated up to today’s standards
~Maddy Schewe
Primary Sources:
ReplyDelete1) http://www.loc.gov/item/amss003549/
2) http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001700332/
Both the primary sources are about mining in California in the 1800s. The first primary source is a song on a piece of sheet music, called “I’m off for California”. The song talks about being one of the “darkies” which means the songwriter was an African American who was mining with other African Americans. It talks about receiving a telegraph from California talking about “eleven pounds of gold”. The second primary source is a drawing from a newspaper that shows Chinese immigrant’s mining life in California. It shows mountains in the back and tents set up with tired-looking Chinese workers. In front of the mountains in the picture it shows some immigrants mining with pick-axes and shovels.
These two primary sources relate to the settlement in the west in many ways. In the sheet music it describes a group of African American miners known as the California Gold Mining Company who were heading to California during the gold rush. The California Gold Rush can be defined as a moment in history where all sorts of people from different places rush to California in seek of fortune. Chinese and Irish immigrants, African Americans, and most whites mined for gold, but only a few actually got rich off of it. In the second primary source, which was a drawing of Chinese miners, in a newspaper, showed the immigrants mining for gold. It demonstrated the hard lives of the miners, due to the fact that many of them travelled a long way and weren’t getting that rich off of the mining, along with the harsh conditions. Both of the primary sources show the effect the California Gold Rush had on the expansion of the west, and how people from all around the world came and settled in the west, to seek fortune.
-Maleiha Ali
Summary: In the first document I chose, the primary source talks about Jefferson Davis' Inaugural Address. It states that Davis argued that separation from the Union was a "necessity, not a choice." His speech was made in order to inform the nation on his opinion on succession between the union and the confederates. In the second primary source I picked, it discusses President Lincoln’s famous A "House Divided" speech. It also states President Lincoln’s opinion on the way he sees the nation and how he believes on bringing the nation together again. History Synthesis: Both of these documents prove that in this hard time for the US, there was a lot of disagreement and confusion on what the states should do as far as coming together as one nation. Davis was the president of the confederates. All confederates believed in seceding from the union. While Davis was a confederate, Lincoln was a part of the union in which they believed in staying together as a nation. This shows the disagreement on whether or not the southerners (confederates) and the northerners (union) should come together again. This was also a time of confusion because neither the north nor the south knew for a fact on whether it was the right or wrong choice to secede from the states or not.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/davisinaugural1.html
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/the-house-divided-speech.html
Brian Osafo-Mensah
ReplyDeleteLinks:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2678465/Rob-Ford-admits-using-cocaine-marijuana-magic-mushrooms-hes-alcohol-office.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-blames-woes-drugs-article-1.1852701
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-on-drug-use-you-name-it-i-pretty-well-covered-it-1.2693774
Summary: Each individual link I provided discussed the same topic; Toronto Mayor Rob Ford had confessed to abusing drugs such as; marijuana, cocaine, and hallucinogenic mushrooms. The website explains that Rob Ford had used “'every drug you can probably think of”. It talks about Rob Ford returning to city hall after him being in rehab for two months. Also it says that he was going to run again for mayor and that it was the public’s choice if he won. The second link again talks about Ford coming back to city hall from rehab and confessing that h had done many drugs, and also this link talks about how his decisions tainted the Canadian Image. But the site insists that Ford is trying to stop his drug abuse. The Last link is the same as the other links except it has a section where it talks about Rob’s cooperation with the police because he was company with known drug dealers, and if he is worried about running again.
History Synthesis: This idea of Rob Ford and his abusing of drugs as a political official relates to class because we talked about the idea of Corruption in the government. Rob Ford showed the corruptness in government when he chose to do drugs in his position and decided to run again. Also this relates to class in the sense that after Ford was charged of doing drugs there were many media-workers who swarmed on the news and tried to spread it to the public fast to try to help the public, and to make money. This relates to the Progressive era, where we talked about the Muckrakers and how they were people who reported news in effort to make a change in their community.