Book Report: Jim Crow Laws and Racism

The Jim Crow Laws were a racial segregation between 1876 and 1965. Segregation played a big part in that time, especially in public schools. The people that were affected by the Jim Crow Laws were Blacks or African Americans. They were separated from almost everything's showing they had very unequal rights. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks. Only certain people could use certain things such as drinking fountains that were labeled for only whites or blacks. There were white only schools that you would see and the blacks having to go somewhere else or have no education at all. During this time you heard about Rosa parks who had an incident on the bus about blacks having to sit in the back of the bus. She refused to do so and caused a big controversy. The Jim Crow Laws restricted peoples civil rights. The remaining Jim Crow Laws were out ruled by the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. The book talked about the life blacks had to live and struggles they had. How they were restricted to live a certain life, only going to certain areas because those were the only places they were "allowed to." Many bars and shops would only allow whites to come in which left blacks out of the equation. 
The Jim Crow Laws effected blacks and their abilities to get jobs. They were Unable to get nice paying jobs and were often unemployed. If they were to get a job it would often be a low paying one such as a waiter or helper. Blacks were unable to vote during the time because you had to take a literacy test beforehand. This test was usually favoring the whites in the information they would know and the blacks wouldn't.
The Klu Klux Klan had made an appearance during the Jim Crow Laws era. They were groups that didn't like blacks and killed many of them. They had extreme hatred for them and showcased their power they had against them.
The people that were affected by the Jim Crow Laws were Blacks or African Americans. They were separated from almost everything's showing they had very unequal rights.

Baby Boom , 1950's

The term "Baby Boom" comes from post WW2 when mass amounts of babies were born in America. It was expected that there 78.3 million babies born during the baby boom. The time period that this went on was between the 1950's and 1960's. The Baby Boom most likely happened because it was post war. All the veterans were returning home to their families. Many veterans married within a short time of being home because after the war the marriage rates rose sharply just like the new borns rates. With many people returning home they thought the war was over so they decided to start up a family.
During the time of the Baby Boomers the economy rose up. Once those children became teenagers they started dumping money towards the economy. During the 1960's the teenagers gave around $20 billion to the economy. Something connected to the Baby Boomers was people moving from inner cities to suburban areas. It was mostly white people moving from the larger cities to available space in the Northwest. During this time we saw cultural innovations such as the men being at work and women staying home, taking care of the children. The Baby Boom was also a time of advancement in technology. In this time we saw the television make an appearance. The TV took over American lives and became a necessity in their lives.
Without the Baby Boomers we would still be in a depression. They helped us come out of that and bring our economy up. They allowed us to expand over the US, exploring new suburban areas of the Northwest.

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13-2

What is the goal of containment?

- To keep communism within its present territory through the use of diplomatic, economic, and military actions.

How is GREECE the first battlefront in the cold war?

- The US could no longer afford to help Greece.

What is the Marshall plan?

- Giving European nations aid to help to rebuild their economics.

What is the Berlin Airlisft?

- Cargo planes would deliver food, medicine, and other supplies to Berlin.

What is NATO?

- the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

What happened in China?

- the US. Attacked china to prevent a communist revolution which made them flee to Taiwan.

Make a 5 step timeline in Korean War.

1. MacArthur lands his troops behind enemy lines

2. The Chinese saw the UN as a threat and drove them back to the 38th parallel

3. The Chinese were taken by the UN in Pyongyang 

4. The Chinese showed their counter offense on the UN

5. An armistice line was made to have peace

13-1

Comprehension questions, Chapter 13-1
Write on paper, or on blog.

What was the goal for Roosevelt after the war?  What were Soviet goals about Germany?

- Roosevelt was hoping for a more peaceful world with a better economy. The soviets became concerned about the security. The Soviets wanted to keep Germany weak and make sure that the countries between Germany and the Soviet Union were under their control.

What did FDR think was 'key' to world peace?

- FDR thought that economic growth was the key to world peace. They wanted to do that by increasing world trade.

What was 'declaration of liberated europe, and how successful was it?'

- It gave the right to the people to choose the form of government under which they will live. The declaration of liberated Europe was successful.

How was Germany to be controlled?

- by being divided into four zones. Great Britain, the US, soviets, and France each controlled one zone.

What was Truman's view about how to deal with USSR?

- Truman told Stalin that he he needed to hold free elections like he promised.

What is a satellite nation?

- The communist countries of Eastern Europe. 

What is an 'iron curtain'

- The wall separating the east and west of Europe. On one side there is the communist nation and on the other is the non-communist nation.

Earth Day

Movie Summary - 

"A Fierce Green Fire" is a movie about the huge environmental movement during the 20th century. During this time people started realizing the impact of what they were doing had on the earth and  realized they needed to change what they were doing. The movie gets an in depth looks at activism, and people doing everything in their power to make progress towards a happier and healthier world. The movie looks at many previously unknown environmental hazards, like the Love Canal, and how many people worked together in order to save their lives. "Watch Film: A Fierce Green Fire." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014.

Pollution -

A study done in Mongolia found a large relation of the use of coal- burning stoves, and chance of a miscarriage. This data, brings up the idea that coal is one of the many things that is polluting our air system, and leading to major problems like miscarriages.  Researchers say that the evidence is "alarmingly strong," that coal fumes are bad to be inhaling while pregnant, so it makes you wonder what other impacts coal fumes have on people. If humans as a whole can try to prevent pollution the world would become a much better place, causing less diseases and other impacts on people.

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. "Pollutants from coal-burning stoves strongly associated with miscarriages in Mongolia." SienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 23 April 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140423142830.htm>.

How what we eat effects the world around us - 

This article discusses a new report about how harmful mass consumption of dairy and meet is. Those two food categories are staples in many peoples diets, which is not very good. It takes so much energy, especially nitrogen, to produce that food and get it on your dinner table, that nitrogen pollutants are becoming a bigger and bigger deal. Another problem with the massive dairy and meet consummation, is that the animals who provide the food for us, take up lots of space. There will be a point when our society runs out of farmland, and our food production will reach a plateau. I guess we will cross this bridge when we come to it.

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. "Nitrogen pollution, climate and land use: Why what we eat matters." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 April 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140425093605.htm>.

My Opinion - 

If we want to change any of theses things it will mostly depend on what we do in our everyday life. If it is either not littering that one piece of trash or not eating that one meal that would be harmful. For something to happen we need to take action as a whole, doing one small thing at a time as a community.

12-4 Notes

Main idea - different battles going on that caused people to lose or gain land. 

Casablanca Conference - stepping up the bombing on Germany. 

Strategic bombing - bombing Germany a lot at one time to destroy their economy

Dwight D. Eisenhower - in command of the invasion towards Italy. 

DUKW - an amphibious truck that was effective in bringing supplies and artillery to soldiers. 

Cassino - where Germany went to defend off the allied. They fortified the whole town.

Anzio - where the allies chose to land, behind the Germany lines. 

Tehran - Stalin and Roosevelt agreeing to break up Germany so it wouldn't threaten world peace. 

Overlord - code name for the planned invasion. 

Pas de Calais - where the Germans thought the allies would be when they attacked. 

Why did they choose D-Day. - the conditions had to be right do they picked that certain day. Eisenhower's planning staff referred to the day any operation began by the letter D.

Omaha beech - a code name for the barrage of fire along the coast. 

Plan in the Pacific - taking back islands none at a time to push back the Japanese. 

Island Hopping - general MacArthur's action of trying to take back his islands. 

Tarawa - the navy's first objective of the pacific. 

LVT - a boat with tank tracks. 

Guadalcanal - Mac Arthur's first invasion. 

Leyte Gulf - the largest naval battle in history. The first time the Japanese used kamikaze attacks. 

Kamikaze - crashing their planes into American ships, killing themselves but inflicting severe damage. 

I Intro (Leave Blank for now)
The Great Depression involved many people and businesses going bankrupt. The stock market and banks had a big part to do with it. Many people liked to blame Roosevelt for these acts even though he tried to fix them. People kept losing money because of overspeculation and using money that wasn't theirs. This made the stock market crash because there were t priced right, leading to a crash. The march from Portland to Washington left many homeless and without jobs.

II Causes (The causes of the great depression were bank closings, stocks failing, and prices going down.)
A overspeculation (Define, how important)
People who bought stocks that they were very confident in. the stocks weren't really the best stocks and weren't that profitable. The stocks became over priced and caused the market to crash. People thinking the market would do much better than it really does, thinking it would keep rising.

B Govt Policy
A declaration of the governments political activities and plans. The Government didn't do much when Hoover was in presidency.

C Unstable Econ
The economy was unstable due to people taking their money out of banks causing them to go bankrupt and close.

1 uneven prosperity
Not everybody was gaining money. In most places only the rich got richer and the poor either stayed the same or got poorer.

2 overproduction
People produced too much of a product than people bought. The products never got sold and caused them to lose a lot of money.

3 worker issues / farm issues
The farmers got new machinery that helped the efficiency of working. Things got so efficient that it was hard to make a profit. They were making more product than they could sell.

III Effects

A Poverty
The economy still kept going down in the 20s. The farms and stock market crash didn't help much to add to the economic disaster we already had. People couldn't even sustain themselves.

B Society
After the great depression many men and women were left without jobs. they struggled to find a job
because a lot of businesses were going out of business. Banks had failed and a lot of farmers couldn't make a profit anymore. The economy overall wasn't doing well.

C World
after the great depression the economy went into a dark hole. it was already at a low point before he depression but the bank failures and stock market made it even worse. Lots of people were left without jobs. there was anger towards our leaders after the depression which allowed people like Hitler to rise to power.

IV Solutions
Roosevelt tried implementing a new deal and broadening his powers. The new deal was a series of laws tat were a response to the great depression

A Hoover
At the start of Hoovers presidency the stock market crashed. He promised people of a new deal of
government interventions which helped the recovery of the depression. Hoover didnt do much for us besides a few public works projects.

1 Volunteerism
Hoover tried using volunteerism by not reducing their work hours or wages. Volunteerism was used to try and help the economy.

2 Public Works
Hoover tried using public works to help boost the economy. Government funded projects.

3 Hawley Smoot
raising the price of the average tariff

4 RFC
The RFC was a public work that tried to help the banks come out of bankruptcy. They were given $2 billion to make loans to banks. The reconstruction Finance Company

B Roosevelt
Beter President, did more to help during the Depression

1 new deal
Programs in response of the great depression, focusing on reforming and recovery.

a alphabet soup
         
CCC provided relief for unemployed workers
WPA provided unemployment relief
CWA provided unemployment relief
           
b Criticsim?
Roosevelt recieved a lot of criticism on his New Deal, people believed it did too much or didnt do enough.

2 2nd new deal
The second New Deal were acts passed to help give us security like social security
a Social Security
b National Labor Relations Act
c Conservative Coalition
V Criticicism
B Political Criticism (ex. Came from both the left and right)
A Conservatives
The conservatives thought the New Deal didnt go with the way America was founded. It made the Government have too much involvement in business affairs and the personal money of citizens.
B Liberals (ex: criticised the new deal also. They....)
Thought it didnt do enough
Wanted more government involvement
VI Effectiveness
A Changes in US
The US worked its way out of the depression through their relief programs and social security.
B Unions
Unions were formed as workers began to do sit down strikes. The Government tried to break up the unions.
C Culture
The US changed the way it worked, businesses changed the way they worked and the Government changed their focuses.
VII Conclusion

Hoover didnt do much in the Depression, leaving a lot of work for Roosevelt which he eventually brought us out of. There were many causes of the Depression that I think we could solve very easily today, having experience of how to handle certain things like this.