Essays on Brinkley

Industrialization After the Civil War

Introduction Industrialization post the Civil Battle in the U.S. had absolute consequences on the economy, politics, and society. The consequences transformed fields into towns. The country thus changed from an agricultural to an industrial region following the decades after the Civil War. The remarkable transformations arose due to different factors such as the emergence of unscrupulous corporate leaders, the existence of a massive workforce, development of technology and inventions, and the availability of raw materials. Also, came the rise of the capitalistic and corrupt entrepreneur controlled by the American Government. After the Civil War, the industrialization assisted the economy, ...

The United States has encountered controversial and turbulent eras in its history. Some of those periods that will be the focus of this essay are the Age of Imperialism and Reconstruction. For a vivid analysis of the specific events that took place in the eras, this paper will look at Alexander Stephens’s take on Reconstruction as well as President Wilson message of War during the Age of Imperialism. Alexander Stephens played the role of the Vice President during the life-changing event of Civil War the nation that led to up rise of the African Americans’ claim for equality. ...

Brinkley (1992) argues that the Second World War was the largest conflict in human history as it ranged across six continents and cost the lives of fifty million civilians and soldiers (p.774). This essay will identify the reasons why America joined the Second World War. There will be a major analysis of the major American campaigns during the Second World War which includes: the North African campaign, the results of these campaigns, and the overall success for the Allies as a result of these campaigns. The American position in each campaign will be emphasised. Chambers (1999) suggests that even ...

The “American Indian nation” had remained forgotten for a very long time in the history of the United States. Efforts were made to silence American Indians and even make them disappear by getting absorbed by the white popular culture that has dominated the country since the very first white American immigrants arrived in the country. Despite all that, the American Indians looked for alternative means to protect their heritage and let the world and America acknowledge them. And it is against that very backdrop that the story of Mary Crow Dog is told in Lakota Woman. The story tells ...

Introduction

During the years from 1865 to 1935 great masses of people were traveling from Europe and from China to the Americas looking for a way to fulfill their dreams. The Irish and Chinese immigrant experience was similar in the way that because they were both seen as “foreign unskilled labor” they were both given low-paying unskilled jobs without a path to progress to better jobs. They were both treated badly by the earlier immigrants to the country who now considered themselves the true, native Americans. Other than that the experiences between the two immigrant groups is very different. We will ...

Immigration

These cartoons portray the immense fear that engulfed America during the 1860s at the time when the Irish and Chinese immigrants had significantly increased in number. First, there is the dread of the natives, represented by Uncle Sam, being swallowed by foreign immigrants. In the first instance, both the Chinese and Irish are devouring the American. In the next instance, after the native has been consumed, the Chinese man turns against the Irish and consumes him too. Far of within the background, several railroads are also to be seen (Brinkley, 2010, p.78). The Irish migrated to America mostly ...

Immigration

The book “The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People” incorporates the socio-political perspective of the American history into a well-organized piece of art that provides a vivid description of the measure and complexity of the American past. At some point in the book, the issue of the immigrants takes the center stage (Brinkley, 2010, p.25). The Americans at the time, were caught in between two critical decisions that they were to make. This was the idea of how they could get immigrants who had skills, those whom they could easily assimilate so that they could contribute to their ...