Reader Response of Chapter 2 of A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki In the book, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Ronald Takaki gives an anecdote about how the lives of both the Indians and the Irish were dramatically destroyed and how they were even almost extinct because of the violent and corrupted acts of the English. Moreover, the English expansion led to the “making of an English-American identity based on race” (Takaki 26). Furthermore, the Irish were the first people to be considered as savages. The English felt as if the Irish did not have any respectful manners or obedience to God.
Once the riots were over the Irish where still upset because the African-American regiment was created. Before this regiment, the Irish where the only minority group to have regiments in the Union Army comprised of only themselves. The Irish had a sense of pride being the only special group and felt that it was idiotic to give African-Americans not only a role but a venerated place in the
Many immigrants, such as the Irish, came to America for a better life. The potato famine, which started in the mid to late 1800’s, infected many Irish people. About 2,000,000 Irish men, women, and children perished during this terrible incident (document 1.) The majority of the Irish people were farmers and planted many potatoes. That meant during the potato famine, many potatoes were infected and rotten, so many farmers became poor and helpless.
Chris montenegro U.S History Mr. Flynn Monday december 19, 2016 What role did Native Americans play In the Civil War? Native americans had a very important role to the U.S during the civil war. During the Civil War, many Native Americans got split up in choosing either the Union or Confederacy, this Became very important because leading up to the civil war the Union and Confederacy started to realize that Native Americans actually did have a very big impact on the way the war would turn out. The Native Americans created separate armies and took part in a lot of the battles. The war not only affected both of the political sides but also had a great impact on the native americans themselves.
Prior to the Civil War, regional tensions and identities had been developing for decades. For example, the Missouri Compromise was an effort to maintain balance between slave states and free states in the Senate. In another effort to maintain balance between the north and the south, the 1850 Compromise tipped the balance of power to South. The two regions also developed different economies; in effect, culture and demographics were vastly different. Thus, during the civil war, regional identities were vastly differed over the idea of slavery, women's rights, and immigrant involvement.
Due to the recent law changes, on July 13, 1863, the New York City draft riots broke loose on the streets of New York. The majority of rioters were Irish because Irish men could not deal with being seen equal as a black man. The Irish men and other workers also rioted because they knew that freed African-Americans would cause wartime inflation, competition with jobs, and racial
Towards the end of the Civil War, the United States watched as Eurocentric countries imperialized, but decided to focus westward of their own country instead. An earlier idea from years previous called manifest destiny, became apparent again. White settlers began to settle west and even forced a eradication on Native tribes in Oklahoma, and did the same for Mexicans within Texas. Both stood in the way of their "God given" destiny.
Through a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and underlying factors of the rioters in Baltimore, a deeper interpretation of post-revolutionary nationalism may be revealed. This gained knowledge would help twenty-first century Americans understand current nationalist trends and movements while such movements interact with contemporary political and socioeconomic variables. Therefore, the relatively peaceful demonstrations and assemblies common in the early republic unexpectedly turned violent in Baltimore City during the summer of 1812 because of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican politics and their interactions with the nationalistic, yet diverse, groups of wage laborers in Baltimore
The fact that militia culture was strong enough to force a compromise between regular Army desires, practical military necessity, and American cultural traditions shows how strong the National Guard truly is in American military heritage. It is tempting to view the logical progression of the National Defense Acts of 1903, 1908, and 1916 as a linear path to the present, but they were a series of raucous fights that ruined the careers of politicians and soldiers alike and altered the entire system. The Army, the Secretary of War, and the National Guard changed size and shape in this period, and the relationship between the President, the government, and the
The Wrongs and the Rights of Traditions "The Lottery" and Things Fall Apart both underscore societies' need for certainty through traditions, beliefs, and rituals. This is shown in the two works through the use of highlighting negative outcomes and by blindly following traditions. Without the use of ever questioning the customs or having curiosity in determining the drawback in exploration of other customs, nothing else is ever known to us. " The Lottery", a short story by Shirley Jackson, unravels an annual tradition where each year one unfortunate person is randomly chosen and sacrificed by the rest of the village. Everyone in the village selects a slip of paper from a box, and the person who selects the marked paper has stones thrown at them by the other
The mid-19th century saw an unprecedented wave of immigrants coming into the country. At its peak, Ellis Island, the main processing station for immigrants, handled an astounding 5,000 people every day. Because of the language and culture barriers faced by each group of people, they often settled amongst themselves. Very quickly, country-specific neighborhoods began popping up throughout New York and the surrounding area. This helped to alleviate the stresses with moving to a new country; however, most immigrants came to the United States penniless and lived in low-income housing as their jobs rarely supported themselves let alone their families.
Does Pluto have the characteristics needed to be considered a planet? Throughout this essay, I will explain how things should be classified when it comes to speaking in terms of the universe. Is there criticism that was merited against in such terms, models, or ideas, and does it support the method of us understanding the universe? This conversation is focusing on to what extent the class of the cosmology became successful.
Most immigrants who came to the U.S had high expectations that they would find wealth but once they arrived they realized their expectations weren’t what they expected. Although, they were disappointed in not finding wealth the conditions in which the U.S was in by the late 1800s were still a lot better than the places they all had left behind to come. The majority of the immigration population anticipation was to find profitable jobs and opportunities. When the large numbers of immigration were migrating to the U.S, it was during the “Gilded Age”, which was the prime time for the country’s expansion of industrialization. This rapid expansion of new industries led to the need of workers which motivated people from other countries to come to
The American Revolution lasted six years and the impacts of it were everlasting(Schultz, 2010). The effects were felt by every group of people in North America and many worldwide. Even though George Washington had all of his troops vaccinated against smallpox, the colonists were not so fortunate and as a results some estimates are that as many as one hundred and thirty thousand people died from this dreaded disease. This loss of life combined with the divisions among the colonies into those loyal to Britain and those who wanted freedom would forever change the way of life for the colonists.
Although coming to “a land of immigrants,” the Irish were in many ways the first “emigrant group.” Arriving in such numbers that Americans were not prepared to receive them. Americans were, however, prepared to recognize the Irish, thanks to a set of stereotypes that were already a part of the Anglo-American culture; a romantic stereotype of the exile in flight from a tragic land of beauty; and a comic stereotype of the wild, irresponsible Paddy (Williams 1996, p.
