Well, there's no cartoon or letter, but many Northerners lost interest in reconstruction because their attempts to protect former slaves failed, and a lot of slaves ended up as sharecroppers, which wasn't really any different to slavery. Basically, the slaves were still uneducated, poor, in the South, and didn't have any more rights than before reconstruction because of black codes (Jim Crow laws) and sharecropping.
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what does citenzship mean to me:</em></h2>
<u><em>Citizenship is the status of being a citizen. If you have citizenship in a country, you have the right to live there, work, vote, and pay taxes! </em></u>
Both the Meiji Restoration in Japan and the efforts of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in the German Empire were focused on unifying, strengthening and modernizing the government and economy of their nations.
Bismarck led the way in uniting the many German states and principalities into a single, powerful German Empire, created in 1871. In Japan, prior to the Meiji Restoration, shogun rule (rule by military leaders) held control over part of the country, but feudal warlords maintained much power in their own lands. In 1868, shogun rule was ended and the emperor was restored to full power over the country.
A push for rapid industrialization characterized both Germany and Japan in the latter portion of the 19th century.
A key difference, however, was that the various German states had already begun industrializing before Bismarck came to power in Prussia and led the creation of the united German Empire. Bismarck's government strongly backed and increased industrialization efforts. In Japan, before he period known as the Meiji Restoration, Japan was not focusing on industrialization. Feudal arrangements persisted. But the new emperor took the name "Meiji," meaning "enlightened rule." And under the reign of Emperor Meiji, which lasted till 1912, Japan aggressively pursued modernizing and westernizing it economy and way of life.
In 1887<span> Congress passed the </span>Interstate Commerce Act<span>, making the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation. Congress passed the law largely in response to public demand that railroad operations be regulated.</span>
The four main causes were: militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism - or as an acronym, M-A-I-N (this made it much easier for me to remember the causes)
