s the United States entered the 20th century, African Americans faced a new and challenging landscape. A mere thirty-five years after the abolition of slavery, the majority of African Americans had learned to read and hundreds were heading to colleges and universities to continue their studies. The 1900 Paris Exposition created by W.E.B. DuBois showcased the gains that African Americans had made since emancipation.
However, many of the freedoms gained during the era of reconstruction were beginning to disappear. It became more and more difficult for African Americans to vote; the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling made segregation the law of the land; and groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the White Camelia tried to reverse the successes of African Americans, sometimes using violence and lynching to strike fear in the African American community.
Many contributed to the debates on how best to secure and advance the rights of African Americans, but one of the major contributors was the educator Booker T. Washington. Washington, the leader of Tuskegee Institute, stated his views in a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, in September 1895.
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I suppose it made the free states and slave states in some way even. When Missouri became a slave state they kept the north end of the Louisiana purchase free stated and banned slavery there.
The distribution of power. The Antifederalists thought that the Constitution would give the government ultimate power and eventually lead it into a dictatorship.
Answer:
The correct response is Option D: New industrial machines increased the number of goods that factories could make.
Explanation:
After the Civil War, the United States grew rapidly and quickly became an industrial nation. This growth was fueled by : Innovations in technology, and the development of large-scale agriculture, and the federal government itself expanded. There was also tensions regarding immigration and federal Indian policy and the late 1800s there was increased demands for workers and women rights. Many inventions in the late 1880s helped to fuel the growth of cities. Thomas Edison’s invention of the electric light bulb made it more practical to light factories and homes and extended the workday as it allowed people to work and accomplish things at night as well.
Religion. Often times religion is heavily inter-twined with culture.
