Morrill Tariff (ME) Shania Campbell

               What started the Civil War? There’s much debate on whether or not it was the Morrill Tariff. Or if it had something to do with starting it. ‘What is the Morrill Tariff?’ You may ask. Well in short, it was a law for protection. It was passed in 1859 which made tariffs on the South spike from 15% to almost 50%. Tariffs are taxes, or a duty that has to be paid on a certain class of imports or exports. When the Morrill Tariff was signed into law, it only took one month to start taking effect. Other than setting tariff rates, the bill also limited the Warehousing Act of 1846.

                The Warehousing Act of 1846 was a law that just let traders and suppliers to warehouse their  imported goods into the United States, which initially allowed the tariff payments on those goods to be delayed until the buyer was actually found. The Morrill Tariff was passed before the Civil War was even expected, and passed through the Senate with almost no changes.

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Entrepreneur (ME) Shania Campbell

            When you see the word ‘entrepreneur’ what comes to mind? It’s a complex word that has a complex meaning. But you’d be wrong. Entrepreneurs are people who risk all they have to organize and run businesses. What they believe will happen is that they make a ton of money that will make up for everything they’ve risked. Which many people have accomplished. There have been people making millions of dollars doing this. A lot of times, these people make the little things we don’t think about. Name brand things like Heinz ketchup or Levi jeans.

Gary Goldberg is a good example. He is now a millionaire for selling bedding. This bedding, though, is an allergy barrier. He found that his son got sick and hospitalized all the time because of dust mites, which are on all bedding and that a lot of people suffer allergies because of them. He risked all of his money making and selling this product so that his son, and everyone else with dust mite allergies, can have better, healthier lives.

Europeans Flood into America (ME) Eric Carmona

            When the Civil War ended nearly about 15 million European immigrated to the United States between 1865 and 1914.  More than half of the European immigrants from the eastern and southern moved to the United States.  The countries from Europe were Italy, Greece, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Serbia.  There were two periods of immigration the “new” immigration and the “old” immigration and the “old” immigration was before 1890 and the “new” immigration was during 1890. 

70 Percent of the immigrants were men and they would be working to be able to afford to buy land in Europe or to be able to bring their families to the United States.  Many of the immigrants came to the United States because they had enough jobs available for them.  They came to find jobs in the United States because they wanted to find a better job that would let them escape the poverty and restrictions of social class in Europe.   

            

Child Labor (ME) Jade Kramer

          Child labor was one of the most emotional progressive issues. Children had always worked on family farms, which was understandable. But some children were working in mines and factories, and this was hazardous to their health. A muckraker John Spargo exposed the harsh working conditions of children in a book called The Bitter Cry of the Children. Children that were the ages of 9 or 10 we working in coal mines, they picked slag out of coal. They worked for 60 cents an hour for ten hours a day. The way he described it was it bent their back permanently and crippled their hands. Articles like these convinced states to make a minimum age for employment and established limits on childhood labor. 

Women Suffrage (ME) Jade Kramer

Women's Suffrage

Women didn't have rights at one point and time; they had to fight for them. It is now an amendment, it is called Women’s suffrage. It was a slow start, but at least we got there. Some people thought it was unfeminine and immoral and threatened women suffragists. This was around the time that the Civil War had just ended and that slavery was abolished.  Also, this gave the African American males the right to vote. There were debates over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments; this split the suffrage movements in two. There were organizations that were made to support women’s suffrage. One of the organizations was National Woman Suffrage Association; this association was founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. One group wanted to focus on making this a constitutional amendment. Later on it because an amendment.

    

William “Boss” Tweed (KI) Eric Carmona

He was the leader of the most infamous organization called the New York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall political during the 1860s and 1870s.  In the 1850s he became a powerful figure in the Tammany Hall. During the 1860s he risen to the top of the position and formed the Tweed ring, it encouraged judicial corruption.  He was sent to prison for forgery and larceny and other charges but in 1875 he escaped from prison and traveled to Cuba and Spain.  In 1876 the Spanish police arrested him because they recognized him from a picture and was sent back to the United State, returned to prison that’s where he died in 1878.   

John J. Pershing (KI) Nick Attkisson

John Pershing was a commander of American Expeditionary force (AEF). Him and his group of soldiers went to Paris on July 4^th, 1917. They went to Picpus cemetery where Lafayette was buried. France helped the United States gain their freedom now they were going to help preserve theirs. British and French commanders wanted to be in command over the American soldiers and Pershing didn’t approve. President Wilson backed him up on that. French and British needed Americans to replace their losses; Pershing held his ground but made one change. The 93^rd infantry, an African American division, was transferred to the French. They became the first unit of Americans to go into war.