Ch 27 Writing Exercise

#1 A & B Market revolution: created the economic conditions needed for the industrial revolution to occur. Capitalism and government support of economic growth and banks was instrumental in growing the economy and improving industry. B) American System and the internal improvement of transportation set up the network that would guide industry Civil War era: the Republican dominated Congress passed many laws, including the Homestead Act that encouraged westward migration and the transportation that allowed this. B) Additionally, the Civil War necessitated increased manufacturing of weaponry, textiles, and the network of railroads to efficiently deliver these to the Union. Rise of big business: with government support of the railroads, huge companies were created and able to efficiently build up American industry. Though corruption was rampant during this Gilded Age, industry couldn’t have been completed as quickly without weak competition and lack of government intervention. B) Any of the big businesses created (steel, railroads, robber barons, petroleum, banking)

#1C Market revolution: while the foundations for industry were established, it was not until after the Civil War era that the country moved from basic textiles to the more sophisticated industry seen post-war, such as steel and railroads Civil War era: with the country at war, industrialization was not a focus for the government to encourage and support, and there wasn’t a united effort in economic and industrial growth Rise of big business: this era was known as the Second Industrial Revolution, for the reasons that the groundwork was laid earlier in the century with the transportation networks and the earlier influx of immigrants from Ireland to work in factories

#2 a)The artist shows Uncle Sam being served by William McKinley pieces of “meat” in the potential spoils of the Spanish American War b)Because of the war, the US was able to control Cuba through the Platt Amendment, Puerto Rico through the Foraker Act, and the Philippines after the rebellion was put down. c)Not all Americans supported imperialism. Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan, and the Democratic Party in general were all against imperialism, refuting the idea that the US was supportive of imperialism as a whole.

#3 a)The cartoon shows TR with his “big stick” exercising the US’s new diplomatic power through arbitration. The drawing embodies Roosevelt’s idea to “speak softly and carry a big stick.” b)When the Russo-Japanese War needed arbitration, TR went in and helped end the war, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in c)Latin American countries greatly resented the US’s exercise of its growing power, shown in the Roosevelt Corollary which justified any American intervention in Latin American affairs as US jurisdiction.