Today in class we viewed our fellow classmates presentations. This included a Google presentation, videoliciuous, and surveys. Throughout the week we viewed 5 other groups presentations.
One of the groups we learned about was Immigration from Europe to America. This topic taught me that Immigrants came to America through Ellis Island, the Golden Door and many other ports. We learned how many of these immigrants had to go through test that were often degrading and humiliating. Once they got into America they foyer settled in ghettos to protect themselves from the Americans. The Americans were cruel to the immigrants because they believed that the immigrants were of a lower class. They were also cruel because they felt the immigrants took their jobs. They felt that a immigrant shouldn't get a job over a citizen born in America. Henry Ford and other journalist published papers against Jews, and soon after a law was passed restricting Jew's rights. This shows how his power influenced the lives of immigrants.
Another presentation I viewed was a groups report on Immigration from Asia to America. Thousands of immigrants from Japan and China entered the United States. Even though they were able to enter the United States they still had to conquer many difficulties. Upon arrival in America, they were forced through immigration centers, with strict, and sometimes obscure tests to determine someone's fitness for citizenship. In order to control the immigrants the government passed a law disallowing immigrants from owning land, this created many problems for the immigrants in the state's.
The third group I am going to talk about presented a the topic European Imperialism. I learned that Europe saw their chance to go into Africa and try and benefit from their goods. King Leopold was one of the figures that had a major part in it. He saw how valuable rubber was and decided that he was going to try and make a profit off of it. Leopold terrorized the workers in Africa to amaze sure they didn't revolt. Throughout these events European countries were abusing the African countries and they had all the power.
The fourth topic that was presented was Native Americans and the west. I learned that the American government bullied the Natives Americans and forced them to move. The Natives who had once lived on prosperous farm land had no choice but to move to what was usually a place with terrible living conditions. The US government did a terrible thing by making the Native Americans walk almost 400 miles to their new home. The Us government showed how not only the power they have, influenced others lives.
The final topic I learned about was American Imperialism. Since the economy in America was so good in the 1800s, they had a lot of power, but of course they needed more. America began to look for other countries to control so they could profit from them. This led o the Spanish American war, in which America won. This gave them control of Cuba and the Philippines . This presentation tied in all the factors of people places and power because the imperialism aspect relates to the people and power and Cuba and the Philippines relate to places. Imperialism is when a more powerful country abuses a smaller one for its resources. Cuba and the Philippines relates to the topic places because the US was going to control them for their unique resources.
Thanks to all the groups I was able to get a clear view of all of the topics which were entwined in each presentation so nicely.
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