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American History Homework Six Answers - Student Five (view source)
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7. This cartoon defends Chinese immigrants against the fierce prejudice and discrimination which they faced in late-nineteenth-century America. With the increased suppression of the international slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century, businesses turned to China for an alternative source of labor. The Burlingame Treaty of 1868 allowed a free flow of immigration between China and the United States. American men looking for work didn’t like the Chinese immigrants, because they would work for much cheaper, and therefore were hired. On the wall behind Columbia are plastered numerous slurs against the Chinese immigrants, who are labeled as barbarian, heathen, pagan, immoral, anti-family, and vile.
7. This cartoon defends Chinese immigrants against the fierce prejudice and discrimination which they faced in late-nineteenth-century America. With the increased suppression of the international slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century, businesses turned to China for an alternative source of labor. The Burlingame Treaty of 1868 allowed a free flow of immigration between China and the United States. American men looking for work didn’t like the Chinese immigrants, because they would work for much cheaper, and therefore were hired. On the wall behind Columbia are plastered numerous slurs against the Chinese immigrants, who are labeled as barbarian, heathen, pagan, immoral, anti-family, and vile.
H1. I would choose deflation over inflation. Inflation is when your money isn’t worth as much, and deflation is when your money is worth more. However, both are unavoidable in a free-market economy, so we all have to deal with both. A “hard money” standard encourages more Inflation because the value of the dollar decreases.
H2. Free enterprise was a good thing after the Civil War. It allowed the Americans to rebuild their country themselves, without the government being in the way. The opposite of free enterprise, a planned economy, could not have helped America nearly as well, because the government, was most likely a mess after the Civil War, so it would not have been able to effectively manage and revive the economy as well as the Americans itself did.
H5. I think that Abraham Lincoln was pretty much a good guy, even if he wasn’t the greatest president. He experienced a spiritual renewal while in office, which I think helped him during his second term. He personally disliked slavery, and if he had not been doing everything to save the Union, he probably would have been more of an abolitionist. He thought preserving the Union was the most important thing, because he knew that a nation divided was more susceptible to vulnerabilities.