The communists always tried to suppress religions anyway possible and because of Ngo Dinh Diem being Catholic and in charge of South Vietnam at the start of the resistance to the North. They felt it was a smart move to wipe as many of them out as they could. The Vietcong and North Vietnamese also had the goal of causing “…an uproar in the world and in the US….” Due to its Vietnamese cultural, historical, and political heritage, Hue was a center of international attention. The communists’ occupation and massacres there served their intents of gaining superiority at the negotiations, and especially of threatening the American people, causing them to worry about their military relatives in Vietnam up to the point of urging the US government to promptly bring
The Haitian Revolution was sparked because of cruelty pushed upon the people in Haiti and the French revolutionary influence. The French government imposed a slave regulation law code which gave landowners guidelines to tend to their slaves (document 1). Since this was written by the king himself, it may be biased because of the fact that the king, King Louis XIV, was French and not a slave and hasn’t been a slave so he doesn’t know how they’ve felt in this time period. The document clearly shows the unfairness of the treatment of slaves, such as the slaves must be Catholic, therefore no freedom of religion. In addition to that, it states how emancipated slaves had the same rights as everyone else who was free in the French lands.
The United States was an alley with Russia so therefore, they wanted to protect China as well. The U.S. was upset at the threat to their allies but they also realized that the Japanese were violating the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. Resulting from this, the U.S. threatens that if Japan does not leave China, they will have no choice but to stop trading oil with them. Japan declined the threat and continued to take over
Lastly, it created a relentless toward the Native Americans, who were pushed out of the way for white settlement or were devastated by the diseases that the Europeans brought with them through trade and contact. Document A also showed how Jefferson imagined farms mainly farming for subsistence with maybe a little for sale. With the Missouri Compromise in Document C, there were many states that prohibited slavery. With the use of slave laborers on the ample farms of the South, the farms produced a handful of crops mostly used for profit which wasn’t what Jefferson wanted,
Many people ask the question, “Why did the U.S. even care about the Vietnam conflict, let alone fight a war there?” One Reason for U.S. involvement in the Vietnam conflict was that the U.S. feared the Domino Theory. The Domino Theory is where if one state falls to communism, then all the other states around it will fall into communism too. Because the U.S. feared this, they responded with containment. Containment means to keep communism from spreading to other countries. Another reason for U.S. involvement is imperialism, which was left over from WWI and WWII.
Cooper aims to explain how beyond slavery, freedom meant something different than it does today. He focuses on emancipation and imperialism in British East Africa and French West Africa. In post emancipation Africa, life for colored people was hardly “free.” Instead, former slaves were often pressured into various forms of coerced and forced labor. However, many former slaves tried to resist being forced into the free labor market. Finally in 1946, the abolition of forced labor took place in French West Africa, including the declaration that all white and colored workers must be treated as French Citizens.
The hawks and doves were complete opposites, the hawk’s argument concluded that America must win the war in Vietnam in order to contain communism in Southeast Asia and preserve the nation’s prestige (Davidson-Gienapp-Heyrman-Lytle-Stroff, 2005). The doves on the other hand wanted the conflict in Vietnam ended immediately and the troops returned home. The political and social outcomes facing the United States because of the conflict in Vietnam ranged from a growing distrust of the decisions being made by the political leaders to the ever increasing cost of the conflict in Vietnam. The growing distrust helped to fuel the student unrest because the younger generation decided to voice their opinions and take a stand for those
The Northeast and the South had many differences. One of the differences that they had was that the Northeast was against slavery, they were free states but the South was for slavery, they were slave states. Another difference between them was that the Northeast industrialized while the South got stuck in the past. Meaning the people of the South continued to rely on manual labor while the people of the Northeast invented new machines to do their work for them. In addition to that, in the Northeast women started to have their independence away from the home.
The Indians did not really differentiate the Europeans and the slaves that they brought with them to the newly discovered lands. The Indians seemed to view them as both as outsiders coming into their territory. The French was the first to settle into Mississippi and with them they brought slaves with them to work the lands. The French settled
The task system allowed slaves to work at their chosen pace as long as they fulfilled their duties within the time allocated. This method was proven to be less brutal than the gang system and it is often thought the reason for this is that women were enslaved in the professions that operated under the task system. The work for the enslaved people proved to be the hardest was when the owners of plantations specialised in rice. Preparing the land for cultivation usually meant claiming marshlands or swampy regions. Slaves in the rice fields had to fight off snakes, alligators and vermin; slaves often had to fight off angry rodents.