Ugh history help please?

Question:1. What were the three main reasons why Americans wanted to move to the West?
2. What were the effects, both positive and negative, of the Second Industrial Revolution on the U.S.?
3. Describe an immigrant's first experiences once they disembarked from the ship that brought them to America.
4. What were some of the factors that contributed to the downside of urbanization (city living)?
5. What caused the "Panic of 1893"?
6. How did Southern states get around the 15th Amendment, which guarantees that no state can deny a citizen the right to vote based on race?
7. Explain what a muckraker is and name some of the well-known muckrakers of the early 1900s.
8. What arguments did proponents of imperialism offer for the U.S. takeover of other countries?
9. What was the "final straw" that pushed President Wilson to declare war on Germany?
10. Why didn't the Senate want to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?

my dad just died and i cant concentrate, ugh please help me

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 1. What were the three main reasons why Americans wanted to move to the West?
2. What were the effects, both positive and negative, of the Second Industrial Revolution on the U.S.?
3. Describe an immigrant's first experiences once they disembarked from the ship that brought them to America.
4. What were some of the factors that contributed to the downside of urbanization (city living)?
5. What caused the "Panic of 1893"?
6. How did Southern states get around the 15th Amendment, which guarantees that no state can deny a citizen the right to vote based on race?
7. Explain what a muckraker is and name some of the well-known muckrakers of the early 1900s.
8. What arguments did proponents of imperialism offer for the U.S. takeover of other countries?
9. What was the "final straw" that pushed President Wilson to declare war on Germany?
10. Why didn't the Senate want to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?

my dad just died and i cant concentrate, ugh please help me

1. land, gold, Manifest Destiny
2. more jobs, labor unions, bad conditions for workers, more immigrants came
3. They had to wait in line for hours and go through health screening, etc. If they weren't healthy enough to enter the country, they had to go back. They were basically herded around like cattle.
4. bad living conditions
5. I forgot.
6. KKK intimidated blacks from voting, they passed state laws and literacy tests so that blacks couldn't vote if they couldn't read. Also the "grandfather clause," which said that if a man's grandfather was a slave, he couldn't vote.
7. a journalist who exposes wrongdoings in government
8. Manifest Destiny
9. Zimmerman Notice
10. They didn't want to be a part of the League of Nations.

Check out "The American Pageant" history book.

For someone who can't concentrate, you've managed to list those questions with great care. Do your own homework, you might actually learn something.

number 6: the southern states passed things like the grandfather clause, where if you're father or grandfather voted, than you could vote, but sense their fathers/grandfathers were in slavery they didnt have the right to vote. They also passed a poll tax which most of them couldnt afford, they also had to pass a literacy test, and many of them didnt have an education.

No. 9 I can help you on- that would be Pearl Harbour.
No. 10, I don't think the Senate cared.

But really, type some keywords into Wikipedia and see what they come up with. I'm truly sorry for your loss, but if you won't do your homework, there's not a lot I can do. Especially given I'm not the best at US history myself.

3. If they were illiterate Yiddish Jews they would draw a circle for their signature. This is where we get the word "Kike".
4. drugs, automobiles
7. the hearst guy and pulitzer
8. to christianize them
9. the zimmerman telegram to mexico from Germany to urge them to declare war on America
10. Because they were republicans and they didn't like Woodrow Wilson

I really think you ought to do some of your own homework.

I'm guessing on a lot of these but here goes:
!. Land, adventure/opportunity. gold.
2. Don't know.
3. First they usually had their names changed when Ellis Island agent s couldn't spell or pronounce them. Then they had to locate relatives or other countrymen, as many did not speak English. Then they went thru lots of prejudice.
4. Crowded living conditions, lack of sanitation which caused disease, farmers coming to big cities had few job skills.
5. Don't know.
6. Poll taxes; voters had to be landowners.
7. Read or look up Sinclair Lewis.

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