Unfair Treatment

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Buffalo Soldiers and Native Americans

For class, the essential question that was created “was the discrimination that the Buffalo Soldiers and Native Americans faced intentional or did the white settlers and federal government actually believe that what they were doing was just?”. Buffalo soldiers were African Americans that joined the military while native Americans were the native people living on American soil before sailors traveled to the new land. In class to learn about the events that occurred for this question to arise we took notes on videos and articles.

The treatment of these soldiers were not fair, and the same goes for the native Americans. The soldiers were forced to head into battles where they were  extremely outnumbered by their opponents. They had to lay out electric wire and also cut paths for other troops. In other words they were the suppliers of the army as well as the expendable group to the military. Most of these soldiers did not even really want to fight, a lot of them just wanted to avoid sharecropping that would put them in an even worse situation than being a soldier. The U.S. government were not treating the black population fairly whatsoever and this can even be seen through the treatment of the Buffalo Soldiers.In addition, the native Americans were not treated fairly as well. They were pushed off their land, killed and treated extremely poorly. The U.S. government treated them as savages and did moved them off to reservations. They put them under government watch in hope that they would become part of the society. They were even encouraged to forget their roots and become Americans. This once again is poor and unjust treatment by the U.S. government.

In my opinion I think that the U.S did not treat them fairly at all and I even believe that they thought they were just. America’s beginnings were quite, interesting and there was a lot of bias and discrimination at the very start.  All of the sources that we gathered from seem credible and I would not question their accuracy.

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Robber What?

Carnegie & Rockefeller

The essential question that was asked to us was “Were Carnegie and Rockefeller robber barons or captains of industry?”. Carnegie and Rockefeller were wealthy businessman that benefited from the newly expanding American economy.Rockefeller was able to successfully monopolize the oil business while Carnegie did the same to the steel business, they were able to control prices and flow of products. Robber barons and captains of industry were terms used to describe the owner's businesses that were able to successfully take control over a given product. Robber barons was negative term while captain of industry was positive.In class we watched ABC Clio videos as well as read articles to learn about Carnegie and Rockefeller.

Both these businessmen were very successful. They each had made a large sum of money, but how were they seen from an onlooking eye? First of all, lets start with Carnegie. He was known for the production of steel in the U.S. Carnegie used a lot of his money on other things besides his business and himself. He built libraries and the “Gospel of Wealth”. The “Gospel of Wealth” is the term used to represent how much he gave back to society. He made orphanages and donated to museums. Carnegie can definitely be seen as a captain of industry because he was able to fuel the economy, but also he was not seen as negatively by the public as one would expect a person of high power to uphold. Rockefeller was also seen more of a captain of industry than a robber baron even though the press continually attacked him because of his monopoly over oil. Rockefeller was also willing to lower prices and try to help the consumer in any way that he could. He gave money to education and helped industry to grow in America.  

In my opinion I do not believe that they were robber barons because gave they back to society. This in turn makes them captains of industry because they fueled the American economy as well as give back to society.  

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