Joel Engelsma

 I liked the stories at the start about the "doctor" and how the account had been preserved and not so preserved over time.  I like how he went out by himself when he was young and attempted to make it nd the luck he got and the wisdom he could attain at such a young age.  This book was a work of somebody who gave everything for his country and he still echos with us today.

 Historians have used the term Gilded Age for the period right after the Civil War and on because it is clear that there was a lot of money in those days.  During this time there was rampant paying people off just so you could get a better part in politics most politicians were very rich and used their position to gain more and more wealth. This was also when there was an economic boom things started ramping up in factories and everywhere but especially in America because it had so many untamed resources at the time.  the use of this term guilded age was a very good and useful term to describe what was happening at the controversial but very important economic time.  The guided age will go down in history as extremely important and it shows what we should not be doing when we become politicians.

 There are two points that I must go over that led to the industrial rev First the demand the demand of products was going up. Also boosting that was the supply there was a ton of supplies from America tons and tons of raw materials could be converted into things. Lastly technology had gotten to the point where these massive buildings could be raised and hundreds of workers employed as well as the railroad that grew massive during this time time was being saved therefore giving more time to work. 

 The Reconstruction I belive was something America had to go through. I would say it did what it needed to do freeing all the African Americans just because the African Americans had never been free they didn't know hoe to act so they had a lot of issues with making money and such like that.

 The Reconstruction was a very tumultuous time in the history of America. it happened directly after the Civil War it got started during the war by President Abraham Lincoln and he even had an amazing setup planned for the reconstruction. Sadly it never happened because of his untimely death at the hands of John Wilkes Booth. His predecessor Andrew Johnson followed the plans of Reconstruction that Abraham Lincoln had planned out. The steps that Andrew Jhonson took were very lenient in terms of dealing with the south he thought that he could just bring them back into the union and free all the slaves. Yet there were people in the senate called the radical republicans that hated how lenient he was and tried passing several bills that allowed them control of the southern land even going so far as to put generals in charge of the southern states but instead of them as states they would be five districts all run by separate generals.

👄 Todau im writing about my favorite childhood memory i really liked when we moved to the second house I ever lived in and we had some woods so it was super fun. We had a friend over for some reason and decided to dig a hold in the woods. We ended up digging down four or so feet and it was awesome we hit clay and it was so cool just going out there and seeing that hole getting bigger and bigger.

 Separate but equal is a term thrown around by congress a long time ago during reconstruction after the Civil War it basically means that somehow African Americans are both separate and equal. Those two words don't belong I a sentence rogthor I don't know how congress thought that was a good idea I guess back then things were different though because that's what they did and everything backfired on them. they had to change it in the fourteenth amendment overstepping the thirteenth amendment