De Anza College American History and Society Paper Directions: Please provide an analysis for each of the terms/questions below. Each answer must be at lea

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Book： The American Promise: A History of Western Society, value edition,

read chapter 5-6

1) Who were the Gracchus brothers and what were they trying to achieve? What were their fates?

2) “Five Good Emperors” and why they were considered so.

Extra Credit: What did Augustus and his successors put everywhere? (only one or two sentence)

Book: The American Promise: A History of the United States

Read chapter 6-7

1) What were the Coercive Acts and why did Parliament pass them?

2) Lexington and Concord

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1) Mexican American War
2) Compare and contrast Presidents Andrews Jackson and Johnson.
3) Extra Credit: What color is my room?
1) After gaining independence from Spain in 1821 (and no, it did not happen on
May 5, it’s September 16), Mexico was not out of the woods as it was facing
infighting and civil war. This left their northern lands (present-day Texas and
southwestern U.S.) vulnerable to greedy Americans who had this idea that they
were superior and it was their destiny to control territory in North America from
ocean to ocean (Manifest Destiny, 1845). The Mexican government wanted to
populate their northern borders, and granted American Stephen Austin a huge
tract of land in Texas. Austin then offered land at only 10 cents/acre, which
attracted a TON of Americans and their slaves and created a plantation economy
in the area. These Anglo-Americans were not Catholic (like the Mexicans), and
they not care to learn the language or assimilate into Mexican culture (even
though it was Mexican territory). In 1830, the Mexican government banned
further immigration and outlawed slavery in hopes that the Americans would stop
coming and maybe just get the heck out of Texas, but the Texan settlers rebelled in
1836. Mexico’s General Santa Anna was sent in to quell the uprising. There was
the huge battle at the Alamo in March 1836, as the Americans and their allies got
their butts kicked by Santa Anna and the Mexican army. They also executed 400
Texans a couple weeks later. Sam Houston then retaliated against Santa Anna, and
was able to push Santa Anna out, and established Texas as an independent
republic. Texas became a state in 1845. In 1846, President Polk decided that
Texas was not enough for the United States and also wanted California and New
Mexico (present-day CA, NV, NM, UT, AZ, WY, CO), which were part of Mexico
at the time. Polk offered to buy that territory from Mexico, to which Mexico said
“Heck no!” So Polk sent the American army into Mexico to take the land by force.
After a series of battles that lasted two years between the two countries, the
Americans under General Scott were able to push Santa Anna and his forces all the
way into Mexico City, where after fierce fighting, Santa Anna was forced to
surrender. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on February 2, 1848, with
Mexico ceding the huge territories of CA and NM to the U.S., and gave up claims
to Texas above the Rio Grande. Mexico lost almost half of their territory to the
U.S., which now controlled an area that amassed the continent from ocean to
ocean.
2) President Jackson’s reputation as a war hero in the Battle of New Orleans (1815)
during the war of 1812, pretty much carried him to victory in the election of 1828.
During his presidency, he did not shy away from using his veto power. He was
notorious for his attitudes and treatment of the Native Indigenous peoples. After
the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Georgia did not have authority over the
Cherokee in Worcester v. Georgia in 1832, Jackson decided to ignore the ruling. In
1835, the Americans then schemed to have the Cherokee sign away their land
with bogus treaties. Cherokee Chief John Ross protested the treaties to no avail,
and the Cherokee were forced to move off their land. Jackson sent in federal
troops to remove them by force in 1838. This would be known as the Trail of
Tears. He also threatened to blast Charleston’s harbor if they did not comply with
federal tariffs.
President Johnson became president after Lincoln’s assassination in 1865.
Although he was part of the Republican Party (which was the more progressive
one back then … huh?) he was a Southern Democrat at the core (the more
conservative racist party … yeah, kind of confusing if you’re thinking of modern
definitions). When he became president, he worked to undermine the
Reconstruction process as much as he could. He finally went too far when he fired
Secretary of War Stanton in 1867 without Congress approval. Congress was
already looking for a reason to get his butt out, so they impeached him. Johnson
was acquitted because Congress fell one vote short of the 2/3 majority in order to
convict (35-19). After his impeachment, Johnson stopped interfering with
Reconstruction.
Both Andrews proved themselves to be pretty racist – Jackson against Native
Indigenous peoples, and Johnson against Africans. They worked to undermine the
government’s little protection of the groups of color. Neither fought to uphold
Supreme Court rulings to protect these people. Although Jackson was a war hero,
he was no hero when it came to protecting the Native Indigenous people. His
reputation brought him to the presidency, but he failed to deliver as a president.
Johnson only became president by default, and did everything he could to reverse
for the Africans what the Civil War victory was supposed to do for them. Both had
the ideology that U.S. citizenship, rights, and protection belonged to white
Americans only. Why Jackson is on the twenty dollar bill beats the heck out of
me.
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