History Quotes

"All they ask is a chance to start over and a chance for their children to eat, to have medical care, to have homes again. 50,000 a month! The sun and winds wrote the most tragic chapter in American agriculture."

The movie: "The plow that broke the planes" Dust Bowl 1936

8. "But let it be remembered that for every Christian man who has a voice in making and enforcing laws there are at least two Christian women who have no voice at all."

This quote is from Frances E. Willard. Willard was the president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (1883). Willard fought for women's rights, the prohibition of alcohol, and more.

6. "For too many of us the political equality we once had won was meaningless in the face of economic inequality. A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other people's lives."

This quote is from Franklin Roosevelts Speech to the Democratic National Convention in 1936. It's important because he linked freedom with economic security and defended New Deal reforms and spending programs.

5. "The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom. A free race cannot be born of slave mothers."

This quote is from Margaret Sanger a women's rights activist in the 1920s. It's important because she explained the hardships women endure and the reason contraceptives should be legal and distributed.

10. "This unwarranted exercise of power by the Court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the States principally affected. It is destroying the amicable relations between the white and Negro races that have been created through 90 years of patient effort by the good people of both races.

This quote is from The Southern Manifesto in 1956. It's important because it marks the event of the supreme court outlawing racial segregation in public schools.

9. "To prevent immigration means to cripple the United States."

This quote is from the 1921 Congress debates on immigration. It's important because the immigration from Europe and Asia to the U.S. was restricted to quotas by law.

1. "We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit."

This quote is from the Port Huron Statement which was a document written by about 60 college students from the Students for a Democratic Society. The document was one of the most influential documents from the sixties. It captured the mood of student protesters.

3. "I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures."

This quote is from the Truman Doctrine a speech given by President Truman. The speech embraced the containment of Soviet Communism and set a precedent for American assistance to anti-communistic regimes.

How and when did the African American civil rights movement change American society?

• African American civil rights changed American society in multiple instances • 14th amendment (1868) passed after civil war making all former slaves citizens • Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a city bus to a white rider as required by local law. Her arrest sparked a year-long bus boycott led by M.L.K. Eventually the Supreme court ruled segregation in public transportation unconstitutional. (1955) • The Southern Manifesto (1956) Brown vs. the board of education. Supreme court outlawed racial segregation in public schools. Brown argued black school wasn't equal to white school.

How and why did American expectations of the federal government shift over the course of the 20th century?

• Expectations changed in many ways • Frederick Douglass believed in immigration and naturalization rights for all (1869) • John A. Ryan fought for a minimum wage in his book titled A Living Wage (1906) • Woodrow Wilson believed the government should protect workers' rights to unionize, and support small companies while keeping government power at a minimum (1912) • Margaret Sanger fought for women's rights, education on contraceptives, and distribution of contraceptives (1920)

1. In 1918, intellectual Randolph Bourne wrote, "War is the health of the state." Assess this claim in light of American history since the end of the Civil War

• In times of peace people deal with the gov and act to their own personal choices • In time of war people become the "herd" • State uses the choice of person to join war or stay out, sometimes punished for making "wrong choice" • After becoming "herd" they lose sense of self • If you join you feel the warm feel of obedience, democratic pride • War is the death of individualism • Boyer page 100 WWII America rallied behind retaliations against Japan and its allies • Korematsu vs. The united states • The Port Huron Statement: college students remained as individuals during time of Vietnam war