The Age of Jackson - GSE SSUSH7a: explain Jacksonian Democracy, including expanding suffrage, the Nullification Crisis & states' rights, and the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Assignment InstructionsWatch the film Salt of the Earth”1) Th.docxhoward4little59962
Assignment Instructions
Watch the film “Salt of the Earth”
1) The workers at the union meeting emphasize the "solidarity of the working men." Yet, the film begins by focusing on women's work. Why?
2)
Frank (the Anglo union organizer) and Ramón have an argument about the portrait of Benito Juarez in Ramón's house. What is the nature of this conflict? How is Frank portrayed in his subsequent argument with Ruth, his wife?
3)
How do the men react to their wives' offer to picket in their places? Why do they finally give their approval?
4)
When violence breaks out on the picket line, how do the women react? How do the men react? What is the result?
5)
Why is the attempted eviction of the Quintero family a turning point in the film? How have both Esperanza and Ramón changed by the end of the film?
6)
How do the working conditions in the mine affect both the men and the women?
7)
What strategies do the men use to try to keep the women silent? What strategies do the women in the movie use to assert their demands for equality?
Classmate Response 1:
Andrew Jackson was a “contradiction” in terms of his attitudes and actions toward the “common man,” Indians, women, blacks, the role of federal versus state government, and expanding opportunity versus maintaining the status quo. Explain WHY Jackson's actions and attitudes were contradictory. Give specific examples and be sure to provide the relevant facts and citations for your answer.
President Jackson was a respected president known for his devotion to democratize the political realm and improve economic opportunities for the “Common Man” during his term in office. It would be evident that he would live up to the slogan of his campaign when his inauguration ceremony was opened to anyone. President Jackson replaced roughly a fifth of the federal officeholders with his friends and supporters regardless of their qualifications. “No political figure was so widely loved or more deeply despised, yet he stamped his name and, more important, his ideas, personality, and values on an entire era of American history” (Shi; p. 327). It was clear that President Jackson’s vision of the common man would be defined as white men, poor and did not own land. In fact, Jackson felt compel to protect them from wealthy upper-class white men and elevate them to have equal rights and opportunities. The African Americans, Native American, and white women would continue to be denied equality that he fought so desperately to defend. Jackson hailed from South Carolina, and his views on slavery and plantation owners would show no opposition even after to becoming the President. When abolitionist from the north began mailing anti-slavery pamphlets and newspapers to southerners hoping to convince them to end slavery, Jackson missed an opportunity to redefine his support for common people desperate for equality in America. Jackson pleaded to Congress to pass a federal censorship law that would prohibit abolitionist .
10. The plantation system plowed inexorably westward, turning up the land like an enormous and insatiable bulldozer. The five years following the War of 1812 saw a great westward movement known as “The Great Migration.” Several hundreds of thousands of people were shifted to the trans-Alleghany region, leading to the formation of two territories, the admission of three states, the merciless clearing of the Indians to beyond the Mississippi.