The History Cafe Podcast!

In a general sense, the New Deal was a response to the calamity of the Great Depression. But over the course of a decade, it came to encompass a multifaceted domestic policy that transformed the role of the federal government, improved the lives of countless Americans, and marked the American landscape with an array of new public features, from swimming pools to hydroelectric dams.
But was it a big deal?
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I am excited because this will be the first of a three-part series that examines on THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXPLOITATIVE PRACTICES IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, by focusing on the English colony of Virginia in episode two and the French colony of Louisiana in episode three.

This episode will provide the context for the Age of Exploration and the subsequent Columbian Exchange that significantly altered the political, economic, and social landscape of the Atlantic World. Western Europe was transformed as the maritime nations of Portugal, Spain, England, and France became economic powerhouses. African political and economic systems were not radically altered as trade with Europeans remained largely insignificant. Africans taken to the Americas as enslaved laborers undoubtedly experienced profound changes. The native populations of the Americas also experienced profound change. The pace and degree of change varied from place to place but their political, economic, and social systems would never return to what they were before European and African contact.

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This is part two of a three-part series that will argue that local and regional factors facilitated policies of exploitation and that nothing was pre-determined in the Europeans assuming an exploitative balance of power. The last episode gave the political and economic contexts of Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the Age of Exploration. This episode will focus on the English Colony of Virginia. The next episode will focus on French Colonial Louisiana.

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With the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 the United States for the first and only time in its immigration history had restricted immigrants specifically based on their race. Its passage resulted from decades of protest over the growing presence of Chinese laborers in the country. This is the story of the enforcement of Chinese Exclusion laws in the state of Texas.
Why? Well, because Texas’s Chinese population began only after the passage of Chinese Exclusion Laws. So, at a time when California and other states were limiting and restricting their Chinese populations, Texas’s Chinese population actually grew and, in some cases, flourished.
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I am excited to do this episode because I have a very special guest, my Chinese Language teacher, Su, Yi-Wen. She was born in Taiwan and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She has been a Chinese language teacher for many years, teaching a variety of language learners, in a variety of settings. We will talk about the Chinese language in terms of its history and linguistic features as it relates to the English language.
Here is her email address if you are interested in studying Chinese:
[email protected]
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