The Reconstruction period (1865-1877) was the era of rebuilding, the south, after the Civil War. In the South reconstruction meant rebuilding the economy, establishing new state and local governments and establishing a new social structure between whites and blacks. Abolishing slavery, what should be demanded of the Southern states, restoring political rights to the South, […]
The Civil War is a war that is taught about in every school throughout the United States of America, no matter if its the first grade or your senior year of college, youve heard about it every year in school since kindergarten in some form or another. The nation split into two parts. the Union […]
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Get startedThe focus of this investigation will be “ How the Civil War impacted the lives of the Slaves?” This question is showing how meaningful was the Civil War and did it impact the lives of the slaves ( African-Americans) the way we all think it did. This will also evaluate did the Civil War really […]
America has compressed the probabilities and continued as a multiracial and multicultural, and become the most powerful nation in the world. Diversity is a treasure of this country and unity is the countrys strength. The United States of America has a long and brief history of its independence. The economic development helped the country to […]
The Slave Trade was the establishment of unfree labor and the origins of white supremacy. Colonists originally tried to enslave Native Americans but it was unsuccessful so they had to find an alternative source. The Triangular Trade was the originating trade route used to receive and send resources across the globe including slaves. This trading […]
The civil war was a major point in American history. It was the breaking point of the United States of America and determined the future of America. Imagine the Union army not winning the American Civil War, where would America be today? Understanding the causes that led to the Civil War and the outcome it […]
INTRODUCTION The civil war was the bloodiest war in American History, its effects are still felt today. However, it is what occured after the war that has truly made a mark in modern society. Despite the terms for the souths surrender being fairly relaxed, the legalization of blacks as citizens as well as the pursuit […]
The Civil War is one of the most important events in the history of the United States of America. It had many important repercussions which went on to have a deep and long lasting impact on the nation. After four years of a cruel battle, from 1861-1865, between a divided nation of the North and […]
Harriet Tubman was an abolishment and political activist. She is known for beginning the underground railroad which provided fugitive slaves with food, and a bed. She made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom and not once did she lose a passenger. Araminta Ross was born a slave in Maryland […]
Harriet Tubman was a very accomplished woman with many great aspects under her belt. Using the underground railroad Harrietr’s greatest accomplishment will bring down slavery freeing over 300 slaves. This meant the north aided in the escape of the slaves from the south, as a result, this made the south angrier leading to the civil […]
Harriet Tubman The person we know as Harriet Tubman is well known in history. Many do not know her real name is Araminta Minty Ross given to her by her parents, Harriet Green and Benjamin Ross. Araminta was born in 1820 in Maryland, she was born to enslaved african americans and had grown up on […]
Segregation was legalized as a result of the previous factors that limited black people, the period of European enslavement and the subsequent Black Codes. Slavery was the kidnapping of Africans from their continent, stripping them of their identities, forcing them to submit to European control and abuse, and establishing a system where the African people […]
Segregation can be defined as the action of setting someone or something apart from other people. It can also be an enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. This paper will allow one to see the ideas C. Vann Woodward shared on segregation, reconstruction, and the mixing of two races. […]
On January 1st, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of the Civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves, within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.” But the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways, it only applied states that […]
The Ku Klux Klan is known to be a secret terrorist organization which originated in the southern states which had emerged during the Reconstruction era on December 24, 1865 shortly after the end of the Civil War. The original Klan was established in Pulaski Tennessee. This Klan had begun by six ex-Confederate army soldiers and […]
The Ku Klux Klan, more so known as the KKK, is a hate organization that has employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. There was one group founded clear back in the 1870s following the Civil War. Another group began in 1915 and has continued to be present. (Ku Klux Klan, 2018) The […]
The 19th centry Klan was originally organized as a social club by Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866. They apparently derived the name from the Greek word kyklos, from which comes the English circle. Klan was added for the sake of alteration when the KKK emerged. The organization quickly became a vehicle for Southern […]
The Antebellum Era in the American South lasted roughly seventy-five years, beginning in the late eighteenth century and ending with the outbreak of the Civil War. During this time, Southern society was deeply divided by wealth. Only 0.1 percent of whites owned more than 100 slaves, while 76.1 percent owned none at all. Even so, […]
There was a need to repair the country after the Civil war. It was a success, but also could be considered a failure. There were strong differences in opinion the country. The war was officially over as far as the military was concerned, but there had been massive trauma on both sides. The country needed […]
