“You will never know, how much it cost the present generation, to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a prudent use of it.” (John Adams) Pursuing the civil war, the United States had to bring itself up again. Several attempts were made to amend the injustices of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and solve the problems arising from the readmission of the seceded states. Through Reconstruction, states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. During the progressive era, problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government were eliminated. And, to achieve equality, African Americans fought for their basic rights afforded to them by the U.S. Constitution.
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People working in unison to expose particular inequities to have a solid political change. In a city bus in 1955, by refusing to give up her seat to a white man, Rosa Park helped trigger the civil rights movement in the United States. “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right” (Korpe, 2015). This woman wanted something as simple as having a seat on a bus, that had a much greater meaning by breaking Jim Crow laws and black codes. On August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for jobs and freedom, Martin Luther King Jr delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech. King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their …show more content…
It coped with environmental issues as waste, pollution, resource exhaustion, and sustainability. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was a fervent conservationist and was a leader in the Conservation Movement. In 1906, he voiced his views on conservatism in his Seventh Annual Message. "The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our National life." (Debi Naccarto, 2011) Roosevelt refers to the impact and many social disputes caused by the Industrialization of America with its rapid urbanization. The lives of the Americans were forever changed from a rural environment to an overcrowded city one. The conservation movement influenced the United States’ government policies. Several laws were passed, establishing national parks like the creation of the Yellowstone National Park in 1872 and the Yosemite National Park in 1890. Policies protecting fish, birds, and the wildlife all over the
People working in unison to expose particular inequities to have a solid political change. In a city bus in 1955, by refusing to give up her seat to a white man, Rosa Park helped trigger the civil rights movement in the United States. “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right” (Korpe, 2015). This woman wanted something as simple as having a seat on a bus, that had a much greater meaning by breaking Jim Crow laws and black codes. On August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for jobs and freedom, Martin Luther King Jr delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech. King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their …show more content…
It coped with environmental issues as waste, pollution, resource exhaustion, and sustainability. Former President Theodore Roosevelt was a fervent conservationist and was a leader in the Conservation Movement. In 1906, he voiced his views on conservatism in his Seventh Annual Message. "The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our National life." (Debi Naccarto, 2011) Roosevelt refers to the impact and many social disputes caused by the Industrialization of America with its rapid urbanization. The lives of the Americans were forever changed from a rural environment to an overcrowded city one. The conservation movement influenced the United States’ government policies. Several laws were passed, establishing national parks like the creation of the Yellowstone National Park in 1872 and the Yosemite National Park in 1890. Policies protecting fish, birds, and the wildlife all over the