The inevitable truth in retrospect of the last 524 years as a nation has fostered a great amount of oppressing one based on race. Despite institutions such as slavery and the forced migration of millions of Native Americans and other monumental examples of racism seem to be so far in the past that it doesn’t matter, the US still has expressed racism over the years, even into modern day there really is no equality between everyone. The Italian explorer Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the Western Hemisphere, which at time time was referred to as “The New World” in 1492. Such a pivotal discovery that holidays are set in some countries after him. However, any actual American that he encountered during his great discovery would not remember
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All tribes in the east where then apart of a forced migration west. The Cherokee tribe referred to it as nu na hi du na tlo hi lu i, which translated to english as “the trail where they cried”, and became known in english as The Trail of Tears for this reason. Still unable to live equally to the rest of the country, the racism never ceased, it was documented that even in the 1960’s-1970’s that Native American women underwent forced sterilization. Two fifteen year old girls were receiving appendectomies at the Indian Health Service in Montana when the doctors had also performed tubal ligations, a procedure that involves the severing the fallopian tubes, which results in the inability for the female body to reproduce.(Miller). Forced sterilization was also seen in a twenty-six year old woman was given a complete hysterectomy, which is the complete …show more content…
The first African-American born in the United States was William Tucker, born to the colony of Jamestown in 1619 (Smith),twelve years after its establishment. Since then, all “colored” people in the United States were used as slaves, and despite how hard they worked, were never treated like that of indentured servants, who were freed after a certain number of years of working. The importation of Africans to the Americas would remain until nearly 200 years later in 1807 when congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States…from any foreign kingdom, place, or country”(Glass). However, slaves were still traded within the United States. It wasn’t until the slaves states seceded from the Union in 1861, igniting the Civil War that would set slaves free at last. However, it wasn’t that simple. Since Abraham Lincoln, president of the Union had no authority over the slave states, which became known as the Confederate States of America, his Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves until the end of the Civil War, when the Confederacy rejoined the Union in 1865 (McPherson). Despite the fact that it was illegal to have slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation never called for humane treatment or equality of the blacks, just outlawed slavery, thus racism still dragged on. Segregation was seen in the United States, during this
All tribes in the east where then apart of a forced migration west. The Cherokee tribe referred to it as nu na hi du na tlo hi lu i, which translated to english as “the trail where they cried”, and became known in english as The Trail of Tears for this reason. Still unable to live equally to the rest of the country, the racism never ceased, it was documented that even in the 1960’s-1970’s that Native American women underwent forced sterilization. Two fifteen year old girls were receiving appendectomies at the Indian Health Service in Montana when the doctors had also performed tubal ligations, a procedure that involves the severing the fallopian tubes, which results in the inability for the female body to reproduce.(Miller). Forced sterilization was also seen in a twenty-six year old woman was given a complete hysterectomy, which is the complete …show more content…
The first African-American born in the United States was William Tucker, born to the colony of Jamestown in 1619 (Smith),twelve years after its establishment. Since then, all “colored” people in the United States were used as slaves, and despite how hard they worked, were never treated like that of indentured servants, who were freed after a certain number of years of working. The importation of Africans to the Americas would remain until nearly 200 years later in 1807 when congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States…from any foreign kingdom, place, or country”(Glass). However, slaves were still traded within the United States. It wasn’t until the slaves states seceded from the Union in 1861, igniting the Civil War that would set slaves free at last. However, it wasn’t that simple. Since Abraham Lincoln, president of the Union had no authority over the slave states, which became known as the Confederate States of America, his Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves until the end of the Civil War, when the Confederacy rejoined the Union in 1865 (McPherson). Despite the fact that it was illegal to have slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation never called for humane treatment or equality of the blacks, just outlawed slavery, thus racism still dragged on. Segregation was seen in the United States, during this