There are many similarities and differences of social conditions and issues of the late 19th century and now. Issues include the way women, black people, poor people, and people of different religion were treated. Living Conditions of rich white people, rural farmers, and people in poverty.
The Women’s rights movement (1848-1920) was dedicated to grant women with equal legal, educational, social, and economic rights. Women at the time were supposed to learn how to stay at home and take care of a family. They didn’t get the same education as men did. They weren’t allowed to vote.
No one wanted to hire a woman because society thought and still thinks that men can do a better job than most women ever could. Some attention was also focused on …show more content…
In modern day America, women can get an education and go to college. Its more socially acceptable now for a woman to get a job, but in some areas of the job network there is still some sexism. Women can get into politics and even run for President. Women are able to go to military academies and serve time in any branch of the military granted they meet certain expectations, now there are over 400,000 women in the armed forces.
From 1840 to 1865 African Americans in the south were slaves. Very few southerners own any slaves, and it was very unlikely that they owned more than five slaves because they were expensive. Slaves were given food and housing in exchange for their work. The problem with this was most of time it was against their will. You could be bought, sold, or separated from you family at any time.
As a slave you were considered to be property and you were not allowed to read or write, own any property, gather with fellow slaves, and you were not allowed to marry. If an African American was convicted of a crime, they were for sure going to jail because the jury they faced would be completely …show more content…
Most of the African Americans just stayed where they were because they had no land, no house, they didn’t know how to read or write, and white people would attack them for trying to get any of those things. Everything was segregated because white people didn’t want to be around African Americans because they still thought that African Americans were the inferior race.
They had colored water fountains, colored bathrooms, colored restaurants, colored schools, and different sides of the bus. The Jim Crow laws are a set of laws that the southern states started passing after the slaves were set free to make them less equal. The Jim Crow Laws were set on keeping African Americans from interacting and mixing with white people.
White women weren’t allowed to work in hospitals where African American men were being treated, train stations had to have separate waiting rooms for the different colors, restaurants can serve white people and African Americans in the same room,
The Women’s rights movement (1848-1920) was dedicated to grant women with equal legal, educational, social, and economic rights. Women at the time were supposed to learn how to stay at home and take care of a family. They didn’t get the same education as men did. They weren’t allowed to vote.
No one wanted to hire a woman because society thought and still thinks that men can do a better job than most women ever could. Some attention was also focused on …show more content…
In modern day America, women can get an education and go to college. Its more socially acceptable now for a woman to get a job, but in some areas of the job network there is still some sexism. Women can get into politics and even run for President. Women are able to go to military academies and serve time in any branch of the military granted they meet certain expectations, now there are over 400,000 women in the armed forces.
From 1840 to 1865 African Americans in the south were slaves. Very few southerners own any slaves, and it was very unlikely that they owned more than five slaves because they were expensive. Slaves were given food and housing in exchange for their work. The problem with this was most of time it was against their will. You could be bought, sold, or separated from you family at any time.
As a slave you were considered to be property and you were not allowed to read or write, own any property, gather with fellow slaves, and you were not allowed to marry. If an African American was convicted of a crime, they were for sure going to jail because the jury they faced would be completely …show more content…
Most of the African Americans just stayed where they were because they had no land, no house, they didn’t know how to read or write, and white people would attack them for trying to get any of those things. Everything was segregated because white people didn’t want to be around African Americans because they still thought that African Americans were the inferior race.
They had colored water fountains, colored bathrooms, colored restaurants, colored schools, and different sides of the bus. The Jim Crow laws are a set of laws that the southern states started passing after the slaves were set free to make them less equal. The Jim Crow Laws were set on keeping African Americans from interacting and mixing with white people.
White women weren’t allowed to work in hospitals where African American men were being treated, train stations had to have separate waiting rooms for the different colors, restaurants can serve white people and African Americans in the same room,