I don’t know everything about my family background but I do know that my heritage is Irish and French. My paternal ancestors were also Irish and French and owned an alcohol distillery. Throughout the eighteen hundreds and nineteen hundreds, there have been many social policies that have impacted and changed the lives of numerous individuals; all from various different backgrounds. While some policies assisted in helping the disadvantaged populations, others took freedom, independence, and civil rights from certain individuals.
One social policy that did impact my ancestors was the alcohol prohibition. The Alcohol Prohibition was a social experiment that was thought to reduce crime, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons …show more content…
I do not know in great detail the things my ancestors endured from this social policy but I can try to envision what they would have gone through when this did affect them. My great grandmother Elsie Lind from my mother’s side and my great grandmother Miriam Wathen from my father’s side, both would have been impacted majorly from the Women’s Suffrage and Women’s rights movement. I can imagine they had major difficulty in trying to gain independence and general civil rights as individuals during that time period. Another thing that may have affected them was trying to find jobs due to their gender. Men were always looked at as superior to women during this time so I can see how this would have been a challenge to them. Also another major thing that would have impacted them was their right to vote as women. Before the Women’s rights movement, they had no right to vote as …show more content…
Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States in 1890. They instructed racial segregation in all public facilities, with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. These conditions made African Americans extremely inferior compared to white Americans. The Jim Crow Laws also enforced the segregation of public schools, public places, public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for white Americans and African Americans. These laws continued to be in force until 1965.
Had my ancestors been African American, they would have been critically impacted by the Jim Crow Laws. I’m positive they would have suffered major segregation and discrimination due to having separate schools, bathrooms, drinking fountains, and public places. One thing for example is that at laundry mats they would put signs over their doors that said “We wash for white people only”. This is just one example of how my ancestors would have been discriminated against had they been African American during that
One social policy that did impact my ancestors was the alcohol prohibition. The Alcohol Prohibition was a social experiment that was thought to reduce crime, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons …show more content…
I do not know in great detail the things my ancestors endured from this social policy but I can try to envision what they would have gone through when this did affect them. My great grandmother Elsie Lind from my mother’s side and my great grandmother Miriam Wathen from my father’s side, both would have been impacted majorly from the Women’s Suffrage and Women’s rights movement. I can imagine they had major difficulty in trying to gain independence and general civil rights as individuals during that time period. Another thing that may have affected them was trying to find jobs due to their gender. Men were always looked at as superior to women during this time so I can see how this would have been a challenge to them. Also another major thing that would have impacted them was their right to vote as women. Before the Women’s rights movement, they had no right to vote as …show more content…
Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States in 1890. They instructed racial segregation in all public facilities, with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. These conditions made African Americans extremely inferior compared to white Americans. The Jim Crow Laws also enforced the segregation of public schools, public places, public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for white Americans and African Americans. These laws continued to be in force until 1965.
Had my ancestors been African American, they would have been critically impacted by the Jim Crow Laws. I’m positive they would have suffered major segregation and discrimination due to having separate schools, bathrooms, drinking fountains, and public places. One thing for example is that at laundry mats they would put signs over their doors that said “We wash for white people only”. This is just one example of how my ancestors would have been discriminated against had they been African American during that