A People's History of the United States

The United States is a country that is founded by people from outside of this land. Throughout the history, people left home to come to this country with different reasons, but all aimed for new opportunities and a new life. The pilgrims came in the early 1600s, the African slaves were forced to come in between 17th to 19th century, then people from other parts of the world came as well. Up until this day, there are still people coming into this country with different reasons. People came for a…

“10% of conflicts is due to difference in opinion, 90% is due to wrong tone of voice”. Throughout history society has witnessed conflict arise for any number of reasons; we must consider all factors of what is happening and also who is affected by the tension created by the outcome. Often the longer the engagement continues the more varied each parties’ responses will be. Failure to discuss the truth can be simply down to the fear of losing everything or the exact opposite where one’s hubris ego…

Trafficking of Minors in the United States The term slavery usually drives people to think of slavery in the 1600’s to the 1800’s when Africans were brought to many parts of North America, however, slavery has expanded to various part of the world and the concept of slavery has now branched out into numerous forms of slavery, including Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking. Shockingly slavery is stronger now than in any time in history. Sex trafficking of minors in the United States seems to be a topic…

words such as Asian or weirdo to each other. These showed some people’s belief that they are superior to others. Racism is the idea which one race believes that it is better than the other and segregation or discrimination is presented. An example of racism is a bus only for Whites, people from other races cannot sit on the bus. Racism and discrimination between different groups of people led to shameful and melancholy events in the history of mankind such as the Holocaust and Japanese…

reasons is due to the Jim Crow Laws. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in…

Native Americans a certain plot of land which the American government urged the Native Americans to stay on. Battle of the Little Bighorn - Before this battle, the Native Americans had wiped out 250 Americans including Colonel George Custer. The United States military was then called in order to seek revenge. This was the short period of the Native’s victory. Battle of Wounded Knee - This battle was caused by the Dakota Sioux doing the “Ghost Dance” which was illegal and the fight of whether the…

in seeking its own freedom, helped strengthen the fabric of liberty in American life” -John F. Kennedy. The Irish immigrants did exactly so when they faced the obstacle of having to come to the United States. In 1740, the Irish faced famine and persecution, forcing them to immigrate to the United States in hope of better opportunities, but instead were discriminated against their Catholic practices. The Protestant Reformation was a conflict for the Irish Catholics but led them to fight for their…

The author of Vietnam Since The Fall of Saigon is William J. Duiker. He was a professor at Penn State University where he spent his years teaching history with a concentration on East Asia. He also worked as a U.S. Foreign Services officer where he spent numerous years in Vietnam. He is fluent in foreign affairs and has written many books. A majority of his books are World History books used in several universities and colleges. He has also wrote a book on Ho Chi Minh which was the first…

We have come to know the United States as a country of freedom and glory. We have come to know it as a country were many have come in the search for personal and economic success. It is a place were many prosper, yet it has not always been this way. For an entire decade, starting in 1929, the country was going through a Great Depression - literally. It was a time of darkness and the biggest economic downfall in the history of this country. However, in 1939, World War II came along, ended the…

experience every day. The Flint Water Crisis reflects the structural and environmental racism towards African Americans in the United States government due to the disproportionate exposure of lead and other toxic chemicals in the water and their lack of political power. The difficult question I am trying to address is: “ If Flint were rich and mostly white, would Michigan’s state government have responded more quickly and aggressively to complaints about its lead-polluted water (Eligon 1)? To…