Reconstruction era of the United States

David Blight quotes Robert Penn Warren as he states, “Somewhere in there bones most Americans have a storehouse of lessons drawn from the Civil War.” I think that the use of this quote is particularly effective because it parallels successfully with Blight’s argument. Blight aims to depict a history of how Americans remember the most divisive and tragic experience during the Antebellum period and beyond. He also aims to examine various forms of memory in American culture preceding the Civil War.…

significant eras in the history of the United States. The central point of New Spirits is to provide readers with a new outlook on what made the “Gilded Age” gilded and dismisses stereotypes that readers may have previously established about the era. Edward’s explores how the United States became a modern industrial nation after the harrowing aftermath of the Civil War. Edward’s also examines the multicultural aspects of the “Gilded Age” and how immigration was booming during the era. The time…

the most diverse states in America and, quite arguably, the world. Although it may seem like an audacious statement to make it is very well supported as a tourist could stop anyone on the streets of Manhattan alone and meet people from countries all over the world, and from a thousand different walks of life. Having such a mixed culture is just one of the things that New York is famous for. However diversity is not just limited to this one state in particular. The Northern states have always…

As the seasons changed and faded, so did the people who built a nation on racist values. The United States experienced many obstacles: wars, depressions, and even a short break-up from its southern states, however, blatant racism continued to exist. Provided, through the Civil War the abolishment of slavery was reached, nevertheless, the freedom so many slaves longed for, came with its limits. Freedom and equality are two separate things that at one time, were thought as interchangeable. Now…

War can often be a catalyst for change on how a country behaves socially, politically, and legally. Likewise, peacetime can open up opportunities to focus on issues other than fighting. When the American Civil War Reconstruction Period and the time directly prior to World War I are analyzed for the everyday lives of African American’s in the three aforementioned categories, there are many similarities and differences. These time periods both have discrimination against African Americans voting…

there have been many famous court cases regarding civil rights issues and the precedents they have set in years to come. However, no such case has accomplished both so easily as the trial of Plessy v. Ferguson. Taking place directly after the reconstruction era, this trial is crucial to establishing the verdicts of latter court cases, shaping popular beliefs, as well as representing the opinions and mindsets of the American people post-civil war. Although the verdict of Plessy v. Ferguson may…

recognizes a flaw in the general idea of Lee not being modern because of his unwillingness to wage war on civilians and property while Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan carried out the full-scale destruction of the civilian property. The flaw is as Gallagher states, “But civilians and their possessions had been savaged by countless military leaders from ancient times forward, including eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and American officers who fought against Native…

Baseball is America’s favorite pastime. Calvin Coolidge even said, “Baseball is our national game!” The history of baseball and the history of the United States go hand-in-hand. In 1860, during a pickup game of baseball, Abraham Lincoln was approached by a messenger with important pre-election news. Abe simply asked him to wait as he did not want to miss his turn at bat! The north and south would even play games of pick-up baseball during the Civil War after a long day of fighting. Now-a-days,…

begin from the colonial era through Reconstruction era. Labor started with Chesapeake Labor shortage which was a slowly growing colony. Being a slow growing colony Chesapeake had unhealthy climate and a high death rate with disease and Indian attacks. Early settlers from England and Scotland started working in tobacco fields. With the tobacco industry growing it required extensive labor so the settlers had a shortage of workers which was an issue doing the colonial era. There were different…

untouchables at the bottom rung, this caste system governed social interactions in India until the 1950s. Much as discrimination based on caste has been illegal in India for over half of a century, discrimination based on race has been illegal in the United States of over half a century, as well. Michelle Alexander posits, in her book The New Jim Crow, that a social order based on race caste arose from the dismantling of Jim Crow laws in America. Alexander suggests America’s history can be…