Reconstruction era of the United States

(like bookkeeping) and social mobility. Civil engineering grew during the period as a response to military academies such as West Point and the United States Naval Academy. While there were freestanding medical and law schools, they existed more as diploma mills rather than true institutions of higher education (Thelin, 2011). During the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War (1860-1980), practical knowledge remained a priority, though the definition of practicality was altered.…

was a killer that was not fully understood, disease. (Dixon 2013) The Civil War is known as the deadliest war that the United States has ever engaged in with approximately 620,000 deaths. Dixon states that the most common diseases that killed soldiers were dysentery, typhoid fever, pneumonia, mumps, measles and tuberculosis. The Civil War was the deadliest war in the United States because both sides were Americans, but the staggering mortality rate can also be attributed to the medical…

The Civil Rights Act was signed into law at Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, with the address being 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was a federal law that aimed to protect the civil rights of African Americans, especially in public accommodations such as hotels and transportation. The act was introduced by Republican Senator Charles Sumner, and it passed both the House and Senate in March 1875. The act prohibited discrimination based on race, color, or…

and Western United States which shortened cross-country travel by several weeks. The Railroad was evidence of America’s fascination with machines, but also also represented American motion and modernity, literal and figurative progress. Despite ingenuity and opportunity, conditions did not improve for immigrants or blacks at the beginning of the 1990’s, and they would not until the American public was to confront the “state of the States, in what became known as the “Progressive Era.”…

colonies to its abolishment in the United States. He analyzes its practices and its effects on the culture of those affected by it, black and white. The topics discussed in the book provide a good amount of insight to the political views throughout the eras discussed. He focuses on three main eras: the colonial era, the revolutionary era, and the post-war era. The practices and influence of slavery are discussed with respect to each of the time periods. The colonial era was when slavery first…

The United States government was created to have three equal branches, the judicial, executive, and legislative and was helped by the writing of the Constitution by James Madison. Even with these practices established, many Presidents and the government have decided and shaped United States politics by how they interpret and analyze the Constitution. Over the course of United States history all of the different political parties that arise read the Constitution in different ways and believe the…

cotton gin and right to the bloody Civil War and Reconstruction. Not only did the U.S. endure slave trading…

Labor was a central theme in American History, beginning with the colonial era all the way through Reconstruction. It was during colonial times that slavery was introduced, and this form of labor continued all the way through Reconstruction. This was not “free” labor, meaning the people performing the work did not have an option. This was more than the role that a servant would perform; it was forced labor. There were numerous political, economic and social ramifications from the use of…

1900’s, was a time for major changes in America. A full history of social movements shaped progressive thought throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Historian Sidney Milkis characterizes the accomplishments of the original Progressive Era as “momentous reconstructions of politics,” a description that equally applies to the numerous social movements that aimed to better position America’s political and social order with its ideals of liberty, equality, and opportunity for all. Progressivism as…

in the United States, the number of Americans that reported to have been profiled due to their race was thirty-two million in 2004, approximately the population of Canada (“Racial Profiling and the Use of Suspect Classification”). Racial profiling happens when a law enforcement official targets an individual based on their race or ethnicity. But racial profiling violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that, “All persons born or naturalized in the United…