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    The Main Cause of the Civil War The main cause of the Civil War started because the south felt like they were losing control of slavery which was the central conflict cause of the war, from the north in the United States. The south knew slavery was necessary for the economy and production to keep growing. Abolitionists and the Free Soil Party which formed into the Republican party and it was the first party committed to ending slavery throughout the United States because the south wanted to…

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    Sonny's Blues Comparison

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    The differences of stories Does racism still exist today? Some people would say no, yet there is some certain people would say yes. This is because the people who say yes are considered themselves as minority group of people in the United States. Because of their skin color, they are treated differently, unfairly. In the story of “Sonny’s blue” by James Baldwin and the excerpt Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, both authors have addressed the social crisis for African American.…

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    The end of the United States Civil War firmly addressed the governments view on the legality of slavery, but issues from the American slave era still lingered throughout the country. In particular the South was devastated physically and socially from the Civil War. Many southern towns such as Atlanta were completely destroyed physically and left desolate by the Union army, and the social structure of the cotton dependant south was completely upturned with the emancipation of the African slaves.…

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    Alvin Ailey: Modern Dance

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    Saki Hinaga Dance 100 Theory Outline Argumentative Research Statement: The purpose of this project is to show summary of how Alvin Ailey popularized modern dance around the world in 20th century. This project will focus on how his thought and works motivated African American people for their dreams and influenced people as not only a dancer but also a humanist. Theoretical Approach Argument: The theoretical approach in this research of this project is race and culture. In the Mid 20th…

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    politically important as it convinced many people in the North that the war would soon end, and in fact aided in the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. Up to that point, Lincoln 's re-election had been questionable. This effected the outcome of the war because the Emancipation Proclamation discouraged the British and French governments from potential plans for recognition of the Confederacy. This turned the tide in the Civil War. The Confederates were losing soldiers while the North recruited more,…

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    Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, also known as Frederick Douglass, was just an average slave living with his master, just like everybody else at the time. According to Blight in the Encyclopedia of African American History, as a child, he was separated from his family and had to live a new, devastating life with his slave owners. He lived as a slave for 20 years and as a fugitive slave for 9 years. Throughout his journey as a slave, he was passed on from master to master. He left his first…

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    Republican Party Formation

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    bigger issue. Their views and campaign of abolishing slavery made the issue even worse than it was due to the fact that it influenced people to take action against it. Therefore, the formation of the Republican Party was the sole reason for why the Civil War took place. It has since made compromise hard to accomplish and friction between the two parties intensify. The Republican Party was created in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. “The Kansas-Nebraska Act…

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    The United States’ constitution allegedly adheres to the promotion of civil liberties of the American people, but in reality, persecutes the African Americans held in bondage. Frederick Douglass shines light on the persecution of his race in his narrative. Douglass was born a slave, yet died a free man. He fought hard to educate himself, and to establish himself as an intellectual human being, rather than an object for ownership. After he escaped slavery, he made it his goal to educate the…

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    Edmund Morgan, an American historian and a previous history professor at Yale University, unveils how slavery was able to exist in America while liberty was held at the highest of standards in his journal Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox. After sifting through the stories of our nations founding fathers and most important men of the American Revolution his discovers that, unlike most other historians, the fopaux we call slavery did not begin as a racist act. Morgan also discovered that…

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    There have been many women who made a contribution and left their mark on feminism, but one of the few African American women to contribute significantly was a former slave, Sojourner Truth. During the nineteenth century, white middle-class women generally did not care about the rights of freed African American women. But there was one woman who dared enter the white middle class world of feminism and she opened the door for many African American women. Sojourner Truth played a key role in the…

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