Southern blot

he Civil Rights movement was an act of protesting against racial discrimination and segregation by African American leaders and other African Americans affected by this. Leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. lead the march and helped in ending discrimination against genders and racers, those especially in the minorities category. The Color Purple (Alice Walker) and The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) are written by two African American Woman who have had their struggles growing up. The novels tie…

There have been many events that have happened and shaped the United States to how it is today and one of these events was the Landing Letter of 1862. The first article is a newspaper article titled War Items and Movements. The second article is from the book, titled Harrison’s Landing Letter. There are some significant differences between the two articles from the perspective in which the articles are told and who the letter impacts within the article. There are also similarities, between the…

The cotton gin cotton gin was created during the 1793 period by Eli Whitney and patented it in 1794. He started working on the cotton gin after moving to Georgia. A lot slaves were used on cotton farms where they separated cotton seeds from cotton fibers. The fibers were used to create linen and other fabric products. The seeds were planted to create more cotton plants to produce more cotton. Speculation have come about as to who is the inventor of the cotton gin with some historians claim…

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the oldest and most famous white supremacist American hate groups that emerged in 1865 and terrorized African Americans, but lost support during the 1870s due to the passing of the Congressional Ku Klux Act that declared martial law and imposed heavy penalties and military force against the KKK. However, during the 1910s and 1920s, the KKK experienced a national resurgence where it became the peak of its years with approximately five million supporters. The resurgence…

Discussion Post 5 Robert E Lee and Ulysses S. Grant were both strong Generals, on opposing sides of the United States civil war. They both represented the values each respective side was fighting for. Although they had very opposing views on how the country should be ran, they put that aside to bring an end to the war on April 9th, 1865. Robert E. Lee the General fighting for the Confederacy, was trying to maintain a certain way of life, he thought was the only way to thrive. He believed in…

As the Civil War came to an end, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and replaced by Andrew Johnson, a Southern Democrat who lacked the fundamental political skills and the ability to influence public opinion. He implemented his plan of Reconstruction which allowed the Whites to handle the transition from slavery to freedom without offering Blacks a role to play in the reconstruction. His plan for reconstruction was an epic fail because many believed that he was rebuilding the nation how…

A man named Dr. John Emerson, a white male, decided to purchase a slave named Dred Scott in the year 1833. Because Emerson was a involved with the army for imployement reasons, he and Scott lived in a military base in Wisconsin. Their move to Wisconsin was controversial however because Wisconsin was no longer a slave state due to the Missouri Compromise. The Missouri Compromise was a deal the United States made with Missouri, resulting in the creation of a new amendment, in which Missouri was…

more slaves were needed to work on more acres of cotton fields. This was an unintended consequence for Whitney, who sought to reduce the need for slave labor, although his invention had the opposite effect. The spread of “King Cotton” impacted the Southern way of life politically, economically, and socially. It contributed to a political divide between the North and the South over the issue of slavery, the expansion of the plantation economy in the South, and the often inhumane treatment of…

I have recently learned about and observed the unfair prejudices and racial violence many Americans faced in the past. Through the 1900s African Americans were judged harshly for having a darker skin color. Although slavery had been abolished in 1865, African Americans were still treated like slaves, and were not able to move up the social ladder. They were often given jobs in dangerous conditions, and had to work long, hard hours for very little pay. In many cases African Americans were…

The result of the civil war left the south in ruins, freed slaves, and the beginning of the Reconstruction Era. African Americans had a lot to gain through the outcome of the civil war, although life wasn’t as they envisioned it. During the reconstruction era slaves were given rights with great limitations. At best they were treated as second-class citizens. Some African Americans felt that they would be better off returning to the farms where they were slaves, due to extreme the racism and…