Without the events that happened during the war black Americans wouldn't be inspired to campaign for the civil rights. This makes World War 2 a key turning point because it increases the mass protest such as the bus boycott, which showed the government how important black Americans were to the US economy. With the help of World War 2 gave black Americans who didn't support racial discrimination the difference they could make if they support the civil right movement. ... However World War couldn't be the only key turning point in developing the civil right movement, just because ...

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The end of the Civil War marked this transition from a more agricultural nation to an industrialized one. ... This direct relationship between the industrial development and population growth shows how the post-Civil War transformation had such consistent and rapid proliferation. ... Due to the panic, 500 banks were shut down and the economy took a major downturn. ... For this first time in America's history the economy was growing exponentially and so was the population. ... An unexpected yet extremely important part of the post-Civil War transformation was the environmental changes ...

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At Cotulla, he saw poverty and hatred; later he said, "Somehow you never forget what poverty and hatred can do when you see its scares on the face of a young child"(Schulman 9) He never did, and during his Presidency he waged a nation changing "war on poverty." ... First, it had a new attitude toward the economy and business. The war showed that cooperation between government and business could enrich the people and all aspects of economy. Second, it developed a new "vision of democracy," during this time it developed pluralist politics. ... Combined with the civil rights movement and the war ...

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The American government compensated only the immediate families of Japanese Americans who served in internment camps during World War II with money and recognition of suffering. ... Before the Civil War Era, slavery was very widespread, but not as widespread as many may think. ... Not to be forgotten, the immigrants of this country that came here after the Civil War should absolutely not have to suffer because of 150 year old mistakes. ... During the Civil War, the Union and Confederacy fought over many issues, but the central conflict was slavery. 350,000 Union soldiers gave their lives tryin...

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The two historians and myself disagree with Borritt who chooses to write that "it would be more accurate, even if more awkward, to call it the war for the American Dream.8" However, Borritt does not consider that Lincoln once told a friend that his "paramount object [was] the struggle to save the union and it [was] not either to save or destroy slavery,9" therefore demonstrating that he was not committed to the equality of African-Americans in the "de facto" sense. ... Sanders believes "blacks constituted an American underclass in all parts of the United Stat...

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Owners of big businesses, such as Carnegie, thought that the increasing size and power was benefiting the entire society and economy because owners saw it as opportunities for unskilled workers to get jobs and make money for their families. ... After attempts at independent political action failed, a loosely knit confederations called Farmers' Alliances were formed during the 1880s. ... It can easily be said that the farmers agreed with Debs; out look on the capitalist system and they did not see the capitalist system as much to salvage and wanted to change it into a fair system between ...

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She talked thankfully about white women of the North coming and teaching blacks during reconstruction. ... Washington played on a paternal attitude that white southerners had toward black people; when he said the south is the best place for black people to enter the economy. ... Thirty years after the civil war, Washington talking against "agitation" and "artificial forcing" would have been something that the audience would have loved. ...

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