The Civil War pitted Americans against each other. The sectional divisions between the North and South caused tensions leading up to the Civil War, but the issue of slavery would ultimately lead to war. Tensions evolved between the North and South before the Civil War due to their difference in economic structure, and political views. ... During the 1830s, abolitionist movements tried to reach and convert a mass audience. ... As historian Ted Alexander notes, in his essay on the causes of the civil war, "Beneath this great wealth and prosperity, America seethed. ...

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With the eventual success of the civil rights movement, it is important to trace back to its origins and the people and organizations that played a vital role in making the African American people's dreams become a reality. ... Before getting into the African American Freemason's specifically, it is important to understand the origins and beliefs of Freemasonry. ... This was during the height of the enlightenment in the 18th century. ... The Prince Hall masons of New York helped serve as a route for non-political economic and social organizations to support the ongoing protests takin...

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"Apostles of Disunion," by Charles Dew discusses the cause of the South's secession that led to the Civil War by examining the work of southern secession commissioners, urging fellow Southerners to follow their lead and secede from the Union. Ignored by historians or dismissed as minor figures behind the motives of disunion, Dew is convinced that speeches and letters from the southern commissioners reveal a lot about the secession and pending Civil War during the winter of 1860-1861. ... Still, by the end of the Civil War, there was no clear evidence that secession was caused by slaver...

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Griffith's three hour anti-war statement forced viewers to challenge their beliefs by documenting the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. ... The first half of the film, which focuses on the Civil War, introduces African-Americans as being pushy and violent. ... The second part of The Birth of a Nation looks at America's Reconstruction in the post-Civil War period. Griffith wildly skews our post-Civil War history to accommodate a warning about giving African-Americans power. ... Despite Griffith's politics, what is sad is that this film accurately portrays a ...

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After the civil war ended the differences between ex-confederates and Republicans were at an unstable high. While President Lincoln was in office during the war, he appointed Andrew Johnson to military governor of Tennessee because he was the only senator from a Confederate state who remained loyal to the Union throughout. ... Grant, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in order to help deal with the many problems during the reconstruction era; such as the readmission of states into the Union, slavery and the many injustices to the black population, and instituting a stable government that wo...

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Reconstruction in the context of American history refers to the time period after the Civil War, specifically from 1865 to 1877, in which the United States began to rebuild from the pandemonium and chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. ... However, nothing comes as important as the country itself. ... During the Reconstruction period, thousands of teachers, missionaries, and philanthropists from the north helped found hundreds of schools for the blacks in the south. ... However, I believe that when it comes to a country and its people, nothing can be more important than holding the nation and ma...

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), known as "Honest Abe" and "The Great Emancipator" is regarded by many to be America's greatest president because of his powerful leadership during the civil war and the impact of that leadership on the moral and political character of the nation. He used his role as president to uphold the Constitution, but also to preserve, protect, and defend it during a war which, he in essence started. As well as being credited with winning the most important war in America's history, he is also considered to have abolished the institution of slavery and set in m...

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Leading up to World War II, minority Americans have had a long history facing racial discrimination in the United States, such as slavery and the Jim Crow laws against African Americans after the Civil War. ... Instead the War Department allowed minority Americans to join the military and then segregated these soldiers into their own units to fight during World War II. ... More importantly, they proved their loyalty and willingness to fight for the United States with their performance during World War II. ... Under pressure from early civil rights leaders like Walter White of the NAACP and A...

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Most of the examples used to help define each of the four categories range from the Civil war to the Post-Reconstruction era. ... The black middle class also emerged as a society during this time. ... Politics for instance, is the ideology of people or a group of people or in other words the way one thinks. ... As the two parties began to form elections voting became much more important. ... In conclusion, using the example of the Klu Klux Klan will allow all four of the corner stones to be indirectly connected showing how these categories affect the important period after the civil war. ...

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However, during this time period, the country as a whole has experienced vast transformations. ... These relationships, although not limited, vary from America's first cash crop, independence from England, and even the Civil War. ... During the "Great Migration" of 1618-1623, the colony grew from four hundred to forty-five hundred people (Takaki, 35). ... America's independence from England caused severe economical issues throughout the country, different from how the economy played a role in the Civil War. ... These connections and others created some of the most important ...

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Equality can be defined as when a specific society or isolated group has identical status in political and social respects; these three factors are most important when judging equality as they have the most impact upon people's lives. ... 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 de...

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After the First World War broke out in the early 1900s, North and West cities faced a shortage of industrial laborers. ... More importantly, the major pull factor of The Great Migration was job opportunity. Since there was a departure of thousands of European immigrants and Northern soldiers during the First World War, numerous jobs were available for black southerners. ... In the North, black men were considered political people who even had the rights to vote and hold office (193). ... Because of this the "New Negro" movement was born and the transformation of blacks from a predom...

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Throughout the novel Twain recognizes the cowardice, hypocrisy, and stupidity of the South during the period leading up to the Civil War. ... For a reason which is unknown to most, these two families engage in civil war amongst each other, and will not rest until all of the male members of one side are killed. ... Today, when we read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we tend to cringe at the very use of "the n word," as it is uses frequently in the book, much different than the people of the South during the 19th century, who's daily vocabulary contained the word nigger, using it to d...

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The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the Joint Select Committee majority report were responses to an escalating civil unrest during the Reconstruction Period of the United States. ... The motivation for passing the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the formation of the Joint Select Committee, began with events that took place in the United States at the end of the eighteen sixty-three Civil War. ... "Consisting of "seven senators and fourteen representatives, the committee heard testimony from up to a hundred people in each state that they investigated. ... Their testimony gave "the most complete and r...

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Acceptance of Indians was finally given in the times of need during World War II. Indian-Americans began joining with America's armed forces, and supporting the financial crisis at home until the war ended. ... In 1669, Slavery was made into property by law, so beginning the centuries of oppression by white Americans on people who were not "pure" enough. ... Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were two important African-American figures that were highly educated and fought for civil rights and liberties during the 1960's. ... Coming back to the Giddy Multitude, they represented...

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The First Reconstruction was a result of the Civil War and lasted until 1977. The political, social, and economic conditions after the war helped define the goals of lawmakers during the Reconstruction. ... In the post Civil War era there was a struggle for the power, each with their own ideas on how the country should go about in the reconstruction process. ... More importantly without property it would be extremely difficult to defend the rights granted to them in the Reconstruction Period. ... The Government did not yet understand the importance of economic equality in the freeing of a peop...

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Each group has had their own unique languages, familial relationships, social relations, music and dance traditions, they have shared many common experiences over the past 400 years (Grim, 1995).This paper will compare the cultures and histories of African American and Native American people and their long and often bloody interactions with the white majority in America. ... This idea of Christianizing the Native population by force would continue throughout time, with Mohawk/Haudenosaunee during the late 17th century to early 18th century commenting on how the explorers during contacts "...

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It is important to read works of African American literature in order to be able to understand the trials and tribulations that slavery brought upon this particular group of people. Reading African American literature ranging from spirituals and slave narratives, to works written during and after the Civil Rights Movement provides readers and scholars with a rare insight into the minds and lives of African Americans at that time. ... The people who believe that Americans should no longer divide themselves up into subgroups believe that it is no longer important to differentiate between the or...

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