Whites did what they could to push blacks as much out of their community as possible and blacks tended to avoid areas where their presence could create conflict. ... Although there was a division in the group mentalities, it wasn't the eruption of violent groups nor was it the disturbance of peaceful protesters that made the Ferguson riots what they became. ... While a small handful of angry groups took a path of violence, other groups in the community sought to peacefully protest their outrage over what they considered to be social injustice. ... The riot in Chicago grew out of anger and...

• Word Count: 1061
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the 1850s several different views on slavery's expansion and its position in America's future gave doubt and resentment between the northerners and southerners. ... Going along with this quote paraphrasing what Foner said is that even though winning the war this does not necessarily give the victors the right to enforce any circumstances upon the ones whom are defeated, they did (Foner, 254). ... That the Republican Party of the time shaped the southern states to what they are today politically and societally. Lastly how the definition of freedom changed from 1860 to 1877 beca...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It is evident that the Northern Economy was extremely industrialized in comparison with the South, leading to a Southern dependence on the North, and a strong resentment growing in the South, towards the North. ... The South developed annoyance and resentment towards the North as the early abolitionist movements, started protesting the spread of slavery, which in fact was protesting the Southern economy. ... The North's economic progress as the Southern economy began to stall fueled the fires of resentment. ... Jefferson addresses the issue of state rights in his writings "As the federal ...

• Word Count: 3046
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abraham Lincoln always gave the people what they desired and wanted to hear even if it meant pushing away his own views. ... This quotation clearly shows Lincoln's deep hatred of slavery and that he was intelligent enough to hide this resentment to show the American people he was not bias toward a particular view. ... The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858 is what gave him the exposure needed to Negrophobes and antislavery men. ... Though many times this meant contradicting himself about what he believed and what the people wanted to hear him say, he pulled through. ...

• Word Count: 630
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Stampp, Fogel, Engerman, and Genovese are among those who have analyzed and wrote about American slavery during that time period, and their works have included the attitudes of American slaves toward their own experiences and I will also discuss that thesis based on what those authors have wrote. ... Another opinion that persisted throughout the reading was that Fogel and Engerman discussed how they felt that the modern idea of what slavery was like is false and ironic. "What bitter irony it is that the false stereotype of black labor, a stereotype which still plagues blacks today, was fashion...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We cannot say that we are southerners because the term has a connotation of Civil War resentment. ... In other words Florida is experiencing what we will see at a national level since the diversity of Floridians in the southern part of the state will expand throughout the country. ... Southeast Florida has no ties to what is known as the Deep South. ...

• Word Count: 1443
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate