Throughout World War II, seeds were being planted for the Civil Rights Movement. "Jim Crow" laws dominated the United States, and they dominated the battlefields of the war as well. ... When the war ended and African American, Native American, and Hispanic soldiers came back to a home that did not grant them full rights, the Civil Rights Movement was born. ... Minority groups did not want to accept their pre-war status anymore. Asian Americans were also heavily discriminated against in the aftermath of World War II. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sharecropping appeared in the United States shortly after the Civil War had ended. ... The government knew that the recovery period after the civil war would not be quick, and by 1933 the South was in a state of chaos with prices for farm products being at an all-time low, and the cost of living was steadily increasing. ... Still the idea of racial integration to achieve common goals helped set the stage for the civil rights era. ... This pre civil rights era set the stage for the war on racism and segregation and shows how no matter what the color your skin was that people can come together r...

• Word Count: 973
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... The final major event of any diplomatic relations in this era was the Spanish-American War. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. ... An unexpected yet extremely important part of the post-Civil War transformation was the environmental chang...

• Word Count: 2011
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Civil Rights Movement, undoubtedly, initiated the abolishment of most forms of legal discrimination. ... The Civil Rights Movement changed that. ... Media stereotypes and the residuum of pre-civil rights overt racism have plagued society's thinking. ... The Civil Rights Act of 1964 included the right of African Americans to vote. ... Whites, on the other hand, have been fleeing to suburban areas of the country since the end of the Second World War where nice houses and newer schools are located throughout. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jefferson Davis stated in the pre-Civil War years to a Northern audience, "You say you are opposed to the expansion of slavery... ... As the opportunity for economic advancement increased after the Civil War, the North felt as though it had done its part and both the President and Congress hastily turned their backs on the new, colored American Citizens. ... With the Northern "victory" in the Civil War, African Americans were forever "freed from the bonds of servitude". ... The amendments to the Constitution had been made, but the whites did not take the time after 1866 to abolish the p...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Huck Finn renders this requirement complete because it highlights the racist society that was ubiquitous throughout pre-Civil War South, while bringing out the raw emotional aspect to the novel, and adding another dimension to the objective history lessons taught in a classroom. ... The novel Huck Finn takes place in the antebellum South, however Mark Twain wrote it after the Civil War itself. Even during the post-Civil War era, Southerners showed strong racist sentiment towards African Americans through the Jim Crow laws and "separate but equal " treatment, influencing the nature of the novel...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a diverse and constantly changing society, the issue of censoring classic literatures has long been controversial; does the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn perpetuate racism, or does it have literature value? The contentious novel is criticized by the Concord Public Library as "more suited ...

• Word Count: 640
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Slavery was a major issue in the United States during the pre civil war and civil war eras. In the southern states, their economic stability revolved around cash crops. Some cash crops include tobacco, rice, and cotton. Slaves were used for hard labor out in the fields of farms and plantations to ke...

• Word Count: 1021
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• Grade Level: High School

As an effort to extol pre-conceived notions about African Americans, media over the years has displayed African American men with many negative stereotypes such as Sambo's, violent, criminals, senseless and pimps. ... The film recounts the Civil War in the eyes of the Klu Klux Klan and how they opposed the political and social progress made by newly freed Blacks. ... The negative media depiction has caused pre-conceived notions and unnecessary demise of young African American males. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A large portion of the Book of Mormon describes the history of several pre-Christian civilizations that existed throughout America. ... As the Civil war began, the Mormon-dominated territory of Utah decided not to participate in either seceding from the Union or joining the Union army. ... Grant saw the Civil War as a blessing in disguise; they believed that the war would trigger a Mormon prophesied apocalyptic event that would cleanse society and eventually lead to ultimate Mormon control. The war over slavery during the second half of the nineteenth century forced the Mormon Church for the...

• Word Count: 3075
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... Levine's study, Black Culture and Black Consciousness, suggests there was a "widespread conversion of slaves to Christianity by ...

• Word Count: 1954
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I've heard of African-Americans being oppressed by the white-Americans since they created slave codes of the pre-civil war era that were later replaced by segregation laws and practices to discriminate against the blacks. ... In the military during WWII, American minorities always demonstrated patriotism on the battlefield. 37,000 black soldiers died for the Union during the Civil War while they fought to create and defend the nation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

ve heard of African-Americans being oppressed by the white-Americans since they created slave codes of the pre-civil war era that were later replaced by segregation laws and practices to discriminate against the blacks. ... In the military during WWII, American minorities always demonstrated patriotism on the battlefield. 37,000 black soldiers died for the Union during the Civil War while they fought to create and defend the nation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the decades following the Civil War, Frederick Douglass spoke out repeatedly against say rocketing rates of incarceration for ex-slaves. ... Immediately following the civil war, Black codes created a list of crimes punishable only when committed by black people. ... We need a movement, Davis declared, on the scale of the Civil Rights Movement or the anti-lynching campaigns, to dismantle this prison industrial complex that has captured our nation. ...

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SECTION 1 - Short Answer 1) Ida B. Wells maintained her anti-lynching campaign throughout her life despite her constant fear of death by her oppressors. When the entire passage is taken into context, it explains her actions and the amazing courage that she possessed. "I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. ...

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• Grade Level: High School