Achieving The American Dream During 1865-1900s

It was a myth that most Americans living during 1865-1900s achieved the American Dream. Some groups of Americans who were unable to achieve the American Dream were the native americans, African Americans, and asian immigrants because they were denied opportunity, human rights, freedom, equality and their safety. However, it was a reality that some groups such as Western settlers, miners, and ranchers achieved the American Dream as they gained wealth and property, had many opportunities, and access to democracy, justice, and freedom.
The Native americans living during 1865-1900s didn’t achieve the American Dream because they were denied their freedom and their equality. Native Americans were deprived of their freedom because white Americans
African americans were denied their core values of achieving their chance of opportunity and human rights. The african americans were denied their opportunity by the white supremacy group the “KKK” or the “Ku Klux Klan” that formed in the year of 1866 by Nathan Bedford Forrest and John B. Gordon who are former confederate soldiers. African americans during this time were present during the election of 1872 and most african americans were pressured into voting for people in favor of the south. African americans didn’t get the right to vote until the 15th amendment was passed in 1870 this amendment granted them the right to vote. The klan peer pressured the african americans into voting for a certain candidate by using violence and threats such as lynching and beatings if they didn’t comply. The main objective of the “KKK” is to make african americans second class citizens and have whites superior in government/and every aspect of life. African americans were denied their human rights value because they couldn’t purchase property because real estate was either too expensive or on rare occasions when african americans saved their earnings to purchase property. African americans living during 1865-1900s did not achieve the
A miner named Henry Comstock staked a claim in six mile canyon that turned out to be nearly all of silver ore. Almost overnight Virginia city went from a town of a few hundred people to almost 30,000 people. When law enforcers were scarce, self-appointed volunteers sometimes formed vigilance committees to track down and punish wrong doers. Mining also spurred the development in Colorado, Arizona, the Dakotas, and Montana. Also one of the richest strikes occurred in the late 1870s in Leadville, one of the most famous boomtowns of the frontier. There are two techniques of mining, one is placer mining which is a process that used simple equipment such as picks and pans. The second was hydraulic mining which was a process that removed large quantities of earth. Ranchers in 1866 drove about 260,000 cattle to Sedalia, Missouri where they sold cattle for 10 times more than they could get in Texas. Between 1867 and 1871, cowboys drove nearly 1.5 million head of cattle up the Chizze trail. A group of mexican american called the vaqueros taught american cowhands theirs trade and enriched that english language with words of spanish origin. Spanish speaking immigrants to southwestern cities settled in neighborhoods called burrios. It was a