African Americans In The 1800's

2. Once again, the values of the people influence society directly. In the 1800's, women had very little power. In the early 1900's, women made up a little more than half of the population of the United States. As a result of increasingly liberal opinions, the United States government was forced to give the people what it wanted, and granted women the right to vote in the 1920's. The same was seen with the Civil Rights Movement of African-Americans. Deciding that generations of abuse had to end, African-Americans decided to voice their own opinions. Once again, with increasingly liberal opinions, the government gave people what they wanted: desegregation. And it happened yet again in modern times. Homosexuals were not officially allowed to
marry in modern times, and the laws regarding homosexual marriage were left to be decided by the individual states of the Union. As more and more people, heterosexual and homosexual alike, started voicing their support for Gay Marriage, the government gave the people what they wanted with the Supreme Court decision of Obergefell v. Hodges, making same-sex marriage legal in the United States. Thus, what the majority of people want becomes mainstream in society.