Discuss how the artifact relates to a major event in U.S. history. The event that this artifact best relates to was the Second Great Awakening. This happened around the years 1730s and 1740s . One reason this event occurred was because: Religious reasons. Tell me what happened during this event. People participated in this event through three main ways: In antebellum America‚ a religious revival called the Second Great Awakening resulted in thousands of conversions to evangelical religions. Itinerant
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Rough Draft There were many things going on in the 1960’s. At the end of the fifites‚ It was thought that this new decade was going to hold a great future. However‚ it quickly turned into a decade of unrest. The most signficant event was the Vietnam War. It was a very stressful time for America. American’s often used sports for a diversion from the trouble time. The biggest historical‚ political and social event of the 1960’s was the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. According
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The Civil Rights Movement took place between 1865 and 1920. It was a movement for blacks to achieve equal rights in the United States but it didn’t end racial discrimination. American slaves were delivered due to the Civil War and were later given basal civil rights through the acceptance of the Fourteenth amendment‚ addresses the equal protection and rights of former slaves‚ and the Fifteenth amendment‚ granted African-American men the right to vote. A struggle to secure these amendments continued
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An Unavoidable Bloodshed The civil war produced the highest death toll in any American war estimated to be an appalling 620‚000 soldiers (Williams). The lives lost and atrocities committed were an inevitable part of a country bound for war due to dissonance among the people. With the invention of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in the 1790s the South’s economic path of slavery was set in stone. The North‚ an industrial power house‚ conflicted with the South’s ideals for an economy based on slave work.
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The advertisement reflects changes in American Society through the portable phonograph that is displayed. During the 1920s‚ as new inventions were developed‚ making and spending money became the new way of life for members within society. The degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person increased dramatically during the Jazz Age. One factor that contributed to this change in society was the mass production of new inventions; including the phonograph. New inventions‚ such as the phonograph
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Freedoms often change‚ but must they be regained from time to time? There have been multiple occurrences throughout history with leaders‚ forms of government‚ and groups who try to limit freedom. There are also those great people who have put forth an immense amount of work to gain the rights and freedoms that should be theirs to savor. Things like this have happened from early egyptian rulers‚ all the way to the dictators and people of a “different breed”. It happened during the holocaust with
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The Civil Rights of 1953-964 was a social movement by African Americans to end segregation and discrimination in the United States. This social reform and movement primarily took place in the South because it was the most segregated place in the North America. The civil rights movements is such a critical time period in African-American history which leads to many significant figures and events. For example important figures such as: Ella Baker‚ James Farmer‚ Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ John Lewis‚
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Baskar May Baskar Mr. Hogan 6/7 12/16/2022. The Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement was an event that happened in history and is still happening today. How did it make a change today? The civil rights movement is an event in history that created a lack of change in world culture through multiple attacks on people demonstrating we are still not all equal. Before the Civil Rights movement‚ there was segregation and unfair treatment of people based on skin color.“Black people living or
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Civil rights movement contribution to LGBTQ Movement Martin Luther King JR once said‚ “the arc of the moral universe is long‚ but it bends toward justice.” His statement can’t be any more truthful in the context of the United States and its painfully slow movement towards equality and equal protection of its citizens. As a nation‚ we still struggle with racial tensions as a result of slavery as well as a confliction in belief and ideology‚ which is apparent in our treatment of non-Christians most
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The right to vote is fundamental in a democratic society‚ our forefathers intended it to be this way. The ability to choose the politicians who run our government is the very principle that this nation was founded on. During this election year‚ more and more people are being urged to vote. This raises the question of whether those people are exercising their civil liberty or taking advantage of a privilege. Though some may consider it the latter‚ voting is a guaranteed right because it is directly
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