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    change in American history. These acts of change specifically impacted African Americans freedom and their role in society. Africans were granted their freedom‚ right to vote‚ and own property. Hover this new “ freedom ‘ and opportunities were not much greater than before when slavery existed. Despite Reconstruction efforts African Americans faced even more discrimination than ever before. A political change that emerged from the Civil War was the fact that African Americans were granted

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    Majority of the women who worked in the factories were poor‚ young‚ unmarried or widows‚ women of the middle-class were privileged to stay at home to provide their domestic duties. Women were paid lower then men due to women were subordinate to them.‚ it did not matter what kind of quality the women produced. Any income women received legally belonged to their husbands and with that status employers were able to keep women’s wages low. Eventually women created labor associations because they wanted to

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    Ultimately‚ the Klan was a reaction by southern whites against the rise of freedom for African Americans and their entrance into politics (2). Despite how the Klan is viewed now‚ it was originally meant to just be a social club (2). A place where likeminded people could come together and voice their concerns and opinions (4). They believed a sense of mystery would add amusement to the club (2). This can be represented by how outlandish the Klan made their structure sound by having ranks such as Grand Dragon

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    People of Color in the 1900s African Americans and Native Americans throughout history have suffered many unmentionable atrocities at the hands of the ‘whites’‚ whether from eviction of their ancestral lands to the evils of slavery. In Morrison’s Song of Solomon‚ the Dead family inherited their surname through the ignorance of a ‘white’ man and lost their patriarch at the hands of another ‘white’ man. In contrast to Morrison’s Song of Solomon‚ Silko’s The Ceremony‚ Tayo’s people have been forced

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    powerful African American individual‚ Malcolm X. A respected person like Malcolm has paved the way for young black individual to fight for your rights and what you believe in‚ which is why he has become a known person and inspiration to the black community because he believed in something bigger and wanted to show others that it could be achievable. Through the many challenges and obstacles that Malcom X had to face his glory and journey continue to live on not only through African American‚ but others

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    actions‚ Lincoln was showing the US was against slavery but not the Confederacy. If like the leaders of these countries at the time‚ you took the time to read and study the act you would see it does nothing and in fact‚ Lincoln thought that the Afro American was not the equal of whites and his plan was to resettle the slaves in either the Amazon or Western Texas. Most people are not aware that there was a series of action and even proclamations for instance Lincolns correspondence of October 14

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    Blake Rose Mrs. Farkas English 8 3 May 2024 How the South Responded to the Abolitionist Movement The abolitionist movement freed four million African Americans from slavery in the United States. People in the South opposed the abolitionists and did many things to counter the movement. Abolitionists are people who would protest the law of being able to own slaves. Most Southern people were in slavery‚ which set the two sides into an endless battle. The argument of slavery led to the South leaving

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    30 years after slavery had ended‚ African Americans had lived a harsh life. Many looked for a way out of the South. They began to migrate to the west and north in the 1890’s. This was known as The Great Migration.     African Americans were segregated by the Jim Crow laws. Their lives were controlled at all times by these laws. The Jim Crow laws made African Americans as second class citizens.     Lynching became a big way to enforce Jim Crow laws. The lynchings were advertised. Groups of people

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    The motivation to desire more has existed within American politics for decades. The Manifest Destiny proved exactly this‚ by the desire to want more land. This dream took over the hearts of expansionists in the west‚ which ultimately lead to conflict in the political climate‚ which spreaded into Mexico as well because of the ability to expand on territory. The vision of the Manifest Destiny was inspired about by John O’Sullivan. The expansionist was hungry for control of more territory. O’Sullivan

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    people get discriminated by their color‚race and even their beliefs. African American Culture and Refugees have things in common and many things different. Some commons things that both African Americans and Refugees are they both came together near Asia‚ African Americans brought their culture together in African. While Refugees have different countries around Asia such as Syria‚ Germany‚ and Italy. Some differences that Refugees have compared to African Americans are that many Refugees are actually

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