The Great Depression was a time period of suffering for many Americans that began after the stock market crashed in 1929. During this time the unemployment rate increased for both white Americans of 25% as well as for people of African American descent of up to 50%. Farms began to fail during this time period because there was overproduction from WWI as well as the Dust Bowl. Since farms couldn’t be used during the Dust Bowl many lost their farms and homes‚ which left them homeless as well as unemployed
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Americans encountered a whole new outlook on life in the 1920’s. They were no longer of a single‚ quiet opinion. The different experiences during the war meant that once everyone was together again‚ viewpoints would change of what certain groups of people stood for. The role of women and how they now took control of their lives‚ new inventions‚ and different morals of Americans all accumulated to the new lifestyle of the United States. With their husbands gone to war‚ many American women became
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they had the land and they had the people. Unfortunately for them it did not go that well. Two major problems came up‚ money and land. Those two situations caused a lot of tension between the 13 Colonies and Britain. The colonists were not satisfied with the decisions that were being made to affect them. The British Parliament was taxing non-stop and restricting colonists’ freedom. This affected dangerously the relationship between both
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How far do you agree that the lives of black Americans did not improve much between 1945 and 1955? (30 marks) There is a great deal of evidence to support and argue the statement above regarding the lives of black Americans and whether they did or did not improve much between 1945 and 1955. Black American’s social position‚ especially in the South‚ did not improve much‚ neither did their voting rights. There was also a huge racially motivated backlash to the Brown v Topeka ruling which did not
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from 1880 to 1920 and started as a response to the change brought on the country after the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The Progressive Era was a period of social reform caused by industrialization‚ urbanization‚ and social inequality that lingered from the Civil War. After the Civil War‚ when the slaves gained their freedom‚ the Reconstruction Era occurred. A major goal of this time was to guarantee rights to former slaves and create new relationships between African Americans and white people
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African veterans returned home from war‚ eagerly hoping to experience the freedom and democracy they had fought for overseas. To their surprise‚ they encountered persistent racism and segregation‚ both socially and politically‚ particularly in the South. This angerful frustration and sense of betrayal invoked an emotional reaction sparking the early stages of the movement‚ marked by an upsurge in activism and the formation of groups fighting for equality and civil rights. As the movement progressed
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The reading about the indigenous people thought me how labels are used as an excuse to mistreat people. As the reading explain the term indigenous was only created to dehumanized and the over the land. Because the natives from American were not Christians they were not considered real people and with the help of the Pope‚ the European nations took over the land regardless that there were people already leaving there. It’s also interesting to see the used of indigenous as a nations‚ state or peoples
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Nazism effected freedoms in the 20th century‚ the Catholic Church responded to these violations of freedom through foreign aid‚ encyclicals‚ and concordats. The Catholic Church defines freedom in catechism 1723 as the power‚ rooted in reason and will‚ to act or not to act‚ to do this or that‚ and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility. By free will one shapes one’s own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when
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during the 30’s and that’s when it ended the first wave of migration because everyone was suffering. The second wave of migration came in after the second world war.They mostly moved because of Jim Crow laws being too harsh on blacks during the early 1900’s till the early 60’s. They were barely making a living for themselves and they still didn’t really have the freedom that they wanted or expected from whites after slavery
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During reconstruction‚ many blacks were empowered through advocacy. For example‚ in a petition by American descendants of African Americans they made the strong argument that if they were allowed to fight against rebel armies with white citizens‚ they should vote with them too (Doc C). They decided that they were no longer going to be quiet about these issues‚ but they
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