Explain how women’s lives were affected by World War 1. Before World War 1 women across Britain mainly worked in domestic service as maids and only 25% of women worked a job. Working class women were expected to sustain family life. 11% of these worked in domestic service. Upper class women did not work and were usually tended to by their personal female domestic servants. But most women wanted equality in the work place and in society and so campaigned through the Suffragettes‚ protesting for
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promised equality‚ some groups of people such as women‚ African-Americans‚ and Japanese-Americans have been
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the Confederacy. Even though the English supported (indirectly) slavery‚ they like other countries were officially against the practice. By his 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
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communities were destroyed or severely damaged. Since the South’s economy was based off of agriculture‚ they had a very tough time recovering. The North’s economy was also damaged‚ but since they were more business based‚ it was easier to recover. The US needed to rebuild its economy‚ but they also needed to have a way to re-integrate the Confederate states back into the Union. This led to the Reconstruction. Some aspects of the Reconstruction were successful because it let African Americans be able
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Effects and Developments of the Forced Migration of Africans Europe and the New World: Though the effect on Africa due to the slave trade was very negative‚ in the Americas it was the exact opposite. As population decreased in Africa‚ it increased in the Americas. Even today‚ approximately one tenth of our population can trace its roots back to an imported slave. The demographic effects of the slave trade varied on the area. In the British West Indies‚ for example‚ the proportion of people descendent
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Life for Blacks in the South in the 1930s Can you imagine if you were considered as “property” instead of a person‚ using a lower quality facility than whites‚ and having certain laws on what you could and couldn’t do according to your skin color? This is what African-Americans had to go through until the late-1960s. These people had certain laws called “Jim Crow Laws” that they had to follow otherwise they would be punished with jail time and/or fines. Some even suffered from lynching. Lynching
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live together in a non-slave society. America’s position as a country was established on principles of freedom but those beliefs were weakened by slavery. At the end of the Civil War‚ many blacks felt that they were entitled to start collecting the benefits that had been denied for so many years. Being able to vote‚ own land and have a voice in political affairs were all goals that they believed were reachable. The white‚ however‚ saw reconstruction as an embarrassing‚ revengeful annoyance and did
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question Chapter 12-20 1 . What issues most concerned black political leaders during Reconstruction? Reconstruction brought important social changes to former slaves. Families that had been separated before and during the Civil War were reunited‚ and slave marriages were formalized through legally recognized ceremonies. Families also took advantage of the schools established by the Freedmen’s Bureau and the expansion of public education‚ albeit segregated‚ under the Reconstruction legislatures. New
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being free brought numerous hardships African Americans had to endure. It brought about unimaginable pain‚ frustration‚ disruption‚ and stress. In America‚ slavery was glorified‚ even though‚ families were separated and destroyed. Slavery made it tedious to have stability in families because of the effects it had on the African American people. After reading “How Affected African American Families” and “Narrative of Jenny Proctor‚” slavery caused African American families to cope with separation‚ unfair
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African Americans and Racial Equality Hope Calkins ETH/125 July 7‚ 2013 Jody Carter Abstract There are many organizations that advocate equality for African Americans in the United States. Many organizations will promote the African American race and show what concerns are being felt by their race. Those that advocate for their race give a description of how they fall in history‚ what discrimination they endured and what prejudice they still have to deal with. These groups and organizations
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