continent had‚ for centuries‚ fallen under Islamic influence. Regardless of this diversity‚ there were some common threads across different cultural groups. For example‚ West African societies shared a belief in an omnipotent creator‚ a chief immortal among less powerful gods‚ to whom they prayed and made sacrifices. Through laws and customs honoring the gods‚ the ancestors of people‚ and the elderly‚ West Africans looked for a harmonious balance between the natural and spiritual worlds. More though‚
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Civil War (union) During the American Civil War‚ the Union was the term used to refer to United States of America‚ and specifically to the national government and the 20 free states and five border slave states which supported it. The Union was opposed by 11 southern slave states that had declared a secession to join together to form the Confederacy. The Union is often referred to as "the North"‚ both then and now‚ as opposed to "the South." The Union never recognized the legitimacy of secession
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The civil rights movement took place during the 1950s and 1960s. It was for blacks to have the same rights as everyone else. When the civil war ended so did slavery but blacks were still discriminated against. When the 14th Amendment came along blacks had equal protection. The 15th Amendment gave blacks the right to vote. Whites did not like that blacks were able to vote and had some equal rights as them. They came up with this hard test called the literacy test knowing that black could not pass
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Johnson was a key figure in a crucial time in American politics and civil rights movement. He was a liberal who had grown up poor in the state of Texas and this translated well with the American people. Furthermore‚ Johnson early childhood was a prelude to be his greatest ideals that defined his administration and dreams of the Great Society (Germany‚ 2009). President Johnson was in the forefront of social justice but did not see justice as just a race issue; he saw it as a class issue that he fought
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When the K.K.K first emerged‚ they completely ravaged and destroyed the African American hopes of equality. As many people know‚ “The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)‚ or simply ‘the Klan’‚ is the name of the 3 distinct past and present movements in the United States that have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy‚ white nationalism‚ and anti-immigration‚ historically expressed through terrorism of groups or individuals they opposed” (“ Ku Klux Klan”). During the civil rights era‚ African
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This is when the civil rights movement happen and that’s when Washington and Du Bois came into play. Washington was the spokesperson for the whole black community. Washington’s focus was a better education for blacks and progressing in social‚ economic and equality. Washington was more
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Between 1840 and 1860‚ many technological improvements increased industrial productivity. Before this‚ earlier in the 1800s‚ there was an industrial revolution where steam-run textile mills were put to use in northern America. The North’s economy‚ focused around manufacturing and wheat‚ was recovering from the Panic of 1837. Investors had stopped putting all their money into agriculture and began to invest in factories‚ railroads‚ and development of new machines. Industries of America became
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Rome‚ losing influence over much of Northern Europe. Weakened‚ the various Italian city-states became vulnerable to conquest by Spain‚ France‚ and Austria. Italy remained a patchwork of principalities controlled through proxy by various European powers until the 19th century‚ when the French leader Napoleon supported the unification of Italy as a way of creating a buffer state against his many enemies. With the backing of France‚ Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi led a popular movement that took
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Slavery was significantly important to the United States because not only did it last for over 200 years‚ it lead to the civil war between the northern and southern confederate states. However‚ the changes in plantation crops and slavery systems that occurred between 1800 and 1860 were because of the Industrial Revolution. The constitutional Convention and Ratification held in Philadelphia from 1787–1789‚ gave the Southern states the freedom to decide about the legality of slavery in their own states
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The African American civil rights movement was a very important part in American history. This is because in the 50’s and 60’s African Americans didn’t’ have the same rights as white people.This is until many historic leaders came such as Martin Luther King Jr‚ Rosa Parks‚ Ruby Nell Bridges‚ Malcolm X‚ and Jackie Robinson; got together to fight civil rights in a peaceful manner. Leaders Martin Luther King Jr. Introduction Martin Luther king was a great leader he fought for the rights of African
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