new relationships between African Americans and white people. The Reconstruction Era paved the way for the Progressive Era by expressing the need for equal rights for African Americans. During the Progressive Era‚ many African American leaders spoke out for their civil rights and economic opportunities.
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Expansion abroad during the Spanish-American War was good because it improved the United States’ economy. Expansion abroad during the Spanish-American War had many positive effects on the United States’ economy. The acquisition of new territories and the establishment of new markets opened up great opportunities for economic growth and development. This expansion not only provided additional resources and raw materials for the United States but also facilitated trade and enhanced the nation’s international
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reaching other countries that they had traded with. In 1807 British parliament passed the Orders in Council which required the US to gain a license to trade with France or French colonies. The American colonies were upset with Britain at their practice of Impressment. Impressment was when they would remove American sailors and force them into service on British warships. In 1809 the US Congress repealed the Embargo Act. It restricted trade with all countries then it was replaced with the Non-Intercourse
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conditions in Ireland and strong economic conditions in the U.S heavily influenced emigration. New immigrants and industrial growth transformed American society. The Irish “began at the lowest levels of the American workforce. Men dug canals; laid railroad track; mined coal‚ copper‚ gold‚ and silver; cleaned stables; drove horses; and laid building
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and political activist who was born in Belmont‚ Trinidad. Due to a perpetual state of poverty and economic unrest‚ Jones and her family moved to Harlem‚ New York City‚ during 1922-1924. Jones spent her life fighting against the oppression of African Americans‚ while in the United States‚ and West Indians‚ while in United Kingdom. She was also an advocate against women’s oppression and‚ of equality‚ which led to her imprisonment‚ and subsequent deportation in 1955. Jones was also a prominent member
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The American Revolution was a war for independence by the American colonies against Great Britain during 1775 to 1783. This created a brand new United States. After that‚ American Civil War was happened from 1861 to 1865. The Union won the war. The major causes of the Civil War was the United States of America and the Confederate States of America‚ a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery
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(BPM) was initiated after African Americans were dissatisfied with the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement‚ and was able to bring about changes for Blacks in America by promoting equality‚ unity and pride amongst African Americans. After the Civil Rights Movement‚ only some basic human rights were achieved for Black Americans‚ however many rights were still neglected as well as many blacks still feeling unheard and not represented. The treatment of African Americans at the time‚ contradicted
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Between 1915 and 1920 African Americans saw the greatest changes since the Civil War. In those five years‚ over 700‚000 southern African Americans moved northward‚ lured by the opportunities presented to them in cities such as Chicago and Detroit. As the U.S. geared for the first World War‚ African Americans filled the labor shortages created in the North. The U.S. entered the Civil War in 1917. Thousands of Black soldiers enlisted. They believed President Woodrow Wilson when he said "out of this
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they did not get as much aid as the whites. White people would not allow the blacks to get the aid they needed. “In early public assistance programs African Americans often received substantially less aid than whites‚ and some charitable organizations even excluded blacks from their soup kitchens.” (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 2017) Blacks should have gotten the aid they needed. They were starving and they were sick. Blacks were treated like they should not have even existed. It is awful how we treated
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as whites‚ they still had many limitations on the things they did or even owned. Many blacks were not respected or treated in the same manner as whites and the equality between the two races was still questionable. Under the 13th Amendment blacks were supposed to be freed from slavery and granted all the rights that whites had‚ but was the amendment as positive as first assumed? In order to fully understand the lives of African Americans after the abolishment of slavery‚ one first needs some background
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