Reconstruction was a success because of what it did to get to where America is now. Without reconstruction‚ the USA could still be partially divided and there would still be Confederate beliefs‚ there are still some of that today but it’s completely unnormalized and looked down on. Important parts of Reconstruction the Union did to get where we are today are the amendments‚ our economic steps‚ and how they progressed America’s education system. Although Reconstruction was a success there were a few mistakes
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Prostitution is widespread in societies of the world where women have low standing in relation to men. Conflict theorists analyze prostitution as part of the larger problem of the unequal allocation of scarce resources. Women‚ they argue‚ have not had equal access to economic opportunity. The inability to support themselves leaves women to rely on the economic support of men. They get this support by exchanging the one scarce resource they have to offer; sexual availability. To a conflict theorist
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Haitians‚ revolting against the country‚ France. As a result‚ many of these countries tried to delegitimize Haiti as a government‚ stop the spread of revolutionary ideas in the colonies‚ and isolated Haiti politically. The Haitian revolution reveals how much Europeans viewed the colonies as a source of income‚ and not a place where people live
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clothes people wore‚ and even the way people talked‚ to the way everything is now. With the twenty-seven years of change‚ there are hardly any similarities between the two years. Many things with the African American race have also changed over time. Before the Civil War in 1865‚ African Americans were faced with one major obstacle; slavery. After the war‚ they were faced with various challenges‚ including the consequences brought along with Reconstruction‚ the creation of the KKK‚ along with many other
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had successfully overthrown a corrupt and controlling government and was thriving politically and economically. Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man expresses his great admiration of American politics and the social sphere. However‚ in the last 200 years America’s policies have changed tremendously. Thomas Paine praised the American society saying that it is made up “of people from different nations… speaking different languages.” He praises the government for allowing all of these people to live together
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Did you know that approximately 50‚000 troops died in the Revolutionary War? That is a lot‚ however that war made America a free country to this day. What led up to the Revolutionary War‚ the Stamp Act‚ also contributed to America’s freedom too. As a result of the Stamp Act and the Revolutionary War‚ there is the bill of rights‚ which had the first 10 amendments on that document. There have been a lot of events during colonial times that have impacted our freedom however‚ the Bill of Rights; the
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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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The First World War was a time of rapid change in many regards. The way war was waged changed just as much as societies did‚ and the conflict uprooted order on more than just the battlefield. The home front faced new challenges‚ such as food shortages by embargoes‚ or more direct attacks from soldiers. Issues there were particularly exacerbated by the difficulties faced by women as they filled in both men’s and women’s roles. Though the war forced many movements‚ such as the women’s movement‚ to
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From the 1960’s (when it originated) to present day‚ Star Trek has represented what our culture strives to achieve. The show was boldly going where no man has gone before‚ and America was too. Part of the “American spirit” is to tackle momentous issues and improve upon the things we already have solved. In the 1960’s we dove into the Space Race and now we have breakthroughs in chemotherapy that has increased the 5-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer patients from 16% to 27% (and that percentage
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Reconstruction was a very tumultuous time in American history. The civil war was over‚ the union emerging as the victor. The union’s defeat of the secessionist confederacy meant the complete abolition of slavery in America. This was a massive victory for African Americans‚ as it meant they now had the agency to live their lives as they pleased for the most part‚ enjoying freedom for the first time in their lives‚ unshackled from the institution of slavery that had kept them down for the entirety
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