Patrika Anderson 9/7/11 African Diaspora/Edwards Critical Issue Report The Issue: Is America becoming more unequal? Significance of the Issue: I ask how America is becoming more unequal‚ if she wasn’t equal to begin with. The great Karl Max said “America has always been unequal to and that it’s based off of the philosophy of “Capitalism”‚ which is an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production‚ distribution‚ and exchange for wealth is made and
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After the American Civil War more than just a divided nation needed to be reunited. The states of the Confederacy had been broken. The destruction of their economy was total. From the insolvency of their currency‚ to the decimation of so much of the white male population to the sudden loss of billions of dollars of property in the form of freedom for nearly 4 million African slaves. What is more is the ex-slaves faced what seemed like insurmountable odds in trying to find loved ones and make
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political power. Some ex-slaves wished to work their own land. Federal government sometimes granted land to blacks. Former slaveowners tried to impose contract labor. But still blacks insisted on sharecropping. Blacks formed the majority of the Republican Party in the South. (Enter more info here about the house and congress all that) During the Reconstruction was increasingly segregated. The South designed black codes to return blacks to semi-slavery. Much violence and discrimination continued
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What were the goals of Radical Reconstruction and how did it lead to changes in ideas of American citizenship? Reconstruction refers to the period of time post-civil-war when the goal was to bring the South into submission and protect the African American Civil Rights. The federal government set the conditions that would allow for the Rebellious Southern States back into the Union. This was a very complex time for our country and many goals were set in order to bring everyone together to live in
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re-admittance was that at least ten percent of the voting population in 1860 had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union. Aware that the Presidential plan omitted any provision for social or economic reconstruction‚ the anti-slavery Congressmen in the Republican Party‚ known as the Radicals‚ criticized Lincoln’s leniency. The Radicals wanted to insure that newly freed blacks were protected and given their rights as Americans. After Lincoln’s assassination in April of 1865‚ President Andrew Johnson alienated
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Eric Foner reveals the reason for this train of thought‚ the ignored testimonials of the black freedman. People attending schools before 1960’s were learning about certain "unscrupulous carpetbaggers"‚ "traitorous scalawags"‚ and the "Radical Republicans"(223). According to the historians before the event of 1960’s revision‚ these people are the reason that the "white community of South banded together to overthrow these "black" governments and restore home rule"(223). While this might have been
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S. National Government. This committee deals with protecting our country from illegal immigration. The chairman on this committee is Thomas Carper. Carper is of the Democratic Party. The ranking minority member is Thomas Coburn. Coburn is of the Republican Party. There are multiple subcommittees under the Homeland Security. Four of them are: Parmanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI)‚ Financial and Contracting Oversight (FCO)‚ The Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal
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greatest Presidents we’ve had in this country like Ronald Reagan and many others. But you need to have the political courage to do the right things. How would you as our 44th President be liked to be remembered in history? I am 76 years old‚ a Republican and voted for Eisenhower which was about 9 years before you were born. During my lifetime‚ I have witnessed a lot of events‚ wars‚ inflation‚ high unemployment‚ poor education of our students‚ stock market crash and much more. The reason for
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valuable strategies. Before we get into it‚ there is a necessary story that I should mention below. In 1976‚ that was the first time that Reagan’s serious run for President. At that time‚ Gerald R. Ford was leading in the delegate count for the Republican nomination. Reagan realized that he could be lost unless he did something unique. Therefore‚ Reagan named Senator Richard S. Schweiker of Pennsylvania as his prospective running mate. Since Ford also was from Pennsylvania State‚ Reagan wanted to
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Note: I am an Leftist not a Centrist or Conservative It seems that the Left is truly divided between the more moderate Social Democrats/Progressives and the Extreme Maoist‚ Leininst and Stalinist factions. Why Extremist Governents Never Succeed: There is no room for flexibilty and hard line party guidlines always trumph what is the plausble choice in a situation‚ Being a Social Democrat myself I know from a balance point of view that many of the so called Communist Heroes were the worst muderers
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