Self-Determination Or Separatist Movement

In order to determine if decolonization by removal of the native body could ever be successful, one must look to the case of American decolonization. While America went from being a colony under the rule of another country to a nation, it was the colonizer who decolonized and not the native body. American decolonization removed the British hand-holding that taught America how to be a country. After this process, however, the newly American people still had natives who wanted their land back. European diseases and violent conflict over the land wrecked the native body, and once nationhood was achieved, the government began passing policies like the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

There are many reasons why the Americans were able to win the battle for independence. The many successful American tactics and the British downfalls are major factors that contributed to the Patriots winning the war. One major factor being the geographical make-up of the colonies. The British fleet was well-trained and equipped with all of the proper weapons to defeat any army it faced. In contrast, the colonial army lacked experienced, financially challenged, and unprepared.

From 1945 and beyond, leaders have selected different paths to affect change. Some encouraged independence through violence, peaceful actions, diplomacy, and the commitment of their struggling nation. Others sparked revolutions by appealing to the peoples’ needs. Through policy, and sometimes uniting a people, trailblazers changed the face and structure of their nation. A column from a journalist during the time period would help to see a broader perspective during such varying and exciting time. Decolonization, revolution, and nation building are all goals of any effective leader willing to make a change.

ecession means “the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.” The south seceded from the union. Many important events lead to the South seceding from the Union. All those events build up a tension,like the union balancing on a tightrope and these events eventually knock the walker off.

In the 1860s, the United States of America went through a tough time. It was the year that our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, was elected into office. The election was extremely close, but Lincoln won by approximately one percent. The majority of his votes came from the north. The south didn’t like Abraham Lincoln or his ideas because their economy benefited off of slavery, and Lincoln said he may abolish it in the future.

In the year 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected to the office of the President of the United States. Many of the southerners believed that the government was gaining too much power so, many of the southern states decided to secede. These secessionists believed that according to the Constitution, the states had the right to separate themselves from the Union. Lincoln knew that they did not have that right. Lincoln made a wise decision when denying the peaceful secession of the South because physically the states cannot be separated, secession is unlawful, and a government that allows secession will become weak. Secession would have destroyed the government that America tried so desperately hard to build.

In the early 19th century, farmers saw the need to cooperate with government regulation. They started to believe the government could solve their economic problems if they cooperated as part of the system. When once they were known as the epitome of the American dream, independent, and self-sufficient, they now submitted to government regulation. This decision was made in the 1896 elections. As a result of this transition, many children of farmers left and found work in the city. When generations past would have stayed on the farm their whole lives, a new window of opportunity was opening up as the market expanded.

government did not reflect their interests. This was proven true by the hurting taxes. The

During the 1850s, the political climate in America was one of tension, turmoil, and division. Although there was great opposition for the scandalous Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854, the bill passed and resulted in the creation of the Republican party. The creation of a new political party portrayed a division among specific regional states within America. Ultimately, disagreement with the Union brought forth the topic of secession. In 1861, Texas Governor Sam Houston faced a difficult decision: to favor or oppose the secession of Texas.

What is secession? The definition is the act of withdrawal. This can mean a country such as Germany withdrawing from the European Union, or a state or states withdrawing from the United States. This can also be broken down into a withdrawal of counties from a state or even a town from a county. This can even be broken down into an individual act of secession, an individual withdrawing from the government. Within this essay I intended to show that not only is secession legal but also that it is a natural law that is imbued to all people. I will also touch on secession within the United States as well as in the rest of the world. I will also show that the Constitution allows for the secession of the states as well.

The woman suffrage movement, which succeeded in 1920 with the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment, coincided with major national reform movements seeking to improve public education, create public health programs, regulate business and industrial practices, and establish standards agencies to ensure pure food and public water supplies. In 1870, the first attempt that Virginia women, as a campaign, fought for the right to vote in New Jersey when native Anna Whitehead Bodeker invited several men and women sympathetic to the cause to a meeting that launched the first Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association in Richmond. Though it is not the same concept as fight for the right to vote, women have been fighting an invisible fight for along time in the terms of rape culture on college campuses. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, one in five women are sexually assaulted while in college. The fight women take to get help on college campuses is a hard battle when many times put through victim blaming and rejection by the police. Those who chose to stand up for their rights against the injustice, often placed upon them by societal and cultural expectations, make progress towards

Remember your Ladies” (Revolutionary Changes and Limitations) is what Abigale Adams told to her husband John Adams when he was signing a new federal document. She was one of the earliest woman suffrage activists and her words towards her husband would eventually snowball into one of the most remembered suffrage movements in the history of the United States (Revolutionary Changes and Limitations). The women’s suffrage movement picked up speed in the 1840-1920 when women such as Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul came into the spot light. These women spearheaded the women suffrage movement by forming parties, parading, debating, and protesting. The most renowned women suffrage parties that were created during the 1840-1920 was the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and the National Woman’s Party (NWP). The parties not only had similar names but similar goals: women will one day receive the right to vote. Each party had its own unique agenda of how women will receive the right to vote, the NWSA had Susan B. Anthony’s dedication, the NAWSA had Catt’s “Winning Plan” (Carrie Chapman Catt) and the NWP had Alice Paul’s perseverance to go to extremes by captivating people’s attention. Eventually the goal of the parties was reached when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified. The Amendment granted women the right to vote, granting them all the same rights that were held by men. Women would have never

Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, where a nation establishes and maintains its domination over dependent territories. In the words of Fanon, in the reading The Wretched of the Earth, “National liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the na­tion to the people or Commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonization is always a violent event.” (Fanon, 1). Frantz Fanon was one of many authors who supported decolonization struggles occurring after World War II. He breaks down decolonization into two senses: one being the physical act of freeing a territory from external control of a colonizer, and the other being the psychological act of freeing the consciousness of the native from the alienation caused by colonization. Fanon particularly advocated that violence was justified by overthrowing colonial oppression. In his reading, The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon wrote on why and how colonialism must be stopped. Fanon argued that the colonial infrastructure must be destroyed. “Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is clearly an agenda for total disorder. But it cannot be accomplished by the wave of a magic wand, a natural cataclysm, or a gentleman’s agreement. Decolonization, we know, is an historical process: In other words, it can only be understood, it can only find its significance and become self coherent insofar as we can discern the history-making movement which gives it form and substance,”

Colonialism has been viewed and interpreted from multiple perspectives. Both the coloniser and the colonised are said to have benefitted therefrom. While on the one hand it is considered abject exploitation by the coloniser to fill his coffers, on the other, the routine by-products of colonisation were of absolute benefit to the colonised. The four century long period of colonisation that gripped the world is one of the most oft debated and scrutinized periods of human history. In the period beginning sixteenth century AD, trade and commerce through the sea route became a means of expanding markets in many countries. Great Britain, France, Belgium and Portugal were amongst the pioneers in taking their wares to countries far away, like Africa and Asia. One early form of colonialism that was thrust upon the colonised country was economic exploitation.

Independence Day is an interesting film that is full of cohesive visual political and cultural meanings that represent the United States of America. Through its major genres of war and disaster its able to attract all categories of audience and bring out the true colours to the world that USA is composed off. This paper through these two common cinematic genres will reveal an interesting set of political ideologies that most Americans represent and pursue when approaching the people and countries that live in this world.