Southern United States

Obama: the first black President in American history. How did he become the President of the United States? One thing is for sure, he could not have become President without the 15th Amendment. The 15th Amendment is a key document that has had a great influence in America throughout the years, and still affects people today. The 15th Amendment disallowed discrimination in voting based on race and came about after the Civil War during the period of Reconstruction and Civil Rights movements, with its

their own. The idea of liberty shifted from manifest destiny to two very distinct ideas. There was an idea in the northern United States that African Americans have inherent rights and that whites do not have the right to own slaves. This is illustrated in how the northern population voted in the 1960 election. Lincoln was not on the ballot in the southern states meaning that the north singlehandedly voted Lincoln, a republican, into office. For the Southerners, the idea of liberty was the

According to historian Roger Wilkins, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference evoked great passion amongst people. Founded in 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference saw to the greatest movement for civil rights in its era. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and others (Cose, 2004). After the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Bayard Rustin saw the influence and realized the powers of protests like these

citizens. Along the way, white southerners realized that they could use large groups of criminalized African Americans to build infrastructure, such as railroads, to mine coal and iron, make turpentine, clear land, and of course, grow cotton. Similarly, state governments realized that they could economically profit while socially benefiting from having African Americans off the streets and back on plantations. Since nearly all convicts were black, few whites cared about what happened to them. And if the

and would be hit the hardest. Black urban unemployment reached well over 50 percent, more than twice the rate of whites. In my own opinion that wasn’t a coincidence. In southern cities, white workers rallied around such slogan “back to the cotton fields city jobs are for white folks." The most violent times took place on southern railroads, as unionized white workers intimidated, attacked, and murdered black firemen in order to take their jobs. Throughout African Americans lost their jobs in various

The Jim Crow Laws was a law that was made, proposing that there was going to be segregation between African Americans and white people. This law took place in the southern United States, and included African Americans and Southern whites from the 1877 to the 1950’s. I believe that the main cause of the Jim Crow Laws was because many southern white people didn’t think African Americans deserved equal rights as them. According to the cause of the conflict, I don't believe that this conflict could have

Rough Draft The Ku Klux Klan was first formed in 1865 and was a movement using violence and torture to create a “clean, pure” white America. The KKK was in almost every southern state and attacked many African Americans in order for white supremacy. There are specific movements recorded, 1865 to the 1870s, 1915 to 1944, and 1946 to present day. The KKK’s starting purpose, actions, and long-lasting history have put a negative outlook on the south. The Ku Klux Klan had many reasons for why they

The Democratic Party split in 1860 over the slavery issue. The Democrats from the Northern states were against slavery or at least the expansion of slavery in the new territories while the Democrats from the Southern states wanted to preserve slavery in their states and were for extending it in the new territories. On April 23, 1860, the Democrats met in Charleston, South Carolina with the goals of finalizing their platform and nominating a presidential candidate. In the North the Democratic candidate

turned friends into foes and brothers into sworn enemies. While this war is widely known for the battles that took place upon the land, the United States Navy contributed to the war effort upon the sea and rivers as well. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles had three objectives for the Navy during the Civil War and one of them was to blockade the Confederate State of America. The overall goal of the blockade was to stifle the Confederacy so that it could easily be defeated by the Union forces. However

in this writing. The personal accounts include diary excerpts and letters, as well as an illustration produced at the time of the war. The wavering of unity on both the South and North due to the separation of family and the destruction of the United States and its individuals set the tone of what was deemed to be an insignificant war. The disengagement of the family unit and the destruction and hardships created due to the wartime circumstances led to discontent with the war, further leading it to