Southern United States

Everybody Many people are aware of the largest hate groups found in the United States. Two of them being the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party. They threaten or harm a specific population, and both cause diversity in the United States. The Black Lives Matter movement is a hate group because they threaten and harm a specific population using physical abuse and speech while causing diversity in the United States. Mark Twain once said, “Actions speak louder than words”. Although many

teaching of the Civil War since World War II. The main point of this comparison is the similarity between Southern slavery and the Holocaust. Do they quite possibly have the same traits? In their own ways they might, but to compare a common act such as slavery to a mass genocide is impermissible. It seems as if some forget that slavery was common world-wide, and not just in the United States. Does that make it right? Heavens no. But to completely rid the entire country of a historical symbol such

Civil War. This was a time of tension between white Americans and black Americans; many whites in the South were upset that black slaves had been emancipated as a direct result of the Civil War, in which the southern Confederate States lost. This created the perfect environment for southern whites to band together for the common goal of white supremacy, thus creating the KKK. “At the Klan’s peak in the 1920’s there were more

Confederacy due to the southern geography, people and through the Confederacy’s generals. The points presented in Tanner’s book deserve recognition on the basis that the author’s thesis is addressing a hypothetical supposition. However, the thesis here is unconventional, as Tanner doesn’t introduce any innovative ideas, rather asserting how other historians’ bases are false. Throughout his book, Tanner addresses a major problem of the Confederacy: how did the Confederate States of America lose the

African Americans continue the lineage of the slaves who were forcefully removed from their homelands and brought to the southeastern United States. From their ancestor's diverse roots in Africa, they developed a distinct culture, incorporating elements from different African cultural traditions, languages and religion. Rituals, folklore, distinctive arts, crafts, religious beliefs, cuisine, language, and music are deeply embedded in African American's everyday life is. Slaves actively developed

Europe and the United States, specifically during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Gothic literature emphasizes ghost stories, mysteries and circumstances often not found in regular stories. It also focuses on a specific theme and setting, generally a sinister house or a frightening castle, to create a tone and mood of suspense. More specifically, after the American Civil War in 1866, many Southern writers, such as Faulkner, created a new genre of writing. Southern gothic is a

There are different perspectives on the history of Reconstruction; some people believe that rebuilding the South during the period of 1865 to 1877 was a very important stage in the United States history because it was the start of American Society as a home of freedom. However, others view Reconstruction as a negative impact on African Americans. Ronald E. Butchart sees Reconstruction as the main reason for educational discrimination against African Americans. Reconstruction in the South helped African

times. From 1861 to 1865, the United States had a civil war. Oddly, the hardest part about it wasn't the actual war, it was rebuilding afterwards. Reconstruction started out strong, but then it slowly lost steam until it came to a stop. Similarly, ice cream on a hot day starts off super refreshing, then starts to melt, and then you finish it. Reconstruction was like ice cream on a hot day because it is cold and refreshing . Similarly, from 1865 to 1870 the United States passed three Amendments, the

to my life, I kept coming back to my Southern roots and what being Southern meant to me in the context of geopolitics. The concept of intersectionality is important when discussing the concept of Southern heritage. Intersectionality can be defined as “the theory that various forms of discrimination centered on race, gender, class, disability, sexuality, and other forms of identity, do not work independently but interact to produce particularized forms

Notes from the first video: Southern Gothic came from the Southern United States Developed in the early twentieth century Focuses on supernatural, sinister, and grotesque feelings as well as tensions between the North and South, societal order, and good/evil Some authors of Southern Gothic Literature include: William Faulkner, Harper Lee, and Flannery O’Conner Used in literary works to build suspense and show particular features of Southern life usually based on race and social class Gothic writers