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Civil War and Reconstruction Question 2: What does the Civil War show that failed in the United States in this period?The Civil War and its aftermath showed that the United States failed to create a cohesive national character and ethical identity. The nation was truly divided, symbolized by the fact that Abraham Lincoln received not a single Southern electoral vote, and less than half of the popular vote, but still became President (Slide 5). The majority of Southerners allied themselves with the Southern Democrat platform, and failed to align their outdated beliefs about race and economic exploitation with the more progressive norms evident in the North.
Yet slavery was only one of the meaningful points of divergence between different geographic and cultural segments of the nation. The economies of North and South were completely different from one another, with the North cornering the market on manufactured goods and the South being the agricultural hub (Slide 8). In fact, slavery itself was linked to a host of geographic and cultural contingencies that revealed the schisms leading to the Civil War. Even at war’s end, North and South had irreconcilable differences: proven by the fact that Reconstruction would also fail. The federal government, weakened by those who clung to the belief that states’ rights could coexist within a republican framework of government, lacked the legal or pragmatic power to make...
Instead of conceding its loss and amending its wrongs, the South became increasingly sinister, supporting groups like the KKK (Slide 20). Even with the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, no reparations were made to former slaves, and no attempt was made to firmly uphold the universal rights and freedoms of African Americans.
The Western Frontier Question 4: How did Westward expansion increase tensions with Native Americans?
European settlement in the Americas created tensions with indigenous people since the time of first contact, as settlers and aboriginal groups found themselves competing for land and power, or entered into tense and lopsided political agreements. Westward expansion increased tensions with Native Americans to an unprecedented degree, leading to large-scale slaughter and genocide. By the time of Westward expansion, the myth of manifest destiny had become entrenched in the American consciousness. Still part of American culture and identity, manifest destiny refers to the sense of entitlement Americans feel towards resource exploitation. Westward expansion was not necessarily motivated by a desire to kill Indians, but in order to reap the benefits of the Gold Rush and…
Weatherford Indian Givers Brief summary of the book: What date was it published? What is the main subject? What time frame does the book cover? Jack Weatherford's 1988 book Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World, described the many contributions that the Native peoples of the Americas have made to world civilization from the 16th Century to the present, which have generally been ignored by mainstream academics and the general public. Who
Should Reparations be Paid to Native Americans and African Americans? Today, there are approximately 3.4 million Native Americans and 40 million African Americans in the United States (U.S. people, 2019), and virtually all of these individuals have ancestors that unfairly suffered at the hands of the federal and state governments at some point in the nation’s history. The research topic of interest to this paper concerns the issue of reparations for
. . The most sustained on record" whilst the American Indian: The First Victim (1972) maintained that American civilization had originated in "theft and murder" and "efforts toward . . . genocide." In the Conquest of Paradise (1990), Sale condemned the British and American people for pursuing a genocidal program for more than four centuries (Lewy, 2004). It was not only masssacre; epidemics were introduced by the White people too, one
The Civil War was one of the most defining events in the nation’s history, and at the time was the most important event since the American Revolution. Whereas the Revolution embodied the ideals, values, and principles of the new nation, setting it apart from the British Crown and forever altering the geopolitical landscape, the Civil War revealed the persistent hypocrisy that continues to plague American society. Unresolved conflicts left brewing
Racial Genocide There is much written concerning the Jewish Holocaust during World War II, when an estimated six million Jews were slaughtered or died from the elements and starvation, and there is much written concerning the African slave trade and the horrors surrounding the practice of slavery in America. However, little is written or even acknowledged concerning the genocide by the Europeans of the Native American people. The term "genocide" derives from
It is impossible in six short pages to fully comprehend the attitudes that White Americans had to Native Indians and black Americans in the early centuries of our nation's founding. That was m not my intent. My goal rather, was to illustrate first that although we are often presented a dominant narrative as the narrative, the truth is that in surveying American attitudes towards American Indians and Blacks a single