... " The American Dream is the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity, and a life of personal happiness and material comfort, traditionally held to be available for every American. Everyone's American Dream is different. There is not one dream for all Americans. Everyone chooses ... able to circulate freely-attending schools, gain employment, buy houses, use public transport and accommodations, vote, speak one's own voice, and being held innocent until proven guilty. It means citizenship all done with color-blindness. Douglass not only wanted liberation of slaves, he wanted equality for h...

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... . Majority of the slaves couldn't take any more of the pain and suffering from being whipped, beaten, raped and so on, so they decided to run away from their masters homes. And as they were running away into the woods heading for north for freedom, the slave owners made a warrant about them escaping, and rewarded anybody $4,000 or more for their ... . In the Deep south of Alabama and Mississippi the life style of the Negro family was terrible the living conditions were sad, most of the families lived in run down homes and income earnings was not profitable. When a Negro gets hired at a Wh...

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... , many abolitionists supported the Republican Party. Abolitionists were more interested in their cause than in political offices, once they entered politics. They linked political protest with direct action. Sometimes their homes even became stations on the underground railroad. This helped slaves that were trying to get to the free states or to Canada. Even after abolitionists entered politics, they remained more ... interested in their cause than in political offices. They combined political protest with direct action. Their homes often became stations on the Underground Railroad, whic...

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... true. People who were once treated as less than human, now have the power to vote, and not only that, but can become a leader of the same nation that once held them captive in shackles. In order to appreciate having an African American president, you have to understand that the road from the plantation "Big House" to the White House was ... did not know what was happening but they knew they were not on vacation. When the Europeans came into their villages, they used violent force to remove them from their homes and pack them into the ships. Men, women and children were branded with hot ...

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... the deep wounded of Confederate military might, all who had been to Gettysburg, would remember. The departure of the armies did not state the end of the struggle at Gettysburg. Homes, churches and farm buildings were filled with wounded soldiers, left to the care of nearby townsmen, surgeons, and Gettysburg doctors. Fences, crops, and buildings were destroyed. The land was covered ... its citizens could recover from the effects of the battle, truly, many never did. Some even packed their things, sold their land, and moved away from this tretchured land that held nothing but sadness and ...

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... there were many issues that they didn't agree on each other such as Clay's compromise, Fugitive slave act, Pottawatomie massacre, etc. The Southern states supported slavery because the slave population held more than 40 percent of the entire population and also they needed slavery for their industrialization. Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would predict, many whites would have ... terms at Durham, North Carolina. The great war was over, but that didn't mean any good because millions of free slaves and white people found themselves without any money or homes, and much o...

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... . A law was then passed called the Freeman's Bureau. It was established on March 3, 1865. The plan was to improve the former slave's lives. It helped the slaves find jobs and homes. The Freeman's Bureau spent around $17,000,000 to build houses, hospitals, and schools for the slaves. A few years later Congress tried to give more power to the Freeman's Bureau ... the election of 1866 there became more Radical Republicans in Congress. In the following year Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act. The South was divided into military districts. Elections were held in each state with blac...

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... . A law was then passed called the Freeman's Bureau. It was established on March 3, 1865. The plan was to improve the former slave's lives. It helped the slaves find jobs and homes. The Freeman's Bureau spent around $17,000,000 to build houses, hospitals, and schools for the slaves. A few years later Congress tried to give more power to the Freeman's Bureau ... the election of 1866 there became more Radical Republicans in Congress. In the following year Congress passed the first Reconstruction Act. The South was divided into military districts. Elections were held in each state with blac...

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... their majority in Congress. If a majority of voters swore allegiance to the Union then loyal people would be responsible to draw up a new state constitution. However, no one who had held office or had fought under the Confederacy would be aloud to vote or serve as a delegate to a state constitutional convention. The new state constitution was meant to abolish slavery (confirm ... legislature. Whites still played a dominant role in government, but not to the extent that they did before black suffrage. Now that blacks had gained political rights, they still sought jobs, homes, and educati...

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... them some protected rights. A slave was considered in law as property and was deprived of most rights ordinarily held by free persons. Europeans in the New World began importing slaves from Africa in the 16th century. These slaves were usually kidnaped from their homes and worked producing sugar on large plantations in the Caribbean and on cotton plantations in the Southern United ... ...

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... were being enslaved- the campaign to abolish slavery completely was growing stronger and stronger in the northern states. Many anti-slavery societies formed some with junior branches for children. Women held fairs and benefit concerts to raise money for the cause. Funds were being collected so that slaves could be free. Pamphlets were handed out in the street and petitions were ... on the second Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 was passed and it made things even worse, for now respected black citizens- craftsman, publishers, business owners- could be taken from their homes and sent in chains ...

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