During the process of Reconstruction, the nation faced social issues on how to handle the now freed African Americans. One of the main issues with the African Americans were that "80 percent of freed African Americans over the age were illiterate" (388, Americans Textbook). ... Over time, Congress established the 14th and 15th Amendment to try to give African Americans their rights. ... By creating two Amendments that support African Americans rights, African Americans received the full freedom that they deserved to begin with, and this can be used to show that the Reconstruction was...

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These amendments were created to aid the four million African Americans in there new role as freed men. ... Now that African Americans were now free citizens of the United States they needed to find a place to live and have lives of there own. ... The court decided that the three men who massacred almost 300 African Americans who were defending a local courthouse were innocent. ... Now that African Americans were able to vote, many people saw this as a high threat. ... Most African Americans did not know who to read or write. ...

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The struggle between state and federal government is a large part of American history. ... Nor did any of the new governments allow African Americans any political rights or provide in any effective way for black education. This was resulting in each state passing its old slave code, which applied to African Americans. ... The amendment's most important provision, was to defined an American citizen as anyone born in the United States or naturalized, thereby automatically making African Americans citizens. ... Resulting in, the final amendment left loopholes that eventually allowed souther...

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Throughout the film, both the Americans and the Africans are frustrated as they cannot understand each other. ... The hard task was convincing the judge that they slaves were indeed born free in Africa. He does so, and the Africans are granted passage back to Africa, and the remaining crew of La Amistad is arrested for illegally obtaining slaves. ... With Adams" help, they are able to convince the Supreme Court to let the Africans go free or return to Africa if they so choose. ... Only because of the color of their skin did the Europeans and early Americans think it was right to treat Af...

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We must give reparations to African American descendents. ... Government had benefited from the slave labor of African Americans. ... So to this very day, no compensation has been given to African-Americans since the end of slavery. ... America today as we know it was built off the free, skilled labor of African American Slaves. ... Unfortunately, there is still a lot of opposition from the American people for reparations to African-American descendents. ...

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The experience of African Americans throughout the course of United States history, has not been an easy one to say the least. ... It means that African Americans are a resilient, even in the face of oppression, and possess a spirit that can not be broken. ... The Middle Passage refers to the voyage made by Europeans from Africa to America, carrying large amounts of African people as cargo for trade. ... (Unsworth) For those Africans that survived the voyage to America, they were sold to the highest bidder. ... The experience of African Americans during the Middle Passage and early slave...

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Montes steered the Amistad toward Africa but very slowly. At night, he reversed his course, and headed west to America. ... The Africans were described as "ecstatic." ... The 35 surviving Africans and 4 missionaries boarded the ship and headed for West Africa. ... Although every American President from the time of the Amistad decision until 1860, wanted Spain to be compensated, funds were always kept from them. ...

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The "whole" referred to in "The America Play" seems to embody definitive moments in American History, such as the assassination of President Lincoln. ... The digging of a "hole" represents the search for the history of unrecognized African-Americans. ... A later generation also digs with the intent of uncovering a part of African American history that has been lost in the past. ... Lucy seeks to find more than what is acknowledged American History. She sees her fore-father's submittal as disgraceful disregard to African American history. ...

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When the bloodiest war in American history came to a close, roughly 620,000 were dead. ... However from the Northern point of view it was ideal because they maintained control over the South and would eventually be able to pass the 13th amendment for African American freedom, the 14th amendment for African American citizenship, and the 15th amendment for African American voting rights. ...

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The United States of America has undergone a lot of changes over the years. ... The first event to be discussed is the civil war, more known in the history books as The American Civil War, a war in the 1860s that was to determine whether the survival of the union; known as the North, or the independence for the confederacy, which was the south. By the time of 1861 there were 34 states, in which seven southern slave states had declared their separation from the States and formed what was at the time, the Confederate States of America. ... Even though new products were up in the market, natural ...

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The Reconstruction Era was a very trying time for America. ... The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed citizenship to all African-American born people, the fifteenth amendment which guaranteed the right for a black male to vote. ... But this did not nearly end the struggle for African-American freedom. Organizations sprouted such as the Ku Klux Klan, whose acts of violence kept African Americans and white Republicans from voting, and gradually the radical Republican governments were overthrown. ... The Federal government did not provide the complete aid that was promised and the South kept up t...

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The defeat of the Confederacy raised many questions and concerns for American society. ... African Americans were now free, but what would they do with their new freedom? ... One main issues that Reconstruction sought to resolve involved the rights of African Americans... - congress overrode pres veto to enshrine aa suffrage into American law. ... Though, the Reconstruction held out great promise and hope to blacks in America, it failed to achieve their large goals and in following decades much of their accomplishments washed away. ...

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The successful uprising of that summer gave hope to many suppressed Native Americans. ... The court decided that all people of African ancestry, slaves as well as those who were free, could never become citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue in federal court. ... Exploitation of wage labor had also plagued America. ... America had been far from the land of opportunity. ... Men, women, and children of the working class, Native Americans, immigrants, and those who stood out against America's wrongdoings, are all who built America. ...

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Congress established the Freedman Bureau (1865) and the Civil Rights Act (1866) to protect the newly freed African-Americans. ... The African-American ex-slaves were back working for their former masters. ... The Congress wanted to ensure that the newly freed slaves equal protection and that the treated fairly, but the Northern officials had just as many fears and worries about how they would deal with the new influx of African-Americans into the Northern work force. ... The American People, Creating a Nation and a Society. ...

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The Civil War left America broken and disunited, and the following Reconstruction period between 1865 and 1877, was meant to put America back together socially and economically, and accomplish the unity pursued by the central governing body. ... Around the central characters are cruel drawing scenes implying the violent acts against African Americans. ... This move by Congress implied the shifting power within American politics system. ... Acting in the Republicans' Construction plan, Grant not only won the 1868 election, but he also won the Republican Party a strong African American vo...

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Some of the first settlers in seventeenth century America were British revolutionaries escaping religious prejudices back home. ... The settlers took advantage of the non-English-speaking Africans, condemning their culture and religious ritual practices, treating them as savages and leaving the laws open for vague interpretations. ... By 1861, seven Southern States had seceded from the Union and created the Confederate States of America. ... Arguably, historians have loosely compared slavery in America to slavery in other countries. ... Slavery has been simplified to a part of our gruesome...

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The American Revolution in 1776 greatly impacted people's opinions on slavery. ... He made it clear to Americans that slavery is wrong. ... Americans were realizing the cruelness of slavery. ... Document D was opposed to slavery' however instead of creating the slaves free, they wanted slaves to be moved back to Africa. ... The idea of Manifest Destiny was an arising idea in America during 1776-1852. ...

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The first half of the film, which focuses on the Civil War, introduces African-Americans as being pushy and violent. ... Over the course of the film's first two hours, African-Americans rise to become the tyrannical rulers of the South. ... Griffith wildly skews our post-Civil War history to accommodate a warning about giving African-Americans power. ... Griffith's portal of African-Americans in this film created stereotypes of happy slave men, lazy freedman, and racist assumptions that African-American sexuality was inherently pure lust. ... This was so none of the lead actors ...

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He still had some of the southern views of African Americans. ... They wanted full citizenship for the freed African Americans, as well as a republican government. ... Like stated before, Johnson had southern views unlike Lincoln, so he opposed the fourteenth amendment, which gave African Americans the right to vote. ... The black codes restricted the civil rights of African Americans and they weren't aloud to vote or own land. In early 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, which granted citizenship to African Americans that were born in the states. ...

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Lincoln was born in Hardin He was a very important in American history for many different reasons. ... This document had a huge impact on America, and was the begging of freedom for slaves. ... The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free all slaves, but it sure was a huge step for African American life. ... It also allowed African Americans the chance to join both the Union ARMY and NAVY. ... Most importantly it was the beginning of African American freedom. ...

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Chesnutt was the first African American invited to write for this series and Frederick Douglass was the first African American biography included. Chesnutt and Douglass were men who played important roles in the history of African-Americans and the history of our country. ... The two books were the first works by an African American to be published by a major publishing house. As a result of these Publications, Chesnutt recognized in American literary history as the first African American author to receive high critical acclaim. ... He was a strong voice against the disfranchisemen...

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In December of 1865, just months after the close the American Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed and forbid the owning of slaves in all parts of the United States, fulfilling Lincoln's dream of equality for African Americans. ... This was the beginning of the African American Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was just one of many long-range effects of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which acquired to gain equal rights for African American citizens of the United States. ... Without his extraordinary decree on J...

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Thomas Jefferson is widely known throughout the world as a heroic symbol of America. ... Although there were some African American rebellions, the majority of African American slaves and indentured servants did not voice their complaints to their masters. The declaration is saying that, if African Americans had a serious grudge against slavery, they would publicly voice their opinions in mass. Okay, so if African Americans did not like working in fields all the daylight hours of all the days of the year for little to no pay, then America will change the system. ... The only equality was a...

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This process of reconstruction would allow unity to America and would define the status of newly freed men. Although reconstruction did have prosperity it ultimately was a failure to African Americans. ... The first amendment passed towards African Americans was the thirteenth amendment. ... The de jure section of the Jim Crow laws would stop many African Americans from executing their given right. ... Through reconstruction amendments blacks were equal by name but with Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, and other discriminatory practices African Americans would not be fully free until decades lat...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave I just finished reading the book titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. ... Frederick Douglass did an excellent job of giving a accounts of what is what like to be a slave in America. ... He was an African American that was born into slavery in the United States. ...

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