The post-Civil War era brought about the Thirteenth Amendment, which stated: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude," except if used as punishment for a committed crime, "shall exist within the United States" (Linder and Lincoln). ... Nearly two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the war, Mark Twain began writing his novel Huckleberry Finn, a novel criticized for having racism in the spotlight. ... On the contrary, Huck's father and many others of this time had a mind frozen in the years prior to the Civil War. ... Post-era Mark Twain; hatre...

• Word Count: 2116
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

The period that occurs after the Civil War is known as the Reconstruction. ... Within the context of the South, beaten in war, where murder, disorganization and military rule is the new order, violence becomes the only answer. ... "The Colfax Massacre was the worst massacre of racial carnage in the Reconstruction era. ... The Freedman's Bureau was an agency of the Federal government set up in 1865 to help former slaves and other persons suffering from the effects of the Civil War. ...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

For Black Americans, this society existed in the south after the end of the civil war. ... The problems with race relations originated in the south during the reconstruction era after the civil war. ... This way, white plantation owners could assert their superiority over blacks and maintain the same social positions that had been in place before the civil war. ... After the civil war, some blacks moved north to try and make a living, but most stayed in the South becoming sharecroppers and farmers on the large plantations. ... In the South, Blacks were used as a scapegoat by the white land own...

• Word Count: 1364
• Approx Pages: 5

(Lipsitz 3) " "Although reproduced in new form in every era, the possessive investment in whiteness has always been influenced by its origins in the racialized history of the United States "by the legacy of slavery and segregation, of Indian extermination and immigrant restriction, of conquest and colonialism (Lipsitz 3). ... (Lipsitz 51). " "U.S. wars in Asia over the past five decades have also contributed significantly to this view of Asian Americans and Asians as foreign enemies incapable of being assimilated into a U.S. national identity."... Japanese and Japanese Americans, durin...

• Word Count: 1644
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Huck Finn renders this requirement complete because it highlights the racist society that was ubiquitous throughout pre-Civil War South, while bringing out the raw emotional aspect to the novel, and adding another dimension to the objective history lessons taught in a classroom. ... The novel Huck Finn takes place in the antebellum South, however Mark Twain wrote it after the Civil War itself. Even during the post-Civil War era, Southerners showed strong racist sentiment towards African Americans through the Jim Crow laws and "separate but equal " treatment, influencing the nature of the novel...

• Word Count: 2046
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Following the vicious and bloody battles of the Civil War, the South entered a period of uncertainty and chaos. ... In North Carolina Republican Party members, who were seemingly pushed out of power at the collapse of the Reconstruction Era, believed they could form an alliance with the Populist Party to successfully challenge the Democratic Party (white supremacy) and take them over with their "Fusion Politics." ... Bringing me to conclusively decide that the events of the post-reconstruction era served as a foundation for the serious crimes against the Black community, in contemporary times....

• Word Count: 1273
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poem indicates that a group of Northern soldiers are crossing a stream after a victorious battle during the Civil War. Whitman is able to give an accurate description of these events because during the war "Whitman was overcome with the carnage he beheld and settled in Washington, D.C., where for the duration of the war he ministered without pay to sick and wounded soldiers" (Olsen-Smith). "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" is not only about the North winning the Civil War, it is also about Whitman's views on what the country has allowed itself to become. ... The change he wanted was made ...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

His concept of race, culture, and war are very interesting. ... He talked of the "dark shroud of a new barbarian era" that would cover the earth if the Aryan race ceased to exist. ... He felt it was important, a necessity, to go to war. ... By going to war Germans would be back in prosperity and greatness. ...

• Word Count: 1428
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Even when there was a strong moral opposition to slavery and its spread preceding the Civil War, it did not necessarily conclude with equality for blacks. The young men of the North "who hurried off to war in the spring of 1861 were not motivated, for the most part, by thoughts of emancipation and freedom for black Americans" (Ransom 13). Nearly all of the caricatures black Americans faced, particularly after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery were in essence a defense of slavery. ... There is a lucid connection between the perceptions of the brutal darkie to the perception of the s...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the 1860s President Lincoln, along with others, fought against slavery in the Civil War. ... Therefore, allowing the race card to permeate into the era would surrealistically eliminate discrimination. ...

• Word Count: 1695
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the 1860s President Lincoln, along with others, fought against slavery in the Civil War. ... Therefore, allowing the race card to permeate into the era would surrealistically eliminate discrimination. ...

• Word Count: 1695
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many racial acts were done in the colonial era, which include slavery, settlements, Indian reservations, segregation, residential schools, and internment camps. ... They vandalize the streets, calling each other by names, creating a sense of war around their streets. ...

• Word Count: 1571
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In this new age era people would like the think that the hiring, and promotional processes within the workplace are fair as well as inparcial; however, there does still exist road blocks for a few groups. ... In the past when World War II was in process women had no choice, except to go out to work in order to support their children, and the lives they had created with the men that were fighting for our country. They not only went to work, but they were good at it; however when the war was over, and the men returned they also brought with them the demand of their jobs back. ...

• Word Count: 2258
• Approx Pages: 9

I've heard of African-Americans being oppressed by the white-Americans since they created slave codes of the pre-civil war era that were later replaced by segregation laws and practices to discriminate against the blacks. ... In the military during WWII, American minorities always demonstrated patriotism on the battlefield. 37,000 black soldiers died for the Union during the Civil War while they fought to create and defend the nation. ...

• Word Count: 2208
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

One of my favorite childhood memories was going to the carnival with my grandma whenever it was in town. My grandma and I would spend a whole Saturday riding all of the rides and eating as much junk food as our stomachs would allow. Then one year we came across a booth where an artist was drawing ...

• Word Count: 2170
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School