Essays on Southerners

No region has experienced as much growth as the south as far as development and prosperity of the area in the United States of America are concerned. The region has been a victim of the conflict and was once said to be uninhabitable characterized by the lack of progress in the early late 19th century and early 20th centuries. The change in the region, especially in the contemporary society associated with its growth, demonstrates that indeed political progress is not cast in stone. The paper, therefore, embarks on providing an argument both positive and negative on the political issues ...

The current event that will be analyzed in this discussion is the news article entitled “Women, Southerners Most Likely to Earn Minimum Wage” (Soergel, n.p.). The news article offers various important information about the economic significance of having an equal labor treatment. Meaning, not all workers are able to experience some benefits like what others do. Primarily, the news article’s objective is to inform readers about the likelihood of some individuals to earn less than what other employees earn. Additionally, the article wants to persuade the readers in relation to the effects of education towards the future employment ...

The Missouri Compromise was a law that was passed by the US Congress in an effort to diffuse the sectional tensions when Missouri applied to enter the Union in 1819. It wished to be admitted as a slavery state. At the time, there was an even number of slave and non-slave states, and thus if Missouri were to be admitted as a slave state, this would cause chaos due to the imbalance in the number of slave vs. non-slave states in the Union. Missouri’s application caused a series of debates to be held in Congress. The southerners then ...

– Bill of Rights is a kind of an informal document, which has a direct bearing on the Constitution. If one defines it more precisely, it can be said that it is the so-called first ten amendments to the US Constitution itself, which had been proposed by James Madison, which were related to the rights and freedoms of people. – John Adams became the first Vice President. After George Washington was declared the US president, Adams was appointed as Vice President and was re-elected to the same position for the second time in 1792 (Perman 18). He did a very hard ...

Before reviewing this book, it’ important to get some things out of the way regarding slavery and its importance as an institution and the impact that it has had on American history. Slavery more than any other single thing has shaped the history of the United States, it has created a divided country one where whites are superior to blacks and all of this was done in the name of creating wealth for one group on the backs of the other. There is a reason why stories like Nat Turner’s are so incredible is because they are the ...

. The early history of the United States from the founding of the Republic after the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War was greatly influenced by the changing face of the so-called party system. The main points which all of the parties in the different eras of Early American history before the Civil War concentrated primarily on what the role and size of the federal government should be and how it should work to deal with the major issues of the day. One of the most significant issues surrounding the early federal government related to its place and stance as ...

Interatrial Relationships in America

Before the Civil War Interatrial Relationships in America Before the Civil War The film industry has presented extreme pictures of the treatment of slaves in America. On the one hand films like Gone with the Wind present images of the idyllic plantation, with paternalistic owners and happy loyal slaves eager to serve their masters. On the other hand, films like Twelve Years a Slave presents the brutal treatment inflicted upon slaves in southern plantations (Brook, “Slavery on Film: What is Hollywood’s Problem”). These extreme representations of the treatment of slaves fail to capture the varied conditions under which ...

After the American Civil War of between 1861and 1865, the federal government abolished slavery in the United States through the endorsement of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Subsequently, before the law, persons of African descent were free from the yoke of bondage and concurrently, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments declared black people as citizens of the United States and gave them the rights to vote respectively. In other words, racial divisions were no longer recognizable before the law and as a result, equality among blacks and whites was possible. The problem was that white supremacy was not a ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been a controversial book since it was first published in 1885 in America. It has constantly been on library and school banning lists, and every year when the ACLU releases its reports on banned books, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn makes the list. What is most ironic about the banning of the book is that what made the book so controversial in 1885 is one of the things that makes Twain a kind of hero to literary critics and historians today, while what gets the book banned today was fully acceptable back in ...

The judicial process in the United States of America has become flawed over the years. This has arisen from the fact that most of the American citizens have come out in large numbers condemning the prosecution and injustice to innocent men and women all over the country. As a result, legal scholars have had to engage with the public over issues such as racism, as well as the general degree of anti-Semitism in a bid to reduce the unlawful prosecution of innocent men and women in the United States. In this light, it is important to analyze the Leo ...

The American civil (1861-1865) was majorly as a result of a decision by the slave-owning Southerners to secede or break away from the federal union that had been created by the US Constitution after its ratification. Their action has been described as arising out of fear that President Abraham Lincoln’s would put a restriction on their right to own slaves. Abraham himself, a Northern man, opposed the planned withdrawal and separation, maintaining its illegality. However, despite this opposition, the secession went on to result in one of the bloodiest and costly wars in the American history that involved ...

Define the differences in the “push”, “passage”, and “pull” factors of three different immigrant groups which come to America between 1607 and 1830? Use testimonies from the various websites provided in the first three weeks of readings which illustrate individuals from these groups. Also, are there any testimonies which present how the resident Anglo-Americans feel about subsequent groups which came to America, especially after the Revolution? (For example, what does Benjamin Franklin think about German immigrants and their presence in Pennsylvania?) There were four waves of immigration into America. The first one took place between 1790 and 1820. The ...

Introduction

The civil war was a fight over the state rights, and this claim can be supported by the idea that the thirteen colonies in America staged often defied the policies imposed by their mother country. The vast oceans that separated them from Britain served as a means for them to distance themselves from the monarchical rule and be independent in their way. Thus, the concept of state right was already observed even before the American Revolution and the Civil War. During the declaration of American Independence, there was also a need for the newly established national government to compromise ...

The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln in Pennsylvania is termed as one of the most influential speeches in the history of America. In the speech, he invoked the principles of equality for all humans and stated the right to freedom form independence together with the preservation of the Union that was created in 1776. It was ideal for self-governance. Soldiers killed in previous battles were quickly buried in graves that were poorly marked. Lincoln during the dedication of cemetery stated that the Civil War was a test of whether the union set in 1776 would survive. The great task ...

The process through which the English settlers became Americans was twofold: they claimed North America as their home and cut ties with the mother country. First, the Red Indian tribes that existed throughout the lands claimed North America as their home, albeit in separate units. For that reason, confrontations that closely resembled a tug of war ensued because two distinct groups were vying for the same resources. Now, the assimilation of one faction by the other was impossible as their traditions differed greatly. Hence, it is no wonder that David Edmunds’ Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership revolves ...

American nationalistic Founders sought to describe and define national good that transcended prejudices and local interest. This national good would encompass merits of self-defense and wealth that were to be realized by the active participation of all Americans in a large commercial nation that could be able to defend itself in an ever changing and unpredictable world. It was only by the use of the constitutional rule of law that national interest and America’s higher purpose would be attained. This higher purpose would involve demonstrating to mankind that self-governance was feasible, and sustainable justice would be the ground ...

The American Civil War was a brutal event in the American history that changed the nation’s future from a slavery-based economy to a federal one. History posits that the war had erupted in response to the differences in ideological beliefs primarily the North versus the South. The Northern states had been the first to abolish slavery in their lands; their industry relied more on importation and heavy industrialization. On the other hand, those states located in the Southern part of the United States were agricultural based. For instance, South Carolina was dubbed as the ‘Cotton King’ state due ...

The New Deal is arguably the single most transformative moment in American history. The Great Depression came hard and it impacted everyone in the United States to almost an unthinkable level. The depression was widespread and it affected the lives of everyone but it particularly hurt workers and even more so farmers. African Americans were in large part before the Depression living in the South mostly as very small farmers or even worse as debt riddled sharecroppers. These people who were already struggling to make a living and existed in the worst possible conditions under Jim Crow and the ...

The enactment of the Black Codes took place after the Civil War and at the beginning of the Reconstruction Era. The Reconstruction Era was a period that focused on the transformation of the United States (“Reconstruction: The Challenge of Freedom”, n.p). The Black Codes were passed with the aim of restricting the freedom of the African Americans. The laws also had the capability of compelling the blacks to work for low wages or debt in the labor economy (“Black Codes”, n.p). The enactment of the Black Codes should not have taken place as it was a propagation of racial ...

As we know about many Southerners, the social class segregation was intense and those who believed that they were in a more prominent social position in the society treated the minority groups with unhuman nor respect. Flannery O’Connor is one of the numerous writers who have influenced the treatment of the minority groups in her society. In addition, O’Connor brings to life the way people continue to abuse religion as a tool for show the negative treatment of “others” in the society. Mrs. Turpin like many other white privileged persons in the old South, reveal hasher contempt ...

The coming into existence of slavery and the manifestations associated with the system, shaped American society in many ways including socially, economically and politically. There were views that the country was divided regarding how the society viewed the slavery system. The community was characterized by beneficiaries of the system, and those who thought that the system contributed to unfairness with regard to the distribution of the resulting benefits (Foner 1). Socially, slavery introduced divergent visions regarding how the Northerners and Southerners viewed and ideal society. Southerners celebrated slavery and openly criticized capitalism. The Southern community was depicted as upholding ...

Anti-communism in the 1950s was a reaction to the rise of a cultural, political movement whose primary objective was to establish a communist society in the US. During this era, women were forced to return to their homes and continue with the maintenance of their domestic responsibilities. Their cultural roles were subject to much scrutiny. Actors were at the leading vanguard of cultural rebellion. In the process of their rejection of the American doctrines, the majority shifted their center of the art world to New York City. Groups of authors and artists, who were also against the American culture, ...

Before the Southerners and Northerners took up arms against each other to fight the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865, the former faction seceded to form the Confederacy and protect the slavery system from abolition. Apparently, disparities over the rights of persons of African descent were enough to warrant the battle, and as one would expect, the situation did not change after 1865. In what historians have since dubbed as the Reconstruction Era, the Northern and Southern States faced new dilemmas after the Civil War that not only emancipated slaves but also preserved the Union by dismantling ...

Sentiment was boiling with respect to the issue of slavery. There was a delicate balance in Congress----eleven Free states and eleven slave states. Missouri wants to join the union as a slave state, a challenge to the fragile equilibrium of the political era. Henry Clay helps to provide the answer with the Missouri Compromise. It simply stated that Missouri would join the union as a slave state, while Maine would detach from Massachusetts as a free state (Etcheson 1). Furthermore, slavery would be outlawed in lands north of the southern border of Missouri, except of course, Missouri (Etcheson 1). ...

Summary of the Paper

The ‘Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate’ paper by Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington provides an exploration of why there was a political shift by the Southerners from the Democratic Party. Further, the paper digs deeper to assess the extent of shift that was driven by the racially conservative whites’ reaction to the Democrats’ 1960s Civil Rights initiatives as opposed to other changes in the period. By a large extent, the researchers concluded that civil rights were an important cause of this shift especially after reliance on the qualitative sources.

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Before the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865, black slavery in the United States thrived on the pillars of white supremacy. Otherwise dubbed the antebellum period, the years ranging from 1820 to 1860 witnessed a gradual yet steady increase in the country’s reliance on slave labor. As per the ideologies of white supremacy, the dominance of white people warranted the inferiority of colored individuals and as a result, everyone belonging to the former group could hold those of the latter faction in bondage. Accordingly, the cultural norms of the country during the given era encompassed the ...

When the American Revolutionary War began, the then thirteen North America colonies of the British Empire were in need of a different government that would replace that of the Monarch. The Founding Father’s first try in attempting to establish the territories’ self-governance produced the Articles of Confederation proposed to the Second Continental Congress in the year 1777 at Philadelphia. The States ratified the Articles and in 1781, the new laws were active. Still, by 1789, the United States Constitution was already in place as a replacement to the Articles and for that reason alone, it was evident that ...

After the emancipation of black slaves from bondage under the yoke of slavery, the United States witnessed a change in its social order as for the first time in history the federal government supported egalitarianism. Now, the liberation of persons of African descent came after the American Civil War of between 1861 and 1865 in which the anti-slavery Northerners won under the Union flag. As a result, the pro-slavery Southerners conformed to the abolition sentiments of the North simply because they lost the war and were in no way for the equality of races in the country. Accordingly, within ...

China is a huge country located in Asia with the population over 1 billion people. It occupies a large territory, on which the population consisting 56 ethnic groups lives. As any other country, China has its own history, traditions and unique culture. Culture includes such elements of society’s life as language, food, clothing, religion, morals and norms and etc. Some of these elements will be briefly described and discovered in this essay in order to provide a better understanding of Chinese culture. According to the Chinese culture, there are four main necessities of a daily life: clothing, food, ...