As we wrap up discussing the Civil War, one needs only to look at our current age to fully understand how our society has come full circle. The fact is there are still flaws, however, stemming from the Civil War.
Your Assignment:
Discuss the ramification the Civil War had on later events in American History citing specific examples and the correlation between the two.
Due: Sunday 12/7/08 by 11:59p.m.
Monday, December 1, 2008
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The major event(s) that come to mind are those of foreign stabilization. The civil war was to keep the United States united. No domestic event in American soil comes to mind but American involvement or American headed events strike a chord. Iraq war. We are over there trying to promote and establish democracy. Again, American headed operation pointed in helping unite Iraq in political and social standings.
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain, more spontaneous and accessible, and Barack Obama, more disciplined and remote, are two unconventional presidential candidates, each with styles all their own.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that is on my mind is the Iraq war. The reason i chose the Iraq war is because what is going on over there is like what happened in the civil war they are trying to get the north and south to like each each other. Just like they did in the civil war.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the black codes and all the wrong ways we treated the blacks after the civil war when we were suposed to be making them more equal had a direct influence on the later years when the cival rights movements took place....
ReplyDeleteWell, some things the Civil War has had an effect on are our other wars. If they wouldn't have made the south rejoin the union then we would have had two seperate countries and when we went to war with other countries then we wouldn't have been able to win them because we wouldn't have had strong armies. Therefore we probably wouldn't have a country right now because we would have been taken over by someone else. Since the south did rejoin the union, it has made us able to win all of the upcoming wars in American History.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that I found to be truly ridiculous was the black codes. The codes themselves were completly opposite of what the civil war accomplished for blacks. All the rules and regulations they faced basically put them into slavery again. The fact that in some states they used their old slave codes and simply substituted the for freedman for slave into the code I find to be one of the worst injustices done to slaves.
ReplyDeleteWell because we never really solved the discrimination problem after this it led to later civil rights movements. One person who got into this was Martin Luther King Jr. expressed his opens through a very important speech known as the “I have a dream…” speech. He was later shot and killed. Another big impact on the Civil Rights movement was Rosa Parks. This black women refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. This rebellions led to civil rights movement and today because of it we even have a black president.
ReplyDeleteBlack Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freed slaves such as prohibiting their right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations.
ReplyDeleteAfter the American Civil War the Radical Republicans advocated the passing of the Civil Rights Bill, legislation that was designed to protect freed slaves from Southern Black Codes (laws that placed severe restrictions on freed slaves such as prohibiting their right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations).
Although they often received lower pay, and faced further discrimination, black soldiers were allowed to enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War. They fought in segregated units, under the command of white officers. It went from slavery during the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950's. In the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, segregated schools were declared unconstitutional. This landmark decision sparked the modern Civil Rights movement. Led by Martin Luther King Jr., blacks engaged in a series of nonviolent protests throughout the South to bring about the end of segregation and racial domination and discrimination.
ReplyDeleteEven after the civil war blacks still weren't treated fairly and that is still lasting today. But it was especially bad in 1957 with the civil rights movement. Things like blacks not being allowed in the front of the bus and the showdown in little rock. Even though the discrimination of blacks was supposed to end with the civil war, whites still opposed 9 people of the african american race from going to school in Arkansas. So this shows some of the specific expamples of how people still weren't treated equal.
ReplyDeleteThe topic blacks and slavery was not done after the Civil War...actually the disscussion about more rights for minority rights like African Americans and women just started. People like Martin Luther King Jr., Malkom X and Jesse Jackson made it actually work, that AA really could vote. And finally in 1920 America follwoed a few european examples and let American women vote.
ReplyDeleteSince the end of the Civil War, a lot of things have happened when dealing with racial issues.
ReplyDeleteSome of the important people since that time in our history are still very well known today. One person that i can think of is Martin Luther King Jr. He was a civil rights leader and is famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech. Through this speech that people still remember today, he raised public awareness of racial ideas and beliefs and his concern for them. I think the things he did and the speeches he delivered really made people stop and think again about colored ideas and how people should be created equally.
Another important person is Rosa Parks. She is most well known for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white person during a period in the mid 1900's. She really took a huge step for segregation and beliefs by doing what she did and not giving into someone just because of the color of her skin. She really showed alot of people that you shouldn't be treated differently or shoved around just because of the color of your skin.
Those are just a few examples of how the legacy of the Civil War has come to the point we are at today in our society and even though we have come a long way, there are still racial comments and beliefs that hopefully one day will no longer be in existance when everyone can live as a person, not a color or a race.
After everything that has happened in the Civil war, it took forever for women to have the right to vote. And everything with African Americans. Nothing really happened until have the civil war. Woment could vote, African American were free and treated equally after Martin Luther King Jr. make his speech. Slaves were no longer aloud. The Civil war pretty much just set the mood for everything. Because nothing really was set in stone during the Civil war, all the action happened after!!
ReplyDeleteIf they didn't make the black codes and have resctictions aginst the blacks, we wouldn't have had to make all those admendments to fix the problems. There wouldn't have ben a campain for blacks like Martin Luther King Jr. did. There would of corse be some people still aginst it but there would be more opertunities that the US could have done in stead of worry about the blacks because we would have already been getting used to living with eachother as equals.
ReplyDeleteWell after the civil war obviously the South wasn't happy and instead of treating the African Americans equally they treated them just like they had before and during the war. In after the war Blacks had problems finding work that would pay and in the end most of them went back to work in the fields. In my opinion that wrong i mean I know i hate to be treated like that discriminated because of my skin color, my culture, my background it all just wrong and the sad thing is that it is STILL going on.
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