• Black and white people were divided by politics. • This meant that Black people were treated with less care whilst white people were cared for more. • Barriers were put into place so that Black people couldn’t vote for a new power due to their lack of education. • Tension amongst black and white people turned to hatred causing black people’s opinions and views to be irrelevant to any subject. • Southern school for blacks were poor standards which resulted in black people not being educated enough to vote or work for a living.
The American Civil war To what extent was the American Civil War effective? Melissa Horacek – Year Eleven Modern History Melissa Horacek – Year Eleven Modern History The Civil War, is a war between civilians, began due to the fear of the abolishment of slavery. Its purpose for the South was to continue slavery, while the North fought for the abolishment of slavery. When the United States was established by colonists and a constitution was created, the constitution did not abolish slavery, but incorporated compromises made by the men who crafted it. Some, especially Northerners who didn’t really adopt slavery had little slaves living there, apposed slavery, they were referred to as Abolitionists.
But as demands for labor grew, so did the cost of paying indentured servants. Numerous plantation owners and white colonists also felt threatened by newly freed servants demand for land (Feature Indentured Servants In The U.S., (n.d.)) The colonial elite understood the “problems” of indentured servitude and agreed with property-owners and turned to slavery as a more profitable and renewable source of cheap labor. The change from indentured servants to racial slavery had initiated. A 1662 Virginia law dictated Africans would remain servants for life, and a 1667 act stated that "Baptisme doth not alter the
It was much harder for blacks to get a job, and there employment position could be described as ‘the last to be hired, the first to be fired’. African Americans faced discrimination almost in every job, and they earned less, often due to the poor educational opportunities. The voting rights were different in the North from the South. In the North, almost all African Americans could vote. In the South however, the blacks were disfranchised, since the state governments introduced literacy tests, tests on the knowledge of constitution and Poll taxes, which African Americans had trouble with, because of poor education and financial problems.
Changes in the Presidency over Time There were many Presidents that took part or lead events that changed the country and the role for future Presidents. Two Presidents that did so were Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Abraham Lincoln kept our country together when laws around slavery threatened to break it apart and Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Social Security Act. If the Presidents did not do what they did during their Presidency the United States would be a different country and the future roles of Presidents would have been different. Abraham Lincoln saved our country from dividing into 2 separate unions and basically saved our country.
Meanwhile, the freedmen were homeless with little to no possessions; food were hard to acquire with no money. Especially since freedmen didn’t have many choices to choose from for jobs and they were low pay jobs. Secondly, slaves masters were sometimes nice to their slaves, while freedmen were being treated like trash. Freedmen were hated by the slave owners as a group in the south, while in the north, freedmen were disliked as an individual. Slaves were just liked or disliked depending if they worked hard and correctly.
Many of these facilities were, education, healthcare, transport, cinemas, restaurants and churches and even housing and estates were segregated. This shows the extent white went to separate them from the ‘inferior’ race. Jim Crow laws limited black Americans from having a better way of life as they were made poorer, didn’t have the opportunity to managerial roles as they were only allowed the low paying jobs and weren’t equal to white people increasing poor conditions, also, led to unequal or no voting rights in coloured communities. Under the Fifteenth Amendment black people had legal rights to vote across America. However, many southern states found ways around the laws to disenfranchise the black populations.
After Lincoln’s re-election in November 1864 Lincoln pressed for the Congressional approval for the measure (the “Thirteenth Amendment”) and it was passed on 31st January 1865. Being free was not enough for former blacks however to be true citizens of the United States, they needed an organisation that would protect their rights, and so in March 1865 Congress created the Freedmen’s Bureau, which set up public schools, provided aid to the poor, secured equal rights for white Unionists and blacks in the courts, negotiated labour contracts between freedmen and their former masters etc. “The death rate among freedmen was reduced, and sanitary conditions improved.” To see just what a leap this was, one has only to look back at the ante-bellum period, when Southern leaders were able to protect their sectional interests during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, preventing the insertion of any explicit anti-slavery position in the Constitution, and at the
First, they wanted to assist in freeing the slaves in southern states. Second, they wanted the opportunity to have equal rights in the United States. Third, they wanted to demonstrate their patriotism for the United States by fighting for their country. However, prejudice delayed African American from enlisting in the Union Army. Once allowed in the Civil War, African Americans actively supported the Union Army.
Throughout history, African Americans have faced a great deal of adversity. They endured many years of slavery where they were forced into positions of servitude to the whites. After slavery had been abolished, African Americans were forced to deal with additional controversial matters such as the Jim Crow laws. These laws mandated the racial segregation in all public facilities in the southern states of the United States. These laws also created environments for African Americans that had a tendency to be inferior to those provided for white Americans.