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Reflect on the restrictions and beliefs based on race, gender, ethnicity, and
national origin that were common in American society during the last half of
the 1800s. Think about the changes (both positive and negative) that came
about as a result of the industrial revolution and westward expansion.
Next, think of the different groups examined in this class. How did
discrimination shape the experiences of each group? What particular
challenges and opportunities did each group confront during this period?
How did your chosen group impact the history of this period?
Choose the group that you plan to focus on during this course. You must
choose from the groups listed below:
African Americans
Native Americans
Women
Immigrants
Consult The Anatomy of a Discussion Board as well as Critical Thinking: A
Guide to Skillful Reasoning as you formulate your response.
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Write
Based on the chapters in your textbook and the required article, answer the
following:
What are some of the ways that restrictions and beliefs based on
race, ethnicity, gender, and national origin shaped American society
in the latter half of the 1800s? How do the video,
Italics: Italian
Immigrants and Whiteness/Words of Love
Links to an external
site.
,
and the blog,
Irish Stereotype
Links to an external
site.
,
demonstrate
the common racial worldview in the late 19th century? How does
the
Gilded Age Advice
Links to an external site.
website demonstrate
the cultural expectations for women at the end of the 19th century?
Assess how these restrictions shaped your selected group’s
experience in late 19th century America.
Explain the changes that members of your chosen group made
possible during this period.
Week 1 Discussion 1
Hello everyone,
Some ways that restrictions and beliefs in the latter half of the 1800s shaped
the American society based on race, ethnicity, gender, and national origin
are by the voting laws, cutting taxes, reducing public services to include
education, and The New South and the Rise of Jim Crow laws. The Civil Rights
act of 1875 was overturned it “declared that neither the 13th nor the 14th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution empowered the federal government to
protect African Americans from the actions of individuals.” Literacy tests, poll
taxes, and grandfather clause.
The Irish Stereotype blog demonstrates the common racial worldview in the
late 19
th
century by stating that Irish Americans were considered as
“outsiders” rather than “insiders” and how that weighed on the immigrant
eligibility and identity. Similar to what other races experienced, many
believed words to be true and the Irish were stereotyped based off
assumptions. The Italian Immigrants experienced somewhat of the similar
situation. The press constructed an identity about Italians before their arrival,
some Italians were also lynched. Not nearly as much as African Americans
but they experienced it to a certain extent. The Gilded Age Advice
demonstrated cultural expectations for women at the end of the 19
th
century
by showing “how women's roles were redefined to accommodate the need
for a static moral center in the home.”
These restrictions shaped African Americans because they were pretty much
stripped of any rights they had. Not being able to vote because they were
unable to pass a literacy test or the grandfather clause. African Americans
where at a disadvantage because their grandfathers were enslaved.
Discrimination was a huge restriction for African Americans in the late
19
th
century. During this period African Americans such as Ida B. Wells
campaigned to stop violence against the lynching of African Americans,
Homer Plessy planned to travel from New Orleans to Covington on a First-
Class ticket but only made it one stop before being arrested for not being in a
separate railcar to challenge the Separate Car Act.
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