"A Social History of the State of Missouri" By Thomas Hart Benton

Although the aftereffects of the era of good feelings dominated the beginning of the time period and compromises were at first effective, sectionalism over national subjects, especially slavery, led to a crisis in which compromises often meant more increase in political tensions. (Doc F) Sectionalism abruptly increased in the 1820 and 1830's with The Missouri Compromise and the Tallmadge Amendment. Tallmadge's radical proposition was that Missouri gradually emancipated its slaves and prohibit slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase which produced raging political debates. If Missouri went either as a slave state or free state, the precarious balance of eleven to eleven states in the senate would be upset. The compromise

Research Task- Describe the role of the 1820 Missouri Compromise in the campaign against slavery!

Through out the history of America, there were many compromises made as a desperate attempt to make both groups of people of either side happy as much as they could. In this case, the United States tried to avoid war with a series of political compromises in an attempt to reduce sectional tensions between the North and South, which proved to be ineffective.

What is the Missouri compromise? The Missouri compromise was an effort by the senate and the house of representative to maintain a balance of power between the slaveholding states and free states. There was a long debate whether or not missouri was going to become a state or not, but that changed when Maine became a state. They did this so that there would still be an equal balance between the slave states and the free states.

There are three main aspects of this painting, each representing a different aspect of society. The first and lower part of the painting shows the working class, gathered in desperate and impoverished lines. This shows the lack of compassion available in the American economy.

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain is his memoir about vital river life during the steamboat era and a remembrance of it after the Civil War. . Mark Twain (1835-1910) grew up Samuel Langhorne Clemens on the Mississippi River in the small town of Hannibal, Missouri. Twain was a journalist, essayist, and writer of short stories and novels. Mark Twain tells of his life on the river, humorous stories, and a glimpse of his life during his childhood. This Memoir displays a detailed account about how life was like in America in the nineteenth century. The way Mark Twain writes this book is very interesting. It is not a straight forward bibliography. It is more like a book based on actual events. The book tells the story of Mark Twain’s life,

The Sam Davis Home had sites to see inside and outside the home. There were the slave cabins, in which the slaves stayed in, the rooms inside, upstairs and downstairs, and much more. Something that eyed my interest was hair art. In one of the rooms downstairs, there was a framed picture that was made entirely out of human hair. It sparked my interest because I had never seen hair being used in such a way before.

The two images depict how southern whites found various techniques to ensure that blacks could not vote (Doc C). The democrats understood that African American voters would hinder their ability to regain control of Southern politics and would side with the northern republicans, so they created literacy test to deny suffrage and disenfranchise southern blacks. In addition, a petition from Freedmen on March 25, 1871 explicates how Blacks were being mistreated by the KKK (Doc D). Indeed, Freedmen wrote this petition to Congress because it mostly consists of Republicans, and they believed that republicans would be able to create a law that protects them from the KKK’s atrocious acts. Also, a cartoon that appeared in Harper’s weekly delineates the harsh conditions endured by Blacks in the South (Doc F). The purpose of the image is to shine light upon horrendous acts of white supremacy groups such as the KKK so that these acts of violence could be acknowledged and eliminated. Clearly, reconstruction had a lot more downs than up as Southerners acted to limit Blacks’

The painting hanging on the red wall of Mills Center was something that I had never noticed before. I walk past the Mills Center at least four times each week and not seeing such an incredible piece of art demonstrates how ignorant I can be. This painting is an artwork titled “Arrival in Jerome” by Henry Sugimoto, who is best known for his depictions of the wartime internment experience, many of his paintings executed while he was confined at the Jerome and Rohwer camps. Sugimoto represents Japanese-Americans who loved the United States and worked so hard for the country, but were imprisoned and denied their basic rights during World War II. The painting

Civil Rights have been the long and dreadful fight against desegregation in many places of the world. Throughout its hard fight many people captured the turmoil that they were faced with by painting, some sculpted, and most photographed. Many reason for this art platform to take place was to create a visual symbol of what we know as the resistance time period. Artist wanted to have the feel of empowerment and most of all feeling liberation. Recently I visit the Savannah Civil right Museum to share some of the major history that was capture in the during the 1960’s time err. The museum was founded by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Civil Rights Movement. It has recently been rename to The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum to honor Dr. Ralph Mark Gilbert. Each piece in the museum carry’s a huge amount of information that explains the history and the time periods of which it was done. One particular piece that caught my eye was the amazing paint by Jacob Lawrence- Daybreak: A Time to Rest. This art piece is by far one of the best of what I saw at the museum. It tells a story of how Harriet Tubman led many slaves to freedom. Each painting walks you through the time and place of what each movement.

The book “Coming of Age in Mississippi” By Anne Moody is an autobiography and talks about the lifestyle of growing up as a Negro in the rural south during horrid times for blacks. Moody was born on September 15, 1940 and died just last year on February 5, 2015. Moody starts her story from the beginning of child hood living with her mother and siblings. She was a brilliant student and also had the motivation for doing her best, but the barriers that blocked her simply seemed impossible to pass, she was a black female. It is noted that in Centreville, where she lived, 8th grade was the highest education for Negro children (28). Whites on the other hand had much more access to literally everything. It wasn’t until about the age of 7 when Moody played with other white children for the first time, this was how segregated the lives were. When including race Moody’s mother always seemed to hide things from Moody and that’s what sprung her curiosity. Moody was often scolded for asking questions that arose like, why the theaters had white and black sections.

The Civil War, which lasted from 1861 to 1877, was mainly caused by the diverging society between the North and the South. The North and the South had different goals. There were many factors that led to the war and the chief ones were political and economic differences between the North and the South. The North’s aggression to control the South had led to the point where it was intolerable. The issue on slavery was one of the causes of the Civil War. Slavery and slave trades had become a big part of the South’s economy. The slaves were needed to work on plantations which helped the South prospered. During the 19th Century, the North worked hard on abolishing slavery, which they thought was a disgrace to the Union.

In the book Coming Of Age In Mississippi by Anne Moody gives us a life perspective on how life was in the past for blacks. As well as her life story on how she suffered so much but she never gave up. She always found ways to overcome things and wanted to help blacks so they would no longer be suffering and have freedom.

It was painted and completed by Joseph Mallord William Turner in England around 1820 and is an oil on canvas painting created during the romanticism era. The story behind this piece is, when a slave ship set out on a voyage they would pack the ships full of slaves, and along the way the slaves would get sick and die so the crew would throw them over board to avoid paying cargo tax. In the painting viewers see a satanic sky and dark murky water with limbs sticking out of it (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston). The brush strokes are all sort of slanted down to the right and some are even curled to depict waves that look to be swallowing up the slaves as well as the ship. This painting is very sublime because it has beautiful colors and form yet the meaning behind it all is

When I first saw Grant Wood’s painting of the American Gothic, I was very young, somewhere in the age range of 9 years old. The elderly couple whom both had emotional faces and the elderly gentleman had a pitchfork in his hand. At the time this scared me as I often felt that this piece was awful displaying nothing more than two people on a farm Now that I am older I enjoy this art piece immensely.