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Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction Era began. During this time, the southern part of the United States attempted a transformation directed by Congress from 1863 to 1877. Known for its successes and failures, the Reconstruction was a time of great pain and an infinite amount of questions. As well as many long term, short term, positive, negative, social, and political effects. Before the war had even ended, Lincoln had begun this Reconstruction, with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863

Revolutions and social movements can be a huge deal and cause major effects in history. Some examples of them are the Ku Klux Klan and the French Revolution. These are just some of the hundreds out there that have happened in the past or are happening now. One thing that I want to point out is that they are not the same. Revolutions and social movements are very different in several ways and similar in some. Revolutions, they are a necessary change in the political power when people rise up against

Politics has always been a controversial topic that has been actively separating the American society for many years. It has been fueled by the different ideologies that have been formed and passed down from past generations. The United States government has two front-running parties: The Democratic Party and the Republican Party. These parties are both criticized by one another, and the political candidates are kept under a microscope at all times. One wrong sentence has the ability to bring the

steadfast: resistance. Resistance against the government, resistance against authority, resistance against regulation. Throughout history society has seen differing styles of resistance ranging from violent regimes such as the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan to peaceful-minded resistances lead by Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. In our free society, large masses of people have found their loudest voices while resisting the commanding voices of others. Blood has been shed in wars, riots,

Throughout the years there has been many flags that represent something unique of a nation. Flags that symbolizes our freedom and pride of becoming part of that nation. These flags give us the motivation and strength to fight until the end for the protection of our nation. However, as years went by, many different flags have brought about many controversies that have resulted in the fall and disappearance of them, all except one, the Confederate Flag. The Confederate flag is a well-known historical

years, and it memory of its optimism had not completely died during the war. Reinhold Niebuhr was the American-born son of a German immigrant from Missouri. Niebuhr became a Protestant minister and became a prominent figure of resistance to the Klu Klux Klan. In a sermon that was published on the front page of the Detroit Times and the Free Press Niebuhr urged voters to vote against the Protestant candidate that was openly endorsed by the Klan. Niebuhr called the KKK “One of the worst social phenomena

southerners who were organized and committed to the breaking down of Reconstruction. By methods of brutality, “the Klan during Reconstruction offers the most extensive example of homegrown terrorism in American history” (Foner. Forever. 171). The Ku Klux Klan as well as other groups killed or tormented black politicians or threatened the blacks who voted in elections. The Klan strongly disagreed with the northern idea that slaves should become part of the government. The Historian Kenneth M. Stampp

Mass murder and terrorism are two completely different crimes in which most people tend to confuse. To understand terrorism, we need to understand what is terrorism and why is it different from mass murder. Before you can respond to the answer you must ask some questions about the crime. When someone commits a crime they have a motive and a goal in why they are committing the crime so in order to understand the crime that is taking place we need to ask what triggered the person to want to commit

Recently, quite a debate has emanated regarding the Confederate Flag. This debate has been taken from a simple ember to an all out wildfire, spreading across America, by events in recent months like the Charleston African-American church shooting and the subsequent removal of the flag from the South Caroline State Capitol. This debate has deep geographic ties from all the way back to the Civil War and what the flag stood for then and what the flag has stood for since. Each side of the debate has

Have you ever counted the decades that hate crimes have passed over? According to the American Psychological Association 5,850 hate crimes were reported in 2015 by the FBI. These hate crimes affect so many people in our nation every day. A hate crime is motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence. Hate crimes can cause those who are victims to have serious psychological effects because of the extreme violence they might have witness or been through. They also