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The Americas were freed from British rule in 1776. This independence meant overall freedom, although the new world would have plenty of English influence among its government and daily lives, from British monarchy. This freedom would allow the colonies to break into what would later become the United States of America and one of the biggest, most influential countries in the world. European immigrants would flee from eastern Europe to escape their poverty and economic conditions, with the hopes of moving their families and making it prosperous in America. In 1790, the Naturalization Act would enable all free whites the possibilities of becoming and remaining citizens. Every now and then religious boundaries were questioned along with
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Jews, Celts, Irish, and Chinese, just to name a few, were all considered others, not necessarily white, much less “fee whites” in the new world. These races had to fight for their right to become American citizens and eventually, over the course of time, they would win the government over. The white Protestants were the majority rulers and even European Catholics would be rigorously questioned about their livelihood of having citizenship. But for the Africans who were forcefully brought to the Americas, they never had the opportunity to choose freedom, or citizenship. Everything they learned about the Americas, they were taught through slavery. Every bit of their culture, from Africa, they had to try and relive while endured servants. Everything about their lives changed when they entered the new free world. The irony of this situation is that the Americas wanted the land to be full of democracy, but how could this be the case if one entire class of people were treated as property and less than …show more content…
The United States was supposed to be a democracy but instead racial tensions kept many from becoming citizens until several decades later. These thoughts arise every time I hear the argument about white citizenship among poor Eastern Europeans. My first thought is that even as the poorest of the white breed, they still had more human rights than the blacks did. My second thought, they were still ‘free” in the sense that they got paid for their labor and were never forced to migrate to the west. Third, every lower class of whites eventually moved into the realm of a free white. But the blacks went well into the 20th century fighting for the right to just be called a citizen, much less the long fight they had to have the same basic rights as their white
Unfortunately, the government initially provided no cushion for colored citizens to be incorporated into society, that is until the radical Reconstruction bill was passed in 1867. Military rule from the north went down to ensure that the southern states were treating people of color without discrimination. This and the fact that many rich white southerners hadn’t gained back full citizenship so there was a Republican majority in the house allowed for a ten year golden age of equality in the south where colored men were treated with such respect that two were even elected to congress in
African American Rights During Reconstruction By Dane Worthington Hour 7 Advanced Social Studies How many African Americans in the 1800s do you think thought that Reconstruction made them equal to White American citizens? Reconstruction was the process in which Southern states were reintegrated into the Union. During Reconstruction African Americans were given rights were supposed to have them protected by the United States military.
Annabelle Wintson Bower History 8A March 12, 2018 Title Although the slavery was abolished in 1865, the rights given to African Americans were not nearly equal to those of white Americans. After slavery was abolished, inequality in American society ran high, and many laws were put in place to restrict the rights and abilities of African Americans. Some laws include the Jim Crow Laws (1870 to 1950s) and the Supreme Court Ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that ruled that there could be “separate but equal” facilities and services for people of color and white Americans.
During the Colonial times in America, people from all over Europe migrated to the new American Continent. They came for many reasons such as religious freedom, escape a destitute life, laws or taxes, and most to escape King George III of Britain. Yet the miles of ocean separating them from Britain did not save them from the oppression of Britain’s King or his tax demands. This caused a major unrest among the colonies and eventually led to the Revolutionary War.
They could also be granted citizenship. It was not the same for the blacks since the president tried to veto Congresses
Slaves were not granted freedom as late as 1865 in some states, and even then the African-American population was still mistreated (Doc 5). Nevertheless, African-American freedom can indirectly be attributed to the American victory in the Revolutionary War. Women, yet, were not granted total liberty until as late as 1920 in the 19th amendment of the United States Constitution (Doc 8). Although women have not had as much lingering unjust denial of freedom as the African American population faced after being granted their freedom (Doc 6). Some immediate changes were seen put into effect soon, after the war was won, the average white man demanded their right to vote and some even ran for a political position.
Second came the 14th amendment that was ratified on July 9, 1868 and granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. The goal of this amendment was to increase the amount of people that had access to the protections of civil rights to all those classified under the law as American (“Primary Documents in American History." 14th Amendment…). Finally there was the 15th amendment which was ratified on February 3, 1870 and granted African-American men the right to vote. (“Primary Documents in American History."
On July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified to the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment was created to grant citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included the freeing of former slaves after the Civil War in 1865. It gave the former slaves their natural rights as citizens to the United States after the Dred Scott case, where they declared that black slaves were not people. Moreover, in Southern states the majority of them rejected this because they still wanted to keep their slaves, but later was required to be ratified by the three-fourths of the states. This is also known as the “Reconstruction Amendment,” meaning to forbid any states to deny any person of “life, liberty, or property without
I have always despised the use of derogatory terms. No matter whom the term may refer to, these terms sole purpose is to belittle, dehumanize and shame people for who they are. Although society has already recognized most derogatory terms intolerable; one particular term remains widely used in the United States despite its disparaging qualities. This term, ‘illegal alien(s)’, is widely used to refer to noncitizens/residents by Republicans and Conservatives of the United States. Survey these so called ‘illegal aliens’ and without a doubt they will tell you the term is degrading and inappropriate.
America was founded on the labor and at the expense of its black citizens. However, blacks have not always been considered citizens. There was a time during the slavery period in America, before the civil war, where African Americans were looked as less than human. They were property and many white wealthy men were given the right to own them like property. It was also during this time that other Americans started helping in the fight for African Americans rights in America.
Even though it granted Blacks citizenship it did not give them equality, and soon arose numerous
They were kept in rural areas mostly in the south, they were maintaining as agricultural workers and were exclude from their political process. However they fought for their rights, by migrated to urban areas, participated in no agricultural occupations and developed political organization, and also they participated in First World War and Second World War. Which shows a connection between our society whereby we were colonized by Portuguese who restricted us from our basic rights. We were not allowed to participate in political process, social, and educational and were discriminated. But we fought for our independence and we are still fighting for our life, and working hard to accomplish our
Hey Hesham, I feel as though immagration is a very converversal topic. Many people have mixed feelings about both view points and you really have to be civilized at the same time. In reality immagration is an issue that will never go away so a solution is very hard to find. I do agree with your veiw point on deportation being a not so civil solution. In my opinion most immagrants in this country are just normal people, they work and are just trying to make it.
Did you know that people that live in the America tend to have the one of the shortest life rates of all the states? Also other states think that some people that lives in the U.S.A are fat or over weight. Over 70 percent of American teenagers, children and some adults spend most of the time on video games such and an Xbox, PS. So they do not get a lot of time outside to breath and have fun with real live heart beating people. The best thing is the Wii because it has real games that you have to get up and play the games like Tennis, Soccer, Basketball and other games also.
What is dual citizenship? Basically it means to have more than one citizenship. If more than one country recognize you as a citizen, you have dual citizenship. Dual citizenship has been a growing phenomenon due to its high levels of international migration and because lately numerous countries revised their nationality laws to allow individuals to retain their citizenships even when they naturalize in another country. There hasn’t been a statistical surveys results on the numbers of dual citizenships in the world or specific countries.