Category: American History
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The Historiography of The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement is an encompassing topic for a lot of activism that sought to gain and safeguard full social, political, and economic rights for African-Americans beginning in 1954. Civil rights activism entailed a variety of approaches including the filing of lawsuits in courts, to mass direct movements, to , to petitioning the federal…
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American Policy of Containment During The Cold War and Its Consequences
The society of the United States during the Cold War era experienced peace and prosperity; yet what also came with it was fear, instability, and a security threat of nuclear fallout on the horizon of everyday lives to not only US citizens, but to the entire world at the conclusion of the second world war.…
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The Great Depression and The New Deal
After four years of conflict, the first World War was finally over. Americans emerged with and cultural change known as the “Roaring 20s”. America’s economy boosted drastically. US troops were back from World War I and with women entering the work force meant more people had more money to spend. By 1929, America’s wealth more…
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A Review of The Book “Dust Bowl” by Donald Worster
“Dust Bowl: Southern Plains in the 1930s” by Donald Worster gives an intriguing outlook on the plains during the Great Depression that was happening in the United States. Worster writes about the major dust storms and how people were affected by said storms during this disastrous time period. The Dust Bowl mainly affected five states,…
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Rebuilding America: Was Reconstruction a Success Or Failure
Reconstruction refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 signed by freed the slaves in the Confederate states and later all slaves were free according to the Thirteenth amendment in 1865. Even though by law…
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Slavery in The History of The United States
In the early 1700’s America started to use slaves, this continued for over two and a half centuries. The slaves which were used at the time for tobacco plants and then later cotton were mostly from Africa. The growing demand for cotton led for many slave owners in the south to start growing cotton this…
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Tbe Plans of The Reintegration of The South During The Reconstruction Era
“The laws and amendments of Reconstruction reflected the intersection of two products of the Civil War era — a newly empowered national state, and the idea of a national state, and the idea of a national citizenry enjoying equality before the law.”(Foner, 460) From 1865 until 1877, “Reconstruction” took place, which was the term used…
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The Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of was an important purpose of the American Revolutionary War. It established to the globe that the Yankee army was a strong combating force that was capable of defeating the dominant British force. As a result of this confrontation, different European countries like France began to require interest within the Americans cause and…
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Reasons Why The Reconstruction Era Failed
“All persons held as slaves within any States…shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was created for any and all the enslaved men and women to be set free. Afterward, the idea of Reconstruction came along. Reconstruction was a time to rectify the loss that the…
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Review of The Book “A People’s History of The United States”
When we studied United States history in school, we always are taught to think about the wars created by heroes in History books. However, the book ‘A people’s United States,’ written by Howard Zinn, changed the way Americans think. The author wants to show not only his views but also other people who wish to…