Civil War Dbq

The Civil war was the time in the American history when American were trying to get the answer of like who Americans are, what right should they possess, whether a person can own the other person or not which took placed during 1861 to 1865 between southern and northern states over the issues of slavery. Civil War era is usually portrayed as the ear of war over the conflict of slavery fought between North against South as a struggle over free labor against slave labor and local sovereignty against Federal power. During the civil war and slavery era, African American had endured exclusion, humiliation, degradation, segregation in the American civil society.
Over the time historians has interpreted the civil war in many ways where some stands

for the civil war is the reason what made the America look like an America today whereas others stand the violence and the sacrifice of the people was not the worthy as even after the civil war, the roots of slavery were still alive. But today civil war is interpreted as the necessary and ennobling sacrifice, redeemed by the liberation of four million slaves.

If we look over the historical interpretation of the civil war, Civil War is the one war that has provided the most important to the citizen of any country and that is their right to freedom. The victory of Union in the Civil war in 1865 lighted the candle of hope of freedom for 4 million slaves but the process of rebuilding or reconstruction introduced number of significant challenges in both south and north. African Americans in nineteenth-century America understood that their freedom was directly linked to the outcome of the war between the north and south (Pearlie 2). Thousands of men including men, women, children worked in the Union Army helping them in the dream of a free nation where they were also called as a citizen. The United States constitution states that every man has equal rights to freedom and liberty and Frederick Douglas took this statement seriously and sought to bring it to existence so he called out every black man in the war of freedom who were not sure yet compelled to join in (Pearlie 2). After the end of civil war, more than 4 million former slaves struggled to start their new

life because in the war they have lost your family, culture, language and try to fit into the white culture. The first impact after the end of the civil war was Jim Crow laws which were basically slavery but legally under different name. By 1914, every state in the south passed a law which could create two different societies: one for the white and another for the black like in the transportation, schools and hotel which made thousands of African American to leave the south which caused Great Migration in the hope of more jobs and better life than in north. After the civil war, African American started to join the politics which change their social conditions. The reemerged of the KKK is another social impact of civil war on African American during 1920s although it was formed during reconstruction era, which lynched number of Black African Americans. Many black movement took place like Niagara Movement led by the Black Activists W.E.B Dubois who was the first African American to receive a doctorial degree from Harvard University which help the lives of African Americans because they advocated for more social and political rights.
The Progressive Era was a period in the American history which lasted for roughly two decades where America saw a social activism and political reform. This was the era where the rise of national’s clubs took place like National American Woman Suffrage Association. Women of all backgrounds, rich or poor, white or black took part in this clubs for the rights of women whether it was right to vote or right to freedom as the men. They also worked for the social and political reforms of the country, the period of 1880 to 1910 in the American history is a time where the number of women employed increased from 2.6 million to 7.8 million. There were many campaign done by this national women clubs which not easy at all but finally on the August 26,1990 after the ratification of 19th Amendment which provide the right to vote for women known as women’s suffrage, after that more than 8 million women voted in elections for the first time on November 2. Women’s suffrage has had a profound impact on the American society from 1920 to till today. As suffrage leader, Alice Stone Blackwell stated that “The struggle has never been a fight of woman against man, but always of broad-minded men and women on the one side against narrow-minded men and women on the other” (Joe 1). Although the movement turn out be successful, there was many opposition to Suffrage done by none another then women themselves. Women’s opposition was an embarrassing problem that plagued the suffrage movement from Seneca Falls convention in 1848 to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 (Joe 2). Everywhere where suffragists did the campaign, the opposition tried their best to stop it. Some said that they don’t want to vote then others that they are powerful without right given to them. According to some politicians, women getting to vote is second most important that took place during 20th century after World War II. The Women’s Suffrage Movement opened many doors for the women of American society and as result we can see the involvement of women in every field from standing in election to travelling to moon to owning a company. The involvement of women’s in the politics started to grow by the end of 1928, seven women are elected to the House of Representatives. The suffrage movement made way for the women to attend college and study the male dominated fields like medicine, law and corporate. Today if a women are able to work in an office or in parliament, standing side by side a man and earning equally is possible because of the Suffrage Movement.
Americans has always been a land of immigrants and during the late 18th and early 20th centuries number of immigrants flooded to United states in the hope of better life.

During the time when the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917 the half of the American population were either first or second generation. In the simple words, Nativism and Xenophobia simply means a feeling of giving per fences to Native born people and fear for the people of different country and cultural which had deeply impact on the American society during the time of World War. Many events started took place after the involvement of America in the World War against the immigrants and spreading the dangers posed by pacifists and German Americans. But German American were the one racial groups that was more affected than the another because of the war between Germany and United States where they were questioned every time for their patriotism towards the United States. German culture and people came under attacks on all fronts, with hamburgers, sauerkraut, Beethoven and German Language instruction disappearing. The first Red Scare in the American history was caused by the xenophobia and nativism as it was sparked by the fear and suspicion against immigrants and a series of terrorist attacks in the homeland. Red scare was an anti-radical hysteria and fear that took place right after Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the events of World War I. Number of bombs were found in the mail boxes

of the government officials and corporate. After many bomb s were found, government started to raid the headquarters of radical organizations, arresting thousands of suspected radicals and deporting them. The largest raid that was occurred was when 4000 radicals were seized on January 2, 1920 from areas like Boston, Brockton and many more. Right after the end of Red scare, many immigration reforms started to take place like Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, was passed which the first federal law in the U.S history that sets a limit on the number of people entering the American land because of the fear among the people that new immigrants will not be able to adapt in the American society and threatened its existence. This law sets that no more than 3 percent of the total number of immigrants from any specific country already living in the United States in 1910 could migrate to America during any year.
There were many change in the policies were made, “welfare reform” the most vicious cut of the 104th congress which was the termination of the SSI, food stamps and possibly medic acid for elderly which is considered to most cruel xenophobia in the America till the date to affect the immigrants whether they are legal or illegal. More than half a million elderlies are in the awkward position because of this reform as it is their source of living and those immigrants who will enter in the land of America after the August 22, 1996 were also barred from using Medicare for five years (Sharon, pars. 20-21). In New York city, the immigrants are denied being admitted to the nursing homes are too sick to be return home and have the risk of being kicked out of the country any time soon. Also, in Chicago some 30-ethnic organization serving the “limited English-speaking elderly” has been swapped with frightened callers, where many elderlies have not even learned English fears that they fail their English test and lose their sole source of income (Sharon, pars. 29-31). Xenophobia and Nativism has been affecting the American society till today. After the victory of President Donald Trump in the Presidential Election of 2016, the fear of suspicious against immigrants is increasing day by day than before because the thought and the speech provided by present president. Each day new racial attack on the immigrants takes place. We can also look over the time after the 9/11, the time when how the government and its citizen view other people just because of their country and religion. Thousands of Muslims were arrested based on suspicious that they could be somehow linked to that terror attack.