My Favorite.!!

My favorite blog post was ,"Does history matter?" because this blog made me realize that we make history eeryday. We make history in the world, in our lives, in the country we live in, practically everything we do, and say will affect somone or something in this world one way or another. Histry represents who we are today, to the people in the future. We record history to have prove of what we have done, and the outcome of it. Most of the time we only record in our history and only teach what we do good and everything that is good for us. We tend not to teach other about our mistakes but only about what we have done the right way to make us look like role models who had done most things right. Knowing that a choice i make today can make a difference in someones history is what makes me like this blogs post a lot and it is why this is my favorite one.

What does it feel to be an immigrant.?

 At this point in time beingan immigrants was a lot worse then it was back then. people had to go through phisycals, cross the atlantic or pacific ocean and very poor conditions. The immigrants traveled in steering section in which diseases were spread rapidly due to the fact that the rooms were very small. Many of these immigrants came from the western and eastern europe. According to these pictures, they did not look happy at all, but who can be happy when they have left everything behins in their cuntries to become practically nobody here. If coming here now as a legal person is hard for someone, i can imagine how hard it was probably for them when they had no internet to communicate with their family or any technology. It must have been hard and very hurtful for them.

Factory Slavery..

According to this song and what we have discussed in class these women and girls whom worked at the factory were not conditioned to do this hard job. Te apperently worked in very poor conditions until very late. From day to night, from light to dark, they worked all they long, they would wait for the stars to come because they would know that it would mean they could go home. They could rest a little.The slaves were treated so bad that they did not even get any food. They even had dreams about sowing buttons. I think it is brutal the conditions these women wored in, and it is understandable that they would prefer to die then to live like this.!

Going To The West

Searching For A Better Life, Not.

In 1865 the 13th amendment was created which purpose was to abolish slavery in the United States. Then in 1868, 14th amendment was came alone providing a guarantee of rights and security of the freed people. Finally, the 15th amendment was issued, and it allowed African- Americans the right to vote. This led to allowing the states to come up with the black codes. These were laws that applied to the freed man stopping them from serving in juries, coming to private properties, sitting in the back of the bus and even serving the military representing the United States. This is what we know as segregation. Even though all the laws and amendments were passed they white men still did everything they could to separate the black from them.  It always seemed that the black race was progressing but at the end of the day they would go forward and back at the same time. Yeah laws were passed for them but the white race always found its way to let them know that they were still inferior, and as the United States citizens they were they could not be denied any of those rights.

For example, when the slaves were let free, the white men knew that the freed men did not have the resources to become independent right away. Yes, passing the bills and amendments was a step for the black race to become independent sometime in the future but not right away. They did not have the money, or the knowledge of education to know that they could be more the just sharecroppers. As they were “free men’ living in their masters land, they had to follow a contract that they had to sign agreeing to give about 50% of the crops to the White men to pay for everything they needed.

In the other had during the civil rights movement that took places later on they African Americans were still being treated differently. The white men segregated them by sending them to separate schools, different benches at park, sitting in the back of the public buses, not having any kind of relationship with them. They treated them as if they were not humans just as everyone else was. The whole country was divided as “white men” and in the other side the “Black Men” yes legally they have the right but they were not being enforced in any way.

The civil rights movements were a time period when the Colored men got tired of after all they have been through and everything they had done they were still treated different. Many men tried to stand up for the black men but not all of them got to live long enough to make it happen. A lot of these men were killed as they attempted to make the black men right the same as the white men. They stood up so that the white men would want to have a relation with them, why not? They were human beings, who should have the same civil rights, such as sitting in the same place in the bus, going to the same school, attending the same restaurants, drinking out of the same water fountains. Also, they should be able to have the good things the white men had. By which I mean that the white men would always have newer things and not would forget but would intentionally leave the old things that didn’t work to the freed men. At the end of the day after everything the color society wen through and everything their ancestors suffered they are not free and have the equal right so many fought for.

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How free were the Slaves after the reconstruction.

The slaves were not free at all after the reconstruction. Yeah they had the rights but they did not have the resources to be free.! they could not leave their master's plantation because not many of the slaves had the money to go to the north and be free so staying at in the south as their only option. 50% of their crops grown in their master's plantation where they also lived was for the white people to pay for the tools the freed men use and themselves. It was thelegal way for the white men to feel in a type of control over the freed men . They didn't want to realize that they now not had any control over them and if they wanted to live they could, but the white men were very aware that the freed men did not only not have the resources economically but also they didn't have the education to do it.

Should we forgive the South.?

The president of the North claimed to want to give the south amnesty but as we discussed in class the North nor the South were happy about this. Lincoln wanted to replace loyal rule in the south. He also agreed on forgiving the crimes all the high ranking confederate officials had committed. Ten percent of the south states had to take an oath of loyalty but even though that was a part of it, it was not enough, ten percent of the population is a very small percent as we descussed it in class.This part of the reconstruction made the republicans mad because the congress men were confederates goverment officials. They didn't agree with it because their crimes were just forgiven easily.