Term Papers on Some Progress Is Better Then No Progress

Term Paper Title	Some Progress Is Better Then No Progress
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Some Progress Is Better Then No Progress

     It is a relentless struggle to attempt to provide equality to all people regardless of race, gender, age, or disability. We are all different and therefore can by no means be treated equal, yet nevertheless we should all be given equal opportunities in life. This ideal of equality although reasonable, has historically risen great fear among those who believe in the superiority of one person over another person. Therefore the vision of equality is presently based more on optimism then reality. Although this may presently be true, the strength of the people against adversity has allowed advancement in our civil liberties.
     Formerly our nation promoted the belief that African Americans were property rather then people. This belief dates back to colonial times when Virginia's colonial leader John Smith implemented poor immigrants into the system of indentured servitude. This system was used to exploit the poor immigrants in order to make up for a diminishing labor force in Virginia until 1619 when African Americans were brought over and treated as indentured servants. However this African American servitude quickly progressed into slavery as tobacco became more of the backbone of the economy.
     For many years the issue of civil rights for African Americans was left unanswered. Until slowly African Americans and abolitionists of slavery banded together in order to resurrect the human rights of African Americans. At the same time a small women's movement started to arise as many women became politically active in trying not only to abolish slavery, but also further their own social status in society. However because of the vast networks of tobacco, and the reliance of slavery to support the economy, this was not an easy task. As famous historian Howard Zinn said, " It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system." (Zinn pg. 167) This hypothesis proved true as the underlining issue of slavery in the United States split the country in half. The result of this internal dispersion of the country resulted in the Civil War.
     After the Civil War the question of slavery was officially resolved with the creation of the Thirteenth amendment and the Civil Rights Acts, however the status of African Americans in society was not. This provoked a whole new era of racism with the production of the Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan. During this era although slavery had been legally abolished, the Southern State governments created many laws in order to dissociate African Americans in society. One of these laws stated that you must have a certain amount of education in order to vote. These laws were all inflicted in order to separate African Americans from mainstream society. Another idea to separate African Americans from White Americans was to segregate both races. This idea was strengthened with the Supreme Court case Plessy versus Ferguson...

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