Reflective Essay: Comprehensive Course History

Comprehensive Course History Essay

Throughout this course we’ve covered many difficult topics on issues ranging from discrimination to outright destruction of culture. An interesting point to these topics is how varied the different ethnic groups who ended up being discriminated against were. There were so many different groups who faced so many challenges associated with life in this country, each one in many different ways. And even to this day there are still many challenges and issues surrounding these events and groups that still poses a threat today. To begin this reflective analysis I thinks it’s best to view what we learned of the Native Americans and their time in this country since the beginning of it’s European colonization. When

From the early days of colonization in this country slavery would eventually become a staple for much of the country's economy and with it a large population of people who originally came from various parts of Africa. Originally however, slavery was not the norm and many were used as indentured servants who would eventually become free. On page 96 of “The Ethnic Dimension” it claims, “Whites worried about the prospects of having thousands of free African Americans living beyond the authority of the plantation. As slaves, however, they could be controlled. Not surprisingly, during the last half of the eighteenth century, whites transformed African American labor, replacing indentured servitude with lifetime hereditary

When the north eventually withdrew the bulk of their troops from much of the south and ordered law was restored to many southern states, a pattern would begin that effectively attempted to continue the long history of legislation aimed at preventing African Americans from participating in the extent of American culture.

The rise of what would be referred to as Jim Crow laws become a staple means of harming the Black community and sought to separate the two cultures. Within the EveryCulture.com/African-Americnas/Politics-and-Government, Jim Crow laws are described as, “allowing for legal, systematic discrimination on the basis of race—were accepted throughout the nation. Voting rights abuses persisted. And violence became a common tool of oppression: between 1889 and 1922, nearly 3,500 lynchings took place, mainly in the southern states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi, but also in some northern