Slavery has evolved through time, and liberal arguments include facts and theologies that expose what slavery truly is having condemned its practice. Other arguments include stories and morals that say there was nothing wrong with what was done: only show the confusion on the subject. Slavery is depicted as an evil, terrorizing the 1600s in America. Anyone who could afford a slave had them in the southern states. Due to the invention of the cotton gin, slaves were more essential for the production of cotton important to the textile production in Europe. Slavery lasted for two hundred plus years and did not end until the end of the civil war. Prejudice and equal rights for blacks lasted for another hundred years after slavery was abolished. …show more content…
Slavery was exercised in the entire American colonies for over two hundred years and the slaves built the infrastructure of a young nation. The cotton gin was invented in 1793 and made the need for slaves more significant. This also grew the South's economy, but a divide in the people had begun, one economy based on agriculture in the south and one based on manufacturing in the north. The Northern States realized that slavery was wrong and would have no part in it, partly due to the influence of Puritans and Quakers both against slavery. The South firmly disagreed with this view and after several compromises, both sides had enough. This sparked the Civil War, and the North and South engaged in a five year war. The Union allowed slaves to fight alongside their white soldiers. The Confederates had to surrender after months of little food and supplies like clothes and ammo running low. After the Union won the war, the 13th Amendment came into effect. This meant that slavery was banned in all states, and it freed four million slaves. The former slaves were granted citizenship and equal protection after the 14th amendment passed. Then after the …show more content…
The 1970s-80s were spent defending and fortifying what rights the blacks had. Then in 1991, Rodney King, who was a black taxi driver, was speeding and tried to escape the police but was beaten by four LAPD officers. This grew to become worldwide news and since it was recorded on video and televised the news traveled fast. This incident raised worries amongst the people and showed a possible bias on how the police treat minorities. All four officers were charged with assault, but the tension was so high that the 1992 LA riots started. During these riots 53 people were killed and over 2,000 were injured. The riots did not end until the California National Guard came to reestablish peace. The Rodney King beating was one of the first events that showed that the police could show the brutality to an extreme point particularly against minorities. Within the last couple of years there have been more incidents similar to the Rodney King beating. The first of three started in 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri when teenager Michael
Within the economy a great development had been achieved when the upper south handed its power to the lower south all due to the rise of an agricultural production. This expansion was led by the excessive growth of cotton in the southern areas. It spread rapidly throughout America and especially in the South. During these times it gave another reason to keep the slavery at its all time high. Many wealthy planters started a ‘business’ by having their slaves work the cotton plantations, which this was one of a few ways slavery was still in full effect. Not only were there wealthy planters, at this time even if you were a small slave-holder you were still making money. While all of this had been put into the works, Americans had approximately 410,000 slaves move from the upper south to the ‘cotton states’. This in turn created a sale of slaves in the economy to boom throughout the Southwest. If there is a question as to ‘why’, then lets break it d...
The southern economy was largely dependent on slaves, who worked on the numerous plantations of the South. Moreover, the main purpose of slavery in the South was for the cultivation of these cotton plantations. (Doc 4) For this reason, southerners believed
Slavery had a big impact on the market, but most of it was centered on the main slave crop, cotton. Primarily, the south regulated the cotton distribution because it was the main source of income in the south and conditions were nearly perfect for growing it. Cheap slave labor made it that much more profitable and it grew quickly as well. Since the development in textile industry in the north and in Britain, cotton became high in demand all over the world. The south at one point, was responsible for producing “eighty percent of the world’s cotton”. Even though the South had a “labor force of eighty-four percent working, it only produced nine percent of the nations manufactured goods”, (Davidson 246). This statistic shows that the South had an complete advantage in manpower since slavery wasn’t prohibited. In the rural South, it was easy for plantation owners to hire slaves to gather cotton be...
The most important difference between the north and south was the issue of slavery. The South was primarily agricultural, and the southern economy was based upon the existence of large family farms known as plantations. The plantation economy relied on cheap labor in the form of slaves to produce tobacco and cotton. Farmers on the plantation did not do the work themselves; they needed slaves in order to make the largest amount of money possible. The North, however, was primarily industrial in nature. The North believed that all men should be able to work and support themselves and their families, regardless of color. They also felt that if a man were happy doing his job, then he would be more productive. Therefore, both he and the business would make more money.
During the American Revolution and the civil war, the North and the South experienced development of different socio-political and cultural environmental conditions. The North became an industrial and manufacturing powerhouse as a result of rise of movements like abolitionism and women’s right while the South became a cotton kingdom whose labor was sourced from slavery (Spark notes, 2011).
The Southern economy was primarily agricultural. This economy, like many other agricultural economies, did not allow for a great deal of social mobility. The South also lacked factories, or much industry. However, this was not the main difference between the North and the South. Most troubling to Northerners was that the South used slaves as its main source of labor.
The increasingly diverging economies of the North and South resulted in the development of different political and social ideologies. The South’s agrarian economy resulted in wealthy plantation owners investing their money into slaves, leading to weak institutions and little innovation. While New England’s economy benefited from factories and business ventures. New Englanders invested in transportation and internal improvements. Divisions surrounding taxes, tariffs, internal improvements and states rights versus federal rights was most prominent during the 1850’s. This period was most renown for it’s political compromises and violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery figures. Growing sectionalism
This incident would have produced nothing more than another report for resisting arrest had a bystander, George Holliday, not videotaped the altercation. Holliday then released the footage to the media. LAPD Officers Lawrence Powell, Stacey Koon, Timothy Wind and Theodore Brisino were indicted and charged with assaulting King. Superior Court Judge Stanley Weisberg ordered a change of venue to suburban Simi Valley, which is a predominantly white suburb of Los Angeles. All officers were subsequently acquitted by a jury comprised of 10 whites, one Hispanic and one Asian, and the African American community responded in a manner far worse than the Watts Riots of 1965. ?While the King beating was tragic, it was just the trigger that released the rage of a community in economic strife and a police department in serious dec...
Industrialization was a big part of the economy in the North. Workers made most goods one item at a time. During the first phase of industrialization employes divided jobs so that each person would specialize in a certain job. In the second phase entrepreneurs built factories to bring specialized workers to work together to make goods all under one roof. During the third and final phase workers used machines to complete tasks. Goods were finished much faster by machine than by hand. They were able to mass produce. Factories made at least two thirds of the country's manufactured goods. Things developed slower in the South. Agriculture, especially the production of cotton, produced great profits. Building new industry meant planters would have to begin selling their slaves. So instead they chose to invest in agriculture and enslaved Africans. The market for manufactured goods was extremely small. Some southerners did not want industry.
With the economic system, the south had a very hard time producing their main source “cotton and tobacco”. “Cotton became commercially significant in the 1790’s after the invention of a new cotton gin by Eli Whitney. (PG 314)” Let alone, if they had a hard time producing goods, the gains would be extremely unprofitable. While in the North, “In 1837, John Deere patented a strong, smooth steel plow that sliced through prairie soil so cleanly that farmers called it the “singing plow.” (PG 281).” Deere’s company became the leading source to saving time and energy for farming as it breaks much more ground to plant more crops. As well as mechanical reapers, which then could harvest twelve acres a day can double the corn and wheat. The North was becoming more advanced by the second. Many moved in the cities where they would work in factories, which contributed to the nation’s economic growth because factory workers actually produced twice as much of labor as agricultural workers. Steam engines would be a source of energy and while coal was cutting prices in half actually created more factories, railroads for transportation, and ships which also gave a rise in agricultural productivity.
In April 29, 1992 that's when the LA Riot started and I can say that it was such a terrible time. Lots of people got affected by that time and lots of things had happen . All of the terrible things that had happen because of the police brutality against African Americans people. For example, Rodney King was on a high- speed chase of 110 mph while being intoxicated, which led to his arrest and brutal beat. He tried to get away because he got scared of his revocation of parole and scared to go back to prison. Once king stopped, he refused the request of getting into the prone position and charged at one of the officers, he was then beaten and arrested. While the beating was happening George Holliday picked up his camera and started recording
There have been many significant cases that have death with the issue of police brutality. Among these cases was the case of Rodney King, 1991. The case of Rodney is one of the biggest police brutality cases in history as it was racial motivated. Rodney King was an African American who “became a symbol of racial tension in America, after his beating by Los Angeles police officers in 1991 was videotaped and broadcast to the nation.” On April 2, 1965, King was pulled over after a high-speed chase. The officers pulled him out of the car and brutality beat him. King beating was captured on tape and the video became a media sensation. The video was initially an introduction to police brutality as it showed the nation the severity of police brutality. After a three-month trial, a predominately white jury acquitted the three of the four L.A.P.D officers and the jury did not reach a verdict for the fourth. It sparked the violent Los Angeles riots of 1992, leading to 53 deaths, some in the hands of police. The Los Angeles riots led to a federal trial where two officers were found guilty and the other two were acquitted.
In the days of the American Revolution and of the adoption of the Constitution, differences between North and South were dwarfed by their common interest in establishing a new nation. But sectionalism steadily grew stronger. During the 19th century the South remained almost completely agricultural, with an economy and a social order largely founded on slavery and the plantation system. These mutually dependent institutions produced the staples, especially cotton, from which the South derived its wealth. The North had its own great agricultural resources, was always more advanced commercially, and was also expanding industrially.
On April 29, 1992, four Los Angeles police officers found Rodney King, a 26 year old black man, walking the streets of LA and nearly beat him to death for being African American. Angered by the event, the citizens of Los Angeles started rioting, looting, and destroying property. The destruction, costing an estimated one billion dollars in property damage was an effort to stop police brutality and racism. The LA riots ultimately drew attention to the social injustices in Los Angeles, shocking the rest of the united states. The positive outcomes of these riots included bringing awareness to racial profiling of blacks in Los Angeles.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, there was great conflict throughout the United States. The North and South had come to a crossroads at which there was no turning back. The Secession Crisis is what ultimately led to the Civil War. The North and the South disagreed on slavery and what states would be free states. The South despised Lincoln 's election and rose up in revolt by forming the Confederate States of America. Both the North and the South were responsible for the crisis, but the election of Lincoln had the most impact. All of these factors are what began the war in which brother fought brother.