Social Changes In America Research Paper

The pursuit of personal liberties has been the essence of American culture since the inception of the first colonies. It would be impossible to contemplate a justified social mechanism that could hinder the progress off any single person in a land as bountiful as this continent was to its first arrivals. Unfortunately, they found a way and it proved difficult to undo such a mechanism over the past few centuries. It is a slow and ongoing process, but it proves the potential that both government and society has in their abilities to adapt to change. As we will see, this change was not accomplished by those in power, but by pressures exerted from the the oppressed onto the vary system that was inflicting the oppression. The drastic change in the rights of minorities was able to not only reflect American values, but also raise the socioeconomic potential of a group of people.