similar ethnic backgrounds. After The Civil War there were Jewish‚ African American‚ Italian and Irish gangs in New York. Chinese gangs appeared in California in the mid 1800s. Philadelphia reported gangs as early as 1840. Between then and 1870 Philadelphia became home to over 100 street gangs. This is also the time when gangs started to use clothing for the sake of distinctiveness. Chicago became a type of gang capital during the 1920s‚ with a total of about 1‚300 gangs and about 25‚000 gang members
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The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten agreement between Republicans and Democrats in the U.S Congress to settle a dispute in the presidential election of 1876 between Democrat Samuel Tilden and Republican Rutherford B Hayes. A bipartisan commission formed to decide the dispute. They handed all the disputed votes to Hayes to make him the winner. It was decision that the Democrats were not happy with so Congress settle the dispute. They said Hayes could become President if some key concessions were
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I am African-American with a hint of West Indian in my blood. I was born in Baltimore‚ Maryland and raised in Delaware. My surroundings and family affected who I developed to be as a 21 year old African-American woman. I was brought up on certain foundations on how one should live such‚ as going to college‚ getting a good job‚ buying my own home ‚ meeting a man ‚ marrying him ‚ then having kids and it had to be in that order. I did grow up in a somewhat strict home‚ but as I grew old I learned
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entire societies. Scholars and politicians use history to make better and more educated decisions on policies and laws that affect today’s society. One of these mistakes that is intensely studied and compared to modern day issues is American prohibition in the 1920s. Prohibition in the United States was clearly a big mistake looking back on it‚ but at the time‚ it seemed like a very logical answer to the problem. It seemed like the only
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American Ethnic Literature Gerald Washington ENG/301 4/15/2013 Julie Kares American ethnic Literature What makes American literature American? When we talk about American literature we are talking about incorporating the story of an American piece. The makeup of the American values includes the rights to liberty‚ justice‚ equality‚ freedom‚ love‚ and family. American literature authors will use these values in their stories. American is well known for their short stories. When we speak of American
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CElaine Church History 151 Midterm #1 The Compromise of 1877 The Compromise of 1877 marked the dawn of a new era in American History. Most events after the compromise‚ decades down the road‚ are direct results of the compromise. Specifically blacks were most affected by this. Rights they were promised when they fought with the north in the civil war were gone. The rights were not taken away per say‚ but simply not enforced. The compromise that most likely saved the nation from breaking back
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The Progression of African Americans from 1865 to 1920 America has changed‚ as a whole‚ throughout this time period. There have been many different presidents‚ elections‚ wars and other world issues. These factors contribute to the drastic change in America and to the American people. African Americans have gone through many different changes other than those of the other races. With the end of the Civil War‚ African Americans went through a lot of change with the end of slavery. Throughout this
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Between 1915 and 1920 African Americans saw the greatest changes since the Civil War. In those five years‚ over 700‚000 southern African Americans moved northward‚ lured by the opportunities presented to them in cities such as Chicago and Detroit. As the U.S. geared for the first World War‚ African Americans filled the labor shortages created in the North. The U.S. entered the Civil War in 1917. Thousands of Black soldiers enlisted. They believed President Woodrow Wilson when he said "out of this
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During the 1920’s‚ the American national culture was reshaped dramatically. There were many things that helped reshape the national American culture. The two main things were advertising and entertainment‚ they shaped American national culture in the 1920s by appealing to a shared political and ideological heritage of democracy and western superiority. The entertainment of the 20’s is completely different from the entertainment of today. The 20’s were known as the "Jazz Age." This decade was known
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Americans encountered a whole new outlook on life in the 1920’s. They were no longer of a single‚ quiet opinion. The different experiences during the war meant that once everyone was together again‚ viewpoints would change of what certain groups of people stood for. The role of women and how they now took control of their lives‚ new inventions‚ and different morals of Americans all accumulated to the new lifestyle of the United States. With their husbands gone to war‚ many American women became
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