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With the creation of railroad lines, came the establishment of many settlements for White Americans. This led to the process of the eradication of many Native Americans and their land. Even when treaties were signed, and reservation land was dwindling, America refused to leave the natives alone.
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The 13th amendment outlawed slavery This amendment was the first step towards making formerly enslaved Africans, American citizens. With the abolition of slavery would spur more push-back against progress for African Americans, thus forcing slavery to take on different forms.
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Henry Bram and others on the behalf of the Freedmen Committee wanted to persuade President Johnson to give back the land that the Freedmen had been caring for. Johnson wanted to give back the land to former Confederates that simply had to pledge their allegiance to the United States. The Freedmen's attempt failed, showing that the road to reconstruction was swayed towards a society wouldn't consider the basic needs of those formerly enslaved.
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Gave freedmen the right to vote Another step towards bringing African Americans into the nation that had previously enslaved them. This right was did not deliver freedmen out of discrimination at the polls, protection from racism was not granted in laws passed in Congress.
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President Arthur addresses Congress to discuss how westward expansion created more conflicts with the Native Americans.
The President pointed out what happened when white settlements came a crossed the natives occupying that area; the conflict the new and old created when they collided, brought attention to how consequential the expansion of the U.S. was. Pushing Native Americans out of their land is another way in which white settlers were able to, essentially, conquer the future of America. -
The United States Government was blocking Chinese labors from working or residing in the country. The government cited that civil unrest, they viewed, was because of the Chinese causing unnecessary harm to their American society's workforce. This was an early group of people that was targeted as a supposed threat those that were desperately looking for work; this would continue to be a reoccurring path the U.S. would take.
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The massacre of Sioux peoples displayed the horrors that the US military was willing to unleash upon those native to the country. Turning Hawk and American Horse, part of a Sioux delegation met with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to inform them on how the massacre played out and how it had effected them. This account saw how ruthless the United States government was treating Native Americans, and how isolated the survivors would become.
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett explaining how America is committing the crime of unjustly putting African-Americans to death to a staggering degree.
Lynchings were part of the tactic to scare African Americans for simply being alive. There was a widely accepted notion to see those that were not white, to be a threat to their society, so many took the law into their own hands. With slavery gone, white people had to find another way to oppress those that would want to enter into American society as equals. -
Alice Stone Blackwell publishing reason why women should vote, and addressing criticisms against women's voting rights.
Woman were half of the population yet they weren't able to change their society. The right to vote would give them a powerful tool that should have been shared with them from the beginning. With women fighting towards equal rights, voting would make victory more attainable in modern America. -
The first numerical limits on immigration from countries that contained undesirable individuals. World War 1 grew fears possible threats from immigrants. Quotas were introduced as a way to forcibly limit immigration from countries that they feared would stir unrest in the current way of life. They were harsh, making the quota another hurdle in which migrants were met with, unable to cross. This fear of others slowed integration with the world, making the U.S. isolated, struggling to progress.
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Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans explaining the Second Klan's purpose to reinforce 'Americanism, Protestantism, and white supremacy'. These three principals isolated those who affiliated themselves with The Klan, making everyone else in the world inferior. These people were trying to preserve their place in history, while looking for a way to distance themselves from the world's history. Over time their ideas have survived, but there is a growing opposition to them.
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When it came to assistance to African Americans, this was mostly all they got, a boost in power for laborers. They had to be specifically targeted, because they were still dealing with discrimination, and with the depression, their situation only got worse. With more African American entering the work for, economical help would not be easily obtained, even out of the depression.
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FDR calling for the rounding up of over 120,000 native/foreign-born Japanese people in America. With horrific treatment of the Japanese, America's reputation was once again scarred. The timing of this order is especially disappointing, because one year early FDR enacted Executive order 8802, which prohibited discrimination in the workforce. The internment camps were unfit for humans to live in, showing the neglect for basic human needs to a feared ethnicity.
