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antebellum
I actually had not heard this word used in a sentence before. If anyone was wondering about the definition - "Occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War."
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coalesced
"Come together and form one mass or whole."
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“the same principle that prompted the white men at Boston, disguised as Indians, to board, during the darkness of night, a vessel with tea, and throw her cargo into the Bay, clothed some of our people in Ku Klux gowns, and sent them out on missions technically illegal. Did the Ku Klux do wrong? You are ready to say they did and we will not argue the point with you. . . . Under the peculiar circumstances what could the people of South Carolina do but resort to Ku Kluxing?”33
It is appalling to me that they would compare an act such as the Boston Tea Party, which was obviously an act of freedom, to the acts of the Klu Klux Klan.
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. southern
Typo :)
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These new arguments often hinged on racism and declared the necessity of white women voters to keep black men in check.26
It pains me that they were trying to get ahead at someone else's expense.
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Now, as Congress debated the meanings of freedom, equality, and citizenship for former slaves,
It still stuns and angers me that they had to think about what freedom meant. Former slaves should have had the same freedoms as white males from the start.
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spate
"A large number of similar things or events appearing or occurring in quick succession."
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apprenticed orphaned children to their former masters,
To me, this is just like slavery. I knew about the black codes, but did not know that this was apart of them.Were they aloud to leave at some point? If so, what age? Under what grounds?
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repudiate
Another word I have never heard of.
"Refuse to accept or be associated with."
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However, the proclamation freed only slaves in areas of rebellion and left more than seven hundred thousand in bondage in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri as well as in Union-occupied areas of Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia.
I never knew this! I thought that the Emancipation Proclamation was effective everywhere, not just in the rebel states.
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malaise,
"A general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify."
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apartheid.
"A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race."
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secession
"The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state."
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pogroms
"An organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe."
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municipal
"Relating to a city or town or its governing body."
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pauperism
"Pauperism (Lat. pauper, poor) is a term meaning poverty or generally the state of being poor, but in English usage particularly the condition of being a "pauper", i.e. in receipt of relief administered under the English Poor Laws."
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Many wage earners had traditionally seen factory work as a temporary stepping-stone to attaining their own small businesses or farms.
It's interesting how this train of thought is still used today. People usually view fast-food jobs as "stepping-stones", but more and more often we see people becoming comfortable with that job, and they stop aspiring for more.
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Hundreds of millions of acres of land and millions of dollars’ worth of government bonds were freely given to build the great transcontinental railroads and the innumerable trunk lines that quickly annihilated the vast geographic barriers that had so long sheltered American cities from one another.
It's amazing to me that no matter what it is, or how much good it will do, progress comes at a price. It's interesting to see throughout history was is deemed worthy of that price, and what is not.
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industrialization created a new America
Could it be argued that this "New America" was not necessarily better? Was all of the poverty, concentrated wealth, and inequality worth it?
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hinterland
"The often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks."
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When British author Rudyard Kipling visited Chicago in 1889, he described a city captivated by technology and blinded by greed. He described a rushed and crowded city, a “huge wilderness” with “scores of miles of these terrible streets” and their “hundred thousand of these terrible people.” “The show impressed me with a great horror,” he wrote. “There was no color in the street and no beauty—only a maze of wire ropes overhead and dirty stone flagging under foot.” He took a cab “and the cabman said that these things were the proof of progress.” Kipling visited a “gilded and mirrored” hotel “crammed with people talking about money, and spitting about everywhere.” He visited extravagant churches and spoke with their congregants. “I listened to people who said that the mere fact of spiking down strips of iron to wood, and getting a steam and iron thing to run along them was progress, that the telephone was progress, and the network of wires overhead was progress. They repeated their statements again and again.” Kipling said American newspapers report “that the snarling together of telegraph-wires, the heaving up of houses, and the making of money is progress.”1
This entire paragraph was very interesting to me because it almost sounds as if these people are brainwashed. "They repeated their statements again and again." They are blind to all the harm industry is doing for the sake of progress. Sound familiar?
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