Unit VII history help

American History I

Rodney Martinez

11/14/2016

In a consistently vibrant society where men were answerable for intensifying, developing, and engendering an industrialized advancement and the woman was the overseer of the home and brought up children. In America, women lastly got the right to vote in the year 1920; the sway of women movement, civil liberties, triumph over social change and racial egalitarianism were a pre-emptive reason to advocate for women concerns including affirmative action. Even so, the role of women in America changed slowly but surely hereafter the American civil war, the characteristic economic restoration and the World War 1, numerous women activist, were initiating recourses that would guarantee suffrage for African Americans. Before the American woman was looked down upon as inferior to their men, and was expected to raise families, get married and perform household chores, be a diligent parent and spouse. The societal construct that categorizes the social order in a way that men own and manage the affairs of the society, including their women to a level where women were not entitled to vote or to possess property. However, as time went along the Reconstruction and Civil battles; economic, political and social roles of women changed. Some include, job responsibilities changed as rural women transformed into working-class women, even the mode of dressing among others (Weatherford, 2012).

Albeit, it was unusual, for African-American (above all women) to make working incomes; even so societal and economic improvements in the mid-1800s saw an improvement in women reforms and disparities. In the year 1870 the “Women’s Declaration of Independence” was sculpted to advocate for women rights and social changes; the main concerns included, women ought to be be permitted to vote, own property and make wages similar men for similar positions men have in society. Even though the Women's Declaration of Independence" did not achieve equal liberties and rights immediately as thought, it did however aid in driving the agenda of women reform and rights (Weatherford, 2012).

America is particularly known for its virtues of equality, justice, and liberty for everyone, in the 19th century America, at the advent of industrial explosion. The settlers had been advising the state to get rid of Indians from the Southeast region for the reason they were impinging on their lands. The then congressman from Tennessee Davy Crockett utilized his authority to assist white pioneers in the area have their way; President Andrew Jackson acquiesced to the congressional regulation consenting to the removal of Indians in 1830. Choctaw was first to see Indians chucked in the year 1831, closely followed by Seminoles after a fierce brawl with powers that be in the year 1832 and then lastly Cherokee followed in the year1838; The compelled march/trek across Cherokee resulted to the demise of between 4,000-8,000 Indians on what is famously termed as the “Trail of Tears.” The government consciously authorized elimination of over 46,000 Native Americans that gave rise to mass deaths under Jackson’s administration (Mcloughlin, 2014).

The year 1824 election was the main election to that juncture in which there was not a mainstream number of votes garnered by a single aspirant. Consequently, the balloting shifted to the House of Representatives, where all states got one vote. John Quincy Adams, despite being outgained by practically 40,000 votes, earned the presidency, and the drive for the election of the year 1828 instigated almost instantaneously soon after assertions from Andrew Jackson’s enthusiasts purported a “corrupt bargain” between the Speaker of the House Henry Clay and the then elect president John Quincy Adams. This election had a significant influence on government in a developing state as America endeavored to traverse between its pedigrees as a nation and prospect as a democracy (Withers & Jackson, 2016). The Corruption Bargain was a reflective look at the election that transformed the sequence of the American history, probing the question of whether or not America was a republic, or a democracy.

Reference

Mcloughlin, W.G. (2014). After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880. UNC Press

Weatherford, D. (2012). Women in American politics: history and milestones. SAGE Publications.

Withers, P., & Jackson, N. (2016). Henry Clay and the Election of 1844: The Downfall of America’s Greatest Statesmen.