History of Civil Rights

History of civil rights in America

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1 (A ) What are the reasons that made colonialists to exploit slave labor (b ) Why slavery was considered inhuman and why was it abolished

2 (a ) What are the factors that contributed to the emergence of civil rights in the United States of America (b ) In what ways did the African Americans fight for their civil rights

3 (c ) What was the role of the federal government in the fight for civil rights (b

) What were the constitutional changes that were made to guarantee the civil rights for the Blacks

The history of civil rights can be attributed to the slavery business that took place sometimes back in the 17th century . To be precise , this business started in North America at Jamestown , Virginia in may 1607 . It was the severity of the harshness that was directed to the slaves by their colonial masters that precipitated to the demand for civil rights This chapter of civil rights was closed with the enactment of civil rights act of 1964 which was spearheaded by Martin Luther King junior

Civil rights trace their origin to slavery when slaves were mistreated by their masters . Slavery as I mentioned earlier , started in Jamestown Virginia in a place where there were a lot of hills and climate was of the harshness of this environment that there appeared one of the great sectional differences in American history . This happened because the north stopped relying on slaves and started harnessing the Yeoman laborers who mostly worked for money freely without being forced to work in these plantations but on the other hand , the southerners who relied on slaves were against the moves being advanced by the North

The Africans who were got from Central and Southern Africa (Feelings T , 1995 ) were taken in chains to what later came to be referred to as the southern United States . They provided cheap and reliable labor as well ad agricultural products to the southern America . They were the main contributors to the economic growth of the South . During the independence declaration period in 1776 , there were about half a million blacks in American colonies . The agitation for human rights started when Thomas Jefferson who dealt with slaves in Virginia condemned the human slave trade . His sentiments were downplayed so as to win support of the Southern colonies in the fight against Great Britain

The issue of slavery was confronted well in USA 20 years after the constitution was drafted . This happened in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1787 when the federal constitution was being drawn . It was agreed that slavery would continue on condition that each slave would be counted as 3 /5 of a person for the sake of knowing the number of representatives each stat e could have in the lower house , the national congress and in the house of representatives

The gap between the South and the North continued to widen all through the 1800s due to...