Social reconstruction was the most important for the future of the United States.
Quote 1
“The issue of slavery proved especially combustible in the reform-minded antebellum United States. Those who hoped to end slavery had different ideas about how to do it. Some could not envision a biracial society and advocated sending Blacks to Africa or the Cari
ean. Others promoted the use of violence as the best method to
ing American slavery to an end. Abolitionists, by contrast, worked to end slavery and to create a multiracial society of equals using moral arguments—moral suasion—to highlight the immorality of slavery.”(Ch 13.4)
Quote 2
“Members of the ACS did not believe that Blacks and Whites could live as equals, so they targeted the roughly 200,000 free Blacks in the United States for relocation to Africa. For several years after the ACS’s founding, they raised money and pushed Congress for funds. In 1819, they succeeded in getting $100,000 from the federal government to further the colonization project.” (Ch 13.4)
Quote 3
“In the mid-1830s, the sisters joined the abolitionist movement, and in 1837, they embarked on a public lecture tour, speaking about immediate abolition to “promiscuous assemblies,” that is, to audiences of women and men. This public action thoroughly scandalized respectable society, where it was unheard of for women to lecture to men. William Lloyd Ga
ison endorsed the Grimké sisters’ public lectures, but other abolitionists did not. Their lecture tour served as a turning point; the reaction against them propelled the question of women’s proper sphere in society to the forefront of public debate.” (Ch 13.5)
Quote 4
“The Progressive drive for a more perfect democracy and social justice also fostered the growth of two new movements that attacked the oldest and most long-standing betrayals of the American promise of equal opportunity and citizenship—the disenfranchisement of women and civil rights for African Americans. African Americans across the nation identified an agenda for civil rights and economic opportunity during the Progressive Era, but they disagreed strongly on how to meet these goals in the face of universal discrimination and disfranchisement, segregation, and racial violence in the South. And beginning in the late nineteenth century, the women’s movement cultivated a cadre of new leaders, national organizations, and competing rationales for women’s rights—especially the right to vote.” (Ch21.3)
Quotes 5
“The African American civil rights movement made significant progress in the 1960s. While Congress played a role by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the actions of civil rights groups such as CORE, the SCLC, and SNCC were instrumental in forging new paths, pioneering new techniques and strategies, and achieving
eakthrough successes. Civil rights activists engaged in sit-ins, freedom rides, and protest marches, and registered African American voters. Despite the movement’s many achievements, however, many grew frustrated with the slow pace of change, the failure of the Great Society to alleviate poverty, and the persistence of violence against African Americans, particularly the tragic 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Many African Americans in the mid- to late 1960s adopted the ideology of Black Power, which promoted their work within their own communities to redress problems without the aid of Whites.” (Ch 29.3)
Quote 6
During the 1960s, many people rejected traditional roles and expectations. Influenced and inspired by the civil rights movement, college students of the baby boomer generation and women of all ages began to fight to secure a stronger role in American society. As members of groups like SDS and NOW asserted their rights and strove for equality for themselves and others, they upended many accepted norms and set ground
eaking social and legal changes in motion. Many of their successes continue to be felt today, while other goals remain unfulfilled. (ch 29.4)
My topic: Social reconstruction was the most important for the future of the United States.
I have 6 quotes that I found
Following those quotes can you add details following these step below
Also I need an introduction paragraph.
Below are the three steps you need to follow for this exam:
· Identify 6 pieces of evidence (quotations) from the reading that you would use to answer the question you have chosen. Evidence is not an event or a chronology. Evidence is information that supports the interpretation you have set out in your introduction and refined in the specific topic sentence for that paragraph. You need to include the chapter and section number for each piece of evidence.
· Write a series of topic sentences that set up each piece of evidence in your essay. A topic sentence needs to tell the reader the connection between this next step in your argument, and the evidence you intend to use to support your position. The goal is to have the reader be able to read the topic sentences and understand the overall argument. In addition, the topic sentence links the quotation to the overall argument you are making.
· After completing a and b, write an introduction that clearly outlines the question that you have chosen, defines your response to that question, and then goes on to outline the structure of your essay. Even though the introduction appears at the top of the assignment, you should write the introduction last in the process because then you will know what your overall presentation is about. You won’t know what your argument is until you complete steps a and b.