reconstruction and civil rights

The two different Eras were very different in the treatment of African-Americans. There was a lot more violence during the Reconstruction. While when it was the Civil Rights Era it was pretty much the opposite. African-Americans were being violent in some ways to get their freedom.

Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boulevard_du_Temple_by_Daguerre.jpg

Reconstruction on former slaves

Former slaves were much better off after the Reconstruction Era rather than before the Civil War. They were better off because of how much freedom they had. Still segregated but at least they could do their own thing besides be treated like dirt. The only down side to there freedom was the rise of racism. A lot of southerners who owned these slaves before were not very happy about losing them causing them to hate all African-Americans and made a drastic rise in violence towards other races.

Souths amnesty

The south should have been granted amnesty because they just made a mistake and not everyone agreed with it.  If we did not grant the south amnesty things could have gotten worse because some people would not agree with it.

Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln did not have to worry so much about racism back in his presidency. Most of the concerns in America back in that time were making our Country the best and the only way to do that was to preserve our union. We had to get a stable start in America back then and slaves were the least of the problems.

Stereotypes in scoiety

Stereotypes are so widely known in society because when you look around even in school everyone has their own stereotype . Everyone is so opened to sharing their opinions on each other that it makes it almost impossible to not know what a or even what your stereotype is.

Thoreau

What I think Thoreau meant in this quote was that a government with few regulations will have less troubles and will have the happiest society. Happiness matters most in a society because if no one is agreeing with what is going on they will not work as hard and mostly revolt against the government. I completely agree with this statement because when you look at America compared to other countries, you see a lot less happy people and a lot more poverty in the other countries.