Homework help please!!!!!!!!! HISTORY?

Question

I have to answer 15 questions today please help!!!!

I have to defend this statement:

For whites, freedom, no matter how defined, was a given, a birthright to be defended. For African-Americans, it was an open-ended process, transformation of every aspect of their lives and the society and culture that had sustained slavery in the first place.

Answer 1

FALSE

An African American (also Afro-American, Black American) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. Many African Americans possess European, Native American and, to a lesser degree, Asian ancestry as well. In the United States the term is generally used for those of black African ancestry, and not, for example, to European colonial or Arab African ancestry, such as Arab Moroccan or white South African-European ancestry.

The majority of African Americans are the descendants of enslaved Africans transported via the Middle Passage from West and Central Africa to North America and the Caribbean from 1565 through 1807 during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Others have arrived in the United States through more recent immigration from the Caribbean, South and Central America and Africa. Black immigrants from African and European nations and predominantly black, non-Hispanic Caribbean countries such as Haiti (with its strong Afro-Latin, non-Anglo culture), the Bahamas and Jamaica, though often referred to by their national origins and not culturally defined as African American socially, are demographically classified with black and/or African American by the U.S. Census; however in general, the American assumption is that if a person is black, native English-speaking and living in the United States, he or she is African American. Most Caribbean people or "dark" skin will identify with black since it has no connotation of culture, but they will not identify with African-American. Most people in Latin American of African features and "dark" skin identify as black and are referred to as "black" until they encounter US census statistics that redefine their culture and racial categories to American standards. This continuous redefining and mixing of racial and ethnic categories as one form of identity in America (e.g. black and Caribbean as African-American, Indian in appearance and 3rd generation Caribbean as Asian) continue to dominate Americans' view of "bi-racial" and "multi-racial" but are not reflective of the views of those being classified of Caribbean or Latin American origins (birth).

Until the events of the American Civil War (1861–1865) and, in particular, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865) resulted in the abolishment of chattel slavery in the United States, most Blacks in America were slaves.

Both during and after slavery times, African Americans have made significant contributions to American culture. Their influence has been particularly obvious in popular music and dance—some American musical genres, such as blues, jazz, and hip hop are essentially African American, and the dance forms associated with them are of largely African American origin—but is also enormous in areas ranging from the vocabulary of vernacular American English to religion and theology, both in American Protestantism and American Islam.

During slavery times, and again during the Jim Crow era, African Americans were subject to de jure segregation and discrimination and were kept almost entirely out of political power. The African-American Civil Rights Movement scored a series of victories from the 1940s into the early 1970s that put an end to de jure segregation and discrimination, made inroads against de facto segregation and discrimination, increased opportunities for African Americans to enter the middle class, and brought African American voices into American politics.

Answer 2

You cannot defend this statement. It is false. I suppose you could lie. Freedom has never been a given except for a select few...never for an entire race. Every race has been enslaved at some time or another. Never has an entire race been enslaved. If you are going to defend this statement, it will have to be for a very narrow band of history and culture.

Answer 3

History is part of the human experience.That entails inventions from a different time being used in a current fashion. Take for instance, the mass production line that had been invented 100 years earlier. The wheel is older than dirt. He used that to make his car. The automobile first came out in the 1870's.The wheel to steer the auto came from ships, that also has been around a bunch of years.Rubber for the tires is also a part of history. No history no cars.

Answer 4

Talk about the different rights that whites and blacks have had throughout the course of American history. You can start off with the "white man's burden" superiority complex, work into slavery, and then how civil rights have changed throughout the course of history. OR... just use your notes from class :-P.

Answer 5

All person are meant to betreatedequally. White people should hang their heads in shame. There is no way I could honestly defend this statement.