The Abolitionist Movement and The Civil Rights Movement

Throughout the history of the United States, many reform campaigns have formed a culture where we live today. The right we enjoy today as an American can be attributed to those who strive for more rights and better lifestyles. The two reform campaigns that changed the United States were an abolition movement and a civil rights movement. In around the year 1820, the awareness of legal slavery had changed in the United States. The southern depended on slaves to harvest crops Northern believed that slavery is unconstitutional and immoral and cruel.

Graduate, you are an heir in every aspect of our historical civilization movement. This is you - no generations - no generations - no, not mine, Johnson, Montgomery Blair and Abraham Lincoln, not Tom Paine and Thomas Jefferson - Today people are wearing hats and robes. We know you - you are our children - we know that you will carve America's best ideals in your heart and spirit. When you consider yourself a legal status of an American democratic enthusiast, you will be confident in our future.

The background of the civil rights movement was an abolition campaign before the civil war. The abolitionists believe that slavery is morally wrong and I hope that it will be over. Prior to the Civil War, many northern states had made slaves illegal. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln released slaves through the Liberation Declaration. After the war, slavery became illegal with the thirteenth revision of the US Constitution. After the end of the Civil War, many southern countries continued to regard African Americans as second-class citizens. They enforced the law to distinguish between blacks and whites. These laws are known as Jim Crow Law. They need to separate schools, restaurants, toilets and cars based on the color of the human skin. Other laws prevented many blacks from voting