1815 To 1850 Dbq Essay

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From 1815 to 1850 many groups such as women and African-Americans faced daily struggles to live and were treated unfairly like the Constitution was meant to. Many movements were created to bring awareness but failed because the government did not listen. The United States extremely did not fulfill the ideals of the Declaration of Independence for all the people by 1850 because women and African-Americans did not the same rights as other group living during this time. Women did not have political or social rights and African-Americans should not have political, social or economic rights when living during the 1850s. The ideals of the Declaration were not fulfilled because women did not have equal political or social rights. According to …show more content…

This document states what they weren’t allowed to do and the rights they did not have and what rights men and against them. Also according to document 4, a speech at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in 1851 the claim is the same as document 3 which was that all men and women were created equal but the women were still treated unfairly and did not have the same amount of rights as others. “And ain't I a woman? I have had thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?” The Declaration states that all men and women are created equal but this quote shows in the speech there are examples of how women have little rights about what happens in their own life and how someone else chooses it …show more content…

According to document 3, digital history, growth of the African-American population in 2016 the claim shows that when the population of African-Americans have increased so have the number of slaves that are African Americans over 40 years, this shows that this group of people were treated unfairly because more and more people have became slaves other that free men. The number has increased by over 2 million African-American slaves over 40 years This is just one way to show that they did not have equal political, social, or economical rights as free men. Also according to document 4 Charles Mackay, life and Liberty in America: or sketches of a tour in the United States and Canada in 1857-1858 London 1859. ”We shall not make the black man a slave; we shall not buy him or sell him; but we shall not associate with him.” Through his observation he was able to see that even free men were not treated equally like the Declaration was meant to do. they had no social rights and no one in the north would talk to them even if they were free men their political, social, and economical rights were threatened in the North. Finally according to document 5 anti-slavery Almanac, a northern free man enslaved by Northern hands 1839, this picture depicts how free free black man was attacked and brought into slavery when he shouldn't have been. “Peter John

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