In 1882, the government passed the Chinese Exclusion act, barring Chinese immigrants from entering the US. Though immigrants built the United States, some immigrants were eventually deemed undesirable by the predominantly white population. Again in the 2008 presidential election, the first woman, Sarah Palin, was on the vice presidential Republican ticket.ĥ. Still, however, women are rarely in high level positions. And so it went until the 1970s and 1980s, when women finally started to go to the workplace without the push of a world war. But when the men returned home again, they were sent back to the homes. When the 1940s rolled around and American men were called to war, the women were called into the factories and the military desk jobs. But once there was no longer a need for women in men's jobs, they were pushed back into the home. They began to flock to the workplace in the 1910s and 1920s due to WWI and the Roaring 20s. After women were given the vote, however, they still were not equal to women. The fight for women's sufferage had started much earlier with first wave feminism, beginning with movements such as the Seneca Falls convention and the Declaration of the Rights of Women. Regardless of race or socioeconomic standing, women were denied sufferage as a group until the 19th amendment in 1920. The country is still home to groups like the Ku Klux Klan, which means there is still some oppression to eradicate.ģ. Still, it took another 43 years before America would elect its first black president, Barack Obama. It wasn't until the civil rights package in 1965 that African Americans had protection written in law against discriminatory things like the Jim Crowe laws. They were denied access to establishments, couldn't mingle or share public spaces, and generally could not enjoy life as white people could. And yet, African Americans were still oppressed. And even after the 13th amendment, which ended slavery, and the 14th amendment, which guaranteed rights to all American citizens, and 15, which guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race or previous condition of servitude.
They suffered horribly in slavery, with families being separated, being whipped, and humiliated.
In 1789, it was written into the constitution that African Americans would be counted in census's as three-fifths of a person. Starting in the 1600s, American colonists brought Africans to the colonies in order to serve as labor. This was the largest portion of the American population that was kept in bondage, and even after their freedom was granted, it took 100 years before their rights as American citizens were protected.
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