History

While the revolutions between 1776 and 1783 established the United States, the civil war between 1861 and 1865 is a defining period of the nation’s history. The victory in the war preserved the U.S as a country where everyone has equal rights to liberty and lead to the abolishment of slavery that had, for a long time, divided the country. John Brown was an abolitionist and an extreme opponent of slavery, who believed that words achieved nothing. Although extreme, his actions laid a foundation ...

After World War II in the 1960s, a radicalized Mexican-American Movement began pushing for equal rights and freedom same as the white people. The Chicano Movement began fighting for social justice and civil rights while preserving their heritage and identity as Latinos. Puerto Rican Movement began in the late 1960s to combat US colonialism and domination of the island and the segregation and discrimination suffered by Puerto Ricans on the mainland (Foley, 2017). This paper analyses both movemen...