Assimilation has been more successful for white ethnic groups than for nonwhite ethnic groups.The Americans of African decent have had the greatest trouble with becoming assimilated into the larger culture.African Americans were brought here by force, not by will. They were also sold off as slaves.Except for the Native American Indian tribes who inhabited the US before the white settlers arrived, other ethnic groups came here voluntarily and the biggest reason is because they wanted better living conditions.Slavery is a historical event in our nation’s past. The enslavement of African-Americans was a contradiction of all of the basic American values and beliefs. Values such as freedom and equality of opportunity.The US was then divided into two different sections, the southern and the northern states. The southern states were slavery primarily was a distinct thing, which became the basis of the economy.On the other hand, the northern states chose to make slavery against the law.The majority of the northerners believed that freedom and equality of opportunity needed to be protected for whites only, but they were afraid that black slavery would eventually take away their economic freedom.Lincoln’s argument was that if slavery continued to spread westward, white freedom and equality would be threatened. He also believed that basic ideals such as freedom of opportunity had to apply to all people, black and white, or they would not last as basic American values.When Lincoln became president in 1860, the southern states left the union and tried to form their own nation of their own based on slavery.In result, the Civil war broke out between the south and north. It turned out to be the bloodiest and most destructive of all the nation’s wars. When the north won, black slavery ended in the United States.Although slavery ended, African-Americans were not assimilated into the larger culture. Most remained in the south, where they weren’t allowed to vote and were legally segregated from whites.Black children weren’t allowed to go to school with whites and many received a poor education, which resulted in not being able to have an equal opportunity to compete in the white-dominated society.Many former slaved and their families became caught in a cycle of poverty and it’s continued for generations.Although conditions were much worse in the south, blacks continued to be victims of racial prejudice in the north as well as in the south.
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