US History

Maria Aguirre Professor Nejad May 28, 2014 Democracy and the U.S

Moyers compares the study of history to ?the view in the rearview mirror. ?In what ways is this quote an apt comparison?

Slavery, in the history of the US, was a source for change for American society, politics, and the economy. This response paper answers how slavery shaped social and economic development in the United States before the Civil War.

HISTORY STILL MATTERS Bill Moyers I am fascinated by what I see in the rear view mirror of experience. The future, being a mystery, excites, but the past instructs. When I was a student at the University of Texas, one of the favorite campus legends concerned a professor of anthropology, whose great power was in bringing the past alive through his brilliant lectures on the ascent of the human species. Once, when he had been holding forth on a certain phase of evolution, a student in the rear of the room raised his hand and said, "Professor, I just don't see what difference it would have made if my great- great-great grandfather had been an ape." And the professor shot back: ~It would have made a significant difference to your great-great-great grand- mother."

The Second Inaugural Address of Lincoln Saturday, March 4, 1865 President Lincoln?s purpose for delivering the Second Inaugural address ? this formal ceremony marks the beginning of his second term presidency. President Lincoln had two major items in his agenda. One, the slavery (Emancipation Proclamation - Thirteenth Amendment) as a central issue of the Civil War (He viewed the Civil War as a punishment from God for the national exploitation of colored slaves); and he also kept in mind the Nation and possible reunification and reconciliation between the North and the South (Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction).