American Exceptionalism In American History
After learning American history, which acknowledged me a lot of the interesting things, I understand how wonderful the U.S it is. The best thing I see that the American characters such as diverse ethnicities and religions, independence and freedom, liberty and equality,… which shaped by the powerful union for the better the lives of all immigrants. Therefore, I realize the history that helps me wisely how to fit into the American society like an immigrant.
The notion American Exceptionalism is an abstract theory about the belief of American. By comparing with other nations, American believed that they have the unique characters which contributed distinct national features from other countries. American historians said that “Its uniqueness is explained by any or all of a variety of reasons: history, size, geography, political institutions, and culture.” The word “exception” has two opposite meanings, one is a rare instance, ususual, the other hand one is unusually …show more content…
A new world, America land, provided the conditions and environment that allowed the American Revolution to occur. The American history passed through two times Civil War, the first one is to gain the right to own the slaves and territories and the second Civil war is the right for racial equality. The proceess to freedom of the African American is the most typical movement for Civil Right. In the World War II, million black soldiers were joint up and these soldiers were the beginning of the modern civil rights movement. The Blacks had a lower status than Whites in society in the past centuries, that would have taken place to occur the present if they didn’t fight for justice. At the end, in 1963, they really did win in the Civil Right that arranged the new society with the equality and justice in American
The notion American Exceptionalism is an abstract theory about the belief of American. By comparing with other nations, American believed that they have the unique characters which contributed distinct national features from other countries. American historians said that “Its uniqueness is explained by any or all of a variety of reasons: history, size, geography, political institutions, and culture.” The word “exception” has two opposite meanings, one is a rare instance, ususual, the other hand one is unusually …show more content…
A new world, America land, provided the conditions and environment that allowed the American Revolution to occur. The American history passed through two times Civil War, the first one is to gain the right to own the slaves and territories and the second Civil war is the right for racial equality. The proceess to freedom of the African American is the most typical movement for Civil Right. In the World War II, million black soldiers were joint up and these soldiers were the beginning of the modern civil rights movement. The Blacks had a lower status than Whites in society in the past centuries, that would have taken place to occur the present if they didn’t fight for justice. At the end, in 1963, they really did win in the Civil Right that arranged the new society with the equality and justice in American