There is no denying the fact that the civil rights movement has affected everyone's life in some way or another. If it was Rosa Parks standing up for herself and not moving to the back of the bus or Martian Luther King taking a speech and moving an entire nation. These acts of non-violence civil rights are what the Declaration of Independence should have meant when it stated that all men are created equally. Why did our government over look the minority community for so long, when they knew of all the injustice that was going on.
             The Constitution states that God has given people the right to life, liberty and that pursuit of happiness. That all men are created equally and that no one can takes these rights from us. It also says that people set up a government that are suppose to protect these rights of ours. If they fail to do so the people can get rid of the government and get one that will. If the government continually uses their powers unjustly then it is up to the people to replace the government.
             The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, and lasted until May 26, 1865, when the last Confederate army surrendered. The main reason for war was slavery. Southern states, including the 11 states that formed the Confederacy, depended on slavery to support their economy. Southerners used slave labor to produce crops, work in the fields and trading reasons. Although slavery was illegal in the Northern states, only a small proportion of Northerners actively opposed it. The main debate between the North and the South was whether slavery should be permitted in the Western territories of New Mexico, part of California, and Utah. Opponents of slavery were concerned about its expansion, in part because they did not want to compete against slave labor.
             The first Amendment was the abolish of slavery, which ended up taking Ab...