Prior experience with U.S History..week 1

The last time I took a U.S History class was my junior year in high school. Luckily I passed the class with an A. My History teacher was a great teacher she really helped u understand how the U.S developed over the year; such as when the rail roads were built and also who built them. Many people don’t know about the braceros working here and helping the U.S become more modernize. So I guess you can say I do remember some of the things a learned. I think what I remember the most are the fun facts that my teacher used to just tell us out of nowhere. I think it’s because I'm really good at remembering important dates. I think that’s pretty much all the experience that I’ve had with US. History. But my senior year I did take a government and economics class in which we talked a lot a little more about the U.S history. Both these classes were very interesting because we talked a lot about the 14 amendments and the U.S constitution and about some really famous court cases; such as brown vs. board of education. We would also analyze cases in which we had to figure out whether it followed the 14 amendments and to make sure that it protected citizens’ rights. We also learned a lot about the Miranda rights and how everyone that is a citizen has them, everyone should know their Miranda rights they are very important. Another important fact that we learned was about slavery and how slavery started and how it ended. I think slavery is a great part of history and for black people it’s a mayor change. Everyone should be treated the same no one should be treated differently just because of the fact that they look different from the “average” person. Which by the way there is no average person everyone is different in their own unique ways and everyone has the right to think and view things differently. No one should be outcast because of their point of view in a certain topic everyone thinks different. Overall history is very important everyone should know at least bits about it because it makes us who we are today. Thanks to our ancestors we have freedom of speech and religion, trials and laws that are not bias. We should be thankful that here in the US we have that because in other places such as North Korea and Cuba, people there don’t have half of the rights that we have they are controlled by their government which is a sad thing to watch. But here in the US we don’t have to worry about that, even though some people may argue that some rights are bias or that some laws are unfair to certain people. Well laws are passed by majority vote so for most people those laws are just fine. History is a very interesting topic that everyone should care and learn about, I personally love it.