From: Nekeira Batchelor
Date: 3/20/00
Time: 3:37:07 PM
Remote Name: 205.188.199.46
By the 1830’s the US was a land of equal opportunity in many ways for white males. All white males where being given the same rights and chances regardless of social status. One example of these new opportunities was the Boston exchange hotel, here the average white male could enjoy privileges that had only been available to the upper class in England. All patrons of this hotel received the same treatment and there was a clear break from the “social status” order of doing things. All white males where given the chance to achieve greatness, no longer where positions of power or influence based on social class or primogeniture. Voting was another opportunity that was now being offered to all white males, by the 1820’s most states had removed all voting barriers to white men. This was a time of great opportunity politically also, more public officials where elected and campaigning became a popular election tactic. During the Thirties if you where a white male then there where endless opportunities for you and the wealthier you where the better your chances of succeeding where. There was still a great number of inequalities in the us during the 1830’s and long after that. these new opportunities that had arisen before and during the thirties where only available to white men. Indians, women and blacks where still viewed as inferior and white men had to dominate them in order for them to be valid. The Indians where driven from their homes with no regard for their safety or health, thousands of them died in these mass re-location. They where placed on reservations with strict limitations and left to wither away. Women where looked at as mens property and they stayed home and took on the role of wife and mother, they where their to please the men. Women still did not gain suffrage rights although all white men had. blacks where slaves and their masters held exclusive control over them. They did and went where they where told and even though white servants where allowed to sit at the same tables as their master blacks weren’t even aloud in the building most of the time. so even though the white male had a number of opportunities open to him the general population did not.