As a final assessment for my literacy class this term, I wrote a poem about the American history through different articles that I read in class. I hope you enjoy reading it 🙂
It started off with one rhythm
Americans Citizens
They experienced love, scarcity, depression, success
They tried to fight for their liberty or else for death
“Give me liberty or Give me death”
Patrick Henry a man with kindness
His rousing speech resolved huge stress
Persuaded his country to battle for what is best
It took a while to escape this mess
Strictly bound under pressure from the British
That’s why they asked for either freedom or death
A year later, they received liberty and began their life with faith.
1781 the story of Native Americans
The story of unfairness has yet to end
Thomas Jefferson a cunning man
His four letters were all intense
He wanted the Indian to give up his land
Like getting rid of the dirty shirt that stuck with stain
His tone started off nice but blaming at the end
He used rhetorical devices to convince Ben
He was acting very gentle but he actually pretend
However assimilation did not happen
And all Indians keep fighting till the end.
Here comes the Civil War, 1861
Split Southerner and Northerner bond
The South needed slaves to work upon
Such growing crops like wheat and corns
The North was anti-slavery and they held on
“Climate was the roots” that split the one
Laws have been made and spread beyond
This whole nation and its phenomenon
Black Africans became the target that the US want
They became property to sell and were put-on
The auction block to be bought
And shipped them out, to the place they did not belong
Fiercely manipulate the Black Africans upon.
Then the immigration was discussed
The U.S. worked to exclude certain immigrants in the past
They need to be physically strong, healthy and fast
The U.S. immigration laws were strict and was difficult to pass
29 probing questions is a difficult task
It’s not like when students playing bluff
And those immigrants have to determine that they can climb up this massive mast
If they make it, their life will be better compare to their past.
And this is just a small part of America’s history, that I learned in class
United States has changed so fast!
AMERICA a country of GROWTH and CHANGE!