In 1626, the population of Manhattan Island was 270. ... The Company then created outposts in South America, which led to the Company's demise. ... Before the British took over in 1664, blacks made up 20% of the population. ... The population was increasing because of migration and immigration. Under British control, the population grew to over 5,000 people in 30 years and with it the economy grew as well. ...

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Racism occurs daily in America. ... Racism has been in America for ages. Even in the beginning ages of America Racism occurred. ... The whites killed off a mass population of the Natives mostly because of there race. America even to this day still has racist people. ...

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The huge tracts of fertile land and abundant natural resources in the West drew more than much attention from the ever growing Eastern population. ... Native Americans were actually not given many choices. ... On their way to the Indian territory, nearly 1/5 of the population died from exposure, sickness and starvation. ... Like the African American population, many were placed in segregated schools with inferior educational resources, barred from restaurants, movie theaters, bathrooms, and public swimming pools, and denied the possibility of living in white neighborhoods. ... However, all th...

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African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... With the large bison population, natives used unique ways to lure and kill them. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ... In the early eighteenth century slaves made up more than seventy percent of the population in only South Carolina, and those slaves lived on holdings of more than twenty-five (Kolchin, 31). As the eighteenth century went on, slaveholdings became much more important and slaves...

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When the blacks came to North America they were not slaves. ... They had to established ties in North America, like the native, and were thus easier to enslave and used for white purposes . ... This of course justified the white peoples continued enslavement of the black population. This racial knowledge held by the white population of the time allowed these white individuals that profited economically to continue with their subjugation of the black population. ... These various stereotypes exaggerated and reduced the characteristics of the black people of North America...

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A young African American man is about to make a decision that will dictate and impact the rest of his life. ... All of these statistics show how much the minority population is being discriminated against. While helping the minority population, there is some backlash that is occurring against the white portion of our population. ... In general, African Americans and Hispanics continue to be in the back of the pack compared to the white population. Asian Americans are still at the head of the pack while Native Americans are rounding up the flank at the end. ...

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The Civil War was perhaps the most momentous event in American history. ... They became two nations: The United States of America (known as the Union and the North) and The Confederate States of America (known as the South or Rebels). ... African-Americans was thought to lack intelligence and political capacity. ... In 1860 there was a census on the population of the eleven rebel States. ... In two of the states blacks were a majority of the whole population. ...

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Mainly due to the fairness in society, in which each American has equal opportunity. ... Overall educational attainment levels in the population over time provide an indicator of the success of different population subgroups. ... White Flight is one reason why we as Americans could never be equal. ... Purposively, blacks make up 13% of the population, and only 1% of the population spends their money on black owned corporations. ... What is this American dream we so determinedly struggle to attain? ...

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But, what happens when the law enforcer turns out to be the lawbreaker by targeting African Americans for traffic stops? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... According to the Bureau of Justice Standards (2001), among licensed drivers 12% of the black population and 10% of the white population was pulled over, (keeping in mind there are only 35 million blacks in the U.S. compared to 210 million whites). ... According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the prison population in the past decade has s...

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Most blacks in America were slaves on plantation-sized units in the seven states of the South. ... Virginia's slave population reaches 200,000, up from over 100,000 from 1756. ... By the American Revolution, 20 percent of the overall population in the thirteen colonies was of African descent. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. ... The majority, but not all, of these African-Americans were slaves. ...

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Absurdity in Misguided Logic: Slavery Reparations During on of the darkest periods in American history, America fought itself over one of the most controversial issues ever to be argued: slavery. ... The American government compensated only the immediate families of Japanese Americans who served in internment camps during World War II with money and recognition of suffering. The American slave population, at its height, was almost four million people. ... America has no room for such selfish rude actions as this. ... Slavery reparations are not right and will never be right in America. ...

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African Americans, Hispanics, Caucasians, and Asian Americans are all primary examples of racial groups. Some of these groups are in the majority, mainly meaning the whites, while others are in the definite minority in the United States, such as African Americans. Statistics show drastic differences concerning population percentage between these particular groups. For example, in terms of percentage of total population, in 1990, whites made up 80.3% of the population, while African Americans made up only a mere 12.1%.... With an average salary of under $7,500 a year, high ma...

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America is a nation of immigrants. ... The largest ethnic group is the British one representing 15% of the American population, on the second place are the Germans with a percentage of 13% and 11% are blacks. As a result of this mixture many Americans don't identify themselves ethnically because they can't. ... Each ethnic group had its own era when it came to America; so that the Irish came in 1850, Jews half century later, and Mexican-American half century after the Jews. ... The American beer industry was created by the Germans. ...

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Not only did African Americans start jazz, but some of the best jazz musicians were African American. ... It was a celebration of the unique culture of African Americans, and gave the world a new view of African American expression. The Harlem Renaissance changed African American identity and history, but it also changed American culture in general. Never before had so many Americans read the thoughts of African Americans, or were interested in the productions, views, and styles of African Americans. ... During the twenties, though, Chicago's African American population grew by 148 p...

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The fight for independence for African Americans in America did not end with President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. ... Tyler's book, "African-American Life in Louisville. ... African Americans found success in a variety of offices, like Dr. ... Even large modern day companies employed African Americans throughout the 1900's, like Walgreens which even managed to employ African Americans during the Great Depression. ... African Americans in Louisville were in no different situation in the struggle against racial segregation as the rest of the Unit...

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Prison Literature in America. ... The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. ... In the last two decades the population of black male inmates grew three times as fast as the number of black men enrolled in higher education. ... In a country less than 13 percent blacks, one half of the prison population is African American. ... Goods and services must be provided to keep imprisoned populations alive. ...

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And by that, I mean America-hating, fanatical, religious extremists. ... Do they have more Arabs in their population than the US? ... It's just that Canada recognizes the diversity of their population. ... How can one group stand up and ask the rest of the population to follow them because they are right? ... Sticking to biases only creates more divisions and hatred amongst the population. ...

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Describe the disadvantages that Black American's faced in the early 1950's Black American's faced a series of disadvantages in the early 1950's.They ranged from having to use different restrooms that white people all the way up to fearing for their lives in case the Ku Klux Klan showed up. ... The majority of the black population moved north to the Northern states because there was more jobs and "freedom" for them there.Freedom was not the case though, there was still racism in the North although it was small in comparison to the racism in the South .The blacks had overc...

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It is not that Blacks do not have the opportunity to become wealthy or rich, but, as discussed in class, the "American Dream" was not meant for Blacks, minority, and women. The "American Dream" was intended for the White male to succeed in America. ... The percentages of the Black population that are wealthy are those who play a professional sport or those who graduate to become doctors or lawyers. ...

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African American's Great Migration to a better Economy and Freedom After the Reconstruction era the African American's population changed in the south during the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... This caused the African American populations to change in the South quite drastically and changed the population in the other area's to change drastically too. The Jim Crow laws were a big reason why the African Americans moved. ... Many African Americans found this as an advantage to change their economy. ... Soon the Whites would lessen the African American control on these tow...

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The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... The elite class changed African Americans status by separating them from the rest of the population. ... From 1642 African Americans began to be sold for life because the were more "profitable" than whites. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...

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The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... The elite class changed African Americans status by separating them from the rest of the population. ... From 1642 African Americans began to be sold for life because the were more "profitable" than whites. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...

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I will be doing an essay on African American theater history. ... The origination of African American theater began back in the 1830's and was America's most popular entertainment during that time. African American people that liked to perform could easily get into it. ... Harlem was called the Negro capital of the world, because of its large black population. ... Freedom Theater is Pennsylvania's oldest African American Theater. ...

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The Caucasian or white population in the story were one of the prejudice groups. ... Johnson also talks about the fire bombings of Black Americans that moved into "white neighborhoods". The Prejudice white people were the modern Gestapo of America. The Black American blue-collar workers also believe that they are being held down by the white-collar workers who are the white business men. ... If the white people would try to understand the black population and if the Black Americans would understand each other and the white people, we would have a utopia. ...

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This is symbolic of the African Americans' fight for equality. It represents the struggle they endured, to be accepted as equals with the american white population's society , upon the abolition of slavery. Blindly, this nation's black population fought, not always knowing what for, just as the boys in this story fight. ... This is representative of the how our nation's white population treated African Americans for many years. ... It is representative of the many struggles and hardships that this nation's African American population endured throughout their history s...

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