African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... There was not one single kind of Native American, but many. ... One image shows the Native Americans hunting in the open land. ... There was a connection to the earth that the Native Americans felt. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ...

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To get to where America is today they had to kill many Native Americans. ... Native Americans were in fact the first people to live in American. ... As they expanded they had to kill off Native Americans to get the land they wanted. To get to manifest destiny the Americans had move westward which led to Americans having to exterminate multiple Native American tribes. Manifest destiny made Americans so hungry for more land and power that the people of America would do any to gain that land in the west, even if it meant killing off the Native Americas. ...

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Of these groups, the people that fought hardest for rights were women, Native Americans, and African Americans, though women received a few basic rights, Native Americans were driven off of their land, and most African Americans were still abused as slaves. ... Another group greatly affected by the culture of the 1700's was the Native Americans. ... Unlike women, Native Americans only lost rights and freedoms. ... In 1806, there was a very violent confrontation, causing more and more Native Americans to be moved to unfitting areas of the United States. ... After the Revolutionary War, g...

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Native Americans played a big role in American history. ... They then go on to explain in detail what it is that the Native Americans did in history. ... This states that Native Americans really did help the Americans; they just aren't getting any credit for it. ... All the Native Americans really did was protect their own. ... Native Americans weren't just about killing; they also enjoyed making beautiful craft. ...

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Under the presidency of Monroe, the Americans were trying to get rid of the Native Americans so it would make sense that they would attack each other. ... Both the American soldiers and Native Americans had accurate costumes and clothing for their time period. ... This film would look more realistic if it took place a couple of decades earlier at the start of the Native American removal period starting around 1830. ... Dunbar had to be peaceful and cooperate with the Native Americans if he were to integrate himself into their culture. ... All the conflict between the whites and Native American...

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Rank 8: American Indians The lowest in rank which who fared the least was the Native American Indians, the first among the American people. ... This clash of cultures between the Native Americans and the western settlers caused a mixed interest in land ownership. ... The constant war between the western settlers and the Native Americans caused many treaties to be signed and caused the creation of the Daws Act, which was the attempt to "Americanize Indians". While attempting to fight with native weapons against a heavily armed American society many to most native's that fought, had died i...

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Many American headed west in order to mine for gold. As they made their way to he west coast they often trampled many Native American territories. In the process of trampling through Native American territories, they were often attacked as the Native Americans were trying to live their lives and the whites were invading there land. ... During this time is when the cowboys played a big part in American history. ... When they came to America they were usually poor because they had came from poor counties, and were willing to work on American farms for very low wages. ...

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Every American president has made good and bad decisions. ... Jackson pushed for the passing of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which provided for the resettlement of all Native Americans from east of the Mississippi to the west of the Mississippi. ... The Indian Removal Act promised money and reserved land to the Native Americans who gave up their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River. ... These Indians were not legally removed, however, because Andrew Jackson had defied the Supreme Court ruling of Worcester v Georgia, which opposed the forced relocation of the Native American nation...

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Irish, Mexicans, Italians, and Native Americans have all been exploited throughout our history. However, only African Americans had the laws that forced them to be demoralized. ... African-Americans were not the only group persecuted in this country. Just as mentioned earlier, there are many groups that were persecuted; therefore, if we give reparations to blacks then where must we draw the line with Italians, Irish, Mexicans, and Native Americans? ... He almost contradicted himself in the article with respect to Mexicans, Irish, Native Americans, and Italians because it is clear that mayb...

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The Battle at Manila Bay took place on 1 May 1898 and was the first major engagement of the Spanish-American War. ... The United States had no proximate enemies, other than the Native Americans resistance in the heart of the United States which could only be controlled by land warfare due to the Native Americans not having any large bodies of water nor any naval war knowledge in the slightest. ... "As the American captains came aboard, one by one, they reported the absence of casualties. ... From the start of the Battle, even Montojo knew that this American fleet would surely defeat his ...

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The United States of America was founded as a country where "all men are created equal". ... Slavery was a pesky issue that was second to issues like manifest destiny, Native American problems, and foreign issues. ... This bill was ruled unconstitutional and was never passed but it had a lingering effect in Congress and on the American people. ...

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Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States of America. ... He was a General Commander who led many American soldiers to victory. ... These jobs Andrew Jackson had changed America. ... This battle was greatly won by the Americans because of Jackson's leadership. ... A stated on, "Whitehouse.gov," Jackson forced relocation of Native Americans which was a horrible thing. ...

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He regularly used the N word, and openly supported a policy of recolonizing, deporting, African-Americans to Africa. In 1854 he said his "first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia; to their own native land.". ... This is especially true in the case of the American Civil War. ...

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Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. ... Subsequent writers on the American Civil War looked to several factors explaining the geographic divide, including sectionalism, protectionism, and state's rights. ... These four doctrines comprised the major ideologies presented to the American public on the matters of slavery, the territories, and the U.S. ... In the world of 19th century self-made Americans, growing in prosperity, population and expanding westwa...

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""Men with wives and sisters filled their letters with references to protecting "the fair daughters of my own native state from Yankee outrage and atrocity."" (20). ... The South felt that America would fall apart without slavery, "this country without slave labor would be completely worthless If the Negroes are freed the country is not worth fighting for We can only live & exist by that species of labor: and hence I am willing to continue to fight to the last." (48). ...

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The first quatrain draws upon her new self as an American. ... As an African American woman slave, Wheatley had to read only what was thoughtfully handed down to her by white Americans. ... Wheatley's skillfully chose to write in a level that was at her audience's caliber; "and it must be borne in mind that she was neither reading, nor writing, nor speaking to her audience in her native language," (Kafka 46). ... Phillis Wheatley used double meanings to speak what was otherwise unspeakable from her position as an African American woman slave in Revolutionary America. ... She parallel...

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This canal would link the Atlantic Ocean to the middle of America. ... Cotton is native to tropical regions, making the southern states of the U.S a perfect breeding ground. By 1830 America was producing half the world's cotton. ... Tubman was one of America's first civil right activists. ... Now, no Africans Americans is safe anywhere. ...

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The Ku Klux Klan was a notorious racial group that would commit hate crimes against people of African-American, Jewish, and Catholic decent. They came to power after the American Civil War. ... The Klan's first main goal was to stop the African American's from voting. ... This was a major downfall for the southern males who did not like the idea of African Americans being granted the right to vote. ... I swear an unqualified allegiance: First to the White Race throughout the world: Second to my native country. ...

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Even though Lincoln was given credit for freeing the slaves and amending the constitution for African American rights, does not mean that he believed blacks were just as equal to his superior white race. ... While African Americans obviously take offence to this word, the professor considers it to be an exception since he is the "Great Emancipator" and The Champion of Black Slaves."6 Additionally, Fred Douglass, a prominent African American orator of the 1800's, did similar actions when speaking of Abraham Lincoln. ... On august 21, 1858, Lincoln gave a speech in Ottawa, Il...

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Davis was an American author and journalist and was a pioneer of American Realism and one of the most influential writers in the 19th century. ... Her story started her path to American literary realism. Davis wanted to affect social change for blacks, women, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working class by intentionally writing about the struggle of these groups. ... Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. ... Journal of American Literature 49 (1977-78): 70-85. ...

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The newly "United States" now had a mission this mission was Manifest Destiny, to eventually cover an area soon to span from one great ocean to another and Americans believed it was their God given right. ... " Much as we abhor the war of "criminal aggression" in the Philippines, greatly as we regret that the blood of the Filipinos is on American hands- this excerpt from the Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League shows that the United States tries to follow the good neighbor policy although if felt necessary actions will be taken. ... Before we tried to culturally change the Nati...

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There are many cliches about having the best of both worlds but what exactly does that mean. Some people are born into different worlds and many times they are not truly accepted into either. In the historical biography, Halfbreed, David Halaas and Andrew Masich tell the story of George Bent. Georg...

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He was a native from the South. ... Later that year General George McClellan lost to President Lincoln and Johnson became the vice-president of the United States of America. ... On April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson became the seventeenth president of the United States of America, due to the assassination of president Abraham Lincoln. ... He was wrapped in an American flag and laid on a copy of the Constitution. ...

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There are many movies made illustrating many different aspects of American wars, good and bad. The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ... The Americans, on the other hand, felt that they had rights and they did not particularly care for the ranks and hierarchies from their native England (Conroy). ... America was no longer a truly British nation, so they decided to break away. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ...

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"This decision contributed to rising tensions between the free and slave states just before the American Civil War." ... Since he was a native of New York, Scott's lawyers could only file suit in the federal judicial systems, which again ruled against Scott. ... The American public responded extremely robust to the Dred Scott Decision. ...

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