The Revolutionary War provided black people in America with opportunities. ... The Revolution did not end slavery or inequality but it allowed for some civil rights in America. ... Women expanded their involvement in the war and gained new responsibilities which permitted them to gain equality. ... Territorial expansion was one problem Native Americans faced during this time. Indians began to incorporate European tradition in their lives and relied somewhat on the American economy. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... Before the Civil War Era, slavery was very widespread, but not as widespread as many may think. ... Not to be forgotten, the immigrants of this country that came here after the Civil War should absolutely not have to suffer because of 150 year old mistakes. ... During the Civil War, the Union and Confederacy fought over many issues, but the central conflict was slavery. 350,000 Union soldiers gave their lives tryin...

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The main issue in America politics during the years of the late 1840's to the late 1870's was slavery. ... During this time the North was pushing for full emancipation of slavery through the emancipation proclamation. ... If all slaves and free labor were lost at once in the South, cotton could not be harvested and this would bring the fall of the Southern economy. ... Whether people liked it or not the economy was based on the backs of slavery and America needed them to survive. ... Evan after the civil war was finished many slaves stayed on the plantations and continued their ...

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The white minority strongly resisted African majority rule and during the 1940's the Afrikaner National Party sought to mobilize Afrikaner opinion. ... World War II led to increased industrialization in South Africa. This was because importation of European goods was very difficult during the war, and to compensate South Africa began to produce its own consumer goods. ... Instead, it was used as a method of segregation of racial groups that kept non-whites from participating in the economy and in politics. ... In both instances the Group Areas Act benefited the Apartheid economy. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The American Civil War ended the analogous feudal state of slavery. ... Yet, living in poorer areas does not provide the opportunity to move upward in the economy. ... Even Bluestone and Harrison see this as an unhealthy policy for the United States economy, "Growth based on asset appreciation is an extreme form of trickle-down economics, where enormous wealth accumulation by the rich is required to provide the most modest improvements in the incomes of everyone else" (Bluestone & Harrison, 203). ... These top performers are those with the adequate skills needed to survive in the market eco...

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The two historians and myself disagree with Borritt who chooses to write that "it would be more accurate, even if more awkward, to call it the war for the American Dream.8" However, Borritt does not consider that Lincoln once told a friend that his "paramount object [was] the struggle to save the union and it [was] not either to save or destroy slavery,9" therefore demonstrating that he was not committed to the equality of African-Americans in the "de facto" sense. ... Sanders believes "blacks constituted an American underclass in all parts of the United Stat...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Owners of big businesses, such as Carnegie, thought that the increasing size and power was benefiting the entire society and economy because owners saw it as opportunities for unskilled workers to get jobs and make money for their families. ... After attempts at independent political action failed, a loosely knit confederations called Farmers' Alliances were formed during the 1880s. ... It can easily be said that the farmers agreed with Debs; out look on the capitalist system and they did not see the capitalist system as much to salvage and wanted to change it into a fair system between ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She talked thankfully about white women of the North coming and teaching blacks during reconstruction. ... Washington played on a paternal attitude that white southerners had toward black people; when he said the south is the best place for black people to enter the economy. ... Thirty years after the civil war, Washington talking against "agitation" and "artificial forcing" would have been something that the audience would have loved. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate