African Americans, Native Americans, and women during the American Revolution experience a small amount of equality. ... The Revolution held no promise for the Native Americans. Territorial expansion was one problem Native Americans faced during this time. ... Native Americans attempted to retain their identity in spite of the Revolution's promise of a changed nation. ... Native Americans did not experience any benefit as the blacks and women did during this time. ...

• Word Count: 290
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The two clearly split economic systems did not only affect whites, but also other subordinate racial groups as well; for example, black Americans' suffering under slavery, Native Americans' forcible removal, and Mexican Americans' experience of discrimination all have a lot to do with it. ... However, blacks were not alone; Native Americans experienced even worse situations; they were totally excluded from the Anglo world. ... So, the solution was to drive Native Americans, the indigenous inhabitants, away from their native land, all the way to the Indian Territory, which was l...

• Word Count: 1187
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Americans traveled to Africa to buy its people they did so because African's had strong bodies that will provide the labor plantation owners needed to sustain the American economy. ... When they arrived on American soil in 1839 they were technically free people, and that's the technicality that won them their case. ... Some law officials tend to fear the African American race because they are ignorant when it comes to the logistics of crimes. ... Reading the government's apology in class to the Native Americans still shocks me because it seems as if the government has yet t...

• Word Count: 2862
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

America had also taken a bite from the forbidden fruit. ... The idea of race differences had become an instrumental part of American social structure. ... This event dealt with the genocide of the Native Americans. ... Native American burial mounds and earthworks, discovered in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, became a particular topic of discussion. ... Racial superiority also provided justification for the treatment of slaves, and for the exploitation and genocide of Native Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1439
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. The Native Americans did not consider "white way of living righteous" for them, they were spiritual and had a different outlook on life, and did not want interference from outside world. ... Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely...

• Word Count: 1265
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Native Americans wanted the same as anyone would, peace and freedom for their people. The Native Americans did not consider "white way of living righteous" for them, they were spiritual and had a different outlook on life, and did not want interference from outside world. ... Where he was given a gift from Great Spirits to save the Indian civilization by driving a way the Wasichus from their native land. ... Many people have different views on the persecution of Native Americans, some think that it was all Indians" fault and that they caused their own suffering, which I think is absolutely...

• Word Count: 1273
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These tropes can be seen throughout many of African American works of literature. ... Dubois and is defined in the focus of African American literature and the African American experience as "an individual whose identity is divided into several facets.... African Americans have the task of taking the two selves, the African and American, and combining this person into one. ... Like African Americans, these natives search for identity and live with double-consciousness throughout their lives. ... Among African Americans, the concept of identity is integral to race....

• Word Count: 3543
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The damages African Americans have sustained from White America because of slavery have been agonizing and inhumane. ... African Americans have no native language or any African customs to connect them to Africa. ... Americans should realize the magnitude of slavery consequences on African Americans as a whole. ... Well, America promised African Americans 40 acres and a mule. ... America pays false imprisoned citizens in America. ...

• Word Count: 1165
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

African-Americans, though legal slavery has been abolished for over 100 years, still have not completely achieved the respect and status of the dominant group in the United States. African-Americans had to endure such harsh treatment, but how can any criteria be established by which to grant reparations. ... Though I personally have never been to Africa, I guess because of my comfort in the environment I was raised in, I"d rather be right here in America. In this paper, I will discuss my views on the reparations for African Americans. Africans were seized from their native land, and sold...

• Word Count: 1457
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Approximately one million enslaved African Americans were forced from the upper South to the newly conquered territories of the lower South during the first seventy years of America's existence. African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, inside homes, in the fields, and in manufacturing. ... According to Genovese, slaveholders did not have a pool of potential slaves in their native land, so they went abroad for their slaves. ... The African American and white children were especially in a position to form bonds with each other. ... African American children might a...

• Word Count: 906
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They story began by the immigrants demonstrating their allegiance to America by way of denouncing their homeland. ... The Irish immigrants resented any foreign involvement in their quest to become American. ... Ignatiev then used Thomas Branagan as an example of what living in America could do to one's thoughts. ... " The Union makes no distinction between natives and foreigners. ... The Protestants in America considered the Irish to be a lower class just like they were back in Ireland. ...

• Word Count: 1854
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more accurate.2 Syncretism occurred with the combining of African tradition and Christian principles to create an African-American spirituality specific to its people. ... This conglomeration of ideals to form an authentic African-American spirituality with Christian and African overtones has been descri...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural birth that emphasized the artistic and intellectual abilities of African Americans. ... Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. Beginning in the colonial period, African Americans provided most of the labor on which European settlement, development, and wealth depended, especially after European wars and diseases decimated Native Americans. ... America in the 1920s, however, made reconciliation elusive. ... African American musician...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This broadened the law to include any American agency or business that received federal assistance to abide by the same laws. ... We are now seeing more women, white and black primarily, black men and even the American native Indian in the American workplace. ... Naturally, the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Campaign and NAACP are among the advocacy groups. The American Conservative Union, the Federation for American Immigration Rights and the Color-Blind America Group support the students bringing the lawsuit. ... Forcing the hand of the white men in America to ...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These writings really get into specifics regarding the treatment of African-Americans in terms of gender and color during this time period. ... These phrases have their philosophical foundation in the Abolition Movement of the early nineteenth - century America. ... Double-consciousness refers to the idea that the Negro in America must look at himself through the lens of a white person, or in other words take on the consciousness of the white American, as well as his native identity. ... Education was very specific to white culture and widely denied to Blacks in America. ... He would always...

• Word Count: 1740
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Robert Beverley's "The History and Present State of Virginia"," is important to the study of the origins of slavery as the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America. ... The ignorance and prejudice he encountered in England motivated him to correct the "strangely cruel1 " reputation American servitude had. ... However the elastic slave supply made shipment to the Americas merely a rational economic decision13. ...

• Word Count: 1094
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many ethnic minorities, such as blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans, wouldn't have been in college if it hadn't been for the affirmative action plan.. ... Affirmative action originally began in the United States to remedy the past discrimination against minorities, particularly African-Americans. ... Eventually, these laws expanded to incorporate women and other ethnic minorities including American Indians and Hispanics. ... In colleges across the country, African-Americans and Hispanics are being admitted at the expense of Caucasians and Asians with higher standardized test s...

• Word Count: 2072
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

s existence saw whites enslave and oppress blacks, Native American and other minorities. ... The purpose of affirmative action is to increase the admissions rates of minorities that are under-represented in America's colleges. ...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Colonization of Africa by European countries has had an engrossing impact on the continent. From bringing in diseases to establishing key infrastructure, colonialism has created this everlasting effect that still has a significant influence on African societies today. The issue of race, however, can...

• Word Count: 2491
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate