With the arriving of foreign immigrants to North America from across the Atlantic Ocean, there also came diseases that would soon devastate the Native American population. ... The southern colonies no longer had to worry about the back breaking work needed to be done during harvest time anymore due to the bringing of African slaves to Northern America. ... Working alongside the Native American, Irish, and English servants, slaves eventually drove out the need for their service. ... Major changes within the North American labor system and economy happened due to the trans-Atlantic trade. The ne...

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British North America Thirteen colonies in 1776 came together to revolt against its British rulers in what was to be named in history as the American Revolution. ... This brought about a dramatic increase in population to British North America. ... Not only where direct settlers from Europe taking up lives in British North America but Natives and Blacks were becoming more abundant and prominent in the colonies. Natives saw that during the revolution siding with the British would maintain steady trade and land ownership, while blacks who fought with the British received land grants and f...

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The Tightrope of Power Native Americans in both the US and Canada have been forced by "Americans" to assimilate into society. ... The Native Americans are masters of telling stories. ... The Native Americans carry it close to their hearts. ... Many Native American homes no longer speak their native language; instead they use the English language. ... Society has witnessed a rebirth of Native American cultural ways. ...

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It was a time in which Canadians were referred to as "not Americans" and Canada was referred to as "not America". ... Highway is a native Canadian, and Tremblay is a French-Canadian. ... Each play demonstrates in a unique way the tales of turmoil and tenacity that native and French-Canadians had to go through in order to be accepted as part of a Canadian society. ...

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Throughout this period of time the American colonists, baptized by fire, emerged with increased confidence in their military strength. ... The colonists now native to the Americas had grown accustomed to the colonial way of life and the principles that came with it. During the French and Indian War friction had developed between the old world British regulars, and the more modernized American colonists. ... Unity among all the American colonies during the French and Indian War, where the British and the American colonists fought the French and their Indian allies, was mandatory because a Frenc...

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These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. ... The French settlers, however, had made alliances with the North American natives and established with them the trading of furs and foods. ... However, like the Stamp Act, the Townshend Duties were repealed later in 1767 after much protest from the American colonists. ... The American colonists were quite content for the one hundred and fifty years prior to the mid eighteenth century. ... The American colonists were overwhelmed with British ...

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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. ... As the native population in Canada is not treated with equality and justice, we see the aboriginal community in Canada with poor education, in poverty and substance abuse. ... In 1969 Pierre Elliot Trudeau's government had regulated the White Paper, a legal document that had forbid negotiations with the Natives in regards to their aspirations and rights by removing their Indian status (Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian policy, 1969, Queens Printer). ...

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To understand the process of assimilation a person must understand history and it affects colonization on native culture. ... The relationship had now also become a paternalistic one with legal justification in the British North American Act 1867, which took away "their independent status and made them wards of the Federal Government." ...

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The North America Continent was not the main battlefield of the Seven Years' War, yet the aftermath of the war had significantly altered the situation in the British colonies on the continent. When the war was finally brought to an end, the French Colonial Empire had ceded Quebec, the former New France, to Britain; so the British Empire finally established its hegemony in North America. ... Regardless of the close ties of people and culture with Britain, the colonists started the American Revolutionary War. ... An all-out independent war spreading over the entire North American Continent ...

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These various Acts were very large contributors to the outbreak, or "need" for the American War of Independence. ... The French settlers, however, had made alliances with the North American natives and established with them the trading of furs and foods. ... However, like the Stamp Act, the Townshend Duties were repealed later in 1767 after much protest from the American colonists. ... The American colonists were quite content for the one hundred and fifty years prior to the mid eighteenth century. ... The American colonists were overwhelmed with British ...

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With the majority of Canadians living close to the proximity of the American border, it is obvious that American content has an impact on Canadian lives. With the introduction of radio, it was feared that Canada would surrender its culture to American domination. ... Canadians who lived close to the border were able to pick up many American stations. At this time, it was estimated that the Canadian population was spending eighty percent of the time listening to American programs (Bélanger 163). ... It can not be denied that Native Canadians contribute largely to Canada's growing id...

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Despite opposition from Laurier and his native province, Canadians did go to war. ... Matters were made worse when the British representative, Lord Alverstone, voted in favour of the American position in order to maintain good British-American relations. ...

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Now the Francophone are those people who speak French as their native language and also speak English which is their second language. ... Benitez was arguing is that whenever American Economy is booming and when they need cheap labor during war-time, they open the doors to all those Mexican labors waiting on the other side of the border to get a cheap job in USA. Then these American services toil these cheap laborers and extract all kind of work from them and sometimes even pamper them a bit. ...

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When the Vikings, Ericson, and Cabot all came across to North America and present day Canada all of the land was untouched by humans with the exception of the land used by the Natives because they were the first Europeans to touch foot on this land. ... Alberta is home to two major cities in Calgary and Edmonton and 90% of Alberta is a part of North America's interior plain. ...

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As if this wasn't bad enough, there was the issue of native concerns that ran literally right through the territories of both. ... Whereas the American and Australian Senates hold real power that the leaders must compromise and cooperate with, the Canadian Senate serves as little more than an appointed rubber stamp for government policy. ...

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Humanity has evolved in a male-centered, patriarchal society. Historically, men were always the main suppliers of food and money. Women were the ones who had a duty to look after the home and raise the children. Women were financially dependent on men and lost their financial support as a consequenc...

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Until this time, Canada's constitution, the British North America Act, had remained a legislative act of the British Parliament which had passed the necessary laws for Canada to be constituted as a country in 1867 (MLA accessed 13th September 2003). ...

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Canada is becoming a training ground for elite minds who will inevitably, go elsewhere, particularly to the US, to help build that economy at the expense of their native country's prosperity"" (Jeffcott 1). ... The American market was a birthplace of many new and highly successful high-tech companies, especially ones that were located in Silicon Valley, San Jose (U.S.), and many of them offered new employees highly attractive financial incentives to lure them to their organization. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate