Besides people who were going westward, white manufacturers and hand-craftsmen in the North also benefited from these social developments. ... Also driven by the high profit of cotton trades, white settlers in the South were motivated to grab as much land as they could to produce cotton. ... These people were promised full citizenship and their land ownership by the U.S. government. However, when people from the eastern parts traveled to those new territories and tried to grab their land, many Mexican Americans lost their lawsuits as a legislation passed after the treaty. ... In sum, the e...

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Even as a young boy Douglass becomes frustrated at the fact that he does not know his birthday but all the white children do. ... He plays games with white children in order to improve his literacy and jumps at reading everything he can get his hands on. ... He recognizes that many people are not aware of the severity of suffering that slaves endure and hopes to bring that reality to light. ... Douglass does however let some emotions come forth during his famous speech overlooking the Chesapeake Bay where he wishes to be as free as white sails of the ship. ... It demonstrates the power of t...

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Genovese discusses how enslaved people created community within the "plantation setting". This was an incredible accomplishment for people whose lives were ruled by forced labor. ... For example, it was made a crime for a slave to insult any white, regardless of position. ... The African American and white children were especially in a position to form bonds with each other. ... African American children might also become attached to white caretakers, such as the mistress, and white children to their African American nannies. ...

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Democracy inhibited reforms because the white male majority was afraid of change. ... White males were the only viable people who could vote on these changes and many of their principles were deeply ingrained by years of prejudice and racism. ... Also, the white male majority in the Supreme Court prevented any jurisdictional precedence's to defend equality. Observed in the Dred Scott case, the white Supreme Court justices prevented any furthering in allowing blacks freedom. ... One such example is Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in which this book gave whites a look at ...

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In one particularly racist scene, an angry "Negro" militia attacks a home full of helpless white Southerners. ... The tyrannical officials in these sessions use their power to belittle the "vulnerable white minority." ... Governor Lynch was viewed as a conniving dictator who was "out to get" the Camerons, our powerless white family. The good "faithful souls" were the loyal slaves who stayed with there white families, saving them from the out of control vicious renegades, and basically turning their backs on their own people. In order to avoid racial pollution Griffith cast white actors to p...

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African Americans willingness to avoid conflict vanished; however, when a young black bather was stoned by white onlookers after drifting into a notoriously white area of the beach. ... White gangs would sit behind street corners waiting for anyone who wasn't white to walk by and once someone did, the gang members would viciously assault their prey. ... In certain districts where "rioters staged their battles," white policemen were "criticized for arresting only blacks" that participated in the violent activities, often letting the white aggressors go free without puni...

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Traditionally, people who have been wronged receive some sort of compensation for their wronging. ... The American slave population, at its height, was almost four million people. ... In fact, only one in five white southern men owned slaves and the number is exponentially smaller in northern white men. ... If slavery reparations are instituted, are the descendants of black slave owners to pay as well as the white owners? ... Bottom line, 350,000 men, mostly white, died for almost four million black men. ...

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Abraham Lincoln was not a racist person, yet under politics and pressure from the majority of the white population, he was perceived as discriminatory. Abraham Lincoln always gave the people what they desired and wanted to hear even if it meant pushing away his own views. ... Yet in order to please the citizens, he was forced to contradict both that whites were superior to blacks and that blacks where the white's equal to different groups of people. Lincoln knew that white citizens looked down on Negroes, thinking they were superior intellectually, and in general. ... He put the Amer...

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The ones who were able to comprehend the fact that all people are born equal opposed abolition for one of two reasons. ... Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as free people. ... The abolition of slavery did not completely end the idea that white people were superior. ... This led to many racist laws and horrible acts in the name of "white power". ... In his article he quotes Annette Gordon-Reed as saying "African-American enslaved people were the only people who I think were made to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the thi...

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Each group has had their own unique languages, familial relationships, social relations, music and dance traditions, they have shared many common experiences over the past 400 years (Grim, 1995).This paper will compare the cultures and histories of African American and Native American people and their long and often bloody interactions with the white majority in America. ... From the earliest white European settlers, the relationship between the native population and the white European population has been acrimonious. ... [T]here they gain a knowledge of how the white man lives and "earns...

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He made a comment that, in the South, was considered disrespectful to a white woman. ... The two white men who kidnapped him were indicted and later found not guilty of the murder. ... The first attempt at the March led to the arrest of 770 people. ... Many African Americans were outraged by the continued inferiority placed on people of color. ... King was a tragic loss to the Civil Rights Movement, it was a powerful statement to the black community and the white community alike. ...

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This story became synonymous as truth among white communities across the country and staled progress for civil rights for blacks. ... To correct the mistake of the previous version of reconstruction many people from the era black and white wrote their own experience of reconstruction. W.E.B Du Bios was one these people who wrote about reconstruction in a new light and emphasis how many of the writing about the subject refuses to see blacks as human-beings. ... The efforts to mend black and white relations as equal political democracy, the building of schools to educate former slaves and the a...

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In the beginning the public school system was designed by white people for white people. ... Culture is defined as the shared perceptions, experiences, beliefs, knowledge, values, norms, and social forms of a group of people.1 At the time when African Americans entered the public school system it was the intent to civilize the population. ... Once school desegregation occurred black children were in classroom with white children for the first time and often with their first accredited teacher. White teachers were uncomfortable with the black children in their classrooms. ... This unfortu...

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These four basic elements are key factors in deciding exactly what type of "time," people were living in. ... A society is a group of people living in an environment. ... Carpetbaggers were white northerners that moved to the South to help with Reconstruction, and the scalawags were white southerners who also supported the Republican Party (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p.6). These groups were mainly low class farmers that were against the rich White southerners that had made a monopoly on farming. ... Politics for instance, is the ideology of people or a group of people or in other...

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With the eventual success of the civil rights movement, it is important to trace back to its origins and the people and organizations that played a vital role in making the African American people's dreams become a reality. ... This secret society and brotherhood was seen as a space where people could talk about new ideas in a safe place. ... Prince Hall and his white counterparts were fighting for equality and while in battle the white masons made him a brother, i.e.: a freemason. ... His lodge was not recognized as a real Masonic lodge by the white Freemasons, but he did not let this de...

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The prison industrial complex can legalize discrimination when people who go to jail are labeled "felons for life." ... If Whites are just as likely to break drug related laws as African Americans, how is it possible that an African American man is 30% more likely to go to jail than a White man? ... The rate of white men going to prison has also risen since the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration started. ... According to prisonsucks.com, an African American man has a 32% chance of going to jail in his lifetime, while a white man has only a 3% chance. ... This shows that mon...

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"Black people, in short, learned to take the blows and to parry it as best they could. They found themselves shut out by white racism..."" ... Otherwise said, the blacks were punished by white racism and were forced to accept it, there by reinforcing the legitimacy of the racism in white, thus causing a cycling pattern. ... As said in the quote, the addition of slave resistance (no matter how little) to the cycling pattern explained previously causes an even more intensified result of white racism and misconception about the black slaves. ... Criticism in his work can only be found in that h...

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In American Government In Black And White Mcclain and Tauber said, "The designation of a person's race in the United States has historically been decided by American society's desire to exclude groups of people from participation in the social and political life of the nation.... The idea of race gives the United States the ability to categorize different groups of people based on their appearance. ... These codes were a result of the anger of white southerners who opposed the abolishment of slavery. ... For example, African Americans were forced to sign labor contracts with whi...

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People in the South didn't view African Americans as equal to themselves and thus they did not treat them fairly and in some cases they were treated inhumanely. Groups like the Klu Klux Klan and later the Red Shirts were set up and joined by people who believed that white people were inherently better than African Americans, and they went to some very evil ends to show this. People in these groups would not only kill African Americans, they would kill white supporters of African American rights. ... But even people who din't go to these extremes were quick to show their thoughts....

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Within the last decade, a vicious battle has come alive between the Cherokee people and freedmen. ... But the peoples of these continents had many things in common. ... However, there is a history of slavery long before white men stumbled upon the Americas. ... Since both races had no form of civilized religion, white Europeans believed Native Americans to be inferior to their own white race. ... In some areas, Native Americans eventually began to absorb the white European culture. ...

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This statement is correct for a number of reasons, first and foremost was the fact that the southerners (both black and white) were expecting some sort of federal aid, and the fact that it was close to the Christmas season only elevated the futile feelings of optimism. ... These growing hopes amongst the southerners caused by the Christmas holiday was not only indicative of how people felt during reconstruction, but was also compounded by the holiday season. Throughout the period of reconstruction there was a growing anxiety amongst the white southerners that the blacks might lash out agai...

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Socialization is the process in which people acquire the behaviors and beliefs of the culture in which they live (Arnett 100). During this process, people learn things like what is right or wrong, what is real or fake, who is powerful and who is weak. People also learn the values and beliefs of their culture. ... From their European heritage, people of the revolutionary era were brought up to believe in the importance of civilization, Christianity, making profits, and the superiority that came along with having white skin. ... Another example of how American's were brought up thinking ...

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Whether people liked it or not the economy was based on the backs of slavery and America needed them to survive. ... Even before the pseudo-scientific racism provided the basic justification for slavery, Europeans associated whiteness with purity. ... They would say that Black people weren't smart enough to live on their own anyway, saying that they wouldn't survive without white people. ... Little did the masters know that while they were sleeping most slaves had secret communities during the night where they would teach themselves to read and write, play games and dance, and p...

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It also was intended to prohibit laws that applied to one race only, such as the black codes, or that made certain acts felonies when committed by black but not white people, or that decreed different penalties for the same crime when committed by white and black lawbreakers. ... Likewise, the people of the Southern states did not agree with Northern people's views on slave ownership. ...

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Afterwards, she immediately drew her audience, mostly white northerners, into her heart-wrenching and painful story. ... Since Jacobs knew many of her readers would consider her account exaggerated or fictitious, she included the testimonials of two white female abolitionists and one black antislavery writer to confirm that the recorded events were true. ... As long as people remained ignorant about the realities of slavery, they were not motivated to action, but stories like Jacobs' showed the need for reform. ... " In this speech Douglass addressed a predominately white audience ab...

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