While many Americans consider slavery and the indirect genocide of the Indians to be regrettable, but concluded chapters of American history, the ethnocentrism that spawned those two phenomena is still alive in modern culture. ... Poverty in the colonies thus increased, fueled not only by the efforts of cutthroat capitalists at the top, but by warfare with the French and a continued influx of European immigrants. ...

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