The Native Americans' perspective on ownership directly opposed the perspective of the English colonists. The Native Americans learned to adjust to living a life of complete mobility. ... The Native Americans owned only necessities for survival and nothing more. This aspect of the Native American lifestyle created an ideal among the English colonists that the Native Americans were poverty ridden and directly relatible to the "English beggars " that they remember. (55) But in reality, the Native Americans were not interested in any type of land ownership, just where they were to settle nex...

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Immigration: Mass Media Influences on the General American Population The mass media industry has influentially shaped American society's behavior on immigration into a strict systematic view that immigration is a necessary tool needed to strengthen the economy, stabilize cultural diversity, and expand collective intelligence. ... Ever since Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, America is constantly inundated with immigrants of various origins. In the beginning, people from England immigrated to America, and then other European countries followed. The American natives were tre...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. ... From its inception, American culture was tempered and enriched by ethnic pluralism. ... Yet the experience of African slaves and the Native American Indians starkly contrasts with that of the European immigrant groups, and describes a second, darker facet to American culture that still exists today. ... Butler proves that these characteristics of American culture and the American people have their ...

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From another angle, however, Jacksonianism appears as a political impulse tied to slavery, the subjugation of Native Americans, and the celebration of white supremacy "so much so that some scholars have dismissed the phrase "Jacksonian Democracy" as a contradiction in terms. ... Its origins stretch back to the democratic stirrings of the American Revolution, the Antifederalists of the 1780s and 1790s, and the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans. ... In the West, the seizure of lands from Native Americans and mixed-blood Hispanics opened up fresh areas for white settlement and cultivation ...

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