Early in the twentieth century, U.S. leaders urged the expansion of American influence over other countries, primarily through the selling of American goods and the spreading of American culture. The Europeans and Americans looked down on Latin America as a third world country. Latin Americans perceived the American investors as capitalistic, self-absorbed and a threat to South American independence. South America started to resent American influence yet continued to export and import heavily with the U.S. ... Efforts to make farming more equitable were hampered by the unclear title to, or...

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This subjugation of Africans and the indigenous populations has had dramatic effects on society. ... The church had a dual role in Latin America. ... From an early point in the history of Latin America, the regions have enjoyed a certain level of autonomy. ... As stated earlier, the Latin American economies were based on mining and agriculture. ... During the nineteenth century, many Latin American countries gained their independence. ...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. ... With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American po...

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In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. ... America essentially put on a facade of backing South Africa and after internal pressure from black American and liberals alike, America began to sever ties. ... During a meeting of the council, a Draft Manifesto of Americans for Freedom in Southern Africa was issued. ... The silence in Americas non action spoke louder than others co...

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That it was America's G-D given duty to spread over the entire North American continent and in turn to spread the word of G-D across this land. ... Manifest destiny declared America as this land. ... Americans felt no shame in these uncouth Jacksonian tactics because Florida was American territory. ... No act of cruelty in any part of American history is any darker than that suffered by the American Indians. ... John Burgess maintained that uncivilized populations will become civilized through natural social evolution. ...

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It is no accident that the Yoruba cultural influence spread across the Atlantic to the Americas. European slave hunters violently captured and marched untold millions of Africans to their demise on over crowded slave ships bound for the Americas. Slave wars launched by the kingdom of Dahomey against some of the Yoruba kingdoms, and slave wars between the Yoruba's themselves made war casualty Africans available for transportation to the Americas. ... Yorubaland has at least nine cities with populations of more than 100,000, and has a 60-70 per cent rate of urbanization overall. Lagos, the ...

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• Grade Level: High School