Americans are guaranteed certain rights such as life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ... The demographic of white land owning males was only a fraction of the population, causing the representation to be very biased; women, African Americans, young adults and Native Americans were all denied the right to vote. ... A key demographic was still missing even after women, African Americans and Native Americans; young adults still did not have the right to vote. ... (textbook p.411) Urban areas also have a smaller turnout because lines at the polls are very long due to the condensed population...

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One might actually wonder how the nations indigenous populations became "inferior" cultures on their own land, or how a nation could have committed such atrocities in the name of "progress". ... Between 2008-2010 the graduation rate for Native Americans dropped from 54% to 50%. ... The Native American languages used to be spoken all throughout America, but after Columbus and the Europeans came that changed. Before Columbus and the Europeans came to America there were over 300 languages spoken by the native americans, now only 8 indigenous languages of the area of the continental United States...

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The huge tracts of fertile land and abundant natural resources in the West drew more than much attention from the ever growing Eastern population. ... Native Americans were actually not given many choices. ... On their way to the Indian territory, nearly 1/5 of the population died from exposure, sickness and starvation. ... Like the African American population, many were placed in segregated schools with inferior educational resources, barred from restaurants, movie theaters, bathrooms, and public swimming pools, and denied the possibility of living in white neighborhoods. ... However, all th...

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The American Indian Wars were the set of conflicts between the new American settlers and the Native American people from their initial arrival all the way until as late as 1890. Most of these quarrels were local and compact between small groups of colonists and individual tribes of Native Americans; they were usually over some kind of resource or over the expansion of the population onto already claimed territories. ... In other circumstances the Native Americans actually aided the colonial Americans in other conflicts such as the French and Indian War. ... Conflict often exists within one pop...

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After Americans won the war with Mexico in the 1840s, Americans began encroaching on land that Indians of the southwest regarded as theirs. ... In California, after the discovery of gold in1848 native Indian populations of northern California began to disappear by the massive upheavals that followed. When the Spaniards first came to the area many years before the local native populations thrived. ... The Americans depicted the Indians as degenerate and primitive, no better than wild animals. ... This resulted in American soldiers in 1850, killing more than 100 Pomo Indian men, women, and child...

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During the 1760's and 1770's, the British undermined the success of American colonists with high taxation and a strong military presence. ... The years following 1783, welcomed an America free of British rule and taxation - an isolated America with few enemies and vast natural resources. The Treaty of Paris entitled America to large new land masses as well as rivers and fresh water lakes. ... The next 50 years following the end of the war saw a myriad of American sentiment towards Native Indians. ... Constitution itself did not outright endorse slavery in America moving forward, ther...

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When Cortes invaded Mexico in 1520, the population was around 20 million. ... European germs killed far more of the inhabitants than European gunpowder and steel.* Dieases were having a huge effect on the Native American population long before any European set foot on the "new" world. ... Because of this, Native Americans lacked any immunities to dieases brought by the Europeans. ... Native Americans enjoyed vast territories that were unplundered and unspoiled. ... Believing that the removal was the only way of saving American Indians from extermination, the "Indian Removal" policy was i...

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In 1492, Christopher Columbus made his famed voyage to the "New World," but the Western Hemisphere already had a population of around 75 million people. Native Americans not only lived in the Western Hemisphere but also North America. ... Another big part of Native American's society was their kinship. ... Men and women both played parts in a Native American tribe. ... Therefore, Native American clans were different than the European's views on many matters. ...

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In the New World, Native Americans had long been developing society and tools at their own pace. ... The Native Americans and Europeans lived different lifestyles, as they had extremely different cultures and technologies. ... The methods of food collection and production also varied between the Europeans and the Native Americans, due to the underdeveloped material culture in the Americas. ... A surplus can lead to a larger population and eventually the safety net for civilizations to take risks, Europeans having this advantage led to even more advances in tool development that the Native Amer...

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The Spanish-American War and the Mexican-American War both also were differences in the two American expansions. During both expansions, the United States and the population were hungry for new territories and land to acquire. They also wanted to add a larger population to the census, in favor of the United States. ... The expansion of the United States would help the population grow and other countries populations decrease. ... Both wanted to help America grow, but in the 1840's there was only growth in the Continent of North America, while in the 1890's there was no growth in Nort...

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Immigrants who came to America to start a new life and live the America dream had disadvantages. Immigrants have a harder time in achieving the American dream compared to Americans. Americans already had a head start in accomplishing the American dream. ... America did not want to allow too many immigrants into America. ... The introduction of new immigrants and the growth of large urban areas allowed previously localized diseases to spread quickly and infect larger populations. ...

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Immigrants who came to America to start a new life and live the America dream had disadvantages. Immigrants have a harder time in achieving the American dream compared to Americans. Americans already had a head start in accomp lishing the American dream. ... America did not want to allow too many immigrants into America. ... The introduction of new immigrants and the growth of large urban areas allowed previously localized diseases to spread quickly and infect larger populations. ...

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"Before 1492 Native Americans had never been exposed to smallpox, measles, malaria, or yellow fever". ... Population figures were at the low end of estimates, in 1492 it stated that there were 25 million people of the New World, by 1506 there was 16 million, and by 1607 it went down to 9 million people. ... Native Americans rituals for death vary from tribe to tribe. ... Europeans had a different effect on the war than the Native Americans did. ... However, the Native Americans thought that wars were proof of manhood and strength. ...

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"Although lasting personal friendships were impossible to maintain among the migrating populations, the amiable relations created by thousands of individuals blossomed into a climate of improved feelings all long the line of march" (104). ... In many instances the American travelers required the aid of Native Americans to overcome the natural hazards of the environment such as rivers and mountains. ... There were many instances when Native Americans would risk their lives in order to save drowning Americans (72,79). ... The American emigrants would have never been able to complete their journe...

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The Native Americans who live today are a small fraction of their population in the mid-fifteenth century. The European countries that came to the Americas in search of new territory treated the Indians poorly and affected the population drastically. ... The Spanish sent a wide range of people into the Americas. ... The idea of sending African slaves to the Americas was a good idea. ... The Spanish played a significant part to destroying the native populations and arousing ill will from the Indians toward all Europeans therefore complicating things for settlers willing to make colonies in...

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Some examples of this twisted ideology are the American acquisition and settlement of the Oregon country, America causing the Texan subversion of Mexico, and the war between America and Mexico. American expansion into the Oregon country was a crusade to convert the native population to Protestant Christianity, bring in more American settlers, and to eventually annex the area to America. ... The settlers brought an epidemic of measles that decimated the native population. ... In doing so, they nearly eradicated the native population. ... Even then, American greed was not satisfied. ...

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Native Americans, as a race, have suffered from the very beginning of contact with the English colonists. They once constituted 100 percent of the population in North America, whereas today they represent 2 percent of the population. ... This paper will give evidence that genocide was committed against the Native Americans by the English colonists. ... Disease accounted for most of the deaths of the Native Americans. ... To conclude, I firmly believe, based on statistical proof and actions by the colonists, that genocide was committed against the Native Americans by the British North Amer...

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Native American authors have shown this for a few years. ... Their characters portray the lack of understanding present in the American society for the Native Americans and the anger prevalent amongst the culture. ... Erdrich in The Red Convertible and Alexie in This is What it Means to Say Phoenix Arizona each address issues of gender and cultural roles among contemporary Native American populations. ... The Native American population represents one of the most invisible of all American minority groups for most of the country, for much of the population has been relegated to reservations on ...

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While the railroads promised progress, western settlement, and jobs for immigrants, they also changed the face of the country, further decimating native populations, polluting nature, and creating a great divide between rich and poor. ... It was this that kept the Native American culture alive. The commencement of the gilded era however ran many Native Americans out of what they considered to be home. ... In reference to an image created by John Gast called "American Progress " created in 1872 depicts Native Americans fleeing the land due to the progression of industrialization which changed...

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Instead it depicts the hard life that came from living in the underdeveloped American Colonies. ... Native Americans The Puritan relationship with the early Americans was tenuous at best and downright vicious at worst. ... The Native Americans, for their part, were equally mystified by the European colonists. ... A "Vale of Plenty": The South The Southern colonists came to America with a distinctly different approach to the American Dream. ... The southerners, like their northern counterparts, made attempts to "educate" the Indian population. ...

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Enraged by what king did, the colonist resolved this by disguising themselves as Native Americans and dumped 18,000 pounds of tea into the ocean. ... When the early colonists were living in Jamestown, they were struggling to live; most of their population died and they were lacking in many things. When they met the Native Americans, they survived through their friendship and began having good relations with them. However, over time, the colonist's and the Native American's relationship became rocky when there were many bad rumors going around. ... In return, to keep up with their pea...

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For the wealthy, white men of the American colonies, the American Revolutionary Period was a time in which many aspects of culture, politics, and society were transformed. ... Leaders of business and society participated in a revolution of their government and policies that entailed an overthrow of an existing government and a restructuring of an adolescent government, however very few aspects of this independent system trickled down to the ignored majority of the population. ... It also changed very little for the rights of slaves, women, and Native Americans. ... Slavery persisted in the So...

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Counting the numerous Indian tribes during Colonial America is virtually unfeasible, but should be accounted for when observing the ethnic and religious diversity of America. ... In 1775, slaves accounted for 20 percent of the population of the colonies, the largest non-European minority. ... The increase of female slave population made family life more possible in 1720. ... Pennsylvania, also were very friendly to the local Indian population, buying acres of land from the tribe would require good relations. ... As would killing legions of Native Americans, simply to fulfill our manifest de...

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This progressive movement began decimating native Indian populations, polluting the land, and creating an ever increasing divide between rich and poor. ... It was this that kept the Native American culture alive. The commencement of the gilded era however ran many Native Americans out of what they considered to be home. ... In reference to an image created by John Gast called "American Progress" created in 1872 depicts Native Americans fleeing the land due to the progression of industrialization which changed their lifestyles" (John Gast, American Progress, 1872, Library of Congress). ... The...

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To improve their economic prospects, Americans and immigrants alike began to seek better opportunities elsewhere; "roughly two-thirds of the rural population moved every decade, and population turnover in cities was even greater" (305) Reform movements caused groups, such abolitionists, to also head west to escape the evils of a society dependent on slavery. ... American's territorial conquest of Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican war were all perfect examples of how American's took advantage of their Manifest Destiny. First, Americans sought out to expand their territory t...

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