In Latin America, the Catholic Church gave slaves more rights than any other region at that time (Anthony: African American Registry). ... The slave population in Brazil and Caribbean had few things in common. ... In remarkable contrast, southern slaves had an equal sex ratio, a high birthrate, and a predominantly American-born population. ... In the West Indies, slaves constituted approximately 80 to 90 percent of the population. In the South, only about a third of the population was enslaved. ...

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The United States of America has undergone a lot of changes over the years. ... The South was once heavily run by the plantation economy and was one of the foremost important reasons to why the population had a slow rate of increase. ... Even though new products were up in the market, natural resources played a big part as to why business grew in America. ... Now that the nation was growing and becoming more habitant, there were clear signs of growth in population; by 1916 the population had doubled. ... The slaves were always African Americans, yes, there would be an odd white, but they would...

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America the land of opportunity, or is it? In the first wave of colonists to arrive in America, populations that started off in the thousands were whittled down to hundreds, by harsh winters, disease, and starvation. ... Once they reached America it was a different story. ... America also held a lot of opportunities for people who didn't have a reason to stay in England. ... They have no reason to stay in England, because they will not get anything from there father once he dies so they go to America to find there fortune. ...

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With the arriving of foreign immigrants to North America from across the Atlantic Ocean, there also came diseases that would soon devastate the Native American population. ... With a weak economy and diminishing population the Indians were very easily pushed off of their land by the colonist. ... Working alongside the Native American, Irish, and English servants, slaves eventually drove out the need for their service. ... Major changes within the North American labor system and economy happened due to the trans-Atlantic trade. The newly emerging slave trade, major diseases among the people a...

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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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Around 1787, the presence of free blacks was seen as a threat to Americans. ... Some believed that blacks could never be "fully integrated into American society ", and some in America fell that blacks could only be seen as equal "human beings " if they moved out of America. ... Thomas Jefferson said "the most desirable measure which could be adopted for gradually drawing off this part of our population, most advantageously for themselves as well as for us. ... Caldwell, a Clerk of the Supreme Court and the American Colonization Society was established. ... In the end, The American Colonization...

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Leading up to the creation of the constitution, America was a broken system, that needed fixing. ... Although the black codes kept most of the African American population down, there were still sensational reformists. During this time period it was not only African Americans who benefitted from this, but women as well. ... The African Americans, once given the opportunity showed they can overcome, and during this time period, women also showed they can be just as successful as men, but this was only after they were given the right to equality by the constitution. ... All three of these Ameri...

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For some Latin American Countries, colonial rule was tolerated because the mistreatment of the population was eventually being attributed to an emerging class status system of mixed races of Indian and African slaves and the Spanish. For the other Latin American countries Spain's influence and presence was not welcomed at all. ... The road to the Latin American Revolutions of the 19th century was also varied regionally. The political unrest in the North of South America was centered on the peninsulares, who had come from the Iberian peninsula specifically for the sole purpose of exploitin...

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Antebellum America was a time of tremendous turmoil and oppression. ... The arguments grew thicker as America began to move west in the 1840's and 50's. ... Of the fifteen slave states in the south about one third of the population was made up of African American slaves. ... These slave owners mad up only one percent of the population in the south but controlled over 90 percent of the wealth. ... African Americans were thought to be to ignorant to be considered as people. ...

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As tribute levels increased and Pueblo population decreased, the Pueblo Indians became sick of enduring such suffering and overpower from the Spanish when they had problems of their own. ... The successful uprising of that summer gave hope to many suppressed Native Americans. ... Exploitation of wage labor had also plagued America. ... America had been far from the land of opportunity. ... Men, women, and children of the working class, Native Americans, immigrants, and those who stood out against America's wrongdoings, are all who built America. ...

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When the blacks came to North America they were not slaves. ... They had to established ties in North America, like the native, and were thus easier to enslave and used for white purposes . ... This of course justified the white peoples continued enslavement of the black population. This racial knowledge held by the white population of the time allowed these white individuals that profited economically to continue with their subjugation of the black population. ... These various stereotypes exaggerated and reduced the characteristics of the black people of North America...

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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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The Civil War was perhaps the most momentous event in American history. ... They became two nations: The United States of America (known as the Union and the North) and The Confederate States of America (known as the South or Rebels). ... African-Americans was thought to lack intelligence and political capacity. ... In 1860 there was a census on the population of the eleven rebel States. ... In two of the states blacks were a majority of the whole population. ...

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The United States of America was founded as a country where "all men are created equal". ... Sectional populations were almost equal, which meant a balance in the House of Representatives. ... Slavery was a pesky issue that was second to issues like manifest destiny, Native American problems, and foreign issues. ... This bill was ruled unconstitutional and was never passed but it had a lingering effect in Congress and on the American people. ... At that time, there had been a population explosion in the North from immigration. ...

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Absurdity in Misguided Logic: Slavery Reparations During on of the darkest periods in American history, America fought itself over one of the most controversial issues ever to be argued: slavery. ... The American government compensated only the immediate families of Japanese Americans who served in internment camps during World War II with money and recognition of suffering. The American slave population, at its height, was almost four million people. ... America has no room for such selfish rude actions as this. ... Slavery reparations are not right and will never be right in America. ...

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In the early 1700s, slavery had become an entrenched economic and social institution in the English colonies due to the growing need for labor and the increased availability of slaves in America. ... When less and less people were coming from England to the American colonies, the need for labor in order to cultivate a large yield of crops grew. ... The population of slaves changed the social aspect of English colonies as the ratio of slaves to slave-owners grew. The demand for labor in the English colonies made slavery a rooted system in order to increase economic profit and also changed the p...

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African Americans are not the only one that has been slaved. ... Therefore, African Americans should not be the only ones acknowledged as slaves. ... Moreover, Cromwell perfected Queen Elizabeth "Savage Program" by reducing the population of Ireland. How did Cromwell reduce the population of Ireland? ... Irish slaves should be knowledge as past slaves before African American. ...

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This is a positive outcome for American industries and stock holders. ... In American however, everyone is competition and every one is their own individual. ... Koreans came to work in America to earn money, after all America is the land of opportunities. ... Despite these factors Koreans continued to migrate and work in America. ... Since the time of the ban Koreans made remarkable success in terms of immigration, they are now one of the biggest immigrant populations in the Chicago land populations. ...

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Slavery at that time was mainly confined to eastern seaboard of the Americas near the Atlantic Ocean (the Carolinas and Georgia),and the slave population was not great enough in numbers to reproduce its numbers naturally, so in turn more slaves had to be "brought" over to the Americas to continue the labor intensive trade of the southern cotton industry. By the fall of the American Revolution in 1790, twenty percent of all living in the thirteen colonies was of African descent and the West Indies blacks comprised seven eighths of the islands" population of 529,000 and only less than three per...

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Another impact on both the Native Americans and the Europeans was the sharing of native crops to each other. ... The horse highly effected the lives of the Native Americans by improving their hunting abilities. ... Europeans unknowingly brought with them many diseases that eventually plagues the Native Americans. ... Also, the ill treatment of the Native Americans by the land hungry Europeans virtually wiped out their civilization. ... These crops fed the great increase of population that was occurring in Africa at the time. ...

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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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The Great Plague of 1665 devastated the English population and the London Fire the following year created a need for new workers in England. ... They would relay messages as to how they were being treated in America. ... They instilled a slave trade that shipped slaves between North America, Europe, and Africa. ... This allowed for a bulk of African slaves to be shipped to American at once. ... If an indentured servant escaped from his owner, he would be a lot harder to find because he would blend in with the rest of the population. ...

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The Great Plague of 1665 devastated the English population and the London Fire the following year created a need for new workers in England. ... They would relay messages as to how they were being treated in America. ... They instilled a slave trade that shipped slaves between North America, Europe, and Africa. ... This allowed for a bulk of African slaves to be shipped to American at once. ... If an indentured servant escaped from his owner, he would be a lot harder to find because he would blend in with the rest of the population. ...

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Take a moment to reflect on how many people were killed, a whole society demolished, and who authorized it Who tried to stop it How many people rebelled How many had the guts to risk their own lives in order to save a population Very few. ... After the tragedy on September 11th that occurred in America but effected the soul of the entire world, and left us with a profound sadness that will change our lives forever, we discovered that among the six thousand people who died there were Chinese, Blacks, Muslims, Jews, and Catholics. ...

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The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... The elite class changed African Americans status by separating them from the rest of the population. ... From 1642 African Americans began to be sold for life because the were more "profitable" than whites. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...

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