American history has been, in essence, a huge struggle for those very principles. ... America has made a history of fighting for the right to have every principle of freedom a part of each person's daily life, in fact, it was the idea of freedom that resulted in the founding of the nation. ... eclaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. ... Throughout American history African Americans had been enslaved and mistreated, thought not to be men but property. ... Throughout early American history women had few rights. ...

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Affirmative action is the nation's most ambitious attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. ... Bakke held that the Constitution forbids public universities and other government agencies to use rigid racial quotas but does not forbid the use of race as a "factor- among others. ... Trouble is, the Constitution is not supposed to split the difference. ... At this point in our nation's history, does affirmative action make things better or worse? ...

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Although he never saw a presidency, King, Jr. did lead one of the strongest movements in American history which helped shape today's society. ... In America, it was written in the US Constitution that only white men obtained the right to vote. If black citizens wanted to vote, they were required to take a literacy test and a Constitution test. ...

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Our history is a contradiction; a nation based on freedom once did not give all people the right to live freely. ... A People and a Nation, A History of the United States, vol 2. ... The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which were intended to protect black voting rights. ... In the history of black suffrage many famous Civil Rights events and protest tactics were battled. ... The struggles of African Americans were both treacherous and overbearing at times, and even though they still have problems today blacks have made tremendous progress and have left an inde...

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When conducting research in American history, people will realize the amount substantial evidence demonstrating the mistreatment of black people in the United States. ... The country viewed the blacks' citizenship as three/fifths; "the Three-fifths Compromise of the US Constitution allowed a state to count three fifths of each Black person in determining political representation in the House within the government" (Historic). ... According to history, black people have been living in oppression to other races; he wants us to realize that there is no reason for allowing people wh...

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Focusing primarily on a Miami region but definitely not limited to within this document, the Civil Rights of African Americans has been a painfully long and hardly enduring struggle in the United States history. ... It became evident that history would really have to wait before out reactive society and government ever become proactive. ... Collins, who was committed to imprinting his mark in Miami's history, vivaciously struggled to keep his constituency and still make some changes. ... On May 17, 1954, the Court declared unanimously that the segregation of public-school students solel...

• Word Count: 1986
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In the United States Slavery was of some of the most brutal and suppressive recorded in history. ... Slaves were thought of as sub human and were expressedly written into the constitution as such but only done so to appease the rural souths representation of population in congress. In the history of the U.S. there was little record of slave revolt or any type of organized slave body. ... These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The United States has had a long history of racial discrimination dating back to it'...

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Slavery and the American Experience More than any other history of race relations in America, the struggle between white and black Americans is by the far the most complex and long standing. Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Af...

• Word Count: 1938
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Even after African-Americans gained their freedom from slavery after the end of the Civil War, they still faced a strong racial prejudice from the majority of white people throughout the nation, since the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution only outlawed slavery, but did not provide equal rights and citizenship's to African-Americans. ... Jazz has a complex history because it has African, European, and even Caribbean roots. ...

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During the course of world history acts of racism and discrimination were inflicted on people of different races for various reasons. ... "Under the Constitution the Negro is a citizen and of course we know and accept that but he can never expect to receive the same educational and social privileges with the white man he doesn't expect them. ... Negroes have been some of the greatest fighters in history. ...

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Prince Henry the Navigator Prince Henry the Navigator seldom left Portugal, but he helped make it possible for the first Europeans to explore Africa. In Henry's time, the ocean was very dangerous and Africa was a mysterious place that seemed to contain endless miles of sand. Today we know t...

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• Grade Level: High School