Therefore, the national government enforced the laws created by the state majority and what was not explicitly stated was given to the states to decide. ... However, this is simply not the case as Madison argues that the great difference in factions and enhanced public sphere would prevent one majority from rising and oppressing the others. ... The Constitution may have diminished the rights of slaves, but it created a system of rule that prevented tyranny and advocated consent of the governed....

• Word Count: 597
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Plantation owners were wealthy, but few in numbers, yet they held the majority of the land in the south. ... The majority of men in the South thought of slavery as an evil and the issue of slavery could have been ended if the plantation owners had not discovered the crop that made slave labor the main force behind the South-cotton. ... The middle class artisans were the majority in the urban centers of the North. ... This bill was ruled unconstitutional and was never passed but it had a lingering effect in Congress and on the American people. ... They now controlled the majority in the Hou...

• Word Count: 1167
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• Grade Level: High School

Johnson seemed to be giving the white majorities the right to determine the civil and political status of the freed slaves. ... Johnson won out on blocking the Freedmen bill, but the Civil Right Act won because of the two-third majority votes and overrode his veto. ... The Radicals had a plan of "regeneration before reconstruction" which required military rule, taking and redistributing land, and federal aid for schools so that both blacks and whites could be educated for citizenship. ...

• Word Count: 730
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Economic growth was deterred and the majority of profits were used to fund Britain's wars with feuding European nations. The years following 1783, welcomed an America free of British rule and taxation - an isolated America with few enemies and vast natural resources. ...

• Word Count: 572
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For many of these colonies, the subjects being ruled were forced to comply with British rule or face dire consequences. ... Although Columbus treated the Native American's very harshly, acting in ways which a majority of Christians would describe as sinful, he was able to completely justify all of his actions because he deemed them necessary in order to help save the eternal souls of the Godless savages which he encounters. ... For centuries, the British Empire ruled over a vast amount of territory, spanning across all of the major continents in the world. ...

• Word Count: 1200
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The majority of slaves did recognize that the ability to read and write was crucial to both religious practice and to the assertion of individual and political rights. ... Although the majority of slaves simply ignored the Whites" wishes, prior to the Civil War, educational benefits had been systematically closed to black children. ...

• Word Count: 2340
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These factors contributed to the end of colonialism in Africa: Mohendes Gandhi's successful campaign to end British colonial rule in India inspired many African leaders. ... Doe brutally ruled Liberia for ten years until being killed by rebel forces. ... The Dutch settlers were unhappy with British rule and became even angrier when the British outlawed slavery in 1835. ...

• Word Count: 2251
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• Grade Level: High School

Not much evidence was ever left by slaves because the majority was illiterate and those who could read or write were not typical. ... The majority of slaves felt intimidated and frightened by their master because they were the ones that enforced the rules and kept all in line. ... The majority of free slaves became outspoken about the injustice of slavery. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The average sugar baron in Barbados owned 115 slaves in 1680 and slaves became the majority of the population. ... Unlike Barbados, Chesapeake remained with a majority of white and slaves had frequent and close contact with white, some even worked side by side. ... Masters would make strict and very cruel and heavy rules for their slaves on their plantations. ...

• Word Count: 1069
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• Grade Level: High School

The era of slave trade was perhaps one of the most embarrassing episodes in the documented history of mankind. Starting from the 16th century all the way up until the 19th century, the slave trade was an active form of commerce and highly profitable at that too. Approximately 12 million slaves were ...

• Word Count: 850
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This was an incredible accomplishment for people whose lives were ruled by forced labor. ... Although the masters claimed that these ideas were formulated in order justify slavery's use to the non-slaveholders, Genovese argues that every human has at least some trace of decency, and that a majority of these philosophies were created so that the masters did not feel guilty. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Of course the majority of child labor happens in the third world countries, but it happens here too, and it's been here for a long time. ... The numbers aren"t that high, and some rules and laws have been past to make child labor illegal but big corporations are abusing the fact that third world countries are poor and people especially children will work for practically nothing. ...

• Word Count: 845
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• Grade Level: High School

Woman suffer ill treatment and abuse, particularly in the Middles East region in places like Pakistan, where their lives are ruled and dictated by men. ... The main aim of the Chinese government is to maintain "stability" by removing any desire for self rule and removing loyalty to the Dalai Lama. ... This causes for a high level of concern and action, however the halt of all human rights abuses does not look promising in the majority of cases. ...

• Word Count: 884
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• Grade Level: High School

Even though they were almost the majority of the population, the slaves did not have any rights. ... Society was still ruled by classes, but now the Creoles were at the top of the pyramid. ... Mexican society was being ruled by emperor Iturbide, who tried to create a monarchy similar to the ones in Europe but was later overthrown by the Mexican people. ...

• Word Count: 1312
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since the majority of the community worked menial jobs and could not read, they issued poll taxes and literacy tests to increase their prevention of freed slaves voting. ... Chesnutt makes specific reference to three monumental forms of racial discrimination and immense Black hatred that permeated the South: the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in Wilmington (Wellington), the "American habit of lynching" and the separate car rule. ... While on a much lighter note, the third and final demonstration of discrimination and hatred towards the black community of Wilmington (Wellington), the separate ca...

• Word Count: 1273
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Massachusetts, The Mayflower Compact set government regulations where majority rules; only men could voice their opinions however, like all of the colonies in this era. ... Unlike Massachusetts where the religious ruled government maintained a tight grip on everything they controlled; Pennsylvania took a more liberal approach. ... In 1699 the rule on who could vote changed to only those who did not have a mortgage. ...

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Most of the population was present in Peru and Mexico, where the majority of silver was produced. ... The Mayflower Compact was instituted by the Pilgrims to form a simple government and reinstate the idea of "majority rules."" ...

• Word Count: 1667
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Where and while he ruled, Toussaint showed uncommon mercy and restraint. ... The majority of blacks in the country found their situation admittedly little better than it was before the war. ... Indeed, all of them ruled by the oldest method in the book, the coercion by large brigades of armed men. ...

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Within the context of the South, beaten in war, where murder, disorganization and military rule is the new order, violence becomes the only answer. ... The vast majority of southern whites simply took it for granted that the black race would remain lesser than the white in every respect. ... The Southern white planters would determine the rules and regulations in the contracts. ...

• Word Count: 1876
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the years, slavery has played a dominant role within the Cherokee Nation, inevitably affecting thousands of African Americans, American Indians, and Europeans alike. Within the last decade, a vicious battle has come alive between the Cherokee people and freedmen. These freedmen, who have ...

• Word Count: 2752
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• Has Bibliography
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In short, both groups of settlers were unprepared for the environments that awaited them in the new world and a majority of them died during the initial winter, and both groups had to resort to Indian assistance to survive. ... And after the Massacre of 1622, the House of Burgesses was established and along with a Governor, ruled the colony (Murrin, 60-62 & McClellan 37-39). ...

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In two of the states blacks were a majority of the whole population. ... Ferguson, upheld Jim Crow creating a legal sanction for the separate but equal rule, immediately resulting in a separate and unequal standard for black people. ...

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In the book Haiti: The Aftershocks of History, Laurent Dubois argues that Haiti's distress are caused by a "legacy of political leaders and institutions, inside and outside the country, [who] have ignored and suppressed the aspirations of Haiti's majority" (Dubois, 369). ... He had become too self involved and was attempting to rule over people who had just won their independence. ...

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These rules were strongly enforced because the bulk of the population in the Caribbean was African American slaves. ... " Slaves were still considered moral less creatures by majority of European society. ...

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Just like slaves, servants could be bought and sold; they also had the same rules as a slave. ... Throughout the years slavery was becoming more and more of a necessity, even though no European nation pictured that the colonization of the New World would have to rely on African slaves for the majority of its labor work. ...

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