The French acknowledged the Native Americans as colleagues and business partners while the British treated them as heathens and pressed them out of their territory. When North America was still being colonized, the Native Americans fashioned numerous and diverse relations with all of the arriving countries. ... Both France and England had many encounters with the Native Americans; however, they both formed very different relationships regarding the respect for one another, their social differences, and the acceptance of each other's economy. ...

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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. ... The southern colonies no longer had to worry about the back breaking work needed to be done during harvest time anymore due to the bringing of African slaves to Northern America. ... 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 ne...

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British North America Thirteen colonies in 1776 came together to revolt against its British rulers in what was to be named in history as the American Revolution. ... This brought about a dramatic increase in population to British North America. ... Not only where direct settlers from Europe taking up lives in British North America but Natives and Blacks were becoming more abundant and prominent in the colonies. Natives saw that during the revolution siding with the British would maintain steady trade and land ownership, while blacks who fought with the British received land grants and f...

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The Tightrope of Power Native Americans in both the US and Canada have been forced by "Americans" to assimilate into society. ... The Native Americans are masters of telling stories. ... The Native Americans carry it close to their hearts. ... Many Native American homes no longer speak their native language; instead they use the English language. ... Society has witnessed a rebirth of Native American cultural ways. ...

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Many came to America, the Land of the Plenty, in what was known as the "Black Forties." ... These liberal political refugees saw America as a place of hope for democracy. ... The Irish were also hated by native works and it was a common site to see "No Irish Need Apply" on many factory gates. ... They seemed to prosper with ease and were not hated as much by natives because the Germans mostly kept to themselves and did not get involved in the northeastern cities. Both the Irish and Germans also had an enormous religious and political effect on America. ...

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Instead of Indies, he had landed in the Americas. ... " European countries promptly rushed to allege lands in the Americas. ... In his journal (1451-1506), Columbus requested the permission to his highnesses to promote the holy Faith and convert the Native Americans. ... Captivating tales like that of the Fountain of Youth, often told to the Spaniards by arrested Indians and slaves, stimulated these adventurers to attempt regularly to conquer the land, as well as its native communities. ... After that, Queen Elizabeth granted charters to Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh to col...

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The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended the French and Indian War between the British and the French, as well as their Native American allies. ... Next, the economical factors that explain why the colonists wanted to obtain all of the goods on the Native Americans land that wasn't theirs, and how this lead to why the British government was in debt after the war and how they solved this problem. In Cassatego's speech, he explains that the Native Americans are not happy with the colonial settlement on their grounds without the proper purchase of it. ... Last, the ideological ways the colonis...

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Even at the very begining there was obvious culture clash between the Europeans and the Natives. ... When the Europeans would come across a Native Tribe, they would be offered gifts, such as fur or food. The Natives gave these gifts expecting the Europeans to, in turn, feel obligated to assist them against their enemies. Since the Europeans did not understand this agreement, they were viewed by the Natives as traitors. ... The number of buffalo declined as interest grew in the sale of buffalo hides to fill the demand in North American and European markets. ...

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It was a time in which Canadians were referred to as "not Americans" and Canada was referred to as "not America". ... Highway is a native Canadian, and Tremblay is a French-Canadian. ... Each play demonstrates in a unique way the tales of turmoil and tenacity that native and French-Canadians had to go through in order to be accepted as part of a Canadian society. ...

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What makes America dfferent? ... Yet gun crimes in Canada are less than a quarter of America's. ... America sees its self as the peace keeping force of the world. If you step out of line, america wont care, unless you harm them. The native americans tried, the spanish tried, so did texas, Japan, but not until September the 11th did america's war machine head in to overdrive. ...

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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 . ... These various stereotypes exaggerated and reduced the characteristics of the black people of North America and even the world. ...

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Military intervention has been a tool at the disposal of the U.S. government to achieve its political goals since the mid-nineteenth century with the forced relocation of Native Americans. However, it is not until around 1890 that military intervention hit an international scale with the deployment ...

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Lucrative magistrates were also set up in other colonies, such as the American cities. ... Positive impacts of imperialism were: establishment of schools in the area that educated the native people, a building of the industrial and commercial sectors of the colonies, and a building of sanitation systems that would have otherwise been neglected. ... Two primary examples of British imperialism come from opposite ends of the globe: India and America. ... America is another example of British imperialism gone awry. ... The end of the rebellion eventually led to America's independence. ...

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Throughout this period of time the American colonists, baptized by fire, emerged with increased confidence in their military strength. ... The colonists now native to the Americas had grown accustomed to the colonial way of life and the principles that came with it. During the French and Indian War friction had developed between the old world British regulars, and the more modernized American colonists. ... Unity among all the American colonies during the French and Indian War, where the British and the American colonists fought the French and their Indian allies, was mandatory because a Frenc...

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It is the second biggest country in the world but yet its neighboring country, the United States of America, oversees it. One thing about Canada is its population. 40% of Canada's population is unmixed British of Native born. 27% of the population is French origin. ... The Icelandic colonizers of Greenland who established short - lived settlements in Labrador and Newfoundland in about 1000 AD was the first Europeans to reach North America. ...

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Explorers James Cook- Four years later Cook took two British ships onto the west coast. He was the first European to have landed on Vancouver Island at Nootka Sound. Within a few years British traders came by sea and developed a fur trade with coastal Indians. Cook kept traveling north to the Arc...

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Aboriginals are the first people to have ever lived in North America and lived quite peacefully before they were colonized by Europeans around the late 1400 ("Aboriginal Issues." ... These kids were forced to be Christian and learn English forgetting their native tongue and religion. ... In conclusion, without the help of the Canadian government and school many of the native aboriginal will count for a large number of prison inmates. ...

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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. ... As the native population in Canada is not treated with equality and justice, we see the aboriginal community in Canada with poor education, in poverty and substance abuse. ... In 1969 Pierre Elliot Trudeau's government had regulated the White Paper, a legal document that had forbid negotiations with the Natives in regards to their aspirations and rights by removing their Indian status (Statement of the Government of Canada on Indian policy, 1969, Queens Printer). ...

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The French went into North America with the thought of making a little money and not getting in the way of the Indians. ... When the French came over to North America they did not plan to build a community and stay. ... When the British came to North America they had no regard for the Indians or their land. ... In order to rule and be in charge of North America they would and did anything even kill to achieve this goal. ...

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Some ships carried 60 slaves, but other ships held 6 to 7 hundred slaves and carried them 6-10 weeks to America and other ports. ... Even after it was outlawed in America, the slave trade went on long after ( Underground Railroad,15). The Underground Railroad has greatly affected the past and future of America. ... The African's helped cultivate land and fought with native American's in the Seminole Indian wars. ...

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Typically, enslaved African Americans who fled from plantations and cities northern to Virginia were more likely to take refuge in northern states, Canada, and western territories. ... Among other locations to which they fled were maroon societies, Native American groups like the Seminoles, and large southern cities such as Baltimore, New Orleans, and Charleston, South Carolina. ... An African American in tattered clothes would attract suspicious eyes. ... Some were females dressed as males, males disguised as females, fair-skinned African Americans passed as whites, and others pretended t...

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Jean Chrétien Jean Chrétien certainly was born with the odds stacked against him: the second youngest child in a family of 19 children (roughly half grew to adulthood), Jean was a small, skinny boy who was deaf in one ear, deformed at the mouth, and dyslexic. His father was a mill-wheeler and h...

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Despite opposition from Laurier and his native province, Canadians did go to war. ... Matters were made worse when the British representative, Lord Alverstone, voted in favour of the American position in order to maintain good British-American relations. ...

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