The trans-Atlantic interactions from 1600 to 1763 brought major change to the labor systems in the British North American colonies and disrupted the continuity of the economy built by the people before this time. ... 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. ... 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 t...

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The Gender Construction of Women in Early America Life was difficult in the early colonization of North America by the Europeans. ... The African people were being captured and brought to the Americas for a life of slavery. ... In most of the Native American cultures, women were valued beings. ... Unfortunately, this way of thinking became the dominant paradigm in North America. ... This was the most stability a slave in North America could hope for. ...

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America is filled with much diversity. ... With this, abolitionists posted poster warnings to the African Americans in the North that they could be captured and taken to the South (Document 4). ... After the War, the African Americans received more rights. ... Many Abolitionists taught African American students (Document 9). ... The War was a big win for the North, although they had more casualties. ...

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In the North, the economy functioned very differently. ... In the North, prior to 1850, if you were an escaped slave, and you managed to get to the North, you would be considered a free person. ... These differences caused tension which eventually helped lead to the American Civil War. ... In the North, most people had a completely opposite view. ... In the end, all of these tensions were very important, and ended up being some of the causes of the American Civil War....

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The United States of America has undergone a lot of changes over the years. ... The first event to be discussed is the civil war, more known in the history books as The American Civil War, a war in the 1860s that was to determine whether the survival of the union; known as the North, or the independence for the confederacy, which was the south. ... In the past, south had millions of black slaves put to hard labor, unlike the North, where slavery was illegal. ... The north had been positively affected by the fall of the south. ... As I pointed out earlier, slavery in the north was forbidden, an...

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" The North and South in America in the 1860s had wanted each other's faction, yet wanted different societies. ... Different climates and locations had a huge effect on both the North and the South. ... The geography and the climate played a huge role on the lives of the North and the South. ... The South is quite similar to the North, but it has different features. ... Farming for the North was not as productive as the South. ...

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Would you agree that African culture survived more strongly in the Caribbean colonies than in North America? ... North American slaves lived together in buildings near to their place of work. ... Links via relations to other family members in other villages created the kinship ties and the same sense of identity similar to slaves in North America. ... However, in both the Caribbean and in North America it would appear that a certain amount of assimilation took place if the slaves were to survive in their new "homeland". ... Like America the Caribbean h...

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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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This is a positive outcome for American industries and stock holders. ... Korean Immigrants Koreans have been immigrating to North America since 1902, even though they faced a lot of hardships. 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. But in 1924, there was a ban on all Asian immigrants to come to North America; the only exception was students or people who wanted to be educated. ...

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Millions of Native Americans died either from disease, malnutrition, or Spanish torment. ... Mining silver Peru, Africans worked alongside with Native Americans. ... Ships sailed from Columbia to Panama where African captives were transported to South America. ... A trip from Africa to Brazil took a month and two months from the coast of West Africa to the Caribbean and North America. ... Slaves in the New World were treated just as harshly, if not more so, upon arriving at America. ...

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Some historian believe, that even since colonial times, America was working its way to a civil war. ... These issues would help separate the north and south in the U.S. leading up to what was known as the American Civil War. ... The north produced leather, ships, textiles and metal goods which they would then export. ... Slavery was another major issue which separated the United States, and would help to lead up top the American Civil War. ... A fourth issue which contributed to the start of an American Civil War was , ways of viewing the world. ...

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African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... In the North where slavery was increasingly marginal and looked down upon, it was not very important and serious as it was in the South. According to American Slavery, Kolchin states; "in the North, slaves were few and slaveholdings were typically tiny. ... During the eighteenth century slavery in the North became increasingly less necessary and industrialization became a lot more important to the North. ... The South needed slavery in order to function and ...

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"Drawing the Color Line" by Howard Zinn chronicles the beginning of slavery in North America (Gallagher, 2012). The beginning of slavery in North America developed into a regular institution, into the normal labor relation of blacks to whites (Gallagher, 2012). With it developed those special racial feelings - hatred, contempt, pity, or patronization - that accompanied the inferior position of blacks in America for the next three hundred fifty years, that combination of inferior status and derogatory thought we call racism. ... The discipline of hard labor, the breakup of the slave family, th...

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However by 1860, roughly two-thirds of all New World slaves lived in the American South. ... Racial hatred dramatically grew in North and South which resulted in physical violence. ... In Latin America, the Catholic Church gave slaves more rights than any other region at that time (Anthony: African American Registry). ... At that time, Spanish and Portuguese colonists were thought to be less infected by racial prejudice than North Americans, As a result, Latin American slavery was less subject to the pressures of a competitive capitalist economy. ... For a slave, access to freedom was much ...

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In America's history slavery and economics go hand in hand. ... The economic systems that dominated slavery reflected the transitions in Americas economic system. ... According to Carl Abbott, in the years following the American Revolution, slavery, which had never been so prevalent or economically important in the North as in the South, became the South's "peculiar institution." ... To please the North, slavery would be prohibited forever from Louisiana Purchase territories north of 36 30'. ... This served to further divide the North from the South. ...

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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 exploiting the indigenous people in that region of Latin America. In southern South America, they were more loyal to Spain because many were prospering from mining the precious metals. ... The ideas of basic human rights, liberty and rights ...

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Who settled in America and why? ... The first entry was written by Richard Hakluyt in 1584 called "Why England Should Settle North America." ... Many of the royalist-Anglican's found refuge in America. ... The last story in the chapter is about a slave who came to America from Africa. ... Many different men and women came to America in the 16th century. ...

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The North wanted to ensure that western land would be settled by free white labor, and not by black slave labor. ... 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). Yet from 1863 forward, the North had fought and won a war in defense of free labor, which they insisted the South adopt. ... Even though the North was victorious, the freedmen celebration was short lived. ... Once the North reached their goal of stopping the South from expanding slavery west and bringing the South back int...

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Antebellum America was a time of tremendous turmoil and oppression. ... The south agricultural economy was based almost entirely on slave labor and the north,a industrial economy was fighting for abolishing slavery. ... The arguments grew thicker as America began to move west in the 1840's and 50's. ... African Americans were thought to be to ignorant to be considered as people. ... Even as the north fought to abolish slavery they still viewed blacks as an inferior race. ...

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At the close of the American Revolution many slaves felt they too would be given their freedom. ... Emancipation in Northern states meant the furthest thing from equality between black and white Americans. ... States in the North did not have an economy that demanded such a need for agricultural slavery as say Maryland did with 111,502 slaves in 1810. ... Whether a black man or woman was free in the North had little to do with how they were treated, and essentially accepted, by society. ... At the close of the American Revolution, the new country of America faced a very strange predicame...

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The cultivation of cash crops was very essential for the economy in the South during the American colonial times. ... There were many influential groups in the North that encouraged a more benevolent form of slavery, especially since the slaves in the North were engaged in less severe conditions than the South. ... There have been many debates about issue on slavery between the North and the South. The North still believe that slavery should be benevolent and fair, just as America promised. ... Racial-based slavery has demonstrated an everlasting effect on America and still does today....

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When one refers to the eighteenth century, however, he must realize that there were many major cultural, religious, and moral differences between colonial Americans of different regions of the newly discovered land we now call the United States of America. ... The communities of colonial America varied tremendously as well. ... The people of colonial America, and the areas in which they lived have been classified into three major regions of colonial America: the North, the Middle region, and the South. ... The family structure of the North was a major reason for its survival. ... This is v...

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Although this wasn't the primary reason, it helped in the decrease of Europeans immigrating to America. ... 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. ... Now, not only were slave's being shipped over, they were being born right here in America. ...

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Although this wasn't the primary reason, it helped in the decrease of Europeans immigrating to America. ... 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. ... Now, not only were slave's being shipped over, they were being born right here in America. ...

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The United States of America was founded as a country where "all men are created equal". ... In the North, farming drove the economy. ... 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. ... The North held land advantages as well. ...

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