Long before the white man set foot on Canadian and Saskatchewan soil, the Indians, or rather the Native Canadians had been living in North America. When the Europeans came here, there were more than 10 million Indians populating North America and they had been living here for quite some time. ... So, when the Europeans started to arrive in the 16th- and 17th-century they were met by Native Americans, and enthusiastically so. ... They believed that the Indian's rightful land belonged to the Queen, and ignored the fact that the Natives had initially lived in North America for thousands of y...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

According to Nell Painter in Creating Black Americans, there are particular factors which drove black southerners to the North. ... As the increasing number of black southern immigrants populated the North, black southerners began to transform both black and white America. According to Joe Trotter in "The Great Migration", the mass migration of black Southerners to the North reflected not only their quest for freedom, but also caused an emergence of new patterns of race, class, and ethnic relations in American culture (31). ... In fact, Trotter points out African Americans beginning ...

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When you think of African-Americans today what's the first thing that comes to mind? ... There are a multitude of underlying themes in the lives of African Americans throughout history. ... Ultimately, African Americans resisted the oppressive conditions of the United States as discussed throughout the documents of Timbuktu to Katrina: Readings in African-American History. ... African Americans were determined to serve the country and fight for rights. ... They resisted during The Middle Passage by revolting as shown in the vignette The Middle Passage: A Slave Mutiny, 1704, they organi...

• Word Count: 1964
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Despite the fact that North Carolina is made up of many races, one can walk into any Wal-Mart, on any given day, and not find an Indian, Oriental, or Hispanic doll for their child to play with. Often times, you may not even be able to find an African-American doll. ... For instance, the city of Mooresville, North Carolina has a large Spanish-speaking population, however, the local cable company refuses to add a Spanish language channel. ... Unfortunately, this has been the case in the long history of American television, which reflects the attitudes of American society. ... Previously-hidden ...

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Describe the disadvantages that Black American's faced in the early 1950's Black American's faced a series of disadvantages in the early 1950's.They ranged from having to use different restrooms that white people all the way up to fearing for their lives in case the Ku Klux Klan showed up. ... The majority of the black population moved north to the Northern states because there was more jobs and "freedom" for them there.Freedom was not the case though, there was still racism in the North although it was small in comparison to the racism in the South .The blacks had overc...

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The Chinese immigrants that came to North America during and after the gold rush greatly contributed to the building if this nations economy and society. ... Ever since the Chinese immigrants arrived in North America they faced prejudice and discrimination. ...

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Throughout the novel, "Black Boy," Richard Wright addresses the many effects of racism on the black American. White America has more power through education than Black America; however, black America has more power and knowledge through experience rather than education. ... Through systematic racism, discrimination of blacks is pursued and kept alive in the American society. ... Another benefit of the Great Migration North was in the North the blacks had undergone the discrimination as a group rather than having to deal with it by themselves. ... In the novel, Black Boy, Wright acknowledges an...

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Literacy, in its turn, was denied from slaves because it would have given them access to perspectives on their condition and the ability to articulate and spread them among the reading public of the North. ... Jacobs's "knowledge" has to do with "premature knowledge" of sexual harassment because of sexual exploitation of enslaved African-American women, by their white masters. ... "The Cult of True Womanhood" was an organization that dictated the moral codes for women's virtues and proper conduct, and women both in the North and in the South were judged upon its rules. Jacobs sta...

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Sylvia Landry, a light skinned black woman living in the North, returns to the South and dedicates herself to teaching at a school for the children of black sharecroppers. ... Micheaux clearly demonstrates the lack of educational opportunity of African Americans in the south. In an attempt to save the school, she goes back North to try and find people who will help in her cause but she's met with racism, from both blacks and whites. ... These films portray not only color prejudice but also class tensions within the African-American community. ... Many whites believed that African America...

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This poet was not alone though as Black art suffered greatly them in America and these people tried to fuse as little Black and as much American as possible into their craft in a bid to be given a chance to fit into the Caucasian standard of what was consider American. But what exactly would have made such a young African American man aspire to be as white as possible? ... He uses a lot of rhetoric to show that there is a different definition of the fourth of July to both the African American and the white American when he utilizes phrases like us and them, you and we. ... The last three decad...

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(Larkin 6) During the early years of colonization and exploration in North America, the New World collided and brought to each other many new things, both good and bad. ... Although at times they waged wars that would temporarily halt the European colonization, for the most part their voice in North America was forever muzzled. ... It then became one of the staple foods of North American colonists. ... Hunting was a very popular pastime in colonial America. ... In the 19th century, sexual lives of Americans began to change. ...

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Of these African American leaders, Booker T. ... He does not expect African Americans to live this inferior life forever though. ... Washington had many followers from both the North and the South, and he even had support from many working-class Negroes. ... W.E.B Dubois was born in 1868 to a free family in North, and he had always been around education growing up. ... He understands that African Americans cannot be blamed completely for where they stand and that the nation, as a whole, is responsible for the wronging of the African American race throughout the history of America. ...

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Essay Assignment Between the years of 1860 - 1890, Americans used many methods to take over land that was originally owned by the American Indians. ... The dictionary definition of Manifest Destiny is the 19th century doctrine that the United States had the right and duty to expand throughout the North American continent. ... For years now the indigenous peoples watched as white Americans moved into their area. ... At first contact, the Navaho and the Americans got along quite well. ... The legacy of what went on with the removal of the American Indians from their homeland, is a dark s...

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In Mississippi black people are still nearly treated like slves, meanwhile in the northern states of America black people were treated better, more like white people. ... In the southern states of America lots of people were still very racist but now luckly this number of racist has decreased. ... That's why David, the Logan father, had to go to the north states of America to work in the railway and get the money they needed. ...

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a few European nations ruled the Americas. ... Slavery caused major changes in America when it was legalized in 1661. ... He tries to run away to North America to meet up with Lydia and live a life with her. ... An excerpt from The Virginian shows the thoughts of the South about the North. ... P121 Lydia and Chapel make plans to run away and meet in North America where they can live a happy life together. ...

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Throughout history, many different views have been taken by African American leaders on how to solve the racial injustice that has plagued the African American community ever since they became known as independent citizens in this country. ... In his speech he preached a philosophy to the African American race of self-help. ... He stressed the need for further education in the African American community because he believed that African American leadership should come from college-trained backgrounds. ... "(21) In this he advises his followers not to be violent or take the teachings of the nort...

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For Black Americans, this society existed in the south after the end of the civil war. ... Racism in the north however was a different story. ... After the civil war, some blacks moved north to try and make a living, but most stayed in the South becoming sharecroppers and farmers on the large plantations. By the late 1890's more and more blacks were coming north to work in the factories. ... Racism against the Blacks in America can be seen as the persecution of the "other." ...

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How Blacks were treated in the North & South in the 1940's The blacks were treated poorly in the south they were falsely accused of things they hardly ever did. In the north they were treated better; They were given better medical care and were allowed to have churches, but they where still poorly treated. In the 1940's blacks were not considered equal to whites in the North or the South. ...

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Wright finds throughout his own passage into manhood that both white and black America will fight to promote the status quo and keep the black man from achieving. ... Wright's debt to alcohol creates a contrast with the policies of middle class African Americans and shows a positive side of lower black culture. ... Hard work is not enough to create equality in the workplace, and Richard is so persecuted by racism in Mississippi that he is forced to flee to Memphis to continue saving for an escape to the North. When he finally arrives in the North, Richard finds that he is still subjec...

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He really wanted to leave and move up north . ... a majority of african americans at the time did not knoe how to read or write so it is "assumed" that ALL african americans cant read and write.To sum it all up all african americans including richard were alienated from the white society because African Americans were believed to be insignificant, dumb,animals. ... Richard's goal was to get enough money to leave the South for a better opportunity in the North. ...

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The following essay will explain why the subtitle American Hunger of the book Black Boy by Richard Wright is appropriate. ... Both of these characteristics had a big influence on his life in America. ... As a result of his unhappiness and the social and economic conditions surrounding black people in America, Richard saved up his money and by the time he was old enough, he moved and stayed in the North, where he became a communist. Richard Wright suffered at a time in American history when there was poverty and racism. ... But after his death, his words and example influence...

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'Dry September' written by William Faulkner is set in Mississippi, in post-bellum America. Post-bellum(1866-1913 is the period in America after Civil War(1861-1865). After Civil war Slavery was abolished from South America, legally. ... As Faulkner is presenting his story in post-bellum America, where the outside world is thinking or even the North Americans were considering that the blacks were safe in South America, after slavery being abolished and equal rights being given to them. ... These people took the charge of killing black Americans. ...

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Lula represent the whites power in America during that time. ... Looking back to American history Whites has treated Blacks very brutally. They use guns to steal land in North America (during 1660 to 1880s) and force blacks to work on it as slaves. ... But it does not quite work; the country cracks apart into war between the slave south and the free north. ... African-Americans, South Asians, Latin Americans, and other people of color have, for many generations, internalized this Eurocentric standard of attractiveness. ...

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"Cavalry Crossing a Ford" is not only about the North winning the Civil War, it is also about Whitman's views on what the country has allowed itself to become. Being from the North it is only natural that Whitman would write about the soldiers that he witnesses go into battle. ... It was Whitman's background in the North and the values that he took from there that enable him to write a poem that reflects on the victory in a positive manner. ... With these lines and the words that Whitman chooses to use he is trying to make America take an objective look at itself and figure out ...

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