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    Misunderstood African American Folks of the USA Can you imagine having to going to a different school then other people because you have blue eyes? Well that’s how white people treated African Americans through the 1800-1900’s and even still to this day in certain parts of our world. African Americans didn’t gain “freedom” until 1865 when the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery everywhere in the US. Although slavery had come to an end many new issues between white people and African Americans

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    African Americans and Discrimination Originally from Sub-Sahara Africa‚ thousands of African Americans were kidnapped and brought over to and sold in the United States during the Atlantic Slavery Trade. By 1860‚ before the Civil War‚ 3.5 million African Americans lived as slaves‚ mostly in the Southern United States. More than 500‚000 lived as free persons in 33 states across the United States (2008). Today‚ many African Americans believed to have come from European American or Native

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    Alwasila Elbashir Carol Miron History 1302 20 Dec 2017 American industrialization reshaped the face of American society Industrialization is the process of the process of developing industries of a country. American industrialization started at the eighteen century when Samuel slater brought a new factory technology from Britain to the united states. A tide of economic and social change swept across the country after the American industrialization. Nicknames for the decade‚ such as “the Jazz Age”

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    the revolution and one would think they would be treated fairly and with respect. Frederick Engels’ mission was to bring this issue to light and try to get people to acknowledge the horrific and cruel conditions these proletariats had to live in. He did this through his book‚ The Conditions of the Working Class in England‚ which was published in 1845 and expressed the way of life the working class had to

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    African-American Influence on American literature African American literature can be summarized as the writings of authors from African descent. In the United States‚ African descendents have had very different experiences from each others depending on where they lived. In the southern states of the United States‚ Blacks have been really oppressed until the Civil War‚ with the big part being illiterate well into the end of 1800. In the northern states ‚Blacks had a considerable greater freedom

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    During the start of the transatlantic slave trade‚ African religious beliefs and practices were varied and large in number. A great portion of the continent had‚ for centuries‚ fallen under Islamic influence. Regardless of this diversity‚ there were some common threads across different cultural groups. For example‚ West African societies shared a belief in an omnipotent creator‚ a chief immortal among less powerful gods‚ to whom they prayed and made sacrifices. Through laws and customs honoring the

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    America as a Land of Prosperity in the 1920’s is the story of Americans who searched for equality. Yes‚ for some individuals America was a land of prosperity in the 1920’s. The First World War sparked Americas rise in prosperity. As no fighting took place on American soil there were virtually no reparations to be paid‚ also America had entered the war late and therefore‚ had not spent nearly as much money as the big European countries such as France‚ Britain‚ and Germany. This left America in a very

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    Friendship is a virtue or at least involves virtue. Friendship is always a special thing but people tend to forget about how much its value is. Friendship is not just necessary‚ but also noble.Friendship consists of goodwill between two people. You can only have a few friends being that its take some precious time to build a real friendship. Aristotle’s speaks about how there are three kinds of friendship. The first is friends of utility‚ where both people receive some benefit from each other. Aristotle

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    African Americans in the American Revolution Leading into the American Revolution‚ African Americans were placed in a dilemma of whether to rebel or remain faithful to the crown. There were two sides of the American Revolution; the Patriots (also known as the rebels)‚ were the Americans that wanted to gain their independence from Great Britain. The Loyalist was the people who wanted to stay under the control of Great Britain. Some African Americans joined the Loyalist because they were promised

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    African Americans are trying their best to use their new level of freedom to thrive. “For we colored people did not know how to be free and the white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them (Houston Hartsfield)”. Both sides of the party were trying to get used to African Americans’ new found freedom and because of it they were still mistreated in ways they had more choice than

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