they turned to the Native Americans for cheap labor but millions of them started to die because of disease‚ warfare‚ and brutal treatment. Therefore‚ Europeans in Brazil‚ the Caribbean ‚ and the Southern colonies of North America soon turned to Africa for workers. The demand of cheap labor resulted in the slave trade. Slavery had existed in Africa for centuries but it was minor. The spread of Islam into Africa in the 17th century increased slavery and the slave trade. African rulers justified enslavement
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The war between the British and the French over land was known as the French and Indian war. After many hard-fought battles‚ the British gained a lot of new land. The Treaty of Paris then gave the British the land as the French lost the land. To avoid further conflict with the Native Americans‚ the British passed the Proclamation of 1763. This said that no colonist could settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. However‚ we did not like these restrictions. We did not like that the British had control
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Racism can also be defined as bias‚ prejudice‚ discrimination or bigotry. How some people react to and treat others is partly because of fear of the unknown and lack of knowledge. Macionis defines prejudice as “rigid and unfair generalization about an entire category of people”(2008). And if you break down the word prejudice it is pre and judge. How is it logically possible to judge something without having all the facts about it? Prejudice generally takes form in a stereotype or misunderstanding
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The war between the British and the French over land was known as the French and Indian war. After many hard-fought battles‚ the British gained a lot of new land. The Treaty of Paris then gave the British the land as the French lost the land. To avoid further conflict with the Native Americans‚ the British passed the Proclamation of 1763. This said that no colonist could settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. However‚ we did not like these restrictions. We did not like that the British had control
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that the African American community was scared to register to vote on their own for example African Americans would receive threats by the whites and or KKK if they did and some of those threats were carried out in the form of car and house bombings‚ beaten to death or near death‚ hangings and many other forms of violence. Another reason why the African Americans in the South‚ especially in the state of Mississippi did not register to vote on their own was because they simply did not know how to read/understand
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West Africans developed their knowledge of tropical climate over many years and were able to make the leached soil of the Niger Delta profitable for themselves. The agricultural revolution in West Africa lead towards the Atlantic Slave Trade. The agricultural skills and knowledge of West Africans attracted Europeans. West Africans’ tropical agricultural skills greatly interested outsiders because the Europeans wanted to profit from this knowledge. On the map it is shown that West Africa consists
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What were the main social effects of the Atlantic slave trade and how is it affecting America now? The Main social effects of the slave led to segregation‚ racism‚ and stereotyping‚ It is affecting America because black people have less education‚ they are treated differently and get less pay. Topic Sentence: In the late 1400s the Transatlantic slave trade was started by the Portuguese but it really didn’t expand until the late 1500s when Sir Francis Drake started to journey with John Hawkins his
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King was an activist who became the most visible leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his assassination in 1968. Numerous African Americans faced life every day in fear of white Americans and the millions of restrictions put on them. For instance‚ White Americans had their own restrooms‚ restaurants‚ schools‚ water fountains and their own community where African Americans were not supposed to lay one foot in. Not to mention‚ the White Americans had their schools‚ water fountains etc
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World War Two was a time of mixed signals coming from the American society concerning racial issues with African Americans. The government was trying to unite the black and white communities to help with the war effort‚ while the people had different opinions on what should happen. The government also created an agency that would help relieve some of the racial tension between whites and blacks. Riots were started and took the lives of many inocent individuals. Not only was the government and
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Why did Lincoln free the slaves? It was a good day for the US when Lincoln finally freed slaves in 1865. But why did he do it? Did he free the slaves out of political necessity or did he free slaves because he felt sorry for them. At the start of the US Civil war Lincoln believe it or not main priority was just to preserve the Union not to free the slaves. Lincoln pursued no clear policy regarding the slaves for the first 15 months of the war perhaps hoping that it would be possible to defeat the
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