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    LESSON 2 COLONIAL ERA 1.0 Introduction In the name of Allah‚ Most Gracious‚ Most Merciful Do you know that Malaysia was once a colonized land? For Malaysian students‚ do you remember how long this country was colonized? Could you please tell your foreign colleagues? For your information‚ this country was colonized approximately 446 years (from 1511 until 1957). Then‚ before this country secures it independence‚ it had experienced the era of emergency after the Japenese left the country. Thus‚ in

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    ------------------------------------------------- Justice & Women in Colonial America‚ 1500-1775 ------------------------------------------------- +Honors Colonial American History Becky Chen Introduction: In the beginning of this time period‚ there was an unmarried woman on the throne in England; she was Queen Elizabeth. Descended from royalty‚ this was the first time England had ever had a woman rule her people. Yet even with this remarkable step for women‚ the roles of women in society

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    known cases of slavery occurred during the settling of the United States of America. From 1619 until July 1st 1928 slavery was allowed within our country. Slavery abolitionists attempted to end slavery‚ which at some point; they were successful at doing so. This paper will take the reader a lot of different directions‚ it will look at slavery in a legal aspect along the lines of the constitution and the thirteenth amendment‚ and it will also discuss how abolitionists tried to end slavery. This paper

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    Portuguese and Spanish Slavery Thus when Portugal and Spain established the first American colonies‚ they first introduced Africans as a labor source in the New World. Both encountered difficulties turning the native American people into a slave labor force. The Spanish were more successful as they encountered the settled agraian societies of the Andes and central Mexico. The Spanish engaged in a debate concerning the humanity of the Native Americans. The Native Americans were in the end turned into

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    CHAPTER 4 SLAVERY AND EMPIRE‚ 1441–1770 ------------------------------------------------- Chapter Outline AMERICAN COMMUNITIES African Slaves Build Their Own Community in Coastal Georgia THE BEGINNINGS OF AFRICAN SLAVERY Sugar and Slavery West Africans THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE The Demography of the Slave Trade Slavers of All Nations The Shock of Enslavement The Middle Passage Arrival in the New World Political and Economic Effects on Africa THE DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICAN

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    The North and South in Antebellum United States In the time just before the Civil War‚ the United States was one of the most successful nations in the world. The United States had become the world’s leading cotton producing country and had developed industry‚ which would in the future‚ surpass that of Great Britain. Also‚ the United States possessed an advanced railroad and transportation system. However‚ despite its successes‚ the United States was becoming increasingly divided. The North

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    Slavery was a very big problem in British’s North American Colonies‚ during the period of 1607 to 1776‚ but it also grew dramatically in this time period. The thought of not having slaves was very out of the ordinary. Slavery became an economic miracle for the plantations and cash crops of North America after settlers began to come to America and start to use and obtain slaves. Slavery grew a huge amount from its origin and development in the colonies of North American. The Slaves became very anxious

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    Slavery impacted the United States overwhelmingly politically and socially‚ from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War. The most significant effect was to riven American political culture into two progressively opposing parties until the transformations exploded into a Civil War. As a contributory cause to the Mexican American War‚ and ultimately to the Civil War‚ slavery would be impacting federal policies in Westward expansion. Much of the industrial development (structure of factories to

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    The Role and Impact of Religion on Early America Throughout the history of the human race‚ we have striven to find an explanation as to why we are here‚ how we got here‚ and if there is some sort of “spirit in the sky” or other supernatural force that could possibly guide us or have an influence in our daily lives. In America‚ the dominant religion we have been associated with is Christianity. However‚ Christianity didn’t even exist in America until the European presence began to take over.

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    During slavery the slaves were treated cruel‚ inhumane‚ and brutal. We have saw in the past the way the white men did the African Americans slaves when they put them in cages‚ stack them on top of each other‚ and stuffed them on boats basically leaving the African slaves for dead. Also we seen in the past how the white men took the African family’s split them apart and sold them off to other white men like they were food. In addition to that the white men even raped some of the African women. So

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