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    African Americans After Slavery: 1. Describe the obstacles that stood in the way of economic and political equality for southern blacks in the late 19th century. it was with no lawful employment or business‚ or found unlawfully assembling themselves together in the day or night time and all white persons so assembling with freedmen. 2. How did the Supreme Court respond to the growth of racial segregation? Power of congress declaring by law that all persons shall have equal accommodations and

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    Throughout the duration of the 18th century and into the 19th century slavery was a major part of the economy and had a major impact on economics and the well being of Americans. Slavery allowed people to produce more product‚ thus generating more revenue. People in the south needed slaves‚ meanwhile people in the North were attempting to put slavery to rest because it is immoral. During the early 19th century people were trying to develop utopias throughout the United States. A utopia is an imagined

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    developed a new lifestyle in the city and leisure for everyone to enjoy from besides the employment available in the city. The development of the city and Urbanism was in particular a good consequence for African Americans because it gave them an opportunity to engage in a new society. Before‚ Urbanism and the 20th century many African Americans lived in small rural places where no opportunities appeared and many faced discrimination not only because of the color of their skin‚ but because many saw

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    making of the British colonies in North America. During early settlement‚ colonies were formed along the coast or rivers. Because colonies were completely linked and dependent on Europe at this point in time‚ the coast made it easier for two countries to transport to one another. To the west‚ the Appalachian Mountains provided a barrier between the inland Native America tribes and the settlers who were often at war with one another. The locations where the English colonists had settled affected their

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    Introduction: Slavery was a disgraceful part of our history for many years. Its start grew from a need for a labor source in the new and growing America. The Southern economy thrived from slave labor whereas the North did not rely on the labor of slaves. This paper will prove that slavery failed in the North because in the North there was no need for large labor to support the economic structure compared to the South where slavery was needed to support their economy. There are three main points

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    freedom in America has come a long way during slavery. African Americans were token away from their home town against their own wills just to be a white men property. Slavery put most blacks in a brutal situation that they had no say so on their lives were going to be headed or portrayed. Based on the book “There is a River” slavery began by the Europeans in the seven- tenth century and Africans was chose to be the number one slaves. The struggle for justice‚ hope‚ and determination is what most blacks

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    In this essay I will demonstrate why America would not be America without African Americans. African Americans contributed a lot to America and is a main factor of all that is going on in America to this day. Without black people America would not be. Like it or not African Americans helped with building this famous nation. W.E.B. Dubois asked‚ “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” Put the question in our head of what would America be without its black people? How will our world

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    HIST-1500Y November 19th‚ 2014 Religion and Music = Freedom? Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ in 1619‚ to aid in the production of lucrative crops such as tobacco. Since then slavery has expanded and become very popular‚ which is why during the major cotton boom in America during the Antebellum Period there was another increase of slavery. Slavery deprived slaves of their basic rights such as the right to leave

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    and North America‚ were not always like they look now. There was no countries‚ no big cities‚ and no civilized life. There was only native tribes and nature. What we look now is product of what it’s called "colonization". Of course‚ none of the two pieces of the continent were colonized in the same way. First‚ I am going to explained how was the colonization in the USA‚ and then the colonization in South America. North America‚ XVII century. It all started in 1607‚ when a tiny village was built

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    The success of the French in North America was largely due to the associations they developed with the American Indians‚ and the fur trading that provided animal pelts that were in high demand throughout Europe. The French built missions and worked to convert the Indians to Christianity‚ they settled primarily in Canada and the Great Lakes. France attempted to pioneer several settlements throughout North America that failed because of war with other countries‚ bad weather and diseases. Even though

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