Racism in the United States has been a major issue ever since the colonial era and the slave era. Legally sanctioned racism imposed a heavy burden on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans. White Americans were privileged by law in matters of literacy, Immigration, voting rights, citizenship, land acquisition, and criminal procedure over periods of time extending from the 17th century to the 1960s. Many European ethnic groups, particularly American Jews, Irish Americans, and Eastern European and Southern European immigrants, as well as immigrants from elsewhere, suffered xenophobic exclusion and other forms of racism in American society.
Major racially structured institutions included slavery, Indian Wars, Native American reservations, segregation, residential schools (for Native Americans), and internment camps.[1] Formal racial discrimination was largely banned in the mid-20th century, and came to be perceived as socially unacceptable and/or morally repugnant as well, yet racial politics remain a major phenomenon. Historical racism continues to be reflected in socio-economic inequality.[2] Racial stratification continues to occur in employment, housing, education, lending, and government.
As in most countries, many people in the U.S. continue to have some prejudices against other races.[3][4][5] In the view of a network of scores of US civil rights and human rights organizations, "Discrimination permeates all aspects of life in the United States, and extends to all communities of color."[6] Discrimination against African Americans, Latin Americans, and Muslims is widely acknowledged.[7] Members of every major American ethnic minority have perceived racism in their dealings with other minority groups.[8][
The Americans revolted because the British were being unfair to them and had imposed too many taxes on them due the the British loss in the Spain war. They found this kind of treatment unfair and decided to win their own country back.
MANY were and it was very unfair
Voting
Sons of liberty. They were a secret group basically to protest against anything unfair Great Britain did.
America has not followed up on its promise to give Negroes equal treatment afforded them by the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. (:
African Americans and/or native Americans
chicken nuggets
15 & 19:)
"A Century Of Dishonor"
just because , it snot fair
A Century of Dishonor
A Century of Dishoner
you just did =) this is unfair treatment. that game is unfair
African Americans were brought over as slaves. That is more that unfair treatment. Some were convinced that African Americans were less able than Caucasians.
The 1881 book that exposed the harsh treatment of Native Americans was "A Century of Dishonor". Helen Hunt Jackson wrote the book in 1881.
Martin Luther King Jr. gave this famous speech to protest against unfair treatment of African Americans. People have given this speech the name "I Have a Dream".
The Americans revolted because the British were being unfair to them and had imposed too many taxes on them due the the British loss in the Spain war. They found this kind of treatment unfair and decided to win their own country back.