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How were African Americans and Native Americans discriminated against?
African Americans were used as slaves, discriminated against because white people didnt treat them as equal. Native Americans because they were forced to move west in "the trail of tears" because that one white president was greedy and discriminated against them
What problem did the movement westward bring?
Native Americans were forced out of their homes during the expansion.
Why are black people not considered a whole person?
In modern society, people of African decent are no less then any other human on the planet. During the civil war era though, Africans were concidered inferioir and were forced into slavery. During this time was when the slaves were considered to be worth 3/5 of a person.
What is the assimilation Of African-Americans?
Assimilation is when one group of people gives up their culture for another dominant culture. During this process, they lose their culture. Though African Americans were forced to relinquish most of their culture when brought to America (by slave masters and also by being strewn about on plantations with Africans who were from different countries, speaking different languages & having different cultures), Africans were able to keep a lot of their heritage alive. Consider spirituals, where they were intertwined with English words (incl. Ebonics) and African tunes. Also consider African characteristics, i.e., music, worship/praise, dance, family, etc. There are a lot of African that African Americans have retained, but don't even know!
Leader whose reforms included the freeing of citizens who had been forced into slavery?
Leader whose reforms included the freeing of citizens who had been forced into slavery
What was a result of the fact that people convicted of crimes could be legally forced to work?
Many African Americans were returned to a state of slavery. Southern states and private businesses use convict-leasing to force prisoners to work and then make profits off of their unpaid or underpaid labor.
What is an involuntary immigrant?
Involuntary Immigrant --- African Americans who were forced to be transported to the united states most likely for slavery
Is slavery a dying culture?
Slavery was never a culture. It was when plantation owners bought over African Americans and forced them to work on their plantations for no pay. It was outlawed in the US by the 13th amendmant
What was true about the thirteenth admendment?
Well it abolished slavery.. It said that people could be forced to work if they committed a crime.
Why were African-Americans forced immigrants?
They weren't forced. In Africa, African Rulers sold African people to "The White Man" In exchange for goods. The Settlers in America then forced to work.
What were many African Americans forced to do in the south to earn a living?
they were foced to slavery by whites because as known back then there was the problem of racisim and they were only payed 3 cents a day.
How was Jackson's Force Bill of 1833 connected with slavery?
The Force Bill of 1833, proposed by President Andrew Jackson, was aimed at enforcing federal tariff laws in South Carolina during the nullification crisis. While not directly related to slavery, the nullification crisis itself was influenced by Southern concerns over federal economic policies that were seen as favoring the North and potentially threatening the institution of slavery. The South viewed the tariffs as disproportionately burdensome on their region.
Who did the Spanish and Portuguese use as labor on their planatations?
Native Americans and Africans forced into slavery.
What did the African supply for when they were brought to the Americas?
Um. Historically...Technically African people during the colonial times of the United States region supplied free work for the Americas. That in they were brutally imprisoned, taken from Africa and forced into slavery.
How did the African Americans feel to get forced away from Africa?
They felt really bad about it
What did the African-Americans do when they arrived?
they were forced to work and they didn't have any freedom at all.
What effect did the civil war have on the native Americans?
They did not like it because they, too, were sometimes forced into slavery.
