Sexism has always existed‚ it seem to get better with time. Women could not vote that is blatant sexism. Women are paid less than men‚ School Teachers call on boys more than girls‚ people think this example of sexism. Sexism and racism are types of discrimination. Sexism is the discrimination against someone’s gender. America is getting better with sexism‚ however Gender inequality is still a problem in the United States but it has diminished advancements towards equality‚ However‚ despite progress
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the crew of Christopher Columbus‚ and the violent colonization by early settlers. Topics include the Arawaks‚ Bartolomé de las Casas‚ the Aztecs‚ Hernando Cortes‚ Pizarro‚ Powhatan‚ the Pequot‚ the Narragansett‚ Metacom‚ King Philip’s War‚ and the Iroquois. Chapter 2‚ "Drawing the Color Line" addresses early slavery of African Americans and servitude of poor British people in the Thirteen Colonies. Zinn writes of the methods by which racism was artificially created in order to enforce the economic
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the western Great Plains by developing largely mobile lifestyles. C. In the Northeast and along the Atlantic Seaboard some societies developed a mixed agricultural and hunter–gatherer economy that favored the development of permanent villages. • Iroquois‚ Algonquian Key Concept 1.2: European overseas expansion resulted in the Columbian Exchange‚ a series of interactions and adaptations among societies across the Atlantic. I. The arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere in the 15th and 16th
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Native Americans were already there. 1492. Dutch were the technical discoverers. NA (Russians) came on Bering Strait.ICE AGE. 2. How did the Spanish treat the Native Americans? Results of the European contact with the Natives? Relationship with the Iroquois Confederacy? ∙ Treated badly. As less than people. Massacred and enslaved. ∙ Result of European contact with the Natives? Death to many natives. Pizarro crushed incas. (befriended them and took all their gold. 1532) ∙ The 160‚000
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[pic] subject INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF CYPRUS title DEMOCRACY: THEORY AND PRACTICE by FANNI ZSOFIA DAVID program of study GRAPHIC AND ADVERTISING DESIGN Introduction The meaning and development of democracy According to a the contemporary definition democracy today is: “Government by the people‚ exercised either directly or through elected representatives; Rule by the majority” (“Democracy”
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Many ethnicities faced difficulties during the American Revolution. Native Americans chose to fight for the British or the Americans‚ in hopes that the winning side would reward land. During the war‚ the Iroquois Confederacy‚ the Mohawks‚ Onondagas‚ Cayugas‚ and Seneca fought for Great Britain‚ while the Oneidas and Tuscaroras fought for America. The wives of Loyalists‚ American colonists who remained loyal to the British Empire‚ suddenly found themselves
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different from their own. The biggest and perhaps the most clear difference between the two societies are that some of the Natives lived in a matrilineal society‚ while the Europeans believed in a more common patrilineal way of life. For example‚ the Iroquois believed in matrilineal families where it was determined by the mother‚ rather than the father. Females were clearly the authority of the household. If a woman desired a divorce from her husband‚ she simply took his belongings and placed them at
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It was June 4‚ 1763 in what is now present day Michigan. British troops were now posted in Fort Michilimackinac. They look out to the field and see two teams of Native Americans participating in a game of stick ball. The soldiers were captivated by the flow‚ roughness‚ and thrill of the game. What game were they playing? They were playing would one day be the modern day sport of lacrosse. Their example could be a prime reason why famous enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau called this a game
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chief said‚ “We must insist on your removing them…” They set the proclamation to keep the Indians happy. This helped prevent another uproar like Pontiacs Rebellion‚ and also did not allow colonists to move westward. Also‚ during the war to keep the Iroquois Indians pleased‚ Franklin called the Albany Congress into plan. The economical piece also differed during the war. In the war‚ the British collected a great amount of debt. They believed that the colonials should be taxed to help pay off this
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Economic Structure Trade networks: arrowheads‚ wampum‚ Roanoke‚ and food Prospered through the cultivation of grains and cereals Fishing‚ lumbering‚ farming‚ and ship building Cash crop- mainly tobacco Expansive lines of trade Political Structure Iroquois confederacy Mayflower Compact‚ expansion of political freedom and self-rule Colonial assemblies to address problems and make decisions usually within each town or village Royal colony‚ House of Burgess‚ Proprietary Colony Politics advanced Social
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