African Americans In The 1900's

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Treatment of the Native American’s, Immigrant’s and the African American’s In 1877 through the 1900’s were the most brutal times for the Indians, immigrants and the African Americans. Their culture and land was stripped away from them because the whites thought their way of life like farming and living in houses was the right way to live. They were slaved and raped and beaten by their masters. A lot of them wanted to go west to live a better life. What the whites did to these people was inhuman. Despite their differences, all Native Americans emphasized community welfare over individual interest. They based their community on subsistence rather than profit. They tried to live in peace and harmony with nature to ward off sickness, injury, death. They were very religious, absorbed with the need to establish relations with the supernatural forces that linked human beings with all other living things. White and Indian cultures clashed. Downgrading Native Americans and their religion, white people called them “salvages” and said they should be exterminated. The whites ignoring the need for natural harmony, they followed their own culture from the wealth of the land for market economy. In 1830s the government adopted the policy to separate the whites and the Indians. By the early 1850s,…show more content…
They were raped and tortured by the plantation owners. Their family was separated and sold off to other plantation owners. They worked in the cotton fields all day without food and water. African Americans were free from their masters after the Civil War. Most of the blacks were afraid to leave the south because of what the whites did. The ones that did go north were treated with no respect. The white would let the black go to a white school. They were separated by the whites. There was leeching going on killing a lot of the black people. They weren’t allowed to vote or express their
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