Thursday, September 29, 2011

Concepts

  America has always had problems with race, gender, class, ethnicity, financial status, and religion. Since the beginning, we were put under the impression that demoralising certain groups of people is a good way to get ahead in life. During the Middle Passage, when slaves were brought from Africa to the New World, some people knew that slavery was going to be a problem. Even after the Civil War, the Black Codes were enforced just so blacks can "know" that white people are somehow better. The Americans just didnt demote blacks of their human status, but they did the same to the natives. Owners that were involved in the Headright System were sometimes granted encomiendas. Natives deserved to be treated like those in the indentured servitude. The natives didnt do anything to be treated the way they were.
  There were many beliefs going on, sometimes they were about religion and sometimes they were about the economy. like evangelicalism, thats were you actively had to inform people about the death and resurrection of Jesus.Or how about Puritanism, which the English Protestants created in the 16th century. Mercantilism was an economic belief where people theorized that foreign trade was important for the state to prosper.
            Money was always a problem back then even though some may deny it. Tariffs were set on things just to get extra money out of it. People always tried to be part of the Join-stock Company just to get a share of the stock. The financial status always defined the state’s status. There was always different types of colonies like a proprietary colony were the rights were just like the parents state. Or maybe a royal colony, where all the governmental functions were handed back to the crown. That’s were Salutary began, and they wanted to live like the ways in Great Britain
 

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