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George Teal Mrs. Brown Advanced 8th Language Arts 6 December 2013 Title There are three major examples of racial bigotry in our nations history: the treatment of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Latin Americans. The constitution and bill of rights were expressly designed to benefit Caucasian males by owning slaves, but removing any rights that these slaves had. The population would be determined by "adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other persons," United States Bill of Rights. This effectively gave more power into the southern states, but limiting the rights of the slaves. After the the civil war this was changed in section two of the fourteenth amendment. Many of the freed slaves following the civil war also believed that they were entitled to the land they had worked their entire lives, or at least "forty acres and a mule" of property. This was never granted,but many freed slaves ended up buying and founding property afterwards. Despite all slaves being freed and gaining the rights of U.S. citizens, there was still bigotry long into the 20th century. This bigotry involved African American citizens not being allowed to fight in regular combat platoons in World War Two, and African Americans not being able to participate in the same schools, sports, and jobs as other Americans, and this continued until the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Racial bigotry is not confined to just bigotry against African Americans, but also against Japanese immigrants and German immigrants, for example in as early as the late 19th century, there were already many boycotts and protests for Japanese made goods. For exampl... ...d legitimately wanted to exterminate them, Hitler and the pre World War Two Nazi party used the jewish people as a scapegoat. By and large Germany believed it, and they did because Hitler capitalized on their hatred for for the allied nations and their resentment for their loss and economic ruin in World War One by claiming that the only reason they lost, was because of the jewish people. This was due to germany's mostly protestant religion, who at the time had a very high and mighty look on other religions, whilst the jewish germans often had influential places in banks and industry, making them all the more easier to blame. When the nazi power finally came to power in 1933, they began to deport Jewish germans to concentration camps and seize their properties, in what they called their  ¨final solution ¨. Even after the end of the war, the damage still lingered in Essay examples -- George Teal Mrs. Brown Advanced 8th Language Arts 6 December 2013 Title There are three major examples of racial bigotry in our nations history: the treatment of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Latin Americans. The constitution and bill of rights were expressly designed to benefit Caucasian males by owning slaves, but removing any rights that these slaves had. The population would be determined by "adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other persons," United States Bill of Rights. This effectively gave more power into the southern states, but limiting the rights of the slaves. After the the civil war this was changed in section two of the fourteenth amendment. Many of the freed slaves following the civil war also believed that they were entitled to the land they had worked their entire lives, or at least "forty acres and a mule" of property. This was never granted,but many freed slaves ended up buying and founding property afterwards. Despite all slaves being freed and gaining the rights of U.S. citizens, there was still bigotry long into the 20th century. This bigotry involved African American citizens not being allowed to fight in regular combat platoons in World War Two, and African Americans not being able to participate in the same schools, sports, and jobs as other Americans, and this continued until the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Racial bigotry is not confined to just bigotry against African Americans, but also against Japanese immigrants and German immigrants, for example in as early as the late 19th century, there were already many boycotts and protests for Japanese made goods. For exampl... ...d legitimately wanted to exterminate them, Hitler and the pre World War Two Nazi party used the jewish people as a scapegoat. By and large Germany believed it, and they did because Hitler capitalized on their hatred for for the allied nations and their resentment for their loss and economic ruin in World War One by claiming that the only reason they lost, was because of the jewish people. This was due to germany's mostly protestant religion, who at the time had a very high and mighty look on other religions, whilst the jewish germans often had influential places in banks and industry, making them all the more easier to blame. When the nazi power finally came to power in 1933, they began to deport Jewish germans to concentration camps and seize their properties, in what they called their  ¨final solution ¨. Even after the end of the war, the damage still lingered in

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