Description : If you have one chance to go back in time for a few months to live with either Native Americans or American early settlers, which group would you choose?
Last Answer : I would choose Native Americans, specifically Choctaw, to see how my ancestors lived. That would also be a better choice for most people because the colonists were not very familiar with the new land.
Description : The Native Americans gave so much to what is now Anglo American, where did it go wrong?
Last Answer : The Arawak peoples of the Bahamas were enslaved soon after first contact with the Spanish. There were several uprisings. “Lies my Teacher Told Me”, James W. Loewen, 1995, has a chapter on their struggles.
Description : Why did Native Americans trade for guns?
Last Answer : here are some stabs in the dark 1) trade for guns to fight other tribes 2) there was not a lot of precedent for sweeping conquerors for them, with the massive empires of the Inca and Aztec being far away from them, so they couldn’t imagine in that direction.
Description : What would have happened among Native Americans if the Europeans arrived 300 years later?
Last Answer : answer:The Europeans were technologically advanced, and I get the feeling that they would have stayed that way. I do have a feeling, though, that the Native American empire as a whole would have grown ... are still many reservations here and there, but for the most part, they're down and out.
Description : Shouldn't Native Americans be in every Memorial Day parade since America was their country first?
Last Answer : Memorial Day is to honor soldiers who have served in our country. Native Americans soldiers do march in the parades.
Description : Why did we steal North Dakota from the Native Americans?
Last Answer : We did a lot more to them than just that…
Description : Did Brazil experience frontier conflict with Native American groups?
Last Answer : Migration into the continents Anthropological and genetic evidence indicates that most Amerindian people descended from migrant people from North Asia (Siberia) who entered the Americas across the ... colonization of the region.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Brazil Wiki
Description : What were some of the conflicts that emerged between American settelers Mexican Americans and native Americans following the Mexican war?
Last Answer : What is the answer ?
Description : Which piece of legislation granted African Americans the legal right to vote A. the 15th Amendment B. the Voting Rights Act C. the 19th Amendment D. the Indian Citizenship Act?
Last Answer : The Voting Rights Act of 1965 granted African Americans the legal right to vote.
Description : Did Indigenous Americans have contact with the Inca and Aztec?
Last Answer : Aren’t the Aztec and Incas indigenous to the Americas? Or, do you mean the Natuve Americans in what is now the United States having contact with the Aztec and Incas?
Description : When were Americans made aware of the nuclear bombs droped in Japan?
Last Answer : According to this, and another source, they were informed about the first bomb no later than August 7, 1945.
Description : Americans: if you were born before 1968 what did you actually experience or know about regarding segregation and desegregation?
Last Answer : answer:My mother-in-law is visiting, and while her memory has big holes in it, she occasionally comes out with an interesting story (or story fragment) She says she was accidentally sent by her parents to an ... hair, so it was OK. I never got out of her whether she continued to go to that school.
Description : Can African Ancestry really tell which African country an African American's ancestry is from?
Last Answer : Probably not. Keep in mind Africa’s political instability. Those countries may be long gone.
Description : African Americans: How does it feel to come from a heritage where there were slaves in your ancestry in the U.S.A.?
Last Answer : answer:I don't know if your question is specifically directed toward African Americans because that is exclusively your area of interest, or because it seems like the easiest demographic to tap into on a ... into slave labor, and my life has been touched by these stories on a very personal level.
Description : Americans, if we decided to build something again, like we used to, what Big Thing would we do?
Last Answer : Rebuild Detroit around more than one product!
Description : Did the Americans want to get into WW2 just to boost their economy?
Last Answer : That's debatable. The US was very much isolationist, and wanted to stay out of the war. Regardless, the US economy would have been helped supplying Great Britain. Google Lend Lease WWII. You ... easy information out there. Don't be lazy; it's an interesting subject, because history repeats itself.
Description : Which General, who commanded the British forces against the Americans in their War of Independence later became Governor-General of India ? (SSC CGL 1st Sit. 2013) (a) Dalhousie (b) William Bentinck (c) Wellesley (d) Cornwallis
Last Answer : (b) William Bentinck
Description : Should I give up my American Citizenship?
Last Answer : answer:A comfortable retirement and health care would top my list. What situation(s) provide best for that. Republicans plan to eliminate Medicare. A lot of people are going to be eating ... has shifted so drastically to the top that the number of comfortable middle-class retirees is shrinking.
Description : How does an American citizen prove citizenship when stopped by the Arizona police?
Last Answer : answer:You have to sing the Star Spangled Banner and do the Pledge of Allegiance. Seriously - that's the flaw in these laws. We don't have ways to prove citizenship, other than our drivers licenses (which ... skinned people who don't speak English well. If that's not profiling, I don't know what is.
Description : Is it easier for an American to get a British citizenship, or a British to get an American citizenship?
Last Answer : I think you just say a Brit, or by country, ie Englishman.
Description : Which of the following is a feature to both the Indian Federation and the American Federation? (1) A single citizenship (2) Dual judiciary (3) Three Lists in the Constitution (4) A Federal Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution
Last Answer : (4) A Federal Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution Explanation: According to the Constitution of India, the role of the Supreme Court is that of a federal court and guardian of the ... and advisory jurisdiction. It functioned until 1950, when the Supreme Court. of India was established.
Description : When you learned about slavery and segregation in America, was it taught as American history, or more specifically Southern history?
Last Answer : answer:US History. Not being from the South, we didn’t have a Southern History course. Public schools in the northwest tend to have a northwest history section, and teach about the indigenous people and how we were scumbags to them as we took their land, cheated them and killed them off.
Description : If the South won the American Civil War, would slavery over time end up abolished in the US?
Last Answer : Computers are the new slaves. When we get true artificial intelligence then we will have another civil war for computer rights. Yes I think slavery would have eventually be abolished or moved onto another group ie computers.
Description : Violations of Civil Rights that weren't fought for? What events in American history would be considered violations of TODAY's civil rights?
Last Answer : A prime example would be the interenment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War. Then there were the infamous McCarthy hearings wherein citizens were persecuted and found their lives and careers destroyed ... I could spend the rest of the day on this question but others deserve a chance.
Description : Have you heard of the "Bonus Army" in American history? [link] [details]?
Last Answer : answer:I knew the generalities, but your link provided more information than I had known before. It seems to me that Hoover was wrong in not firing MacArthur for crossing the bridge to Bonus City in the face ... if he had had the same type of lust for absolute power, and similar demons to Hitler's )
Description : I was wondering earlier how many of you think the American Dream has died? And then I began to wonder what you think the American Dream is?
Last Answer : Perfect family, perfect house, perfect car. Why it doesn’t happen; define perfect, then look in your wallet.
Description : I have never met an African American before, I have just seen them on TV. Is it true that they came here for slavery?
Last Answer : They did not come voluntarily, they were kidnapped and forced into slavery waay back when in the 1600's. Slavery was rampantly accepted in America up until the Civil war era which divided the north ... . Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery during his presidency and this began the civil war in the U.S.
Description : When was the rise and decline of the American automobile in correlation to the American economy?
Last Answer : Not at all. In 2009, the US exported “Passenger cars … $27.5 billion” even though that number was down quite a bit. Top US Imports and Exports.
Description : Was the outcome of the Civil War the beginning of the end for the American civilization?
Last Answer : Interesting question but ultimately I believe that the timeframe allows for too many factors to then arise that could have changed history in unforseen ways. So for a what if scenario, thoroughly possible, but is it for certain? Hardly.
Description : What happened to American Jews in the United States during World War 2?
Last Answer : Nothing that I know of.
Description : What caused the American Civil War?
Last Answer : Homework, eh . . .
Description : How should a good american embrace the value of civil disobedience?
Last Answer : How about Jefferson? We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty ... powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Description : Who was your favorite American president, and why?
Last Answer : To answer my own question: despite the fact that I am a conservative, I'd say Woodrow Wilson. He got reforms done such as women's suffrage that were long overdue, yet did not over-push his progressivist ... about Obama XD). As you may be able to tell from the question, my least favorite was FDR
Description : Was Abraham Lincoln really a friend of the African American?
Last Answer : I think it's been exaggerated over time, as all stories of nationalism for every country are. Could it simply have been the ends justifying the means situation? Would Honest Abe have freed the ... him mentioning something in his personal notes it seems like this is a question without a true answer.
Description : Can anyone give me summary of any one movie; Far & away, an American tale, newsies, there will be blood, or fly boys?
Last Answer : answer:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_and_Away http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Tail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood http://en.wikipedia. ... want an answers from real people! Wikipedia is written by real people, voluntary, remember?)
Description : "Who do you think was the most admirable of the American Founding Fathers and why?"?
Last Answer : Check out this thread.
Description : Why did Phule dedicate his book Gulamgiri to the American movement to free slaves? -History
Last Answer : Jyotirao Phule wrote a book in 1873. He named the book Gulamgiri meaning slavery. Some ten years before this, the American Civil War had been fought, leading to the end of slavery in America. ... establish a link between the conditions of the lower castes in India and the black slaves in America.
Description : Which American hero captured a British frigate off Scarborough in 1779?
Last Answer : John Paul Jones
Description : Which American aircraft carrier fought at the Coral Sea and Midway battles before being sunk? Was it USS Yorktown, Nautilus, or Missouri?
Last Answer : USS Yorktown
Description : Do Americans want to know whether their meat is from US, Canada, or Mexico?
Last Answer : answer:Meat is still marked born, raised, and slaughtered. On a label for retail sale. It will change only when it becomes a law. That has not happened yet. See USDA COOL
Description : Why were some Americans opposed to the war with Mexico?
Last Answer : Need answer
Description : Why did Mexico ban further settlements by Americans in Texas?
Last Answer : Mexico had ended slavery and the Texans came with slaves. Theywere also afraid that too many Americans would result them loosingTexas.
Description : What tribe of Americans Indiana and allied with Mexico?
Description : Why did Mexico forbid more Americans to move to Texas in 1830?
Last Answer : They didn't; they just outlawed slavery on Mexicanterritories.See related questions for further explanation.
Description : Are online whimsical pseudonyms simliar to native americans names that change over time?
Last Answer : My indian name changed when I became a man but will never change again.
Description : Where are the Native Americans?
Last Answer : We have one jelly here who is a Native American. I don’t know if she is available for you though, she isn’t very active.
Description : Where on the White House website can I go to see a list of the pages they have, dedicated to various Americans, like LGBT or Native Americans?
Last Answer : Would those topics be covered on a White House website? I think it’s more something that would be covered by an agency, like Human Services or something.
Description : What animals, indigenous to the Americas, could have been domesticated and put to work by the Native Americans, the way the Europeans domesticated horses and cattle, camels, etc.?
Last Answer : Bats. I wouldn’t screw with them if they had bats.
Description : How did ancient Native Americans shave pre-1492?
Last Answer : Perhaps they used obsidian blades which are dangerously sharp as shown here.
Description : The slaughter of Native Americans on some Thanksgiving, is it myth or truth; what do you think?
Last Answer : The first Thanksgiving was a celebration of a massacre carried out by the Pilgrims and their Allied indian tribes over a rival tribe.