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A 5 page overview of the multiethnic environment which existed in the years following the Civil War. The author traces this environment to colonial times and relates how the end of the Civil War slowly translated into differences in regard to worker rights for the nation’s minorities. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPcwEthn.rtf
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War American was an interesting place in terms of ethnic and racial identity and how that identity translated into wage and labor conditions and the various worker organizations which sprang
up to address those conditions. In reality, the developments which occurred in the workplace after the Civil War had been in
formation even prior to the formal beginning of the country. With the British colonization of the "New World" a brand new sociological experiment began. This experiment involved the
mixing of peoples from different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds in an environment where there were no hard and fast rules as to how these people should interrelate. While
the colonists in the "New World" shared certain ideological values, there were also sectional differences and the differences would translate into ethnic and racial tensions. Although the culmination of
the Civil War theoretically represented the end of the ethnic and racial division facing the country, in reality nothing could have been further from the truth.
Approximately one million immigrants came to the U.S. during colonial times. Most were from England. They helped establish the status quo in the "New World".
We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the French, the Germans, the Scotch-Irish; and from each we took part of their culture and
assimilated it into our own (Takaki, 1994). These were voluntary immigrants to the U.S., they took and gave freely of our culture and theirs. Another immigrant to the
United States, often not though of as such, was the black slaves from Africa. They too had distinctive cultures, and although they were brought here against there will they
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