They were still segregated while they were in the U.S military. They even lived on a separate field even though they were fighting the same battles as the others.
It was called the ''Rio Grande''
This is an example of <span>Equal Pay and Compensation Discrimination. This is under the Equal Pay Act which requires that men and women who have exactly the same type of work be given equal salaries. This does not only include the salary, but also includes benefits, bonuses, overtime pay, etc. </span>
<u><em>The fur trade industry was the colony’s economic salvation</em></u>. For the first few years that the colony existed, the colonists struggled to make enough money to pay the investors back. In fact, they had to ask for more money just to keep the colony running and by the mid to late 1620s, they were deeply in debt to the investors.
<u>To help pay down the debt they still owed</u>, the colonists established a beaver fur trading base in Kennebec, Maine by 1625.
<u>This fur trading business was very successful for the colonists and quickly became an essential part of their economy</u>. Their success in this trade continued well into the 1630s and 1640s..
