<span>Gold, silver, and sugar are
among the many reasons why the Spaniards enslaved Native Americans and
Africans. Spaniards used these people not only to be as miners but also as
craftsmen, herders, and domestic laborers. These people were forced to work for
many hours but were only paid depending on the amount of gold and silver they
mined. In some cases, particularly in Peru, Africans were not used to the high
altitude and the cost for clothing and feeding was high. As a measure for this
the Spaniards used the Native Americans to mine for them at low temperatures
and higher grounds while the Africans were in Mexico panning for gold. </span>
Much of the Southern United States was destroyed during the Civil war. Farms and plantations were burned down and their crops destroyed. ... The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War is called the Reconstruction. The Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877.
<h2>For Voltaire man could perceive God through the use of his human reason. Voltaire claimed that all men share a common, natural religion and that none of the formally established religions in this world can monopolize the truth concerning God or morality.</h2>
<span>Wherever the Union armies went in the South (after the Emancipation Proclamation), they were under orders to liberate any slaves they found. </span>
