Answer: Occupying government buildings
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The 1960s and 70s saw a lot of protests as the United States began to wake up to the issue of Civil Rights. One such group that had been discriminated against were the Native Americans. They had been cheated, lied to and stolen from and they had had enough.
Groups like the American Indian Movement (AIM) were formed that aimed to improve the conditions of Native Americans. They occupied Alcatraz and the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington in order to force the government to listen to them and in so doing, drew attention to their plight nationwide.
Because, at that time, the unwritten rule of the politics regarding this kind of situation was the rule of laissez-faire, meaning that the economy should be left do deal with it`s problems without the intervention of the government.
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Henry Ford was one of eight children born to William and Mary Ford. He was born on a farm near Dearborn, Michigan. For eight years he attended a one-room school when he wasn't helping on the farm with the harvest. At age 16 he left home on foot to find work in Detroit's machine shops.
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Although Columbus was technically born in Italy, he sailed to the New World officially under Spanish control, which is why the Spanish had a "head start" on New World colonization.
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If we refer to the America's as the "New World", we incinuate that the Native Americans weren't really important. WHen the tech. savvy Europeans came over, they regarded themselves as superior. Calling the already existing civilization inferior and killing them off was messed up. Instead, the story could have been told as the Europeans came over to an already established civilization, ruined it, and took the place over. It wasn't "New", it was pretty old. It just wasn't as developed.
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