ANTH 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Indian Removal Act, Manifest Destiny

• School: Oregon State University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 345
• Professor: Lisa Price

Document Summary

Virginia first to articulate the theory of race . All men are created equal yet blacks are interior to whites until science proves it. Was more fundamental than skin color peasants vs. aristocrats. With whites ( not rich people ) thus blackness and slavery were associated. Jefferson thought that they were like white people . Yet they weren"t light skinned . savages who can be educated a to lot of them died due to disease acquire. Cherokees were a success in the civilization policy . Jackson ( president had an agenda of removing. Na from southeast of the mississippi . more pressure on the. Observation over speculation are all people members of the same species. Morton brain white size has to do with race. Race was associated with every aspect of a personality. Compilation suggesting that blacks and white were different whites are meant to be superior and overthrow the minorities. Even when slavery was over the racial difference remained.