Discuss the Deteriorating Positions of African Americans and Native Americans

question 55

Essay

Discuss the deteriorating positions of African Americans and Native Americans in the post-Revolutionary period. How do you account for the deterioration? What were the major changes or events that marked the declining status of each group?

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Definitions:

Slippery Slope Fallacy

A logical fallacy that asserts without sufficient evidence that a relatively small first action leads inevitably to a chain of related (negative) events.

Predicted Outcome

A predicted outcome is the expected result of an experiment or model, often based on theoretical insight or previous data.

Hasty Generalization

A fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence.

Composition

The act of combining parts or elements to form a whole; in logic, the fallacy of assuming that what is true of the part is true for the whole.