Dominate Groups In The 1800's

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When Europeans began settling America before the 1800's the general population was predominately homogeneous, meaning the population was composed of many of the same types of people regarding race and class. *dominate and subordinate groups created, those with power and those without respectively (Unit 1, slide 4). Divisions in population, such as in Americas before 1800, where the power lies with the dominate group creates a hegemonic ideology where the dominate groups ideologies, or their philosophy and beliefs about life, are "so influential, they dominate all other ideologies" (Understanding Diversity, 27). Hegemonic ideology and the attitude of the dominate groups in America before 1800 essentially left the subordinate groups without…show more content…
Methods of oppression included the African slave trade, indentured servitude, and forced cultural assimilation. These subordinate groups were forced in to assimilation, most notably Native Americans. Even though Black Hawk was a male, he was Native American and thus was part of the subordinate group that was further oppressed when white settlers began "Praying Towns" to assimilate Native American males by converting them to Christianity and teaching them to act like Englishmen, wiping away the Native American culture (Unit 2, slide 11). For most all women of the 1800's, marriage was an inevitable course of life. Women, especially those such as Elizabeth Ashridge, who was poor, were eventually seen as a burden to their family (Unit 3, slide 2). However when women became wives, they were also the subject of oppression from their husbands. Women who were married had little legal rights. They could not seek spousal separation or divorce and endured physical and emotional abuse by the hands of their husbands. In her first two marriages, Elizabeth Ashbridge was abused by her husbands and was ridiculed when she had to ask permission to convert to a new religion. Elizabeth Ashridge had experienced exploitation in earlier in her life as well, when she was an indentured servant for three years in order to gain passage from Europe to America. She worked in harsh conditions like countless other servants to relentless masters. For Elizabeth at least, and perhaps many other women of the time period, when reflecting on the time right after she bought out her contract as a servant and when she immediately remarried, she could not see the difference in the two extortionate situations commenting in her autobiography, "...but alas! I was not sufficiently punished by my former servitude but got into
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