In the documentary Race: The Power of an Illusion, historian Mia Bay says that “part of where the idea of race comes from [is] in the tendency for people to see existing power relationships as having some sort of natural quality to them.” What does she mean? Why would people of European descent in the late 1600s begin to believe that people of African descent were naturally or biologically inferior to them? What role might economics have played in encouraging this belief? What role might have been played by the insecurity some felt about their social status?

If someone can me out with this that would be grate why did people begin migrating to the northwest in the 1930s? the dust bowl forced people to move. the drought forced people to move. people moved in search of work. all of the above. what caused the united states to enter world war ii? the attack on pearl harbor the need for war supplies great britain asked the united states to join. the united states didn't join world war ii. why were japanese americans relocated during the war? they had deadly diseases. they were threatening to destroy american companies. people thought they might give aid to japan. they were breaking laws. what finally ended world war ii? japan bombed pearl harbor. ammunition ran low and the germans surrendered. the united states pulled its troops out. the united states bombed japan.