South America Thesis

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Thesis Statement: The United States should not colonize South America because of the possible Social Darwinism affect, potential violence incurred by prejudices, and the natural resources in the land.

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Topic Sentence: In the long run the British had a lot of racism between them and native people.
Supporting Evidence #1: ”Many Europeans believed that they were better than other people”(littell,1999, p.775)
Explanation: The europeans there the Charles Darwin theory is applied was if the survival of the fittest. And the europeans treated the natives like trash because the racism between the two.
Supporting Evidence #2: “Non- Europeans were considered to be on a lower scale of culture and physical development”(littell,1999, p.775)
Explanation: The
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When the British attack it put fear in people so that the native would not try anything against them.
Transition Sentence: but people still say that there are a lot of good things about colonizing South America like resources.

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Opposing Opinion’s Perspective:All things considered the United States should colonize South America because it has resources and that the United States could use the mass amount of resources.
Evidence to Support Opposing Opinion:” The continent contains about one fifths of the world's iron ore reserves.”(McDaniel Sprout, Boudreau, & Turgeon,2012, para 19)
Explanation: The mass amounts of ores in the land would benefit the United States has at whole. Plus with the large amount of ore it will lower the prices of that metal.
Refutation (Why is your original position still accurate?): In short the United States should still not colonize South America because it would only be helping the united states ont South America.
Evidence to refute the Opposing Opinion: “ The hunger and greed for

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