Why Did Segregation Occur In The 1600's

Segregation occurred in the USA, it was the separation of the African-American from the White Americans, separation occurred in places such as buses, drinking fountains, waiting rooms, employment and education. The White Americans believed that the African-Americans were a lower class as they were given agricultural work and did the jobs that the white Americans didn't want to do.
Racial segregation occurred because of racism. Both racism and segregation were prominent throughout the colonial periods of the 1600’s and the 1700’s, when North America was apart of the worldwide British Empire. The British generally associated dark skin colour with behavioural traits such as evil and filth. When the British colonists came over to North America they brought along with them prejudice. The first African-American

Although a main area that the African-Americans were segregated from the white Americans was housing. As many of the property owners where white they refused to sell or rent their property to the African-Americans in ‘White neighbourhoods’. So the African-Americans found themselves starting their own neighbourhoods, these neighbourhoods were generally overcrowded and became unhealthy for the African-Americans to be living in. African-Americans who were courageous enough to buy homes in the ‘white neighbourhoods' soon realised that white Americans in the North America could be just as violent as southern Americans. The African-American homeowners were threatened and beaten, while their homes were bombed and burned to force them out of the area. These forms of intimidation were about more than punishing those who attempted to cross racial boundaries; they were also designed to serve as warnings to other