North America Essay Examples

Until the late eighteenth century, any land located beyond the Alleghany mountains was believed to be savage, uninhabited land. Thus, it became known as the American frontier. According to Turner, the definition of frontier means, “the meeting point between savagery and civilization and a region of sparse settlement.” 1 With the overwhelming number of frontiersmen […]

“…Finally, because South Carolina, from her climate, situation, and peculiar institutions, is, and must ever continue to be, wholly dependent on agriculture and commerce, not only for prosperity , but for her existence as a state…” (Boller, pg.110) -John C Calhoun: South Carolina explosion and Protest (1828) While the north was undergoing an “industrial revolution,” […]

f the United States of America, a vast nation that arose from a scattering of British colonial outposts in the New World. The first humans to inhabit the North American continent were migrants from northeast Asia who established settlements in North America as early as 8000 BC and possibly much earlier . By about AD […]

After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, a large amount of land west of the original 13 states and the Northwest Territory was acquired. The open land, additional benefits and other existing problems encouraged Americans to expand westward.The American people began to realize that the future of the country lay in the development of its own […]

The first Europeans to arrive in North America were Norse, traveling west from Greenland, where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985. In 1001 his son Leif is thought to have explored the northeast coast of what is now Canada and spent at least one winter there. While Norse sagas suggest […]

The Lewis & Clark Expedition is one of the pivotal moments in the history of the United States. Two centuries ago, under the orders of the then President Thomas Jefferson, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark set about with a team of thirty three personnel to explore, observe and chart the vast expanses of […]

was summoned from the West Coast. The trip took two months to travel 14,000 miles around Cape Horn to the Atlantic. (The American Journey 741) How was the United States supposed to defend it shores if it took ships that long to get between them? The United State had to build a canal through Central […]

The expansion of slavery was a mere consequence of the otherwise successful Manifest Destiny. Money runs the world. There is no doubt that acquiring resources and expanding a nation is necessary for the existence of a country. Americans realized this and was in dire need of expanding. Expanding lands offer many more resources and more […]

After reading Carlos Fuentes’ book, “The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World”, he devoted a section to Bartolome de Las Casas which allowed the reader to capture his unique perspective (32-38). In the introductory text before the reading of “The Brief History of the Destruction of the Indies” (as read in class), […]

Beringia was a land bridge roughly 1,000 at its greatest, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia during the Pleistocene ice ages. It is believed that approximately 25,000 years ago, Beringia enabled the population of the Americas from an emigration from Asia (founder effect). 2. Clovis a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture that appeared at the end […]

I feel with reading both sides of the argument I still have to agree with Morgan and saying that Jamestown was a true Lupe fiasco. The mistakes made by the early settlers at Jamestown, which threatened their survival. In fact the first day that the Europeans came over and the Indians of the Cape Henry […]

Hispanics refer to the citizens of Spanish or Latin American origin. The article “The Hispanic Color Divide” majorly speaks of racial alignment between black Hispanics and non-black Hispanics. The article informs that Hispanics who consider themselves black acquire more social and economic distinctiveness that are closer to those of African-Americans. The article reveals that black […]

The motives for Spanish, French and English explorers were all different, although in some ways, they were the same. They all wanted to find the Northwest Passage, which they believed was a direct and efficient route to the Orient – home of spices, silks and wealth. They also wanted to lay claim to new land […]

From 1565 to 1815, during the Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade, Filipinos were forced to work as sailors and navigators on board Spanish Galleons. Borah E. (2004) In 1595 the Filipino sailors were abroad the San Agustin, commanded by Sebastian Rodriguez Carmeno, when it shipwrecked near Point Reyes by the mouth of San Francisco bay, California on […]

In the year of 1804, two men led an expedition of discovery that expanded a young nation’s economic potential, increased its scientific understanding, and as well as enhanced its worldwide reputation. The significant westward expansion was called the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The United States third president, Thomas Jefferson, named Meriwether Lewis the main leader […]

  Indians usually paid off the land with corn, hides, or blankets, but later the payment turned into labor. Repartimiento- a mandatory draft of Indian labor for public projects. Rescate- ransoming captives that Indian groups seized for one another. Indians resented Spanish strategies for controlling Indian labor. Late 17th century; long-standing native anger burst forth […]

All the colonies that were founded in the seventeenth century contributed to the values of perennial America. The three colonies that made the most significant contributions were the colonies of Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. These colonies displayed the democratic government that we are ruled under today, their educational opportunities were strong and sound, and the […]

Juan Ponce de Leon y Figueroa (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named. He is associated with the legend of the Fountain of Youth, reputed to be in Florida. […]

The Antebellum period from 1800 to 1850 marked a time of sectionalism in American history. Furthermore, new territories gained during western expansion added to this conflict between different sections of America. Southern states wanted new slave territories, while the North wanted to contain the spread of slavery. While Western expansion contributed to growing sectional tensions […]

New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2009 II. Frethorne talks about his miserable experience to be an indentured server. He writes the letter to his parents and describes the horrendous conditions he is in. Frethorne states some vital facts. 1 He also writes that people who suffer as indentured servants are willing to lose either […]

North American Indian Timeline (1492-1999) 1492 From their nakedness, Columbus inferred the native people to be an inferior race. Columbus wrote of the Indians he encountered, “They all go around as naked as their mothers bore them; and also the women. ” However, he noted that “they could easily be commanded and made to work, […]

Not everyone would benefit from that transformation. The transcontinental railroad was not the beginning of white settlers battles with native Americans. it the final nail in the coffin. But it was an irrevocable marker of encroaching white society, that unstoppable force which would force Indians onto reservations within decades. New treaties scattered the Indians to […]