North America Essay Examples

Is it justifiable for people to openly violate laws that they disapprove of and consider immoral, such as the Fugitive Slave Act? Throughout U.S. history, what has been the fate of such laws? Should the majority always have the final say? Personally, I believe that if a law is so immoral that it causes harm, […]

Each of the English colonies had different purposes and things to contribute. There were thirteen original colonies, each playing a different role from the other. Some colonies had purposes that were more different than others and over time these roles changed and varied. The first colony to be founded in 1607, Virginia, was called a […]

What was Tecumseh’s Vision ?   Tecumseh was a very significant Native American who gave his life for what he believed. He knew that the Americans were a tremendous threat to all Indian tribes, and realized that the Indians would be destroyed one by one if not united. Tecumseh created a confederation of thirty-two tribes […]

In 1673, at the request of French colonial authorities, Jesuit missionary Father Jacques Marquette and fur trader Louis Joliet launched an expedition to investigate unexplored areas of North America. Their journey extended from the Great Lakes region down to the Gulf of Mexico. Using two bark canoes as their mode of transportation, they eventually arrived […]

In the above statement “the history of the Caribbean is the history of the exploitation of labour,” it simply states that the Caribbean’s history is basically the history of its exploitation of labour. The definitions of keywords exploitation and labour must be considered. Exploitation can be defined as the practice of taking selfish or unfair […]

Native Americans before contact with Europeans were set in their ways and were fairly advanced people. There is evidence to suggest that people, such as the Anasazi were living in large city like areas but had to disperse due to long droughts and disease spreading among them. The dispersed people formed various tribes and continued […]

Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney is a colonial planter born in Antigua. Her father was a lieutenant governor who even wanted her be paired to some of the well known child of land owners there. She refuse doing so and marry a man whom she chose to be with for the rest of her life. Marrying a […]

“Black Wall Street” was the name given to Greenwood Avenue of North Tulsa, Oklahoma during the early 1900’s. Because of strict segregation, Blacks were only allowed to shop, spend, and live in a 35 square block area called the Greenwood district. The “circulation of Black dollars” only in the Black community produced a tremendously prosperous […]

Andrew Jackson’s presidency from 1829 to 1837 the decision to remove the Cherokee Indians to land west of the Mississippi River was made. This was more a change of the national policy rather than a reformulation of it. Since the Spanish came to the New World in the 1500’s, the Natives, were there. Starting with […]

Native Americans are nowadays a very bright and diverse group, which includes different backgrounds, based upon Indian tribes. The Ramapo Mountain People are amongst the proudest and most courageous highlanders, whose cultural heritage is nowadays a focus of folklorists’ and anthropologists’ attention. The present paper is intended to discuss the history and characteristics of this […]

The American Fur Company was a relentless monopoly operating in the climatic era of the fur trade. It was established by John Jacob Astor in 1808. The company was created at a time that was favorable to its expansion; it even grew to have a more powerful presence than the federal government over vast areas. […]

Often known as “the Era of Good Feelings,” the decade from 1816 to 1826 was characterized by the rise of political sectionalism and a renaissance of the two-party system. Post Jefferson’s presidency, the disintegration of the Federalist party led to the ascendency of Democratic-Republicans as the primary political entity. The growing strength of the Democratic-Republican […]

Juan Ponce de Leon y Figueroa (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer who became the first Governor of Puerto Rico appointed by the Spanish crown. He is recognized for leading the inaugural European expedition to Florida, where he named it as such. One of his notable connections is with the myth surrounding the […]

  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 […]

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 […]

The main focus of the article “The Hispanic Color Divide” is on Hispanics, who are individuals with Spanish or Latin American origins. The article specifically explores the racial divide between black Hispanics and non-black Hispanics. It emphasizes that black Hispanics, who identify as black, face similar social and economic challenges as African-Americans. In terms of […]

The Triangular Trade, Indentured Servants, and Bacon’s Rebellion encouraged slavery to grow in the southern colonies. By 1775, indentured servants were becoming inconvenient and Bacon’s Rebellion worried the plantation owners. The triangular trade brought slaves to America and the owners with no workers quickly bought on to slavery. Economic, geographic, and social factors all played […]

Robert V. Remini shows that Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act benefits the Native Americans. Andrew Jackson made notice of the issue with the Indians in his inaugural speech on March 4, 1829. He declared that he wanted to give humane and considerable attention to the Indian’s rights and wants in respect to the government and […]

The Massachusetts Bay, and the Chesapeake region were both part of the New World where England was starting to colonize. Even though the people from these two locations originated from the same land (England), these colonies turned out to be extremely different from one another. They differed in the reason they settled the land, the […]

DB Essay Chesapeake Colonies vs.. New England Colonies The English had no desire to colonize the new world prior to defeating the Spanish Armada. However, once they defeated the Spanish in 1588, thus ending Spanish colonization, the English became the rulers of the Atlantic and a newly found patriotism flourished in England. The English had […]

The poem “United Fruit Company “talks about the dreadful control of the powerful country, united States of America, to the economic system of some regions in the Central America. It was an act of Imperialism in a more direct way. Central America’s principal crop and in demand export product is banana. Because the place is […]

John Brown, a radical abolitionist, harbored intense hatred for slavery and resorted to violence in his battle against it. He believed that shedding blood was the only means to cleanse the nation of its guilt. Prior to the Civil War, Brown and his followers confronted the Missouri Border Ruffians while advocating for the eradication of […]