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Gulf Of Mexico Gulf Coast
1,634 wordsBefore a territory can be settled, it has to be explored. Through an exquisite quest, amongst adventure and hardships, Sir Rene Robert Cavalier de La Salle set out to explore the Great Lakes and Mississippi River. In the winter of 1681 - 1682, the French explorer Rene Robert Cavalier, Sir de la Salle, led an expedition from Canada down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. La Salle reached the river's outlet to the gulf, where he set up a cross and a wooden post carved with the coat of ar...
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Part Of China Lot Of Money
984 wordsWhy would a communist country want to have a capitalist country? Well I think it is because Hong Kong has a lot of money, because they are one of the major trade centers of the world. Another reason is that Hong Kong was a part of China until 1842 when the British defeated China in the first Opium War and took possession of Hong Kong. In this report I will be talking about how the Communist Chinese government regained possession of Hong Kong, a capitalist Colony, after 156 years of British rule....
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Sierra Leone Rebel Forces
1,738 wordsThe British established a colony at Freetown in 1787 for slaves returning to Africa from Great Britain and the United States and for slaves rescued from shipwrecks. The land of original settlement, where the city later developed, was purchased from local chiefs. The Sierra Leone Company, formed in 1791, administered the settlement until 1808, when it became a crown colony. Britain set up a protectorate over the hinterland of Freetown in 1896. The British were relatively nice towards the people o...
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Reasons For Settling Differ In Many Ways Jamestown
745 wordsNorth America was first discovered by European country in the late 1400 s. A little over 100 years later two men by the names of John Smith, leader of the Jamestown settlement, and William Bradford, the Governor of the Plymouth, decided to adventure cross the Atlantic Ocean in a ship in search of the New World. The Puritans and Jamestown settlers left England in search of a new way of life. The colonists left England for different reasons and ambitions. In The General History of Virginia and Of ...
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South Africa West Africa
707 wordsBy 1875 European possessions in Africa consisted of some forts and trading posts along the coast and a few tiny colonies. Between 1880 and 1910, however, Africa was divided up among the Europeans. For the next 50 years decisions affecting Africa and its people were made not in Africa, but in London, Paris, Lisbon and other European capitals. France acquired a huge empire in North and West Africa. Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Mali and other areas in West Africa came under Fren...
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Threat To Society Beginning Of The Book
1,745 wordsHester Prynne is a very strongly portrayed character in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester comes into conflict with the rigid beliefs of traditional Puritan Society in which she lives. She poses a threat to the society through her radical thinking, her loyalty to the ones that she loves, and lastly her unwillingness to conform inwardly to the Puritan lifestyle, although she does conform on the outside for the sake of her only daughter, Pearl. Hester poses a threat to Puritan soci...
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Daughter Of Shew Find A Cure Benjamin
336 wordsThis story is about a boy name Benjamin and his adventure. In this book there was a great city and a fire destroyed it. The only survivors were mutants that eat people. The mutants god is a librarian. Benjamin is out to find a cure for the people who live in a colony that was not destroyed but the great fire. The children of his colony are sick and 2 have died. His mission was to find a cure for these children. A man came to the colony and he told Benjamin about a girl who cures dieses. The girl...
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Cash Crop Make Money
514 wordsThe Virginians were better off than the Puritans were, because they had tobacco for a cash crop, they had a longer growing season, and they could trade and sell to England easier than the Puritans could. The Virginians were also more loosely structured than the Puritans, and were allowed to be individual people instead of one large mass. Smith and Bradford's ways of leading their colonies were similar, yet so very different. Smith's main concern was to make money and be famous. Bradford's concep...
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Southern Colonies William Penn
1,669 words... have the liberty to conduct their own trade. Also, people such as Edmund Andros restricted the colonies. When he came from England he was set to bring the colonies under effective royal control. He abolished popular assemblies, changed land grant systems and attempted to reinforce Anglicanism. These actions that Andros took were all restrictions of civil liberties. The Great Awakening and The Enlightenment both brought greater knowledge to the colonists. This knowledge lead them to believe a...
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Eye For An Eye Tooth For A Tooth
1,557 wordsDeath Penalty According to the most recent figures assembled by Amnesty International, more than half the countries in the world no longer use the death penalty. The international human rights organization, which opposes the death penalty, regularly gathers and publishes data on its status and use throughout the world. In February 1999, the division between abolitionist and retention ist countries was as follows: 67 countries and territories have abolished the death penalty for all crimes; 14 co...
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War For Independence War Of Independence
1,678 wordsHow Literature, Specifically That of Jose Marti, Sparked a Revolution in Cuba in the 1800 's The last Spanish colony in the Americas, Cuba launched a second war for independence in 1895, more than half a century after the establishment of independent republics in the rest of Spanish America. However, the intellectual war against Spanish domination began earlier, before the first failed revolution of 1868 - 78. In particular, many nineteenth-century Cuban intellectuals, including Cuba's 'apostle'...
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Make A Decision Colonial America
817 wordsSeptember 22, 1642 Dear Madam Aires, I appreciate your interest in taking up residence in colonial America. As a favorite client of mine, I m sure the information we provide at Boats R Us Travel Agency will be very helpful to you. The information which I have included such as the domestic life, advice on being successful, things to avoid, politics, and trades will be vital for you to make a decision of settling in colonial America. Although Massachusetts is a great place to settle, I feel Virgin...
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Indentured Servants Seventeenth Century
1,455 wordsEssa Although New England and the Chesapeake regions were settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. I have described both societies in an attempt to demonstrate their developments. Virginia Colony In 1607 a group of merchants established England? s first permanent colony in North America at Jamestown, Virginia. They operated as a joint-stock company that allowed them to sell shares of stock in their company and use the pooled invest...
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Spheres Of Influence Won The War
885 wordsAfrica and Asia Imperialism Imperialism is political, social or economical one country that rules an alien country. During the 1800 s, European Countries and the United States started imperialism in Asia and Africa. In 1841, Dr. Livingston started exploring the African Interior, which produced promising information of the land and rivers. Explorations of gold and diamonds in Africa by Rhodes spurred excitement in the Western Countries. Two European nations had already had colonies in East Asia i...
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Cape Cod Lawrence River
2,474 wordsINDIAN EUROPEAN CONFLICT IN THE NEW WORLD Since 1492 to late into the 17 th the century there was perpetual struggle between the power hungry Europeans and the natives in the New World. Pitted against each other, the Dutch, English, French, Spaniards, and Indians struggled to maintain control of what they viewed as rightfully theirs. The English, were struggling to settle on the eastern coast and had no use and respect for the Indians or their land and way of life. At first maintaining a tentati...
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John Smith American History
863 wordsJohn Smith has proved himself to be an inspiring leader and a skilled explorer who played a significant role in American history. His many accomplishments included helping found the original colony of Jamestown, saving it from a starving time, leading various expeditions of exploration, and courageously escaping from the Indians. John Smith had the qualities of a great leader, and all of his men seemed to think highly of him. Smith always recognized good qualities of his companions, and often co...
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King Leopold Slave Labor
2,109 wordsKing Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. It is a wild and unpleasant story of a mans capacity for evil and the peculiar manifestation of it. In telling this story, Hochschild does a wonderful job of giving detailed descriptions, especially of the colorful individuals involved, both good and bad. His analysis of the situation is very solid, starting with the movement when the Congolese hero (M...
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19 Th Century Sq Mi
1,341 wordsMalta is an independent republic in the Commonwealth of Nations, consisting of a small group of islands Malta, Gozo, Kemmuna, Kemmunett, and Filfla located in the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily. The area of the largest island, Malta, is 95 sq mi; of Gozo, 26 sq mi; and of Kemmuna, 1 sq mi. The combined area of Kemmunett and Filfla is 0. 12 sq mi. The total area is 122 sq mi. The capital and leading port of the country is Valletta (population, 1997 estimate, 7, 172). The population of Malta (2...
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1 St Edition Nineteenth Century
3,037 wordsSingapore. Even saying the word and some of the uninformed may still hold the belief that it is located somewhere in China, knowing only where it is approximately. Yet this vibrant, newly industrialized city-state is in fact located close to the equator and is often overlooked on the world map; not surprising, considering it is only represented by a small dot in the South China Sea. Today, the island of Singapore has earned high acclaim for its rapid transformation from a humble trading post to ...
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Bark Beetles Sponge Molds Beetles Sponge Molds Buy
1,228 wordsAndrew Moss (The buy-buy is a great louse that sucks. Repeat. Start. Repeat. Start. ) Ruth Stones career has been recently celebrated in a volume of essays edited by Wendy Barker and Sandra M. Gilbert. The volume, excerpted on MAPS, lauds her poetry via reader response, feminist politics, and the unwinding of the tragic and comic entwined in her poems. Without too much more (deserved, I say) unrestrained appreciation, Id like to look at the ways From the Arboretum is worth repeating, and at the ...
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