The primary factor in making the English the dominant power in America by 1763 is simply because the English established a growing population and secure trade of a profitable and renewable resource with England. ... Furthermore, what Columbus discovered was not North America where the English colonist settled, but South America. ... The Spanish did create a population in South America, but the resource they exported was nonrenewable and the labor force died out so they did not flourish in North America. The French did not create a big enough population to dominate North America and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One part of the Spanish conquest of the Americas focused on religion: on their need to convert Native Americans to the one true religion. ... Having the Native Americans do the work that the Spanish settlers didn't want to do. ... This complication in Europe dealing with the religious persecution caused a rise in the population in the Americas, so even though it was a negative impact in Europe, it was a very positive impact in the Americas. ... Both the Spanish and the English had a plan when coming to the Americas. ... It wasn't a mistake that they settled in the Americas with the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... With the large bison population, natives used unique ways to lure and kill them. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ... In the early eighteenth century slaves made up more than seventy percent of the population in only South Carolina, and those slaves lived on holdings of more than twenty-five (Kolchin, 31). As the eighteenth century went on, slaveholdings became much more important and slaves...

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• Grade Level: High School

What events in Great Britain contributed to the settlement of English colonies in America? There were lots of reasons, which led Great Britain to colonize in America. ... Summarize and assess the arguments presented by Hakluyt (Refer specifically to 1D4) for promoting English colonization in America. ... Even though Indians gave all their got, they still were defeated and the population that once 20,000 was reduced to only a couple of thousands. ...

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Leopold's method in the Congo was reorganizing the local populations into communities with some Europeans. ... A large proportion of the population subsequently died of sleeping sickness. ... They had the power to exploit the African population more drastically than elsewhere in Africa. ...

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To be politically correct though, Christopher Columbus brought death and destruction with him to the Americas. ... The population decreased from 1 million to 1,000 in the matter of 100 years from Christopher Columbus" orders. ...

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The United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations rejects both doctrines. ... This early recognition of the independence of the tribes was gradually undermined as European colonial powers gained greater and greater control in North America. ...

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• Grade Level: High School