America's identity is made up of many cultures put into one. Spanish colonization has had huge impact on the Americas in ways such as shaping the American character, contributing to American ranching practices, and by obtaining vital territory for its survival. ... Beef is a big part of the American diet today. ... They killed tens of thousands of Native Americans and enslaved even more in the first decades. Many more also died from European diseases to which the Native Americans had no immunity. ...

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The large inflow of Latinos, combined with growth in the U.S. native-born Hispanic population, have considerably altered the demographic structure of the country in this last century. ... In this nation, Hispanics make up nearly 17 percent of the populace, and at this time we have 11 million undocumented illegal immigrants in America. ... There is nothing in this for republicans, independents, Americans and it isn't good for the American people, the only thing it will be good for democrats. ... Obama said it best: "If you are a citizen you should not have to wait years before your family...

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Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus wanted to find a shorter route that would get him to Asia but while on his search he accidentally found North America. ... This historic event of Columbus' discovering North America would eventually lead to many bloodshed battles between the Spaniards and the Natives. ... For this and many other reasons, the French were more successful than Spain in its dealing with Indians and accumulation of wealth from America. ... The French and the Natives became allies through trading. ... Trading with the Natives prove to be very profitable for the French and ...

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The Spanish were pushing hard to convert many of the Natives in America to thier Catholic religion, while many settlers in the Northern region of America were moving there for religious freedom. ... All the native people mined silver in the mountians, and often at the expense of thier own lives. ... Like the Spanish, The Portugese took over the land and then forced the natives to work it. ... These plantations were much like the Spanish settlements where they used native people to tend the lands. ... The Dutch also colonized parts of North America. ...

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Benjamin Franklin was quoted for saying "Why increase the Sons of Africa, by planting them in America, where we have so fair and opportunity, by excluding all blacks and tawneys, of increasing the lovely white or red?"... In fact the people who lived in America first were treated like slaves and savages. ... Starting in the early 1500's immigrants and travelers from Spain sailed to America to claim the land. What they found when they got there were the natives they called Indians. ... (Poole 1542: 8) These words are very strong and can only make people imagine what the native Indians ...

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The fusion of these two groups with the Spaniard brought about the Latin American civilization (Arnade, 1960). ... On the other hand, the American provided the Indians with cheap good, liquor, and guns (Arnade, 1960). ... This led to the final overthrow of Spanish Florida by the Americans hence the failure. ... Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Joutheast. ... The Failure of Spanish Florida.The Americas, 16(3), 271–281....

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The missionaries intermarried with the Native Americans and began to protect and educate the Native Americans. The natives lated revolted against the Spanish, and a new sort of a mix of Spanish and Native American culture was formed. ... The colony, named James Town in honor of King James, nearly failed, but was saved by Native Americans who offered aid in the form of food and by the leadership of John Smith. A law of "He that will not work shall not eat" was imposed by Smith, and boundaries were set up with the Native Americans. ... Unlike the other two nations, the English fought with the ...

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Is immigration hurting the American economy or do we gain from an immigrant who comes to this country for freedom and a new economic life. ... The unskilled immigrate will take whatever job is available at a much lower age that most Americans would receive for the same job. ... These immigrates compete primarily for jobs with each other and with Americans who do not hold high school diplomas. Because of this competition native-born Americans have seen wages fall about 5 percent (cited The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration). ... This could have a reverse...

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This discovery that he thought was a short cut to the Indies turned out to be the beginning of the biggest pilgrimage over the sea at its time, and began what we know today as America. The Indians, which were actually Native Americans, shared precious information with the settlers about agriculture and hunting on the land, which was crucial for survival. ... Then I try to picture what the Native Americans must have thought about the Spaniards. ... I personally feel bad for the Native Americans. ... He managed to communicate and trade with the Native Americans and helped bring more wealth a...

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America! America!" ... No, this beautiful paragraph was once stated by an unlearned immigrant just stepping onto American soil for the first time. ... It is not sugar-coated, nor does it leave out all of the gruesome details of early American life. ... The character's dreams are soon crushed as they reach America, only to find it is just as downtrodden and oppressed as their native land. ...

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Was life really better in America? ... The last reason that people came to the US in the 1900s was because there was a war going on in their native country. ... A lot of people's lives were worse than they were in their native country. ... (Documentation of American Immigration Pg. 66-67) Most people that came to the US made more money and had more luxuries than they had in thier native country. ... For some reason Americans looked at them like they were dirt. ...

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Instead of Indies, he had landed in the Americas. ... " European countries promptly rushed to allege lands in the Americas. ... In his journal (1451-1506), Columbus requested the permission to his highnesses to promote the holy Faith and convert the Native Americans. ... Captivating tales like that of the Fountain of Youth, often told to the Spaniards by arrested Indians and slaves, stimulated these adventurers to attempt regularly to conquer the land, as well as its native communities. ... After that, Queen Elizabeth granted charters to Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh to col...

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The average Native American slave lasted barely a year under his or her Spanish masters." ... The Spaniards searched through the whole treasure house, questioning and quarreling, and seized every object they thought was beautiful." (68) They slaughtered the Native Americans for their land and for their wealth. ... The Spanish empire expanded from Spain to the Caribbean Islands, Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America. ... They had no right to try and "Christianize" any of the native people. ... Then the Spanish American War all but ended the empire. ...

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To a Native American, his family, village and clan were the most important group. ... The Native American's didn't believe in land ownership, but instead thought of the earth as something that they could "borrow" in order to survive. ... They also managed to wipe out much of the population in the Americas by bringing over a lethal microbe. ... When coming to the Americas, the English had mixed emotions about the Indians. ... In my opinion, it would have been a much happier assembly of the two worlds if England had arrived first, because they would have been friendlier to the Nati...

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The assigned articles and the text provide information about the early settlement of America and the organization of a colony. ... Soon, they met a native who vaguely spoke some English, Samoset, and became friends with him. He helped them feed themselves and spoke with the fellow natives on their behalf. ... They created a treaty that basically said they would respect the Natives as the Natives would respect them in return. ... The book "The Evolution of the American Economy" goes into the rules and regulations that came about through the rest of the world moving in the area and set...

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Many immigrants came and still continue to come to America. People came to America because of its freedom and all the opportunity. ... They are so anxious for them to be a part of the American society. ... This shows that even though parents wanted their children to be adapted to American culture, they still spoke in their native language so their kids do not forget their nationality. ... This poem is about how immigrants kept coming over to America. ...

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Christopher Columbus has always been taught to us as the man who discovered America. Now that we are older, we are being told that he is not the one who discovered America. ... This land was known as the New World, or today as America. ... Truth of the matter was he returned to Spain with little gold nuggets, the bodies of what had once been Native American men and many diseases, including syphilis. ... He called them Indians because he thought they were India's native people. ...

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From the beginning of time it's always been known that Christopher Columbus was the first to discover America. ... Soon after Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, the Spanish realized that Christopher Columbus never made it to Asia and instead that he instead stumbled across the Americas. ... Just miles away from the Pacific Ocean Christopher made it to Panama where he abandoned two of his four ships from the attack of the hostile natives. ... The Norton Anthology of American Literature. (8 ed., Vol. ...

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Most of these foods came from the New World, which Europeans did not journey to until the late 15th century (coffee was originally a native of Abyssinia, while tea was found in the Far East). Before this time, Europeans ate foods that were mainly of native European origin, with some expensive imports for the nobility, such as exotic spices and sugar. ... For the most part here in America we are somewhat similar, we also grow cattle and all types of animals for food and we have gardens for our vegetables. ...

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Juan Ponce de León was born in 1460 in Tierra de Campos Palencia, Spain. Ponce de Leon was born into a noble family in Spain. Later in his life, he became a soldier. He fought the Muslim Moors in Granada, Spain. The Moors were a group of Muslims that invaded Southern Spain in the 1400's. After the...

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Isabella took a special interest in the Native Americans of the new lands; when some were brought back to Spain as slaves she insisted they be returned and freed, and her will expressed her wish that the "Indians" be treated with justice and fairness. ...

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