Following this, however, the French governments were facing dire financial and economic problems due to the large number of debts incurred during the war to support the American War of Independence (Aguilar, 1989). ... The Napoleonic wars (1799-1815) were a series of war that followed as a result of Napoleon Bonaparte's control. ... This Peninsular War had consequences throughout the wide overseas empires of Portugal and Spain. ... Criollos were the main supporters of the Spanish American wars of independence. ... The first revolt in the war for Latin America independence began in Mexi...

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In 1818, Andrew Jackson went into Spanish controlled Florida and took over Pensacola under the guise that it was to protect American's from Seminole attacks, and not for land acquisition, however, in 1819 Spain would give Florida to America with the Adams-Onis Treaty. The United States' borders would later be in dispute again in the Spanish American War with Mexico, shortly after Mexico gains their independence. Before the Spanish American War, there was the Indian Removal Act which was was a major impact on Native Americans and the United States' Manifest Destiny. ... This boun...

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(Cortés) While the motivations of the Spanish for colonizing the Americas were different than the English, it is clear to see that Spain and England had the greatest impact and success in their colonization efforts. The bearing of Spanish colonization is characterized mostly by the efforts of converting Native Americans into Christians and the impact, although not positive, of spreading disease to the people of the Americas. ... The negative impact that the Spanish had during their colonization of the Americas was disease. ... Nonetheless, the Spanish missionaries of Father Junipero...

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The more slaves they captured meant the more horses and guns they possess and the more military dominance resulted in more successful wars guaranteed large supplies of slaves. ... They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... The belief was strong among the first missionaries [who] wanted to protect the new believers at any cost from contact with the, in their eyes, godless Spanish colonists." ... After the discovery of Americas, The emperor of Spain, King Charles V declared Indians as subjects of Spain due...

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His gross miscalculation led to him landing on the Americas, and since he did not want to be found wanting over his inadequacy of sailing from Europe to India, he decided to rename the Native Americans as, 'American Indians' and write his letters back to the Kingdom of Spain as to have found 'the Indians'. ... During the American Revolution, native America's played a vital role in the war. Most tribes joined the British during the war, making this one of the bigger deals when issues ranging from sovereignty to territorial rule came up, after the British lost the wa...

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However, in 1876 after several brutal wars, the Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, and Comanches complied to move to certain areas where whites were prohibited (Greenberg 33). ... Polk in the war with Mexico, which started in 1846. ... After the war, filibustering, another tactic of U.S. territorial expansion, was also driven against Spanish Florida, Mexican Texas, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean Islands. ... In 1846, Jane Swisshelm, religious abolitionist and firm advocator of women's rights, published several arousing editorials in a Pittsburgh newspaper, speaking out against the Me...

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Although African American slaves were now introduced to Native American communities, they still used their own prisoners of war as slaves as well. ... Her husband was killed during a war with the Muskogees and she fell in, took his place, and finished out the war with his weapon. ... Spanish explorers brought with them an African slave and came upon a Native American tribe in their travels. ... Some of the tribes also began buying African American slaves during the Revolutionary War. The Native American slave trade was only in existence until about 1730, after the trade led to a series of d...

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Through European eyes the Native Americans knew nothing of how to live. These Spanish settlers believed that they had discovered America, after all, despite thousands of years of Indian inhabitance on the same land. ... Prescribed protocols were precisely what guided the Europeans in their colonization of America. ... Years before, the English had landed on America and founded Jamestown. ... The greatest weapon, disease, passively affected a biological war on the Indians, which shattered their numbers. ...

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Structurally, both novels are very different despite setting their protagonists on a journey of self-discovery that takes them through the American Southwest using memory flashbacks and Native American Mythology. ... The tale foreshadows Tayo's story of damnation from his Native American roots by his family and himself. ... This dislocation ultimately leads to his death when he enlists in the army during World War Two and takes Tayo with him, who is left to suffer the guilt of loss and remorse resulting from Rocky's death. ... It is not until she finds the photographs of herself ...

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