Monroe stated the Western hemisphere was no longer open to European colonisation; "the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved that the American continents, are henceforth no longer to be considered subjects for future colonisation" . ... King Ferdinand of Spain had recently been restored to the Spanish throne after liberal unrest, by his European monarchic neighbours (a point which Monroe specifies as being a sign of how unsettled Europe still was ). The United States feared King Ferdinand or other Eur...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They convinced the viceroy to call a representative assembly to provide the Creoles with legitimacy while the King was out the picture. ... Ideas that praised individual rights for example, like the notion that ultimate authority in society resides with the people, not with the king. ... Many future leaders of the Spanish American independence movements spent time in Europe as students of the enlightened ideas. ... Latin American still continues to move toward modernization but it has been long and tough road filled with tension, turmoil, and struggles to regain the independence that they once...

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At the time that future president Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743, most black slaves were born in the arid savannahs of Africa, very few of them were Christian of faith, and very few black slaves were involved in the cotton industry. ... Beginning in the 1740s and greatly accelerating in the early 1800s, there was a reformation once again in the Americas and many of the slaves converted to Christianity. ... King Cotton would now go on to be a legend, and the rise of the black freed man would now ensue. ...

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Portugal had been present in Western Africa for several years but in 1445 the King, Henry the Navigator instructed his sailors on their way to the continent to win over the natives so they could purchase human beings to be used as free labour rather than to kidnap them as they had done previously4. ...

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