The whites who were at the top, next were the Creoles, beneath them were the Native Americans, who were the official wards of the Crown but yet they were still greatly exploited and abused. Mestizos, who are people of mixed Native American and white heritage, and they suffered legal and social discrimination. ... The enlightment strongly changed the ideas of people in Europe, America, and Latin America. ... Other Latin American uprising occurred with Simon Bolivar, who led the South American independence. ... These imposed ideas left the continent weak and resulted in the loss of culture, the ...

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John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer. ... Many hardships had to be conquered to settle a New World; from uncultivated land to angry natives, from diseases, to slow economic processes, these people were besieged by problems. ... Another benefit in coming to America was that no matter what the immigrant's original nationality, this new country allowed them to keep a piece of themselves; immigrants were not forced to give up their national identity, their roots to their native countries were unchallenged and there was no need to "Americanize" since there...

• Word Count: 1397
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Blaine in the 1880's as he attempted to assemble a market in Latin America for American products. ... The navy the Americans would come to build would pay dividends within the next decade of the Spanish-American war. ... The American army was woefully unprepared, poorly organized, and divided about the West and "conquering" the Native Americans. ... If kept, or worse annexed, it would plant America in the frontline of Far East issues, something America did not need. ... The Spanish American War was a huge step in the American quest for respect as an enduring world power. ...

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The causes of the American Revolution and the Latin American Wars of Independence were similar in many aspects. The Latin American and American independence movements were caused in part by similar economic reasons. ... The economic causes of the American Revolution and the Latin American Wars of Independence are quite similar. Both the Americans and the Latin Americans resented the heavy taxation imposed by the mother country. ... Both America and Spanish America were restricted from free manufacturing. ...

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For Columbus to achieve his goals he needed the Arawak natives help. ... From his own words, Columbus felt that based upon his actions he should be worshipped by the Arawak natives. ... By not taking advantage of the Arawak natives when they first arrived Columbus felt that the treatment the natives gave him was appropriate. ... Columbus claimed that he did not allow his men to trick the natives, and by doing so the natives thought he was godly. ... "The first American? ...

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It would seem unfeasible that a small army of soldiers could overcome thousands of Native Americans on their own soil; Tenochtitlan was a perfect location to offer resistance to the Spanish, as a great lake surrounded it. ... In fact the Native Americans were unsurprisingly fearful of the horse, having never encountered such a beast ridden in this way. ... Consequently at Cholula, where Montezuma's forces planned an ambush, opposing natives forewarned Cortes. ... On the side of the Native Americans, their religious beliefs proved to be at their own disadvantage. ... The discovery and ...

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If the natives converted, then they became vassals of the crown and worshippers of God. ... The methods of Spanish warfare were far superior to those of the natives. Spain, as well as a later Columbus, used "sword, cannon, musket, horse, and dog to subdue- the natives. ... He fought the natives with similar force, then gathered them to read to them the Requirimiento. ... As Columbus wrote concerning his fourth journey to the Americas, "O most excellent gold! ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Instead I employed a similar style of writing as that in Foundational Fictions: When History was romance in Latin America by Doris Sommer. ... He mentions how the first Inca and pallu (royal females) reached Cusco and brought together a great congregation of native (barbarian) Indians and how they taught the Indians agriculture, masonry and architecture, textile manufature and communial living and acceptable practices. ... He justifies the colonization and ˜civilization' of the Indians based on an extension of the Artistolean doctrine that some men were slaves by nature to includ...

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This bildungsroman novel, set in both India and America and which follows a Bengali family's attempts at assimilating within American culture, portrays this theme throughout. ... They grow up speaking English natively, and are much more interested in American food and pop culture, having attended American schools all their life. ... Essentially, while the immigration into America is supposed to be a family experience, the children feel they belong to the American culture more than any Indian one. However, even though these characters are American born, they remain in the category of "...

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In the Americas alone, 182 are endangered by the end of the century. ... The Naka'ela in Maluku, Indonesia, reportedly decreased in number after moving down from the mountains to a coastal town on Seram Island. 3 Colonization and the introduction of a new language into the territory of a existent cultural group can also put at risk the traditional language, as with the Hawaiian people, who now form only about 20% of the total population in their traditional territory.4 The most widely known example is that of North America, where the colonizers forced the native population to speak the la...

• Word Count: 1941
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate