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Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

American Colonial Regional Comparison of Two Areas

the North and South but there are many differences as well. A student writing on this subject may want to compare and contrast ...

Native Americans/Preserving Independence

did improve British relations with Native Americans, the colonials were irate, as they saw the entire point of the French and Indi...

Catholic Church: Colonial Times to Present Day

Mississippi valleys and later in the Spanish regions of Florida, the Southwest and California, Catholics were a decided minority i...

Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' Pamphlet

the style the writing. This pamphlet was phrased in language which was understandable by the common man (Kashatus 53). In this hi...

Colonial Latin America and Manifest Destiny

In five pages this paper examines colonial Latin American and the impact of manifest destiny related to the Spanish conquest and t...

Depiction of Indians and Puritans in Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

In seven pages this paper examines how Puritans and Indian captors are portrayed by Mary Rowlandson in her early colonial memoir o...

Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" - Class And Masculinity

of independence and material possessions as a way to shed the discomfort of her less-than-copious upbringing. While Dreiser sough...

American Nationalism

Germany, historically, Turkish families who have lived in Germany for generations are not regarded as German (Ignatieff, 1995). ...

America (1600-1774): The Land of Opportunity?

hopes and expectations which constantly supported and carried them through all the hardships with patience and resignation. Let us...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman/The Yellow Wallpaper

A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Wales as the Model for British Colonialism in Ireland and America

of Wales is inextricably linked to the history of the Welsh language and many events were tied to the language; for example, in 14...

Colonial Culture

he is not Dutch. He is only really being given the education as an outward sign of respect and acceptance. Even though he proves t...

Early American Architecture: Colonial and Georgian

the bare necessities were sufficient in the beginning. In Morrisons text he shows examples of various forms of connecting logs tog...

Historical Anthropology Questions

A 9 page paper that answers three questions about historical anthropology. Topics include evolution of social cultural change, col...

Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

Octavio Paz: Perspective of the Colonial Period

how the peasantry had a long history of such struggles and were not new to such fights whereas "the workers lacked not only the mo...

North American English Colonial Societies

became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...

David Weber/Barbaros

A 3 page book review on David Weber's text Barbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment. This comprehensive t...

Distinctive Colonial Societies in the New World

Europeans would own the land and be in charge. But again, things were not simple. The intricacies of the changes which did occur d...

The Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on the American Colonies

to develop a work force among Native Americans and white immigrants. Colonists, finding that Africans were cheap and relatively im...

Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest by Steven Stern

resources against possible intrusions by other groups (Stern 22). Therefore, economic decline or improvement became intrinsically ...

Africa's Colonial Rule and its History

In seven pages this paper examines how Africa developed colonial rule in this historical chronicle that includes the tribal classe...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Seventeenth Century Puritan Colonization and Nineteenth Century Reconstruction Explored

sue and be sued, as well as testify in court only in cases involving other black people (Anonymous, 1865). These provisions were ...

Latin America and Colonial Rule Resistance by Indigenous Peoples

the Natives of the new land were essentially at their disposal. The colonized what was then considered the most desirable lands, ...

History of Colonial Order Construction

in the art and imagery of history, so too is it represented in todays modern images. The world has witnessed a parade of...

Colonial Peru and the Short Story 'Rosa's Day'

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...