Impact Of Christopher Columbus On La Hispaniola

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Christopher Columbus was who discovered La Hispaniola, on his destination on finding a faster way to Asia. His journey gave him the opportunity to be virtues, since he came from a poor family in Italy. Columbus had his future planned, he self tough how to navigate in the ocean, to find some sort of success. But, his actions and aggressive ways on handling thing as, making the Indians slaves after there was no more gold, made a huge impact on the American Dream. This states that, Indians in this piece of land “La Hispaniola” wont have the dream of achieving what they wanted to achieve. His actions puts a barrier on the first three tenets, who and who wont be able to achieve their American Dream, “Who is to be included in and who is excluded

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