America Essay

Initially, Europeans were looking for an alternate route to the East Indies, China, and India. These were the connections for more luxurious goods such as spices, tea, and silk. At the time, nobody had realized how big the world actually was. Many, even explorers that traveled to study the land, were under the impression that the world pretty much only included Africa, Asia, India, Europe, and all the other countries around those main areas. Christopher Columbus decided to sail West to try and…

seems that many individuals are increasingly going out of their way to purchase items, mainly, clothing that has the label of “Made in America”. The question is why is this trend becoming so popular? Could the reasons be, because of quality and a certain class that can afford these items? Or is it because of jobs coming to America?. Or is it having pride in America? No matter the case, the fact is American made products are becoming more important and popular in the people of the U.S.A.. One…

today. Notably, the population of Native Americans is estimated to have dropped from a quarter million to a few hundred in just a few short decades (Bergreen 301). While Europeans caused many of these deaths unwittingly by carrying diseases to the Americas that the Native Americans had no resistances to, far too many deaths were caused by deliberate “torture, wholesale slaughter, and ‘the harshest and most iniquitous and brutal…

The American dream led the country to believe that every citizen could achieve prosperity if they had the initiative and determination. America’s amber waves of grain and cherry trees drew enticed others to come to America. A man named Dennis Daley came over to America at age seventeen. He came because he wanted a better life than he had in Ireland. He has $15.00 in his pocket and that was it. He landed in Boston and every sign discouraged the Irish from applying. The Irish did not have a good…

While immigrants are blamed for coming to America and “taking” American jobs from the people, Lakoff and Ferguson point out that the employers that illegally employ these immigrants conveniently escape scrutiny, and are not labeled as “illegals” themselves (6). The refugees are vital for the for the economy, and contrary to popular misconception, the jobs that the economic refugees come to America for are not the ones that are heavily sought after, rather they are often…

“In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue” is a common phrase used to teach schoolchildren the history of exploration in North America. In the United States, we refer to Columbus as the first person to discover America. Not only do schools and government buildings close nationwide in remembrance of Columbus’s arrival to the New World on October 12th, our nation’s capital is the District of Columbia. However, Columbus was not the explorer, or person, history textbooks portray him as…

In 1920, Henry Ford built the first Ford Motor Assembly Plant in Michigan; fast-forward almost a hundred years later to 2016, and Ford has not only expanded outside of the United States, but has made plans to build a second plant in Mexico. The $1.6 billion dollar plant, which will be located in in San Luis Potosi will be built by 2018. Ford announced earlier in April that the second Mexico plant would create roughly 2,800 jobs. Ford also said they would also invest over $3.6 billion dollars to…

colonize America. Around 1492, Spain's long struggle with the Moors(North African Muslims) finally came to a close. The Monarchs were able to support explorations, such as that of Christopher Columbus. Within the first few voyages, the Spaniards not only discovered mass amounts of gold and silver, but advanced cities and major civilizations as well. (Spanish Discovery and Colonization). Spain was a strong military power that wanted to obtain riches and spread Christianity throughout the…

Anybody who tries to seek out for help is seen as weak,harmful,and inferior to others in America. Americans see poor people as just staying on government programs to get free money by not doing anything. They don’t see them as bringing any benefits into society and sucking the resources dry. The poor works lots of hours just enough to sustain…

The Colony of Virginia was the first settlement in America, founded in 1607; The American Dream also began to develop at this time. The governing system was in some ways a democracy; in reality it was more of a plutocracy. Governor Berkeley assigns a council consisting of the wealthy, having both wealthy and power they assigned themselves their own land and hired those who would plant the very profitable Tabaco plant. The America Dream was beginning to flourish for the prosperous settlers.…