North America

of a race between European nations for wealth and power. As the hopes of wealth and new beginnings influenced the European explorers, the explorers set out to claim their lands in North and South America. This mass subjugation guaranteed the contact between the novel explorers and the native peoples of the Americas. Upon contact between the Europeans and Native Americans, Europeans gained economic and religious prosperity…

Spain’s goals in colonizing in America revolved around boosting their economy, adding the Spanish culture to the Native Americans’ culture, and finding a shorter route to Asia. Due to the world being much more expansive than people at the time thought it to be, they failed to find a faster and convenient route to trade with the Asians. They did, however, bolster their economical gain by gathering resources and searching for minerals like gold. The Spanish aimed to get as much gold as they could…

Compared to their frail early years, by the mid-eighteenth century the colonies of North America had developed into thriving outposts of the British world. This process was no doubt gradual, but as wealth and power accumulated, these settlers were able to cast off the adaptations of their earlier years and began to recreate a “New England.” Although regional differences abounded, the colonists universally aimed to replicate the Old World in their social, political, and cultural lives. However,…

modern day America. The reason for coming in this direction was to follow their source of food. These were animals like Mastodons. As the glacier retreated the climate became milder leading to more vegetation. The milder climate also led to more animal migration providing…

understanding of Mission San Lorenzo de la Santa Cruz. Spanish Colonial missions in Texas have a rich archaeological and ethnohistorical record that provide insight to daily lives of missions as well as the long-term processes of the Spanish government on the North American continent. The Spanish government funded mission projects in order to spread Catholicism as well as adopt the Native Americans into Spanish, tax-paying citizens of the crown. What makes Mission San Lorenzo unique to other…

Gabriella Mickel History 2001H History is often recounted through a series of key conflicts--their causes, courses and consequences. From European colonization through 1877, major conflicts were provoked, discussed and resolved through influential writings. Examining this period of American History with a focus on the influential texts of the time provides invaluable insight into major historical events. The second half of the fifteenth century was a time of economic revival, population…

be? Millions of year ago North America was just a piece of land that didn’t have no type of human life on it. During the last glacial period, enough of the earth's water became frozen in the great ice sheets covering North America and Europe to cause a drop in sea levels. Making the Bering land bridge. The bridge became a route of human migration to the Americas from Asia about 20,000 years ago. That’s how the first people came to what is now the United States of America. Soon after that…

him from Greenland all the way to Canada, where he and his crew established the Vinland settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows and became the first European settlement, let alone Viking settlement to reach North America. Although there has been controversy over the validity of the Vikings reaching North America, the excavation of L'Anse aux Meadows in the 1960's gave yield…

INTRODUCTION Dana Point is a city between Los Angeles and San Diego in southern California, but is best known for its harbor. Just north of the harbor lies a rocky beach with large cliffs only tens of meters from the sea, depending on tide level. Cliffs along the coast of southern California are prone to landslides due to their rock composition (mostly sedimentary) and high erosion rates from the sea but become increasingly stressed from overlying man-made structures and landscaping practices.…

retain their land and their culture. The murder at Mystic set into motion English dominance of the North American continent, but the resilient tribes of the time managed to survive through depression through many sacrifices and the smarts to work with the law they had oppressed them, instead of attempting to tear it…