North America

The Smithsonian writer Guy Gugliotta in his article ‘When did humans come to America?’ explains that the peopling of the Americas, happened sometime in the past 25,000 years where due to a wave of big game hunters crossed into the New World from Siberia at the end of the last ice age, when the Bering Strait was a land bridge that had emerged after glaciers and continental ice sheets froze enough of the world’s water to lower sea level as much as 400 feet below what it is today. Ted Goebel from…

The Powhatans The coming of the Europeans to America was catastrophic for the indigenous American civilisations as the Europeans began settling in North America in the 17th century, when North America was less developed and less populated at the time, when English colonists arrived, costal Virginia was inhabited by the Powhatan Indians who were Algonquian-speaking people. The Powhatans lived in villages and villages within the same area belonged to one tribe. Each tribe had it’s own Werowance…

children. So, understandably, many of us have nontraditional first or middle names. When my youngest sister was born, we all scratched our heads at the name Tilley. Excited to share her love of history, she explained that Elizabeth Tilley came to America on the Mayflower with her parents, who died in the first winter. Being homeschooled, my mother was able to teach us history through field trips all over the east coast. While many public schooled students were taught white-washed history, my…

Guarneri’s, America Compared, the essay writers: Bergquist and Jordan, discuss the Atlantic System; Palmer and McFarlane discuss the American Revolution. Charles Bergquist, in his essay The Paradox of Development in the Americas, illustrates how the distribution of slave and free labor within the Atlantic economy produced different New World winners and losers in the short and long run. Race, climate and culture are essential to understanding the different progress of the societies of the…

in the United States From sea to shining sea, and at times a bit haphazardly, the early settlements of America were founded. The New World was a bit off from the Old and in many ways, different. But, the settlers and their settlements were not in a vacuum, uninfluenced by the workings of other countries. From the creation and location of some states to wars fought, the early settlements of America were at times, unable to pry itself away from the workings of other countries. On a level, other…

“North America’s Colonial European Roots,” Chapter 2, North American Odyssey In his chapter, titled “North America’s Colonial European Roots,” Jeffrey S. Smith surveys the overwhelmingly European stock population that ultimately dominated North America’s people. Specifically, Smith recognizes the historical context that drove exploration into foreign lands as an antecedent into North American settlement. Furthermore, the author observes a progressive approach to colonial mercantilism, which…

farmed, and traded over all of what is now the United States, as well as the rest of North and South America. Believing he had sailed to India, Columbus referred to as the endemic folks “Indians,” setting the course for the misunderstanding that social group communities still face these days. As explorers began to arrive in North America, European countries competed for political and military alliances with North Yankee tribes through nation-to-nation treaties that area unit the idea of U.S.…

The history of the European presence in the Americas is usually written in gleaming terms. The search for riches and glory has brought the European powers unto a new age of power unseen since to the level of an empire. The one constant feature of any empire, however, is that there is always a group that must yield to a more powerful force. The European expansion into the New World was no different in that in order to take advantage of the America’s fertile virgin land first the natives must…

of different supplies for British troops in North America in 1766 (David, The American Journey, page 122). Because of the strict taxation that English exert to America and increased resistance movement of people, the North American colonies have to enhance their military force to maintain the stability, which results in the lack of official troops at North America and the discontentment of citizens. Protest: This law was not widely accepted in all North American colonies. People from colonies…

The first nations of the Americas arrived thousands of years ago and spread to all corners of the continents, but exactly how and when remains a matter of debate. Previously the Clovis were accepted to be the first culture to arrive in the Americas 13.5 kya (Goeble et al. 2008: 1497). The Clovis were characterised by quick migrations and the hunting of large game such as mammoth. This however, has been revised with the discovery of remains in both North and South America that pre-date 13.5…