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What if the United States Never Existed? The United States is an area on the Earth in the continent of North America It’s a plot of land that is divided into 50 pieces and a region of the world inhabiting about 326,000,000 people and different species of animals. This is America; the land of the free and the home of brave. But what if this place never existed? How different would the world and society be today? Would it still thrive, or would it wither? The spirit and history of the United…

started out from Europe some time from 20,000-30,000 years ago. The picture shows that North America and South America were connected in the southern part of the continent. After settling in Cactus Hill the first people would have came down south towards Chile. Another site named Monte Verde dated 12,500 years ago has evidence of pre-clovis people. This shows that it would have taken 5,500 years to travel from North to South America. Because Cactus Hill is the earliest site, this evidence…

West Indies. When forming a new colony, one must be able to answer how the colony would be able to sustain itself in the form of an economy and how to get a benefit out of the settlement. The early settlements that came to be known as Virginia and Carolina, for example, found their calling in the industry of tobacco, and rice, respectively. The trading became…

settlement’s abandonment in 1699 CE. Multiple causes led to the settlement’s abandonment, but the fortress and the material remains associated with the settlers were left behind. The Jamestown Memorial Church site provides an interesting case study in North American historical archaeology because of…

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 North and South Americas; however, each was facilitated historically by the economic roles the colonies came to play in the wider Atlantic trading system. It was these roles that structured the advancement of the labor…

Interpretive History, author Julie A. Charlip states, “The rest of the new world civilizations fell rapidly to the Spanish: within half a century after Columbus’s discovery, Spanish adelantados had explored from approximately 40 degrees north-Oregon, Colorado, and the Carolinas-to 40 degrees south-mid Chile and Argentina- with the exception of the Brazilian coast” (Charlip and Burns 2002, 37). The European colonists brought many diseases and up to 90% of some populations succumbed to these…

people harms society. I will be discussing the Southern strategy in American politics, a former supreme leader of North Korea that abused his power and lastly, Adolf Hitler. In American politics,…

land maneuvered their way into the indigenous people’s lands eventually forcing them out (Tindall & Shi, 2013). Compared to the French and Dutch, who had amicable relations with Native Americans through trade, the English did not have good terms with North America’s original…

settled in North America, Native Americans dominated the land. From the Cherokee in the Mountains of North Carolina, to the Sioux in the North and the Navajo in the Southwest, Native American tribes were here hundreds of years before America was discovered. And during that time of isolation, these tribes had time to develop their own culture. And each tribe was different from the other. But the most memorable of these tribes was the Anasazi. This tribe was one of the oldest and largest in North…

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…