Northwest Passage

The European Exploration of Louisiana and the Mississippi had some similar and different techniques used than in the exploration of Brazil. The French once they landed in the Louisiana and Mississippi area stated to barter with the natives. The French were looking for gold, silver, and anything that was shinny. The Portuguese sailors got off their ships and started enslaving the natives to work in mines, and the Portuguese sailors took the women and raped them. These two ways of first meetings…

explored much of America and Canada. His exploration was very important in our history; some even say he founded New York. He made four voyages as attempts to discover a northern route to go to Asia from Europe. However, Hudson never did find such a sea passage. He did explore three waterways that were later named after him-the Hudson River in New York, Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada, and the Hudson Strait which links the Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay. Historians know…

It was in 1902 when the United States was flirting with building a canal in Nicaragua, while France was experiencing much turmoil in their attempt in Panama, when a volcano erupted and killed 30,000 people. Therefore, the United States were deterred from building a Nicaraguan canal. Therefore, the United States focused their efforts on acquiring control of the Panama Canal zone, which was under Colombian control at the time, albeit a small independence movement. The U.S. utilized their military…

works and how I speak the language personally. Before this class and as a native speaker of the English language and growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I believed I spoke perfect American English with no accent. By taking this course, I learned many things about the language, but also myself of a speaker of it. Now I know that people in the Pacific Northwest do in fact have an accent, most noticeably with the pronunciation of “caught” and “cot” which sound the same to my ears, and there is no…

Throughout the course of history the relationship between Whites and Native Americans changed drastically. When traders first arrived to the Pacific Northwest a bond was created between the traders and the Native Americans due to a mutual dependency on both sides for a wide range of commodities. Later on the mutual bond and respect between them deteriorated and resulted in the Native American’s being categorized as inferior to the Whites. Such relationship changes were a result of three main…

and different Native American tribes. The U.S. learned more of the Rocky Mountains, of which the states had very little knowledge, and found that there was no water passage from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific Ocean. One of the main reasons for the expedition was to find, if there was one, the Northwest Passage. The Northwest Passage was a theoretical waterway that could have made trading easier between the U.S. and other countries to the West. After the expedition ended, trappers, hunters,…

remove it by hand. The cotton transformed the South and slavery began to fade out. However, some planted decided to move west and around one million African American slaves played a part in this process. Some historians call this the, “Second Middle Passage”. African American’s were forced to work on cotton plantations, some were forced to migrate. The South had the best cotton in the world and was increasing at the time. However, the South used most of the land for crops and at the end it had a…

his fourth voyage. Or maybe Hudson was on a mission from the English trading companies. He had to ruin the Dutch efforts to find a shorter passage to the Spice Islands. There was a big rivalry between the two nations. Hudson did not improve the situation. His fourth voyage In 1610, Henry succeeded to be subsidized by English backers, still searching the Northwest…

Throughout our history, the migration and immigration of people has contributed to the American identity and helped to create America’s sense of self. During three periods of history significant changes happened that helped frame who “we” are as a country. In 1600s-1700s Colonial America, Jamestown Colony, Plymouth Colony, and indentured servants helped impact America’s identity. In 1800s Pre-Civil War to Reconstruction, corps of discovery, westward migration to OR,CA, TX and Westward Migration…

Edward A. Alpers presents The Other Middle Passage as a discussion about the slave trade in the Indian Ocean. The main purpose of the essay is to shed light on what all was involved with the slave trade from East Africa. Alpers does an excellent job of comparing the way slaves were treated during this voyage and how they were treated when they reached their destinations. Both voyages, West to the Americas and East through the Indian Ocean, were just one part of the traumatic journey for these…