Protectorate

The spring of 1823 would bring a new wave of missionaries to include, William Richards, his wife, and Charles Stewart, with his wife Harriet, and their African companion Betsey Stockton from the Second Company in Boston. These missionaries, along with many westerners, were weary of the Native Hawaiians as viewed in the journal of Betsey Stockton. An excerpt from the first interaction with the natives on April 24, 1823, defined the Hawaiian men who greeted the ship as “half man and half…

Rwanda is geographically located in Africa. It is directly North of Burundi and East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda has a Republican government. In Rwanda, the people speak Kinyarwanda, French, English, and Swahili. The life expectancy in Rwanda is 59. Most Rwandans are apart of the Hutu, Tutsi or Twa groups. Rwanda is made up of grassy uplands and hills. In 2013, the population of Rwanda was 11.78 million. Rwanda was made up of two main ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi.…

harsh opposition from the council. The Roman Catholics were allowed to practice their religion. He saw himself as ‘a constable to part them, and keep them in peace’ , and indeed there was no major fights in-between religions or sects during the Protectorate, whose name takes a bright new…

informing the Cubans. The US occupied and ruled Cuba from 1898 to 1902 and left just because the Cubans had settled for the inclusion of the Platt Amendment into their constitution (Keen & Haynes, 2013). This amendment implied that the island was a protectorate and a virtual US colony that after the American withdrawal followed sixty years of US dominance of corrupt, unstable, brutal and incompetent Cuban governments. Conclusion Officially the US intervention in the Cuban war did have a stand…

One of the seven wonders of the modern world, the Panama Canal is a man-made waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key point for international trade. The earliest idea of a canal going across the Isthmus of Panama goes back to 1534 when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, ordered a route through the Americas that would make it easier for ships traveling between Spain and Peru. The route…

Theodore Roosevelt had the qualities that were necessary of a president; he believed in himself and his self-confidence radiated out of his personality. He was able to recognize his own abilities, both mental and physical. He was even an advocate for living a “strenuous lifestyle,” which he carried out exclusively in his horseback riding. Nonetheless, his policies and ideals reflected how aggressively he strived to achieve the goals set out by the U.S. Roosevelt treated his foreign polices and…

The definition of Colonialism is when a country take control of a country, occupies it with settlers, and exploits it economically. This was a practice that many European countries did for hundreds of years until most of the colonies broke free. The first colonies were in Hispaniola which is known as the Caribbean today. They were discovered by Christopher Columbus who was the second person to discover the Americas. The main countries that colonized were Great Britain, France, Castile, Portugal,…

In1948, a new State was born in the Middle East, the State of Israel. After two thousand years, the Jews regained their sovereignty, through a challenging process. The Jews, which had suffered more than any other population during the Holocaust, were spread all over the world, many of them striving to recover from the World War II. The active presence of a leader that could motivate people towards a common goal of unification and the creation of a new county was essential to the Jewish people.…

The U.S. should not annex the Philippines because the Philippine people are very experienced in speaking their own language and also having their own currency which means that they are capable of self ruling. For economic reasons like doing agriculture for a living and making some money off of that income that is why the U.S. should not annex the Philippines as well. The Philippine government was already sturdy and running perfectly fine before the U.S. colonized the Philippines and they were…

Alexandre the Great wanted to form one identity between his greek, Syrian, Egyptian and Persian subjects, however his policies were ignored after his death and failed. Almost a century, Herod the Great and his dynasty ruled Judea enjoying being protectorate under Rome and as other client-Kings were granted in exchange for loyalty. They in return tried to romanize own territories by building Roman style temples and holding festivities. Rome was consisted of thousands of provincial towns and each…