During the 16th and 17th centuries the British and the French treated the Indians two totally different ways. The French had a positive attitude with the Indians while the British on the other hand did not. The French went into North America with the thought of making a little money and not getting in the way of the Indians. The British wanted to dominant and control the land even if it did belong to the Indians even if that meant killing them. When the French came over to ... eyes to make stealing the Indian's land and even killing them okay on their part. When the British came some tried t...

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... California. In 1879, the French, fresh from their success in building the Suez Canal, started building a canal. Over the next twenty years, between 16,000 and 22,000 workers died from malaria, yellow fever, typhoid, snake bites, and accidents. Torrential rains averaging 200 inches a year washed away much of the work. America's 1898 war with Spain made a canal seem essential. During the Spanish-American War, the only way for U.S. ... wall 8-feet thick and 12-feet high, stretching between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. At its peak in 1913, the workforce consisted of 44,000 persons. West Indian w...

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... Or is it a very bad joke? I've written it at that paper's header. I'm not attempting to establish a new theory that destroys the "American dream-. I've just tried to turn the coin over, so I could see what's on the other side. And I didn't like much of what I saw. That's why I'm trying to place a "different voice- here, just to show that not ... years old were either fighting against fresh and aggressive powers (Arabs and later Ottomans), or fighting each other (English - Spanish wars, French imperialism e.t.c). Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodox Christianity were the worst enemies ...

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... The monarchy gave the conquistadors permission openly loot and raid towns and villages; as long as they received a portion of the takings. However after all the plundering took place the Spaniards worked the Indians in the silver mines as slaves. This went on well for a while until European diseases took there toll on the Indians. Soon there numbers were slim and none and without the labor of the Indians the ... it was far from impossible and in the 1690s the population had swelled in 2,000 in Montreal which had now replaced Quebec has the center of trade and society. However The French ...

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... colonists founded more and more towns. The Colony lacked the mineral wealth of Mexico and Peru. But it produced emeralds, platinum, and some gold. Spanish settlers in the Andes forced the Indians to work in the mines and on large estates that raised cattle and grain. Many Indians died of mistreatments or of diseases brought by the Spaniards. Along the Carribean Coast, the Spaniards brought in ... the colony. In the early 1700's, Spain combined the colony with neighboring territories into one large colony called the Viceroyalty of New Granada. The Viceroyalty consisted of what are now Col...

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... that each individual is given to by God. He explained how all people are equal. Equality was major theme in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was so brilliant that he was able to write down on a piece of paper the freedoms each person is given. Before then, only a few people had ever written these words. Until then, all of these ... were to find the source of the Mississippi River and find a water route to the Pacific. Also, exploring the new territory would help expand trade with the Native Americans (Meltzer 205). In the spring of 1804 Lewis and Clark departed from St. Louis,...

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