American History Module Two Chapter 2 Assessment and Activities Reviewing Key Terms - On a sheet of paper, use each of these terms in a sentence. 1. Conquistador- A conquistador is another word for a conqueror. 2. Presidio- The Spanish people built forts that they called presidios. 3. Hidalgo- The conquistadors were ... tolerated rather than suppressed. 28. Why was Georgia founded? In the 1720s, General James Oglethorpe, a wealthy member of Parliament, was appealed to find that many people in England were in prison simply because they could not pay their debts. He asked King George II for a...

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... 's changing fortunes. The only way to survive and earn any social status in the Ibo society before the establishment of the imperialist colonies heavily relied on the agricultural productivity of food crops: "Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed" (33). The imperialist colonists establish a trading ... society had more severe punishments. For example, to punish offenders of their laws they killed them or throw them into the Evil Forest. The white men construct a prison in order to punish the criminals: " ...

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... unsettling the Aboriginal bonds with eachother or their own culture. Jimmy is a character shown constantly to rebel against the inequities of his life, and would rather suffer (by going to prison) then succumb to an authority he does not recognise. Jimmy repeatedly insults law enforcers, his attitude towards Mr Neville alone, the "Native Protector" is a prime example of this. The very ... Neville's title contains the word "Native" ironically shows his lack of morale, implying "uncivilised" beings. Jimmy's sarcasm underlines the lack of feeling white administration displays when he comme...

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... to their societies. Their religious beliefs kept them in balance and in harmony with the environment. The Indians had a daily exercise of obtaining of food, which was year-round. Their survival depended on the sun and the rain; without the sun, the crops would not grow to a healthy size ... , and without the rain, the crops would not get its nutrients. The Indians depended on many forms of getting their intake of food from the environment and instead of going from area to area they began to "confine their subsistence activities to a define territory. Although they moved ... cut most of...

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... by three walls" (Mahfouz 3) giving the readers an introductory, visual representation of the alley and the society engulfing it. The word "trap"(Mahfouz 1) gives a visual imagery of a prison cell, which basically symbolizes darkness. The synonym for darkness is the absence of light. Light is usually a symbol for hope and life; therefore the alley represents hopelessness and death. The ... ...

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... fire took place against peaceful protestors. The impact of the Rowlatt acts, which punished anyone for isolated political crimes, gave the British authority to arrest anyone and keep them in prison. These events transpired the noncooperation movement in 1919 (Metcalf 174). Gandhi wanted to inflict as much damage as possible without ever committing an act of violence. This way, the British ... ...

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... a court system and put men of the village on trial for various crimes they had committed. Once a man was hung for killing a British missionary and some villagers were kept in a prison of sorts for lesser crimes they had committed. Another meaning that could be taken from this book is that the main theme was to stress the progress of imperialism. Imperialism ... ...

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... a private army for coercion of the local population; "sixteen men, women, and children tied up from a village Mboye close to the to the town. Infamous. The men were put in prison, the children let go at my intervention. Infamous. Infamous, shameful system."" The King announced reforms and the investigation of conditions in the Congo. The commission for the protection of natives ... ...

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... the consumption of a wild animal (Peeples, 2014). This theory is based on the reality of many parts of Africa where food is not simply bought from a supermarket, but instead is hunted or found in the wild because there is a lack of food within a growing population in West Africa (Peeples, 2014). This is unconventional to Western standards, and some of the proteins that ... plantation owner. Many of these slaves were able-bodied young men and women workers who did not require much up-keep. Their masters did the bare minimum by providing enough food and shelter to sustain the slaves, in o...

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... , while in turn, encouraging them to adapt the European way of life. The Aboriginal Protection Act of 1909 established strict controls for aborigines living on the reserves . In exchange for food, shelter and a little education, aborigines were subjected to the discipline of police and reserve managers. They had to follow the rules of the reserve and tolerate searchers of their homes ... men, especially unemployed, slipped into aimlessness" . Traditionally the male role within the family was that of hunter and gatherer. It was the husband, or father's role to find and provide food for hi...

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... any of these acts (Bates, D (1998). This gives reason for the decline in health for the less than fortunate indigenous people. No longer was it possible to freely hint for food, it was now necessary for them to rely on their colonisers for their survival. It came to the point where cultural identity became a struggle to maintain (Nelson et al, 1999 ... camp sites of indigenous people, into smaller more compact camp sites around Australia where disease and illness swept quickly across the people because of the poor living conditions. Lack of food, and a ban from hunting, prevented the us...

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... as a result of punitive expeditions that attempted to conform the Aboriginal people to European expectations. Eventually the Aboriginals became dependent on the whites due to the loss of their land, food and other resources. Terrible vices, such as alcohol and tobacco were introduced to Aboriginals by the Europeans. By necessity, Aboriginals became Fringe Dwellers leading to the next policy of Missionisation ... . A consequence of this protection policy was the conviction that half-caste children were best served by removing them from their families to live in White settlements. There th...

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... society. Some of the major colonizers known to date are France, Denmark, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom (LCN). Example of Urban Enlargement A trend in agriculture improved the capacities of food-producing to support greater proportions of non-agriculturalists yet dislodging large numbers of subsistence producers for distribution with other sectors of financial systems. A third and more breathtaking revolution occurred in ... created a new form of production firm in economic revolution known as the factory. These revolutions had been an extraordinary surge in the growth of populati...

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... were the clothes made heavy and what were the materials they used? While researching colonial clothing I found many details that I will further explain. Throughout history, many things in society, art, music, have influenced people. One of the biggest things that makes us who we are and tells other people what we are all about is clothing. Clothing can say a lot especially ... ...

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... Africa and Africans, Achebe presents Africa in Things Fall Apart as a primitive civilized community; he rebuts the claims of Conrad by saying that Africans have families, religions, honors and titles, music, economy, laws and a court system, a tradition of wise saying and the art of conversation. On top of that, they practice a system of ruling that is based on consultation for which ... ...

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... of the military action was less the armed Xhosa, as the basis of their livelihood, therefore causing D'Urban to order the destruction of whole villages and all the crops and food supplies. With the Xhosa defeated and stripped of their means of production and existence, D'Urban took-over all their land between the Kei and Keiskamma rivers and expelled the Xhosa ... of the colonial troops, the Xhosa offered to end the hostility. When the British colonial troops realised that the offer of peace was because the Xhosa were running out of food supplies, they demand the Xhosa's unconditional s...

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... European settlement. In these colonies, the colonial governments actively encouraged farmers to grow special cash crops that would be exported to raise revenues. Cash crops included food crops such as groundnuts/peanuts, coffee, cocoa and non-food crops, such as cotton and tobacco. Yet, with all of these exploitations, none are embedded in the memory of African peoples such as the over ... ...

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... farm and urban girls. The song is just the image of her life as it somehow tells' her life story to all the people in the bar. She enjoys the music by the jukebox as if the jukebox recognizes her life. Indulging herself totally into her theme song', Beatrice celebrates her few minutes of glory ' (Ngugi, P.1455, line 10) for the ... ...

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... was made up of 98% poor peasants. Columbus established colonies in the islands which would be settled, and be founded as a mining and farming colonies that would produce their own food and create a profit by remitting gold to Spain. These colonies failed. "In selecting as the site for his second settlement the unprotected, unhealthy shore that he named Isabella, Columbus made ... . Social problems between the inhabitants of the discovered islands and the Spaniards created a new long term problem. When the natives first saw the Spaniards, they ran to greet them, brought food, water, and g...

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... in large tribes of clans of families. Before the "Pa" (a fortified village) they lived in small-undefended settlements known as "kainga". The Kainga included structures for storing food and an area for communal food preparation. As time went by these kaingas became larger and included some defence. The Maoris had a strong culture they had no contact with other people from other countries ... ...

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... aspects of their lives, there still have been some positive advancements made in the understanding of their struggles. While women were practically invisible at the start of the United Nations Food Conference in 1974, by the end of it, the idea of women as a separate group was able to be recognized. Studies showed that women's contribution to the global ... food supply was extremely high. Information on the crop production led in many areas by women questioned the assumption of men as the primary producers. Also at these conferences, "conferees ascertained ... ...

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... ;beast or human'. The lexis is that of inferiority, of oppression as she is described as 'grovelling' whilst 'on all fours', as though she were a dog begging for food. The satanic imagery is also continued as Rochester suggests that Jane is 'at the mouth of hell, looking collectedly at the gambols of a demon' and compares her 'clear ... ...

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... the movement of people and crops also directly opposed Gandhi's views of local and village self-sufficiency, again expressed in Hind Swaraj. Railways did negatively impact local self-sufficiency in food as people sold their grain to businessmen to make more profit and these grains would either be exported or transported to other parts of India. Gandhi also regarded the railway ... ...

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... to provide one-seventh of their able adult male population to work in the mines for one year. The workers were paid meager wages that they would spend to buy food and pay taxes. The low earnings usually kept the workers under debt and as a rule under labor system workers could not leave the mines until they cleared their debts. &apos ... ...

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... the night, in which the natives attack them, forever naming this event as Noche Triste. Afterwards Cortés orders a fleet to cut off the island capital of all supplies of food and water. After weakening the capital, Cortés and his army fight to secure the capital, the eventually succeed and execute last of the line of Mexican rulers. They gain ... ...

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