The government aids and tax cuts offered to miners for technical improvements helped many entrepreneurs to cut tunnels and shafts underground. ... Many natives who resisted the occupation of Spanish died as a result of wars and battles. ... The continuous decade long pressure by the priests forced Spanish government to take ineffective measures to stop Indian slavery. The Spanish government mandated new labor drafts known as 'mita' in Peru and 'repartimiento' in New Spain to protect Indians from slavery. ... Despite all the challenges faced by the miners of silver and go...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Spain, still resentful for losing the French and Indian War, closed the Mississippi River to American commerce. The Spanish colonists even claimed a large area near the Gulf of Mexico, ignorant to the fact that the area was ceded to the U.S. by Britain. Both Spain and England, while encouraging Native American tribes to be restless, prevented the U.S. from controlling even half of its territory. ... When it pleaded for help from the state, and didn't receive any, the soldiers had to shamefully move to Princeton College in New Jersey. ...

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Because many Americans blamed this on the economy being controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, the populist movement gained traction by promising to help mainstream Americans financially. ... This helped steer away some competition and keep the United States at the top. The final major event of any diplomatic relations in this era was the Spanish-American War. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. After intervening between Cuban and Spanish conflict, the U.S. was then dragged into the Philippine Revolution ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However there are a few things that can be done to help solve the problem of illegal immigration. ... There would be the English speaking part of the country, and then there would be the Spanish speaking part. ... An English speaking police officer would have trouble giving a speeding ticket to a Spanish speaking driver. ... This leads government officials to make laws that really do not help. However, the officials feel like something has to be done, so they make a law that hinders law abiding citizens and helps the law breakers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I do however know that Mexico got his independence from Spain, but before that Mexico was founded of Tenochtitlan by Aztec civilization. All I know is that my mother's ancestors came from Spain. ... All seem to talk a different language than Spanish. ... As a young Mexican-American who is currently working towards obtaining an associate's degree, it is my duty to take advantage of the opportunities available here in the United States and to help empower other young Latinos to do the same. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With out African influences, American music would all be European and Spanish based with a small touch of Hawaiian and other near-by islands. ... "Pioneers such as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Mississippi Fred McDowell helped to create a unique and powerful sound that is still popular today." ... Some one who helped introduce this style of music was Stephen Foster. ... With the help of the African culturally influenced beats form drums, rhythms, and themes of songs a great and powerful style was born which was adopted by "Americans" and then called "American music". ...

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This did not help her later when she was executed. ... They new that this tax would wipe out profits of the trade with the Spanish and French West Indies that brought gold and silver coins into the colonies. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Though affirmative action has good intentions it seems it now hurts more than the few it helps. ... For the past decades it has helped to promote equality in schools and in the workplace. ... It is unfair to families, parents, and teachers who invest time and money into these kids who are then told someone else was accepted not because they worked harder or had more to offer, but just because their father was black or Spanish while you"re father was white. ... Our government needs to come up with a new way to help those in the lower class who are willing to work hard and don't deserve to...

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• Grade Level: High School

To find asylum, the refugees migrated into European countries, such as Turkey, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Middle Eastern countries like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and many countries around the world. ... The question is that throughout the history, America has always been the world leader in refugee resettlement, then why is it so afraid to help the refugees in the current crisis? ... Obviously, many Americans do not want to help suffering people like they did in the past anymore. ... In conclusion, as its core value and tradition, America should open a wider entry for the Syrian refu...

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Shortly after Columbus discovered America, in the early 1500s, Spain invaded what is now South America and attacked the Incas, Mayas and Aztecs who had civilized and developed cultures. ... How anyone could argue these people do not need help after seeing the numbers is unbelievable. ... However, if we go in with intentions to help and not to expand or exploit, that is an entirely different thing. ...

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Recent studies believe this is beneficial due to the rapidly growing numbers of the Spanish speaking population in America. ... Programs and commissions designed to help the status of women had at that time not been fully implemented and were of little help. ...

• Word Count: 1946
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

England had expected loyalists within the colonies to help supply the British troops. ... In addition to the Americans fighting in the continental army, France and Spain sent troops to fight against the British. ...

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Read by the English, Germans, and Japanese, as well a by his fellow Americans, Mahan helped stimulate the naval race among the great powers that gained momentum around the turn of the century. ... The acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands, our entry into the Spanish-American War and the resultant debate over the terms of the Treaty of Paris, the building of the Panama Canal and our ongoing presence in Central American affairs, our entry in World War I and Wilson's central place in the Versailles treaty provisions all can be seen through the lens of a fifty year foreign policy debate. ...

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England had expected loyalists within the colonies to help supply the British troops. ... In addition to the Americans fighting in the continental army, France and Spain sent troops to fight against the British. ...

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The money gained through the lawlessness and violence against the native Americans in the western fur trade was used for real estate in New York, where easily corrupted officials helped Astor become one America's first and greatest slumlords, taking money away from poor immigrants for the privilege of living in the vilest of tenement housing. ... This organized crime chart has helped the government to further understand many other organized crime groups. ... Suppressed by Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, and Spanish, in addition to being exploited by mostly absentee landlords with their ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

TECHNOLOGY Satellite radio is a radical innovation that began in 1992 when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated a portion of the S-band spectrum for nationwide broadcasting of a satellite based Digital Audio Radio Service (DARS). In 1997, two companies, XM Satellite Radio Hol...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate