... banks of the James River, named after King James I. The colony was sponsored by a group of investors who hoped to profit from the venture with their goal to search for Gold and Silver as well as establishing a river route to the Pacific Ocean that would help them with trade to the Orient. Three ships, the Godspeed, the Discovery, and the Sarah ... in stark contrast to the Pilgrims that came over thirteen years after this initial settlement. Their profits were expected to come from the supposed vast sources of minerals such as gold, silver, and iron ore. In addition, they had hoped to fi...

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... of the pacific north west and commonly known as America best Indian fighter recognized greed as nine tenths of the problem with the Indians. The quest for more land and gold were the driving force behind the destruction of the Native Americans. To justify the actions of killing Indians in the same manner as hunting a deer or a rabbit they had to ... Sioux Indians the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people. However, after the discovery of gold there in 1874, the United States confiscated the land in...

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... Mexico throughout the southwest of North America all the way to the Caribbean. The Spanish used the Indians, and also imported African slaves to help gain wealth by mining for gold and silver which at the time was plentiful. As the colonist up north the Spanish utilized the Indians man power and also wanted to "Save" them and convert ... ...

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... America. Stockholders of the Virginia Company were expecting to receive a return on their investments, and the company intended to make this happen in a variety of ways, including the discovery of gold and other valuable minerals, trade with Native Americans, the production of forest products which would be used by the English Navy, the development of a fishing industry, and the discovery of ... ...

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... the latter Precambrian period. Creatures resembling worms and jellyfish have been discovered but there is poor representation of life in this period. Precambrian rocks have yielded most of the world's gold and nickel in addition to copper, silver, radium and uranium. The major division of geologic time between five hundred and seventy million years ago to two hundred and forty million ... ...

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... Indies including Christopher Columbus, who incidentally discovered America. In 1519 Cortez lead an army through Mexico and conquered the Aztec Empire of six million people for the heaping piles of gold. Cortez reasoned in the Second Letter to Charles V, "many rare and wonderful objects it contains daily assemble more than sixty thousand souls, engaged in buying and selling; and where are ... ...

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... . Of particular interest are the baskets and related objects from the daily life of the Yurok, Karuk, and Hupa tribes of northern California collected by John Daggett soon after the Gold Rush. This group of objects was part of the Museum's original collection and has since been both supplemented and broadened. In addition to a wide variety of baskets from the Southwest ... ...

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