Essays Tagged: "West Indies"
Slavery
ll men. Issues were raisedconcerning the application of this statement to the French colonies inthe West Indies, which used slaves to work the land. As they haddifferent interests in mind, the philoso ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
Native American Prejudice
mean a Native American. Theseexplorers were under the false impression that the had reached the West Indies. This termis still used today.From the first interaction with the native peoples t ... including; Aluets, Eskimos,Cherokee, Zuni, Sioux, Mohawk, Aztec andIncan- who first settled the western hemisphere. Indians in today's society are oftenlooked down upon as not as productive or ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Slavery throughout history
ll men. Issues were raisedconcerning the application of this statement to the French colonies inthe West Indies, which used slaves to work the land. As they haddifferent interests in mind, the philoso ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
The Northern Manatee
ee -The ManateeMy report is on the manatee, specifically, the Northern Manatee, better known as the West Indies or West IndianManatee. The scientific name of the Northern Manatee is Trichechus Manatus ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Country Report on Jamaica and one of its policies.
Part 1: The Country ReportJamaica is the largest of the island countries located in the West Indies. With a population of approximately 2.7 million people, the country is slightly diverse. ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
A New Nation-Articles of Confederation-13 colonies
f its ports to American ships. It made it hard on the United States when the British closed off the West Indies port. Britain also made the United States pay high tariffs in order to sell goods such a ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Essay on George Washington before he was presdent. His entire life, including wars, from his birth until he was sworn in.
George Washington: Before His PresidencyGeorge Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 22,1732. His childhood was uneventful while he was educate ... Lawrence's tuberculosis. Lawrence died of his illness in 1752not long after they returned from the West Indies and George inherited Mount Vernon.In October 1753, Washington was sent by Virginia Gover ... he commander at Fort Le Boeuf to halt French encroachment into British-claimedterritory in the Northwest. Shortly after he returned, Washington was promoted toLieutenant Colonel of the militia. In Apr ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
"Dynamics of community assembly, disassembly, and reassembly in a neotropical floodplain river"
outhward from the Tropic of Cancer and includes southern Mexico, Central and South America, and the West Indies. Specifically, the study site was conduced in the most southern part of Venezuela; the C ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
The Culture of Haiti: Location; Language; Religions (Protestantism,Catholicism,Voodoo); Carnival; and Music.
Culture of HaitiHaiti is a country in the West Indies. It covers the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which lies between Cuba and Pu ... iti's largest city. Haiti is one of the most densely populated and least developed countries in the Western Hemisphere. Most Haitians are farmers and raise barely enough food to feed their families. P ... oldest black republic in the world. In addition, it is the second oldest independent nation in the Western Hemisphere. A slave revolt led to independence in 1804, making Haiti the world's first black ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Jamestown, Virginia.
ded by Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe. They sailed from London on April 27th through the West Indies and sighted land off our coast on the 4th of July 1584. Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe ... g, on April 9, 1585, the first English colony for the New World set sail from Plymouth, in the southwest of England not far from the homes of Raleigh, Grenville, and Drake. This time a well-supplied f ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The life of Sir Francis Drake.
when the Spanish attacked them. In 1570 and 1571 Sir Francis Drake made two trading voyages to the West Indies. In 1572 he commanded two ships against Spanish seaports in the Caribbean Sea. During th ... he land for England, naming it New Albion.On July 23, 1579, Drake set sail again, this time heading westward across the Pacific Ocean. In November he reached the Moluccas, a group of islands in the so ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
African Slaves in Virgina, (1600's).
s being preferred by plantation owners is that they could more easily be bought from traders on the West African coast and were more immune to European diseases than indigenous Americans or imported w ... uments they disguise the real reasons: Africans made better slave labourers than the Indians of the West Indies and North America because they came from a much more advanced type of society and were o ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
Biography on Samuel Champlain.
rica. He also kept the struggling community alive during its early years. He explored Canada as far west as Lake Huron and also discovered the lake in New York that bears his name.Samuel du Champlain ... was to Spain with his uncle. This voyage led him to be on a charted French vessel that went to the West Indies and New Spain with the annual fleet. On his return to France two years later, the 32-yea ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
This is an essay on the life of John Paul Jones. It is hard to find information and/or essays on him. Essay isn't VERY long but you will see it is sufficient for most teachers.
1769. In 1773, as the commander of a merchant vessel, he killed a mutinous crewman at Tobago in the West Indies and, rather than stay in prison and wait for trial, he fled to North America. From that ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"Benjamin Franklin" Is about his childhood and some of his iventions as well as other intersting facts
and Maryland. he also helped establish newspapers in New York, Connecticut, and two islands in the West Indies.Benjamin Franklin - LibrarianBooks were very expensive during my time and therefore not ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents
Questions and answers to American Realia. Culture and politics
he abuse and the diseases that the Spaniards brought with them. The Africans were first sent to the West Indies and then to the mainland, where the sugar industry was promising. The first African slav ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Charles Lindbergh author: anonymus
hnical adviser to commercial airlines. He made "goodwill tours" of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies.A federal law which became known as Lindbergh Act, which was enforced in 1932 after the ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
How slavery came about
ean diseases and harsh treatment. The Spaniards and the Portuguese then began to import blacks from West Africa as slaves. Other African blacks helped capture most of the enslaved Africans.During the ... slaved Africans.During the 1600's, France, England, and the Netherlands established colonies in the West Indies and greatly increased the African slave trade. Soon, the Europeans enslaved only blacks. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Using Kenneth Waltz's three causes for international conflict, I discuss France's reasons for getting involved in the American Revolution
lonies ended their war with a peace treaty, they might then attack the French owned colonies in the West Indies. He proposed that France provide secret arms aid to the rebels in order to prolong the R ... ed to form an alliance with America before they could make peace with Britain and attack the French West Indies. Therefore in February 1778 France agreed to the Franco-American alliance. ?The United S ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
AP American History - Avoiding War with Britain and France
ted. The Franco - American alliance of 1778 bound the United States to help the French defend their West Indies against future foes. The alliance was finally tested when the booming British fleets wer ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History