land and the territory beyond the "great rocky mountains" was needed. His reasons for the exploration were simple. He hoped to establish trade with the Native American people of the West. He also hoped to discover a water route to the Pacific Ocean. Jefferson also believed we could learn a lot about the geography of the West, the lives of the Native Americans, the plants and animals, the weather, and how they were different from the East. To lead this journey President Jefferson chose his personal
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There are many curious people out in the world. Many of these curious people try to explore or look for new things. One of those curious explorers was Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus discovered the new world in 1492 and is never known as a bad man. Although Columbus is known as the discoverer of the new world he is also known as a mean and cruel man. In Elementary school the teachers always told us about the good things Christopher Columbus done such as discovering the new world. I have
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Explain a reason why Native Americans were populated diminshed. The impact Europeans made when coming in contact with Americans were devastating. Take the Indians for example. Native Indians were populated diminished. One main one being the Indians contact with settlers. These settlers led to the Indians displacement, subjugation and death from warfare and diseases such as small pox, measles and influenza. The disease alone is estimated to have wiped out 50 percent of the native American population
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The Role of Native Americans In the Beginning of What Is Now the U.S. Giselle van Putten Baptist College of Health Sciences The Role of Native Americans In the Beginning of What Is Now the U.S. During the colonization of what is now the United States of America, many different cultures were brought together. Some of those were the English, which were the Pilgrims and Puritans with their different religious beliefs, the Dutch, the black slaves brought over from Africa, the Spaniards mainly
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America has many a strange holidays including national hammock day and national ice cream day but is Columbus day actually qualified to be a national holiday? There are people on every side of this controversy with some saying Columbus day is as important to American Culture as the bald eagle, others stating it’s derogatory to cultures and facts, and still more who stand in the middle ground. Columbus day should be changed to a more appropriate and accurate holiday. Changing the holiday is the best
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Explorers Men and women have explored all ends of the earth and made profound discoveries. Without these discoveries the way we view our world might be different. Ponce De Leon was one of these explorers that help change the way we view earth. Who exactly was Ponce de Leon? What did he do in his life, and what was his discovery that deemed him one of history’s notable explorers? I will discuss Ponce de Leon’s background, his journeys and his discoveries. Juan Ponce de Leon was born during the
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Alaska, United States of America, and northern British Columbia, in Canada. Their language is also called Tlingit, which is somewhat related to the Athabaskan language (live binders 1)." Many of the Indians speak English and a few also speak their native language. "The Tlingit language is very complicated and extremely difficult to learn and understand." Their language might sound like they made it up because we are used to hearing English. We are like outsiders from Narnia if we step into their way
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years to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture centered on kinship links and land. The first European explorer to sight New Zealand was Abel Janszoon Tasman on 13 December 1642. Captain James Cook, who reached New Zealand in October 1769 on the first of his three voyages, was the first European explorer to circumnavigate and map New Zealand Polynesian Settlement Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand, which translates as 'Land of the Long White
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The Native Americans with Racial Diversity in Society Cultural Diversity 4/26/2015 Sisay Teketele South Dakota, New Mexico and Alaska are three of the largest populated states of the Native Americans. There are 562 federally recognized tribes in America. There are more tribes but they are either only State recognized or not recognized by the government at all. The largest tribe would be the Navajo, Cherokee and the Sioux. More than 3 million people in the United States are Native people
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Around the time of 900 c.e., these Indians learned how to cultivate their staple crop of corn. There is a legend about the arrival of the Choctaws in their native land, and another about how corn came to be. The customs and beliefs greatly resemble those of very far-off lands. However, most of these cultural ideas were crushed when Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto disrupted the simple Choctaw way of life in 1540. This was further worsened when settlers came and forced their beliefs to be adhered to
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