Captain James Cook: British Explorer Kamryn Nieves Captain James Cook was a British explorer. He explored the Hawaiian islands, New Zealand, and the coastline of Australia. Captain Cooks first journey was to a Southern continent that was thought to exist but didn't. The reason he went out to explore was to observe the "Transit Of Venus". The Transit Of Venus is when Venus comes between the earth and the sun and appears as a large black dot
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Journal Entry of a Native American Journal Entry of a Native American The Cherokee tribes are of a proud heritage that consists of many beautiful cultural traditions. We have found that the earliest contact from European explorers was in the 16th century. We were identified than as being socially and culturally advanced within the Native American tribes. The Cherokee tribes prospered for hundreds of years in the southeastern area of the United States before our first initial contact with Europeans
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English wk 3 angelou poem The struggle for equality is still an issue in the United States. From the very first, European explorers discriminated against the Native Americans that lived in North America. With each generation, a new cultural group came to the US and each group has experienced discrimination by the dominant groups already present. Some were forced to the US by slavery: “the Ashanti, the Yoruba, the Kru, bought Sold, stolen, arriving on a nightmare.” Today, some groups continue to
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Islands, including Tahiti, to the west by about 800 AD. Prior to the first European contact, the islands were ruled by a hierarchy of hereditary tribal chiefs. The first Europeans to visit the area were the English explorers Samuel Wallis in 1767 and James Cook in 1769. French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville arrived in 1768 and claimed the islands for France. In the late 1700s occasional ships arrived in the islands, most notably the H.M.S. Bounty in 1788, captained by William Bligh. The
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groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group? Some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history are Native American and African Americans. Native Americans who are the first to come to North America across the Bering Strait from Asia were the first to arrive here and one of the biggest minority groups in regards to social standards. Native in 1871 were declared American Indians by the federal government and forced to move to reservations, adapt to Christianity in place
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cultural, economic, and biological impacts so profound that they reach every corner of the globe today. The Columbian Exchange altered “millions of years of evolution” due to the introduction of foreign species of plants and animals. Colonists, explorers, and treasure seekers alike unknowingly threw the biological world into a state of chaos. There was a beneficial exchange of crops
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Andrews State Park. Panama City’s rich history includes settlements of native explorers who enjoyed the refuge of the hardwood trees, and the area’s rich supply of seafood. Panama City Beach has one of the largest deep sea fishing fleets. Panama has an average of 320 days of sunshine. Jim Carrey’s movie, “The Truman Show” was filmed
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rapidly, the nation came into frequent contact with the various Native American tribes through the South-Eastern parts of the country. The main tribes; Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole had to be relocated west, opening twenty-five million acres of land to white settlers. The discover of the “New World” by European explorers caused endless problems for Native American Indians. First contact between the Europeans and Native Americans, resulted from the expedition of Hernando de Solo
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nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. Paleoindians migrated from Asia to what is now the United States mainland around 15,000 years ago. The descendent and isolated Native American population was greatly reduced by European contact, primarily by disease brought by explorers and traders. European colonization occurred, beginning about 1600, chiefly from England. The United States emerged from thirteen British colonies located along the Atlantic seaboard, which developed
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explore the Louisiana Purchase and the Pacific Northwest from 1804 to 1806. January 18, 1803 Thomas Jefferson sent a message to congress asking for $2,500 to send an officer and soldiers to explore the Missouri River and try to make contact with the Native Americans and expand the fur trade. Lewis bought weapons at Harpers Ferry. Virginia supervised the making of a 55-foot keelboat, and smaller vessels, and designing an iron framed boat that was made for the trip. His co-commander Clark, who had been
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