The things that interested Columbus the most in his first meeting with the Taino, as he himself wrote in his journal, were the abundant possesion of gold that the Taino showed and the inferred knowledge of them of the places where the gold could be found. In his opinion it was worthy to try to convert them to Christianity.
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A topic that can be about a turning point in America, or its history, can be for example "How the emancipation proclamation paved way for equality". That is because many groups of citizens were inspired by this to fight for their own rights, groups like women or the lgbt population who asked for their own civil rights like the African-Americans had been guaranteed by amendments.
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The one who would inherit future problems is Herbert Hoover
