There were a variety of changes in American society in the 1840’s. Women started looking for their civil rights, the equality in salaries between men and women, in general the equal treatment in the society. States in North America double the money for schools, this was to improve education for children. In 1840 anti- slavery groups increased, and also black people was fighting for their rights.
Travelling across the Sahara desert, the Muslim traders of North Africa dealt with the West Africans. The West Africans exchanged their local products like gold, ivory, salt and cloth, for North African goods such as horses, books, swords and chain mail.
1. Columbus is describing the inhabitants of the island that he has taken possession of, how they treated him and his as crew, as well as their way of life.
2. Columbus describes the people of Hispaniola as being poor, strong, ingenious, and without the same level of industry as the Spanish. He says they have never seen swords, but that they are adept at learning a new language. They do not wear clothing, but still have possessions which they trade with the Spanish, such as parrots and cotton.
3. Columbus did not have a very high opinion of the native people of Hispaniola, but he did think that they could be made into good Christians. In any case, Columbus had claimed the island and its people for the Spanish crown and as such, was thinking of the natives as if they were the property of Spanish Crown.
The idea of Manifest Destiny influenced America's western migration by promoting it and causing it to occur quickly. Manifest Destiny was the ideology that God had given Americans the land all the way to the Pacific Ocean and that it was their right and duty to settle in it.
