Which of the following describes the US government

Zigmanuir [339]

Answer:

It depends on the settlers you're referring to :)

but overall, when you look at most non-prehistoric settlements in history, most are motivated by power and/or money (which essentially means power in today's world.) for example, many coming to the Americas were in search of slaves (which gave them a position of power) and riches. (which when reported back to the mother country, would praise them, giving them power).

for example, In the late 1400s, Christopher Columbus set off to Asia in search of gold, the most precious commodity in Spain at the time. On his expedition, Columbus instead wound up in what is now known as the Bahamas. As his ship approached, the natives of the land, the Arawaks, swam out to greet him and his crew with food and other goods. This was in contradistinction to the actions committed by Columbus’ men, as they came with greed to find gold and the power that came with it.

Columbus, seeing that they had gold pieces in their ears, captured them aboard and impelled them to give directions to the source of which the gold was found. He then sailed to Hispaniola, where he found gold pieces within the rivers. With a hunger for more riches, Columbus imprisoned more natives and told Spain that he had found vast amounts of gold, fertile land, and overly-generous Indians, hoping to aggrandize himself by exaggerating his findings.

This led to a second expedition with more avaricious men, hungry for nothing but riches and power. Columbus and his men then enslaved more Indians and forced them to work in mines and on plantations. With the cruelty they endured, the Indians would fight and be killed, run away and be killed, or committed..ya know. No matter their actions, the natives were condemned to death. This dehumanization of the Indians led to the death of over half of an innocent culture in the span of just two short years.

This anomalous perspective of Columbus’ tale shows that what we whitewash as serendipitous discoveries filled with love and learning, was, in fact, simply an expedition fueled by greed and filled with death. This suppression of the true story glorifies Columbus and the emergence of our nation, rather than highlighting the way our people took advantage of the kindness of others and took the lives of the innocent for their own wealth. We defend Columbus’ inhumane nature by concluding that it leads to our own success, but it is questioned if murder and madness were truly necessary and if it can actually be justified by success.

With imposing such a great impact upon the history of our nation, the origin of racism is a topic of which has lingered ominously without being fully investigated or questioned by The People. As historians dig deep into the past, they can begin to see the inception of such ideology with the first indentured servants brought to the New World, caused by the experiences of those who first settled within the colonies.

It all begins with the winter of 1609. This winter, known as The Starving Time, was a time in which the settlers of Jamestown underwent extreme hardship and hunger. With too little food to eat and settlers dropping one by one, many reverted to drastic and severe measures such as cannibalism. In the face of this sinister sight, despite their more efficient means of survival,

many Native Americans were unable to help the settlers from their misfortune. The way in which the Indians were able to handle that winter indicated that despite the settlers’ advanced technology, they were inferior in means of survival. As many settlers even left to join the natives, their desperation turned toward the enemy; the savages that many once held their chins high above, were now being seen as those that everyone wished to be. With this change of roles, other colonists turned their desperation into anger. Many lashed out, burning and torturing the Indians in attempts to somehow prove their superiority.

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3 years ago

What were martin luther’s reasons for protesting the catholic church??

andrew-mc [135]

Martin Luther protested against the selling of indulgences, clerical abuses and doctrines on salvation in the Catholic Church. He famously published these discontents in his "95 Theses<span>."</span>

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what events could possibly have been a cause of the first spanish colony in the americas being established

mario62 [17]

The prehistory of the Americas (North, South, and Central America, and the Caribbean) begins with people migrating to these areas from Asia during the height of an Ice Age. These groups are generally believed to have been isolated from peoples of the "Old World" until the coming of Europeans in the 10th century from Norway and with the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492.

The ancestors of today's American Indigenous peoples were the Paleo-Indians; they were hunter-gatherers who migrated into North America. The most popular theory asserts that migrants came to the Americas via Beringia, the land mass now covered by the ocean waters of the Bering Strait. Small lithic stage peoples followed megafauna like bison, mammoth (now extinct), and caribou, thus gaining the modern nickname "big-game hunters." Groups of people may also have traveled into North America on shelf or sheet ice along the northern Pacific coast.

Cultural traits brought by the first immigrants later evolved and spawned such cultures as Iroquois on North America and Pirahã of South America. These cultures later developed into civilizations. In many cases, these cultures expanded at a later date than their Old World counterparts. Cultures that may be considered[citation needed]advanced or civilized include Norte Chico, Cahokia, Zapotec, Toltec, Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Chimor, Mixtec, Moche, Mississippian, Puebloan, Totonac, Teotihuacan, Huastec people, Purépecha, Izapa, Mazatec, Muisca, and the Inca.

After the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492, Spanish, Portuguese and later English, French and Dutch colonial expeditions arrived in the New World, conquering and settling the discovered lands, which led to a transformation of the cultural and physical landscape in the Americas. Spain colonized most of the American continent from present-day Southwestern United States, Florida and the Caribbean to the southern tip of South America. Portugal settled in what is mostly present-day Brazil while England established colonies on the Eastern coast of the United States, as well as the North Pacific coast and in most of Canada. France settled in Quebec and other parts of Eastern Canada and claimed an area in what is today the central United States. The Netherlands settled New Netherland (administrative centre New Amsterdam - now New York), some Caribbean islands and parts of Northern South America.

European colonization of the Americas led to the rise of new cultures, civilizations and eventually states, which resulted from the fusion of Native American and European traditions, peoples and institutions. The transformation of American cultures through colonization is evident in architecture, religion, gastronomy, the arts and particularly languages, the most widespread being Spanish (376 million speakers), English (348 million) and Portuguese (201 million). The colonial period lasted approximately three centuries, from the early 16th to the early 19th centuries, when Brazil and the larger Hispanic American nations declared independence. The United States obtained independence from England much earlier, in 1776, while Canada formed a federal dominion in 1867. Others remained attached to their European parent state until the end of the 19th century, such as Cuba and Puerto Rico which were linked to Spain until 1898. Smaller territories such as Guyana obtained independence in the mid-20th century, while certain Caribbean islands remain part of a European power to this day.

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What was a provision of the fugitive slave act

zimovet [89]

The fugitive slave act of 1793 authorized local governments to recapture escaped slaves and imposed laws restricting the aiding of runaway slaves. This act was provised in 1850 “compromise of 1850” forcing locals to aid in the capturing of slaves and denied the right of slaves to have a trial by jury. The aiding of escaped slaves was also punished more than in the first act

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Why are psychological problems more difficult to classify than physical problems

scoundrel [369]

Because the brain s so big and in so many ways unable to explain all the phenomena that occur. And unlike physical problems, psychologicalis often impossible to have in emotion and undoubtedly impossible to observe.

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