“march of 1435 he massed together several hundred armored troops, cavalry, and a score or more of trained attack dogs. They set
forth across the countryside tearing into assembled masses of sick and unarmed native people, slaughtering them by the thousands. The pattern set by the raids would be the model the Spanish would follow for the next decade and beyond.
David E Stannard’s “
(the other excerpt was about “on Columbus day, celebrate western civilization not multiculturalism” )
• briefly explain ONE example from the period 1491-1607 not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts could be used to support Stannard’s argument
Black Codes which was a law that wax passed after Civil War. The goal was to restrict African American freedom. This also denied African Americans writing, reading, nor voting rights.
Answer: stopping european powers from interfering in the Western Hemisphere
Explanation: The Roosevelt Corollary stated that the United States would use force to protect their economic interests in Latin America. It showed that Roosevelt saw the U.S. as an international police power.
