An American Pageant Chapter 24 Summary

Stephan contemplated before he sat down, pulling the chair out slowly, dreading the family's nightly dinner conversation, what Great Britain was doing wrong. First they moved away to the new land, then Britain gave them grief. The proclamation of 1763, when King George told the colonists not to move westward, and the Indians not to move east, there was almost a hand drawn line. The colonists were not very happy, next year, came the sugar act in 1764. The taxes were high on cloth, sugar, coffee, and wine for the colonists, and the naval officers searched ships carefully to stop smuggling. The colonists were, again, not happy. Now, a year later, was another act, the stamp act, and I bet you can guess, the colonists were not very happy.

1. From the perspective of Native Americans, the Spanish and English empires in America had more similarities than differences. Assess the validity of this generalization.

7. How does the description of Mrs. Flower’s house and possessions help communicate Angelous childhood reverence for this woman? Why were the cookies and lemonade so important?

They dethroned Catholic James II and enthroned the Protestant rulers of the Netherlands, the Dutch-born William III and his English wife, Mary, daughter of James II.

Agriculture, especially corn growing, was important for the size and sophistication of the Native Americans.

Ch.1: Christopher Columbus discovered the New World to European migration. Queen Isabella was funding Christopher Columbus voyage. He convinces the Spain that this would open up better trading routes and it would make them wealthier. ¬¬¬¬¬¬ The Indians were all fascinated with the entire product that the Europeans has. Christopher Columbus and the Conquistadors cheated the Indians and kicked them out of their own land. The Europeans mistreated and executed all the Native Americans that they encountered. The large impact of the invasion was The Europeans captured and used the native Americans as slaves and they brought diseases, weapons, and a hostile desire for the land and control over the new world. The diseases that cause million lives of the Indians were small pox, bubonic plague, influenza, and typhoid. Also the Native Americans were no match for the firearms and explosives of the Europeans. The Native Americans were pushed back into the middle of the United States. The accomplishments of the Spanish in opening the New World to exploration, conquest, and colonization were to gain money, lands, slaves and

Effect of Dawes Act: more opportunities for white plundering of Indian lands, further undermining of traditional Indian cultures

Oliver Hazard Perry- The American Naval Officer in charge during the victory on Lake Erie against the British, part of the War of 1812 and its great triumphs. His words, “We have met the enemy and they are ours,” became the slogan of the American cause after he sent William Henry Harrison a note with these words on it.

Many settlers lived in scarcely populated areas forming small settlements during the Oregon territory disputes with Britain. Many native people lived in areas that were thriving over the spanish success in a cotton boom; however this made American expansion into this land extremely difficult because they would have to fight against the aligned native and spanish powers to gain control of this land.

Well, Johnson portrayal of the founding of Virginia was certainly different from Zinn’s perspective. Johnson talks about the failure of colonizing Virginia at the beginning of his argument. He went further to mention that this was probably a god thing because the Spaniards would have found out about the English invading America. The first time the English attempted to colonize the area religion was not a major factor. However, when they tried again religion was very important and they used religion to convince individuals to fight for England. These merchants and colonizer as Johnson term them created large empires. Europe was a money economy where social

The chapter highlights reasons for efforts put in by Captain John Smith and Sir Edwin Sandys. It discusses their struggle for the colony and the reasons why after ten years, Jamestown was still not independent. Serving Time demonstrates the expansion and growth of tobacco in the first American boom country as well as how the cultivators used the peons to work in their tobacco fields despite the fact that colony was falling apart in the background. Sir Edwin Sandys has tried to rebuild the Jamestown in three ways. He attracted the new investors by granting them the head rights for introducing and brining in new tenants. He grabbed the attention of new settlers by introducing lotteries. He tried to make the colony a more peaceful and pleasant

I chose Beauty and the Beast in view of the story about Scarface. He was not rich and he was dressed poorly and he had a monstrous scar across his face. He longed for a wife and he had his eye on the utmost beautiful girl of all the Blackfoot people. Various men wanted her. They were all genuinely handsome and rich young men, and they all danced for her hoping she would pick them. He went up to her and only let her recognize the side of his face without the scar and she spoke, “ I have seen the scar on your face. So you don’t have to look away from me. I see beyond the scar, and I know you to be good and handsome”. I picked this story in view of beauty overlooking the beast’s features, and loving him for who he is. That’s what this beautiful

During rainy days where the clouds are glooming over with a grey undertone, during these times people look for ways to let time pass by so as a result fairy tales were told. Tales of princesses and sorcerers, knights and dragons, talking animals and sat by a fire on cloudy days to tell imaginary stories to escape. Escape a grey reality to a different world where anything is possible, Beauty and the Beast was first published in 1978 as Robin McKinley's first novel, and it earned the author decent if not glowing reviews. Beauty tells the story of a young girl whose given name is Honour, the youngest daughter of a wealthy shipping merchant named Roderick Huston, who lives in a large city by the sea. Her sisters are named Grace and Hope. Honour,

In Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the Beast was originally human and turned to a Beast on his 21st birthday. He was under a spell and had until the enchanted rose lost its last petal to find true love. The Beast had a hard time finding true love because of his looks, but Belle saw his heart of gold and fell in love with him. He beat the clock before the last petal fell and turned back into a human. The rose is a symbol of love, death, and mystery. In the movie, The Phantom of the Opera, the rose symbolizes the love the Phantom has for Christine. Although the rose is beautiful, it sill has thorns on the stem. The thorns on the bottom of the stem represent the Phantoms broken emotions. Like the Beast, he is shunned from society, but the Phantom unfortunately ends up alone unlike the Beast. The rose on the tombstone at the end of the movie represents their love, and their broken hearts. Christine truly loved the Phantom, but she decided not to stay with him because society would not have accepted her decision. The Phantom is shunned from society because of his looks, which leads him to become an independent and mysterious character in the movie; through the lyrics of the movie and the portrayal of society, these ideas show how society reacts when someone does not meet the societal standards.

Mrs Beast is the penultimate poem of the collection. It helps to sum up Duffy’s aim of The World’s Wife: to highlight the female voice by looking at human history. The entire poem is a retelling of the fable of ‘The Beauty and the Beast’ by Jean-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. Beauty sees past the Beast's outward appearance, bringing the feminist rejection of objectification to the fore. However, Beaumont's portrayal of Beauty as a submissive, obedient daughter to her father and servant to the Beast is anything but feminist. Duffy re-works the tale to explore her thoughts about feminism and feminist