The Columbus Trial

     The spirit and values of a nation are reflected in the nation’s heroes. Christopher Columbus has been regarded as an American hero since 1792. Every year Columbus Day is held on the second Monday in October to honor the man and his legacy. However, many people debate whether or not Columbus Day should be celebrated. I believe that Columbus Day should be celebrated in the United States because he opened up the New World to Europe, inspired a spirit of exploration and adventure that still lasts today, and he showed the importance of diversity and understanding of different cultures.

Dun, Dun, Dun, the results of the trial are in, and may be very surprising to some of you out there. Christopher Columbus has been found not guilty and was let go from the police this afternoon. Judge Martin almost let him out of humanities class, but then told him to sit down. You shall learn here exactly what went down in the court room yesterday morning.

In the article Hello Columbus: America was No Paradise in 1492, by Robert Royal, Royal argued that Native Americans, along with Columbus, are portrayed wrongly in society today, from schools to media.

The letter Christopher Columbus wrote back to Spain to report his findings in the New World sparked intrigued me and sparked my imagination. Why I have been so absorbed in this letter I can not explain. This letter is supposed to be about describing an unknown land, a land that has not been seen by anyone besides the natives, but it seems that there is more to it than that. Columbus is known in elementary schools as the man who found the New World, and is regarded as a hero. To the contrary, historians who have done more research on Columbus say that he was driven by fame and fortune and that he was tyrannical in his ways with the indigenous peoples of the places that he came to find. I feel that the contradictory tones Columbus uses

Christopher Columbus sailed for Spain in 1492 and claimed all islands around San Salvador looking for gold. Spain eventually sent Columbus back to create an Empire. America should not celebrate Columbus Day because of Columbus’ cruel punishments towards others, the way he influenced today's world, and the way he did not prove anything new. Christopher Columbus caused cruel punishment by cutting peoples hands off, making dogs attack the Native Americans, and by silencing the Native Americans. Columbus Day should not be celebrated because he influenced today's world negatively through slavery,stereotyping, and genocide. Finally, Columbus did not prove anything new because people already lived in the new world, he was not the first non-american

questions about where Columbus thought that he was traveling to, how his men treated the natives and how he couldn’t control his own men. To this Columbus said he thought he reached the Indies and that he couldn’t control what his men were doing when he wasn’t even there. The examiner at this point was very rude and interrupted Columbus to which he said. “I’m getting there and if you would stop interrupting me I would get there a little quicker.” In the end the examiner asked for one thing that Columbus would say to the Natives, and it was as follows, “I would say sorry your people are dead, but there is nothing I can do about it.”

I am no guilty of the millions of man being to work as slaves or being killed because they aren’t working hard enough. All we did was give the money for the journey all we wanted back was to have Christianly spread and riches from the journey. The killing was Columbus and his man, Columbus ordering his men to kill them if they didn't have gold. Columbus man could have said no to this along with other priest so why didn't they. We could have stopped them but this whole idea with Columbus's. With that, all we did was funded the journey, therefore we are not guilty to killing all those men. Columbus and his man are the ones who did this, killing so many people that didn't do anything to them. Having people 14 and older to work for them is just

In 1492, Christopher Columbus, a Portuguese Explorer sailed from Spain to a region of islands called San Salvador. Every year, on the second Monday of October, Christopher Columbus is celebrated for his discovery of the Americas, however many believe that Columbus Day should not be celebrated. Americans should not continue to celebrate Columbus day because Columbus was unable to fulfil his motives of his voyages, he caused a lot of destruction and violence and he promoted slavery. Christopher Columbus was unable to fulfil his motives of sailing west to reach east, add anything new to European Knowledge and was wasn’t able to convert anyone in the new land to the Catholic Faith. He was also involved with slavery such as the slave trade, forced

In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail toward the new lands to find gold and other rich resources. He convinced the King and Queen of Spain to pay for his expedition in return he would bring back the gold and spices that were said to be in the Indies. The King and Queen as mentioned in the book said, “they promised him 10 percent of the profits, governorship over new-found land…a new title: Admiral of the Ocean Sea.” (pg.2) Zinn’s argument is about how History was told, he wants to make it a narrative of the people involved not the states.

The Scopes Trial is one of the best in American history because it symbolizes the conflict between science and theology, faith and reason, individual liberty, and majority rule. This trial was to decide not only the fate of an evolution-teacher, but also to decide if traditionalists or modernists would rule American culture. An object of intense publicity, the trial was seen as a clash between urban sophistication and rural fundamentalism.

Do heros commit crimes like rape, grand theft, and torture? Usually heros are good people and are nice and caring to people but columbus did not do that. He did the opposite. Do you know any heroes that do that?. Columbus was clearly a Villain because he tortured people, killed people, and kicked them out of their land. One reason why columbus was a villain was that he showed no respect at all for the native americans. He said that native americans would only be good as slaves. For instance in document 2 columbus said “native americans would make fine servants”. He clearly tortured people because in document three it says “they rode the backs of indians if they were in a hurry or were carried on hammocks by indians running in relays… they

Christopher Columbus was an Italian-born man who managed to win the favor and funding of the Spanish monarchy. With this funding, Columbus led the most well-known voyage in human history: the voyage to the New World in 1492. This passage laid the foundation for future colonizations and, eventually, the creation of many nations in the New World. However, this voyage would not have gone past conceptualization if the Spanish monarchy decided against supporting Columbus and his exploration. Despite Columbus’ lack of Spanish descent, the Spanish monarchy aided his travels. While a variety of factors affected the monarchy’s decision, the primary reasons were Columbus’ experience in navigation, the assistance that Columbus received from Jewish

Christopher Columbus is mainly known by the famous saying “ Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492”. This saying has been used for centuries and a lot of people think that’s what defines Columbus, well it doesn’t. Christopher columbus was in fact known for sailing across the atlantic ocean not knowing where he was going so that he could find treasure basically. He presented his plans to sail to officials in portugal and england. In 1491 he found two people that wanted exactly what he wanted which was money, the two people that had a contract with Columbus were Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille. His contract promised that he basically could keep a small percentage of whatever money he found and the other percentage of the money goes to Ferdinand and Isabella. On August 3, 1942

Upon Christopher Columbus’ return from his first trip to the Americas, a debate broke out between the Spanish and Portuguese as to who possessed ownership of the new lands. In June of 1494, the issue was settled via the Treaty of Tordesillas. By the middle of the 18th century though, the dispute was raging once again. For more than a century, Portuguese in the Americas had been gradually pushing westward; in doing so, they encroached on territory theoretically belonging to Spain. This resulted in the countries engaging in consistent armed conflict. In hopes of settling the ongoing conflict, Spain and Portugal would sign a new treaty.

In this task I developed better research skills, like: analysing lots of information from different sources, finding information off the internet, and critical thinking to help decide on contributing questions. During the task, I think I managed my time well because every lesson I finished gathering information for at least one contributing question, and finished the research by the time it was due.