America Ferrera

African American Struggles The Afro Americans arrived with the first European exploration. The Spanish expeditions traveled with both slave and free blacks. They were navigators, soldiers, merchants, and draftsmen. The first known to set foot in Texas was in 1528 with the Navaez expedition. Esteban landed near Galveston Island and was enslaved by Indians. His rudimentary medical knowledge and gift for languages increased his influence over them. After eight years, he and three others went to Mexico

In 1893, The World's Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World and to show how America has grown and progressed since then. In conjunction with the world fair, was the Parliament of the World Religions, an event displaying non-Christian religions and where they were able to speak on behalf of their own religion. However, even though the world fair was hosted on a total of 690 acres of land, not a single one of those

The history of America encompasses almost 400 years of history, which is very short when compared to the European timeline. Even with less total years of history, American history has plenty of events that helped define its modern state. Through the landing of settlers, America has launched into many national identity defining wars within its borders that led to relations with other countries to made America into what it is today. America began its process of national identity with the founding

Many years ago explorers founded the Middle Atlantic colonies. One of the most important explorers that founded the Middle Atlantic Region was Henry Hudson. In 1609 Henry Hudson arrived in the Atlantic states. Hudson was one of the first European to step foot there. He sailed a ship called Half Moon through the entire coast of the Atlantic states. Hudson’s crew saw many rivers and deep bays that in the future was going to be transformed into a colony. Hudson steered Half Moon, his boat, through one

In the early 1600’s, England sent out its first wave of explorers to colonize in the New world which would send ripples for years to come. Roughly, a little over a decade after the establishment of Jamestown, England sent over another ship that would then colonize a new place in New England known as Plymouth. Although these two were both settled by the English, both became vastly different places by the 1700’s. This is because of the planning, execution, and goals set forth by the two groups and

you speak one language, then you’re probably American.” Living in America, the home language is English. So when foreigners come and are unable to pronounce or understand the traditional language, they come off as a useless individual to some members of American society. On the contrary, America is one of the few countries that is so heavily dominated by just one language. There are around 40 million Spanish-speaking citizens in America, however, compared to America’s population of over 320 million

Spain is located in Portugal which is one of the oldest european countries. There are over 10.4 million people who live in portugal. Portugal was part of Umayyad Caliphate for centuries. Portuguese is what they speak which is a roman language.In the Middle Ages, the area was conquered by Germanic tribes and later by the Moors Spain emerged as a unified country in the 15th century, following the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs and the completion of the centuries-long reconquest, or Reconquista

While reading the letters of Christopher Columbus and other explorers in history, I found myself thinking about what they would experience in their travels. I also thought about how they would discover new lands and to what point they would work toward inhabiting those areas. I also looked at the experience from the perspective of those that already inhabited the land. What I found myself thinking about was twofold. I thought what a great accomplishment this was for the individuals that were

Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean he was born in Italy thereafter, became a sailor in Portugal who had a passion for sailing. As he got older, he became a captain who desired to travel around the world with a map he come across with only continents parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia. There were plenty of European traders that wanted to sail west from the other side of the Ocean they thought they would find treasure valuable items spices, jewels and gold to trade. His plan was to

While Europeans gained from the development of the economy of North and South America, the time of trade also gave way to social changes to the people and life style of Native Americans and Africans. Before 1492, America was isolated from the Europe and Asia, as well as all the advances that came in those places. Asia controlled most trade because they had the most export, and therefore, had the most power. Europe at this time had an interest in spices and drug trade, which led to exploration to