• In Latin America the triumph of the Cuban revolution is still generating expectations, and thousands of young people join the ranks of the revolutionary parties and movements. (nodo50.org)
  • Starting in 1958, Venezuela emerged as a strong democracy during a period in Latin America when military dictatorship was prevalent. (democracyweb.org)
  • The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies on the North American continent. (reenactor.net)
  • While citizens of the thirteen rebelling colonies came to blows with the British Empire over tariffs and parliamentary representation, the situation on the rest of the continent was even more fraught. (massar.org)
  • The Europeans brought a variety of ideas and cultural traditions to the American colonies, which they named after the homes they left behind in Europe. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • France, England, and Spain all established colonies in North and Central America. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • Because King George III was still hated by many Americans, the U.S. aimed to free from Britain's control the British colonies that remained to the north of America's border, present-day Canada . (thesaker.is)
  • Most of Europe followed suit during the 19th century, as did the South American colonies when they gained independence from their European rulers. (educationquizzes.com)
  • And so has the succession of events and oppression that led to the unstoppable wave of the « Quit India » movement at a time when the British were embroiled in two European and world wars and badly needed support from its former colonies in North America but more particularly its extant « jewel in the crown » Indian colony. (mauritiustimes.com)
  • It was, ironically, England's victory over France for control of the North American continent in the seven years' war (1756-1763) that laid the basis for their North American colonies to revolt just 13 years later. (hnn.us)
  • It implies that the demographic momentum of the British colonies and the emergence of a new "American character" made independence and the expansion of Anglo-American settlement across the continent inevitable. (americanheritage.com)
  • The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was the North American chapter of the Seven Years' War. (reenactor.net)
  • The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarter papers of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763) and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America between 1763 and 1775. (umich.edu)
  • The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and government correspondence of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763), commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America (1763-1775), and Governor of Massachusetts (1774-1775). (umich.edu)
  • American settlement in Ohio was influenced by the American Revolutionary War and the formation of the United States. (worldatlas.com)
  • In the colonial era, through the Revolutionary War, the foundation of America was oratorically clarified as an act of prudence-that is, God led people, specifically the white Europeans, to America to find a new and superior or incomparable societal order that would be the light unto all realms.2 In fact, many settlers also believed in creating a new nation filled with history and stories. (ipl.org)
  • Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner if the British Won the American Revolutionary War? (hnn.us)
  • Historians and the American public have long grappled with the contradiction that the Revolutionary War was waged under the banner 'all men are created equal' yet was largely led by slave owners. (hnn.us)
  • Known as dagga , its use spread down the continent, and records show it was used by Indian indentured laborers in South Africa for centuries. (portlandmercury.com)
  • The Far Eastern countries adopted their flags in the latter part of the 19th century and the last countries to take up flags of their own were the former colonial nations of Africa, the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent. (educationquizzes.com)
  • Throughout his administration, he protected American shipping and trade interests against oppressive British trade regulations and Barbary pirates from North Africa while expelling native tribes from recently annexed lands at home. (nationaltoday.com)
  • Westerners looted the whole world ranging from eastern Asia - Indonesia, the Philippines, Nepal and the Indian Subcontinent - to Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa, West Africa and the entire sub-Saharan region of the continent. (usip.org)
  • With the riches of India at its disposal, England embarked on its industrial revolution and used a combination of technological superiority and economic prowess to colonize vast areas of Asia and Africa. (historyofislam.com)
  • He broke the system of indentured Indian labour in South Africa. (travel-impact-newswire.com)
  • Brazil covers nearly half of South America and is the continent's largest nation. (infoplease.com)
  • Venezuela, on the northern part of South America, is the continent's sixth largest country by area (and the world's 32nd largest) at 916,455 square kilometers. (democracyweb.org)
  • The Abenaki had no true friends among the European nations, but their relationship with the French was much better than with the British colonists. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Foreign nations allied with the American colonists and later declared war on Britain, making the conflict international. (reenactor.net)
  • The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby the colonists overthrew British rule. (reenactor.net)
  • But a group of liberal historians reacted harshly as well, among them Princeton's Sean Wilentz, who, along with four other esteemed scholars-James McPherson, Gordon Wood, Victoria Bynum, and James Oakes-sent a letter to the Times demanding a retraction of the claim, made by Hannah-Jones, that "one of the primary" causes of the American Revolution was that colonists "wanted to protect the institution of slavery. (thenation.com)
  • She is the author of Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (July 2015) and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006) and the co-editor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Early America (2009). (massar.org)
  • As the war with France ended, the British 1763 Proclamation prohibited white settlement west of the Appalachian mountains in an attempt at detente with Native Americans -- bringing England into conflict with colonists wanting to expand westward. (hnn.us)
  • America's second war against a foreign power was the War of 1812 (1812-1815), in which the U.S.A., so soon after its own victorious Revolution to free itself from Britain, tried to go even further, and to remove Britain altogether from North America. (thesaker.is)
  • During a 25 May 2018 phone-call between the Presidents of America and Canada , America's ignoramus President - Donald Trump - justified tariffs against Canada partially by saying "Didn't you guys burn down the White House? (thesaker.is)
  • As the first frontier, it forced the Europeans to confront a number of problems, including the Indian question, the disposition of the public domain, and the means of intercourse with the older settlements. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • These northern Europeans were tempted above all by reports of the fabulous gold of an American El Dorado, and of the rich silver resources of the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain (Mexico) and Peru. (nybooks.com)
  • During the first, which lasted the whole of the sixteenth century, Indian nations controlled everything from the Atlantic to the Pacific, north of the Rio Grande, setting the terms of interaction between Europeans and Indians and determining every significant outcome. (americanheritage.com)
  • Martin Luther King Jr. saw something essential about our nation: Imperial expansion west over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution's relationship to slavery. (thenation.com)
  • As an "ongoing initiative," The 1619 Project "aims to reframe the country's history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative. (thenation.com)
  • Wood and Oakes, especially, objected to Hannah-Jones's argument that the American Revolution was fought to defend slavery, and Wilentz, in a comment to The Atlantic , took exception to her remark that African Americans fought for their rights "largely alone. (thenation.com)
  • In 1834, when Jamaica and Barbados abolished slavery, these Indian laborers moved there, thus introducing cannabis to Jamaica, where it became very popular. (portlandmercury.com)
  • I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery. (hnn.us)
  • For instance, in his book "The Forgotten Fifth," Nash argues that if Washington and Jefferson had been faithful to their anti-slavery rhetoric and chosen to lead a fight against slavery during the American Revolution, there was a good chance they could have succeeded. (hnn.us)
  • This article is adapted from The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean , just out from Monthly Review Press. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Praise came fast, and then the backlash, especially against the claim that the nation's true founding should be dated not to the 1776 American Revolution but to 1619, when the first group of 20 to 30 enslaved Africans arrived in North America and were sold to Jamestown settlers. (thenation.com)
  • From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries nearly 13 million Africans were brutally snatched from their homelands, enslaved, and forced to toil for the greater good of European and Euro-American powers, London not least. (monthlyreview.org)
  • A recent study revealed that before 1581 there were no enslaved Africans brought to what was referred to as the "British Caribbean" and "Mainland North America. (monthlyreview.org)
  • But from 1641 to 1700, 15,000 Africans were brought to North America and 308,000 to the "British Caribbean. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The British and their colonial militias had the advantage of numbers, while the French had a more important edge: the support of the Indian nations in the region, including the powerful Abenakis. (mountainlake.org)
  • France's colonial presence north of the Caribbean was reduced to the tiny islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. (reenactor.net)
  • America has a rich history that connects it to other parts of the world in many ways, including its colonial past. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • The traditional narrative of American history treats the "colonial period" as a tale of maturation that begins with the founding of Virginia and Massachusetts and culminates in the Revolution. (americanheritage.com)
  • The American Series (139 volumes) consists of Gage's correspondence with military officers and civil authorities in North America, including colonial governors, generals, commanders and subordinate officers, Indian superintendents and deputies, admirals of the British Navy in North America, engineers, army contractors, and various prominent civilians. (umich.edu)
  • As India celebrated on 15th August its 76th Independence Day with some style across the vast sub-continent, with the Tiranga raised in the US, decorating the iconic Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai, waved by Kashmiris in their largely pacified and renovated capital Srinagar, and in Mauritius at the Ebene High Commission compound, some reflections on the incredible road travelled since 1947 come to mind. (mauritiustimes.com)
  • The historical aspects of how a trading sea-farer nation abused the coastal residences assigned to the East India Company traders, infiltrated, and imposed themselves on separate Indian fiefdoms and states with private armies, until famines, riots and the widespread mutiny of 1857 led to the imposition of direct British imperial rule, have been amply related from different viewpoints. (mauritiustimes.com)
  • The latter, often educated and trained in Oxbridge, sometimes known more pejoratively as the « brown sahibs », took up the mantle of independent India, without ever feeling the need to decolonise the Indian mind and history books. (mauritiustimes.com)
  • He is a central figure among Indian Christians, who believe that he traveled from Rome to Tamilakam (South India) to preach the gospel. (nationaltoday.com)
  • Both the 1789 French Revolution and the 1804 Haitian revolution--the only successful slave revolt in human history--drew inspiration from this clarion call. (hnn.us)
  • The failed colony of 1587 on Roanoke Island, off the North Carolina coast, was followed by the founding of two initially precarious settlements, Jamestown in 1607 and Plymouth Colony, far to the north, in 1620. (nybooks.com)
  • For five years, from 1755 to 1760, the battles raged at Lake George, Crown Point, Fort Ticonderoga, and Quebec as France, Britain and the native peoples of North America fought to decide who would control the crucial highway of rivers and lakes between New York and the city of Montreal. (mountainlake.org)
  • The war that followed would be fought across virgin territories, from Nova Scotia to the forks of the Ohio River, and it would ultimately decide the fate of the entire North American continent-not just for Great Britain and France but also for the Spanish and Native American populations. (politics-prose.com)
  • Britain started to fly the newly designed Union Jack in 1606 after the union of England and Scotland and, following their revolutions in the late 18th century, the USA and France both started to use their own flags too. (educationquizzes.com)
  • Taxes and cheap imports from the latter had not only enabled the industrial revolution in Britain, enriched the class of adventurer-traders but had indeed funded much of the UK imperial adventures around the globe. (mauritiustimes.com)
  • That prize was the eastern half of North America, and the war in which Britain won it raised, with seismic force, a mountain range at the midpoint of the last half-millennium in American history. (americanheritage.com)
  • However, after the French and Indian War of 1754, Ohio became a British colony . (worldatlas.com)
  • The following year, they formally declared their independence as a new nation, the United States of America. (reenactor.net)
  • Now, in Independence Lost, she recounts an untold story as rich and significant as that of the Founding Fathers: the history of the Revolutionary Era as experienced by slaves, American Indians, women, and British loyalists living on Florida's Gulf Coast. (massar.org)
  • There still remained, among Americans, some fear that England might try to retake the U.S.A. The historian, Don Hickey, wrote that "In North America, the United States was the only belligerent that could lose the war and still retain its independence. (thesaker.is)
  • and not only did Canada not yet exist at that time, but the King's troops had done this in retaliation for a successful American invasion into the King's northern territory - which territory was subsequently to win its own partial independence (after the unsuccessful rebellions of 1837-1838, by the King's subjects there ). (thesaker.is)
  • Indians, regrettably, were fated to vanish beneath the Anglo-American tide. (americanheritage.com)
  • A hundred years from today, a scribe looking at world history in perspective, will write that the saga of Anglo-American dominance started with the year 1799 CE and was over by the year 2025 CE when China displaced the United States as the dominant economic power of the world. (historyofislam.com)
  • This was the Anglo-American saga in which first England and then America played a leading role with Russia and France in a supportive role. (historyofislam.com)
  • Called "Manifest Destiny," it was based on the belief that God intended the United States to extend its holdings and its power across the wide continent of North America over the native Indian tribes and other nations from the east coast to the west. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • Some historians believe that the ancestors of the tribes making up the Abenaki confederacy first arrived in North America about three thousand years ago. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Some of the Native American peoples that lived in Ohio at that time included the Shawnee and Siouan-language speaking tribes. (worldatlas.com)
  • Tribes driven west and north by their attacks forged alliances with the French, who supplied them with arms, and encouraged them to strike back. (americanheritage.com)
  • Fort Ticonderoga's role in the French & Indian War and the American Revolution is widely known, but the Ticonderoga collection of artifacts and archival materials supports the broader exploration of military history in the Atlantic World from early European explorations of the North American continent through the early decades of the 19th century. (fortticonderoga.org)
  • the 2021 Fort Ticonderoga Teacher Institute offered in late July 2021 focuses on "Exploration, Empire, and Revolution: American Origins 1609-1815. (fortticonderoga.org)
  • Manifest Destiny is a unique, yet mysterious fundamental series of events in American history. (ipl.org)
  • Their lives illuminate the fateful events that took place along the Gulf of Mexico and, in the process, changed the history of North America itself. (massar.org)
  • Kathleen DuVal is a professor of early American history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (massar.org)
  • She received her Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Davis, in 2001. (massar.org)
  • Another useful resource is the CLIO Notes online resource, which takes users step-by-step through American history. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • The Atlantic frontier is also an important place in American history. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • Walter R. Borneman is the author of Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land , 1812: The War That Forged a Nation , and several books on the history of the western United States. (politics-prose.com)
  • They will also teach you a little about the history and geography of the nations they represent, and something about the symbolism used in the flags. (educationquizzes.com)
  • Edison holds over 1,000 US patents and is often regarded as the greatest inventor in American history. (nationaltoday.com)
  • In the grand epic of American history, the English were latecomers. (nybooks.com)
  • Gerald Horne is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston and the author of more than three dozen books. (monthlyreview.org)
  • But if we regard the Seven Years' War as an event central to American history, a very different understanding emerges-one that turns the familiar story upside down. (americanheritage.com)
  • The scribe will write that the Anglo-Americans dominated this period in world history with a singular focus on cornering for themselves the giant's share of the riches of the world. (historyofislam.com)
  • This state of mind powered western settlement, Native American evacuation and war with Mexico. (ipl.org)
  • In 1522, Venezuela became the site of the first permanent Spanish settlement in South America, but the territory held little interest for the Spanish authorities since it lacked the mineral riches found further south. (democracyweb.org)
  • The Abenaki are caught up in wars between European nations. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Often overshadowed by the American Revolution, the epic struggle known in the United States as the French and Indian War (1755-1760), determined which great European empire would control North America. (mountainlake.org)
  • Ohio was colonized by two European nations. (worldatlas.com)
  • In the 18th century, European events stimulated migration, and dynastic wars between European powers raged across North America. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • No republican government had ever before exercised control over a population this diffuse or a land this large, and the prevailing assumption among the best-informed European observers was that, to paraphrase Lincoln's later formulation, a nation so conceived and so dedicated could not endure. (americanheritage.com)
  • It was American silver, annually shipped in increasingly large quantities to Seville, that made the sixteenth-century Spain of Philip II the dominant European power and gave rise to fears across the continent that the king was well on his way to establishing a "universal monarchy. (nybooks.com)
  • Northern European corsairs, with or without the permission of their rulers, responded with growing boldness, attacking Spanish shipping on the high seas, plundering coastal settlements, and tentatively setting up bases on Caribbean islands or the American mainland from which to conduct their depredations. (nybooks.com)
  • Roughly two to four million Native Americans also were enslaved and traded by European settlers in the Americas, English and Scots not least. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The European Union's process-driven raison d'être appeals to fewer and fewer citizens of the nations it hoped to homogenize. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Ironically, the Indians nearest the European settlements, and who sustained the earliest and worst losses, also had the closest access to trade goods and weapons that gave them unprecedented advantages over more distant groups. (americanheritage.com)
  • While the Native Americans were away from their New England territory, white settlers took over the land. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Amy Greenberg's book, Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion, provides documented evidence that settlers believed they were destined for expansion throughout the continent. (ipl.org)
  • In addition, settlers believed that the New World was the place to establish a Christian nation and expand throughout the vast region. (ipl.org)
  • Though disease spread by these interlopers is often trotted out to explain the spectacular downturn in the fortunes of indigenous Americans, genocide-in virtually every meaning of the term, including volitional acts by invading settlers-is the proximate cause of this towering mountain of cadavers. (monthlyreview.org)
  • When the French and Indian War began in North America, Cherokee warriors traveled to the Pennsylvania frontier to serve in British military campaigns against French and their Native American allies' strongholds. (wikipedia.org)
  • From the High Plains states and Prairie Provinces to the southwestern deserts, from Mississippi and Oklahoma to the northwest coast of the continent, Native peoples are reclaiming their right to govern themselves and to shape their future in their own ways. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • Produced by the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy at the University of Arizona and the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, this book traces the contours of that revolution as Native nations turn the dream of self-determination into a practical reality. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • Part report, part analysis, part how-to manual for Native leaders, it discusses strategies for governance and community and economic development being employed by American Indian nations and First Nations in Canada as they move to assert greater control over their own affairs. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • Rebuilding Native Nations provides guidelines for creating new governance structures, rewriting constitutions, building justice systems, launching nation-owned enterprises, encouraging citizen entrepreneurs, developing new relationships with non-Native governments, and confronting the crippling legacies of colonialism. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • On the far side of that range lay a world where native peoples controlled the continent. (americanheritage.com)
  • The collection is particularly strong in documenting British administration of North America after the French and Indian War, interactions with Native Americans, and the years preceding the American Revolution. (umich.edu)
  • In retaliation, British and Indians captured Fort Niagara and burned most of the buildings and homes south of it to what is now Buffalo. (wikipedia.org)
  • The rivalry between the French and British for this vast continent had been simmering for a century when war finally erupted in western Pennsylvania, then spread to Europe and the rest of the world, in a global contest called the Seven Years War. (mountainlake.org)
  • However, there was one man on the British side who understood how to wage war the way the Indians did, Robert Rogers created a new type of warrior and new rules of warfare. (mountainlake.org)
  • A celebrity in his own time, Rogers was considered a hero by the colonials, an upstart by the British, and the "White Devil" his Indian enemies. (mountainlake.org)
  • Constitutionally, the wars established the precedent that a British monarch can not govern without Parliament's consent, although this concept was established only with the Glorious Revolution later in the century. (reenactor.net)
  • The name refers to the two main enemies of the British: the royal French forces and the various American Indian forces allied with them. (reenactor.net)
  • The 1783 Treaty of Paris resulted in the British ceding control of the American lands to the US. (worldatlas.com)
  • Ever since being defeated in that war, England (controlled by the British aristocracy) has tried various ways to regain its control over America. (thesaker.is)
  • Iroquois fortunes spiraled downward until the beginning of the eighteenth century, when the battered Five Nations finally adopted a position of neutrality toward the French and British empires. (americanheritage.com)
  • The Warrants series (40 boxes) is made up of financial documents authorizing payment for the British military forces in North America. (umich.edu)
  • The Maps series (87 maps) includes maps and fort plans created for British military leaders in North America in the years before the American Revolution. (umich.edu)
  • Over 250 years ago an epic struggle for the fate of North America played out right here in our own backyards, we call it the French and Indian War. (mountainlake.org)
  • Noted historian Walter R. Borneman brings to life an epic struggle for a continent-what Samuel Eliot Morison called "truly the first world war"-and emphasizes how the seeds of discord sown in its aftermath would take root and blossom into the American Revolution. (politics-prose.com)
  • The Five Nations of the Iroquois, in what is now upstate New York, grew powerful in the mid-seventeenth century by trading with the Dutch at Fort Orange (Albany) and seizing captives from Canada to the Ohio Valley to the Carolinas. (americanheritage.com)
  • By leaving Afghanistan to its fate, the United States would also close off Central Asia's access to the booming Indian sub-continent. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • A revolution is underway among the Indigenous nations of North America. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • For nations that wish to join that revolution or for those who simply want to understand the transformation now underway across Indigenous North America, this book is a critical resource. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. (thenation.com)
  • And yes, 'all men are created equal' excluded women, black people and the indigenous populations of the continent. (hnn.us)
  • The cartography of the New World was largely a blank and had to be pieced together from information, much of it opaque or deliberately unreliable, provided by indigenous peoples encountered by Spanish expeditions moving northward into the American interior in pursuit of wild dreams, like finding the fountain of eternal youth or the Seven Cities of Cíbola. (nybooks.com)
  • From the advent of Columbus to the end of the nineteenth century, it is possible that five million indigenous Americans were enslaved. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Warf explains that cannabis entered the United States with two groups: Mexican citizens escaping the violence of the Mexican Revolution, and sailors and immigrants from the Caribbean into New Orleans. (portlandmercury.com)
  • The second phase began when the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English established settlements in North America around the beginning of the seventeenth century, inaugurating a 150-year period of colonization and conflict by changing the conditions of American life in two critical ways. (americanheritage.com)
  • The doctrine of "Manifest Destiny" embraced a belief in U.S.-American Anglo-Saxon superiority. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • There were several diffrent way people used the word Manifest Destiny like the way John L. O'sullivan used it was he believed that " majority of Americans at the time believed was their mission from God: to expand to west and bring the United States government to unenlightened people. (ipl.org)
  • Manifest Destiny is a term for the mentality common amid the nineteenth century time of American development that the United States could, as well as was bound to, extend across the nation. (ipl.org)
  • This is true especially in America, where cannabis' legacy has long been connected with our country's institutionalized racism. (portlandmercury.com)
  • That ode was celebrating what became considered by Americans to have been their country's second victory against Britain's imperial tyranny. (thesaker.is)
  • Mexico is again in tune - as it was during the 1910 revolution - with the social discontent walking the world. (nodo50.org)
  • It is 1969 and the world is not the same after the "Cultural Revolution" of 1968, as Hobsbawm calls it [3]. (nodo50.org)
  • In addition, the American and French revolutions influenced the rest of the world. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • They brought new ideas and traditions to the New World and helped to change the landscape of the continent. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • The 1877 plan was for a unification of the two aristocracies, and for the then-rising new world power, American industry, and its Government, to become controlled by the wealthiest individuals in both countries. (thesaker.is)
  • The economy is dominated by oil (in 2014, it was the twelfth largest oil-exporting nation in the world and the fourth largest oil exporter to the US). (democracyweb.org)
  • Americans are taught to see the birth of our country as a gift to the world, even when its original defects are acknowledged. (hnn.us)
  • On the other side we find a different world, in which Indian power waned as the United States grew into the largest republic and the most powerful empire on earth. (americanheritage.com)
  • Doing so, we will ultimately be exploring the cultures and political systems that have shaped our world, giving teachers the ability to place historical events in context for their classrooms wherever they are in America. (fortticonderoga.org)
  • In an area known to the Indians for hundreds of years, the French explorer La Salle left his mark by building a small fort in 1670, less than a mile north of where the village now stands. (wikipedia.org)
  • Looking back over two hundred years of the American Presidency, it seems safe to say that no one entered the office with more personal prestige than Washington, and only two Presidents-Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt-faced comparable crises. (americanheritage.com)
  • Rumors began to circulate that he regarded his role as primarily ceremonial and symbolic, that after a mere two years he intended to step down, having launched the American ship of state and contributed his personal prestige as ballast on its maiden voyage. (americanheritage.com)
  • Seeing what north america looked like on the far side of the Seven Years' War illuminates the changes the war wrought and its lingering influences. (americanheritage.com)
  • On many other matters too, the Americans and the enemies were rendered frustrated and disappointed. (usip.org)
  • I would like to raise an important point about the enemies' greed, plans, plots and foolish schemes against the Iranian nation. (usip.org)
  • Meanwhile, African American slaves had little control over their own lives, but some individuals found opportunities to expand their freedoms during the war. (massar.org)
  • The expansion of the republic and movement west on this continent, in part, people justified by the overriding philosophical underpinnings since the American Revolution. (lgbtqnation.com)
  • The first people to settle in Ohio were the Paleo-Indian people in about 13,000 BCE. (worldatlas.com)
  • Washington's achievement must be recovered before it can be appreciated, which means that we must recognize that there was no such thing as a viable American nation when he took office as President, that the opening words of the Constitution ("We the people of the United States") expressed a fervent but fragile hope rather than a social reality. (americanheritage.com)
  • In the story of Spain's colonization of America there was always an imbalance between space and people. (nybooks.com)
  • The people of Iran are once again flirting with revolution. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • Its emergence as a nation is closely connected to events in other regions, yet significant periods occurred without outside influence. (westernhistoryassociation.org)
  • In the Gulf of Mexico, Spanish forces clashed with Britain's strained army to carve up the Gulf Coast, as both sides competed for allegiances with the powerful Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek nations who inhabited the region. (massar.org)
  • Spanish and German Revolution. (abw.blue)
  • His worldview reflects the anti-Western narrative of the 1979 revolution. (usip.org)
  • Because it was used by black Americans and Mexican Americans, it helped to feed into the racist fears and stereotypes that were used to make it illegal in the 1930s. (portlandmercury.com)
  • The territorial integrity of their American empire had to be defended at all costs, but nobody had any notion of the nature and extent of the territory involved. (nybooks.com)
  • In the US, Martin Luther King - leader of the civil rights movement - is assassinated, and the demonstrations against the invasion of Vietnam further polarize North American society. (nodo50.org)
  • It was a popular choice for males in medieval Europe, owing to the spread of Christianity across the continent. (nationaltoday.com)
  • Liberty and freedom were championed by the nations of Europe and America. (historyofislam.com)
  • In the days leading to the victory of the Revolution, the Americans sent their General [Robert Huyser] to Tehran in order to launch a coup. (usip.org)
  • The DI along with the Constitution are pillars of American exceptionalism--the belief that the U.S. is superior and unique from all others, holding the promise of an 'Asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty' in the words of Thomas Paine in Common Sense. (hnn.us)
  • In 1813, American forces captured Fort George across the river. (wikipedia.org)
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  • Any American policy that seeks to lessen or withdraw U.S. support from Afghanistan is bound to impact negatively all the other states of Central Asia. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • A U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would also signal to Afghanistan's neighbors in Central Asia that America is timid and uncertain about its own interests, even at a time when Central Asians themselves increasingly support some kind of U.S. presence as a means of balancing Russia and China. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • This rethinking might usefully begin by assessing U.S. objectives in the geographic heart of the Eurasian continent, Central Asia, through a different set of strategic optics. (silkroadstudies.org)