Spanish in the United States

Mckenzie McRoberts Mrs. Dreckmann 12/10 California My state is is California. California’s birthdate is September 9th, 1850. California number is 31 in the union. California nickname is The Golden State. The capital of California is Sacramento. The major cities are L.A., San Diego, and San Jose. One major geographic feature is Klamath Mountains and they are located in the western United States. California neighboring states are Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon. The main rivers of California are the…

Pizzaro marched a smaller fleet than Cortes’ into South America. There he met the Inca ruler named Atahualpa. The Spaniards crushed the Incan fleets and kidnapped their leader. Atahulapa offered the Spanish a ransom of one room filled with gold, and two more filled with silver for his own release. The Spanish greedily took the money, and strangled the leader after, making the conquering of their land and riches much easier, due to the retreat of the frightened and weakened Incan troops. Clearly,…

other purposes. The original charter group from England brought the “Metes and Bounds” system of describing land or real estate to U.S. where it had been used for many centuries. It was used in the original thirteen colonies that became the United States based on the English common law. This system defined the boundaries of a parcel of land by using physical features of the local geography along with directions and distances. The boundaries are described in running prose style, working…

Filipino’s history to America started with the Spanish trade ships that went around and through North America during the 15th century. Scared of the torture the Spaniards would do onto the Filipinos, some jumped ship and settled in the state now known as Louisiana. Although Filipino valued family as a priority, the Filipino slaves knew it would be better to jump ship than risk going through the whole voyage of torture. In these settlements, Filipinos started farming and fishing as a way to…

The Mexican-American War was a struggle between Mexico and the United States. On April 25, 1864 the war began and it ended on February 2, 1848. President Polk played a huge role with the United States government’s relations with the Mexican-American War. Polk was strictly a democrat and elected President in 1844 as the dark horse candidate. Before Polk was elected president he served in the Tennessee legislature and the U.S. Congress. Not all American’s were supportive of the Mexican-American…

to communicate. There were no ELL classes for her to take at the time and her teacher didn’t know much Spanish. That didn’t stop her teacher from helping her however. (S. Dominquez, January 30, 2018), “This teacher…

increased as more Africans arrived, first as indentured servants and later as slaves directly from Africa or through the West Indies…..With the influx of more Africans, voodoo became entrenched in the American colonies and later in the United States.” 29 Of course our keen interest is more fixed on the importing of slaves to Louisiana - and slaves in the St. Mary’s Parish area, which is the birthplace and home of our subject, William J. Seymour. Let’s review facts. Five hundred slaves…

Many have used their access to whiteness to create social justice in the states. I’ve heard right wing authors such as Ann Coulter state how they created America, yet they fail to mention how marginalized groups and indentured servants lead to wealth in this country. Those same people who endured servitude did so just for an opportunity to own land. Ann…

Bautista. Joan Ponce de Leon who was with Columbus on his travels founded Caparra which is a farm village and later became known as San Juan. In Caparra colonist forced the Taino to work for free and in the gold mines. Priest protested this and the Spanish throne forced the colonist to pay the natives and teach them the Christian religion. The Taino people eventually had enough abuse and disease that they rebelled. Sadly they lost the fight and fled to the mountains. African slaves were…

the United States Navy Department was established in 1789. Although the Navy Nurse Corps was not founded until 1908, women served as nurses away on Navy ships and hospitals. The Surgeon General of the Navy, Rear Admiral Rixey was a strong supporter of the founding of the Navy Nurse Corps. He appealed to the congress for an establishment of a female Navy Nurse Corp due to his belief that women of the Navy hospitals would better aid them than male nurses alone. On May 13, 1908 he United States…