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…Teresa, A Complete Authorized Biography" by author, Kathryn Spink. Mother Teresa made a huge impact on the world we live in. In the 1950s, she began helping those with leprosy. The Indian government gave the Missionaries of Charity a 34-acre plot of land near…

…that provided 13 judicial districts. Washington had some disagreements with Britain and Spain. In the north Britain occupied seven of the most important trading posts. The Indians were determined to preserve their hunting ground against pioneers looking…

…, but in his own NE Indian dialect; he also encouraged his monks to propagate his teachings in the vernacular. After his death, the Buddhist canon was formulated and transmitted by oral tradition, and it was written down in several versions in the 2d and 1st cent…

…Jim and his parents were going for a ride and they passed an accident. It just so happened that the accident involved Indians. Whenever Jim and his parents rode passed the accident, Jim claims that one of the Indians died and his soul went into Jim…

…without violence. He reminded the world to take a good look in the mirror and not to make judgements based simply the color of a person's skin. When he fought the British in this way, all for the independence of India, he led Indians and Muslims alike to fight…

…which limited the goods the colonists could trade, made the American colonists turn to the black market for goods they could no longer get or that were too expensive. The French and Indian War which the English hoped to fight with the help of colonial taxes…

…. He then persuaded Diego Velazquez let him go on an expedition to conquer the Indians. He was very persuasive because he got his expedition in 1519. He would be trying to conquer Mexico from the Indians (see picture 1). He not only was going to conquer…

…the arrival of whites and blacks, in the thirteen colonies and in the U.S., slaves were either Indians or Africans. The practice of enslaving Indians was abandoned because it did not work out well. The great majority of African slaves were owned by whites…

…Clark. On October 27, 1804, Lewis and Clark's expedition reached the village of the Mandan Indians, in North Dakota. There they met Sacagawea and he French- Canadian husband Toussaint Charbonneau. At this time she was about 17 years old and pregnant. Clark…

…the simple virtues of manual labor. A historically significant protest Gandhi made was one of much courage, when he, in the midst of getting beaten, still urged himself on to burn numerous Indian passes. These slips were required to be carried around…