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…the British were surprised when two American Indians demonstrated the efficiency of a method of swimming similar to the modern crawl. The British still swam with the head above the water, a holdover from the days when people believed that the water was contaminated…

…was responsible for passing taxes on colonists to help make up the loss of money from the French and Indian War (Tea Party 1). The first act was called the Sugar Act, which was a tax to protect and secure the colonists. The second, the Stamp Act put taxes on licenses…

…in Canada, Champlain was granted permission to lead another expedition. He founded Quebec and made friends of the Huron Indians of the region. In 1609 he went with the Hurons to fight the Iroquois Indians in New York. He discovered Lake Champlain, and near…

…of the Appalachians. The purpose of this proclamation was to provide the colonists with a restriction on where they could settle; if they moved past the line, they would be in danger of Indian raids seeing that the British army would not protect any one outside…

…manipulated its meaning to suit their purpose, more often than not, they flouted it completely. For example, they completely failed to uphold the Supreme Court decision regarding the Cherokee Indians. The court ruled in favor of their rights, yet Jackson went so…

…as "bouncing down the hill." And beneath the city lights, thousands of people staring at this truck. In the back of the truck is Wolfe, a man named Cool Breeze, and an Indian woman named Lois Jennings. Cool Breeze is trying to not draw attention to himself…

…Turner's frontier thesis. Some have longed disputed the very idea of "free land". Turner's formulation ignored the presence of the numerous Indian peoples whose subjection was required by the nation's westward march, and assumed that the bulk of newly…

…. The Indians also were mistreated and ancestors are still paying for some of those acts of indifference’s. By what right or warrant could be enter into the land of these Indians, take away their rightful inheritance from them, and plant ourselves in their places…

…fur traders can enter the Ohio Region. This is an unfair law. We had to go through the French-Indian war, and many colonists died fighting for thr land that is being taken away from us. I disagree with the Navigation Acts, also. For some colonists who don…

…the more realistic view of what really happened during the Spanish conquest. Most of the history about the Aztec Empire was based on Spanish accounts of events, but Leon-Portilla used writings from actual survivors to illustrate the true history from the Indians…