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By Patricia Albjerg Graham
During this informative quantity, Patricia Graham, certainly one of America's such a lot esteemed historians of schooling, bargains a colourful historical past of yankee schooling within the final century. Drawing on a big selection of assets, from govt studies to colourful anecdotes, Graham skillfully illustrates Americans' altering calls for for our faculties, and the way faculties have replied via delivering what critics wish, although by no means as thoroughly or as speedy as they want.
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Unable to explain or cure the diseases, Native American chiefs and religious leaders often lost their stature. As a consequence, tribal cohesion and cultural life disintegrated, and efforts to resist European assaults collapsed. T H E S PA N I S H E M P I R E During the sixteenth century, Spain created the world’s most powerful empire. At its height, it encompassed much of Europe, most of the Americas, parts of Africa, and various trading outposts in Asia. ” And the benefits of global empire came at the expense of Indians.
By 1690, horses were evident in Texas, and they soon spread across the Great Plains, the vast rolling grasslands extending from the Missouri River valley in the east to the base of the Rocky Mountains in the west. Horses were a disruptive ecological force in North America. Prior to the arrival of horses, Indians hunted on foot and used dogs as their beasts of burden. But dogs are carnivores, and it was difficult to find enough meat to feed them. Horses thus changed everything, providing the Plains Indians with a transforming source of mobility and power.
As long as the reins of imperial control were loosely held, the colonists and their British rulers maintained an uneasy partnership. But as the royal authorities tightened their control during the mid–eighteenth century, they met resistance from colonists, which became revolt and culminated in revolution. com/studyspace • What civilizations existed in America before the arrival of Europeans? • Why were European countries, such as Spain and Portugal, prepared to embark on voyages of discovery by the sixteenth century?