Grade(s): 4
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2011
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Part 1: In the Beginning (CLICK FOR VIDEO) Amalgam – A mixture or blend Amerindians – A member of the indigenous peoples of the Americas Barbados – An island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West...
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The Barbados Adventurers With the success of the sugarcane crop, Barbados quickly became the wealthiest colony in the New World, and the most densely populated place on the planet. Successful...
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Sweet Success Dutch Sephardic Jewish colonists moved from Brazil to Barbados to escape the religious persecution of the Spanish Inquisition. These Sephardic Jews brought with them the knowledge to...
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Barbados was one of the wealthiest colonies in the New World and one of the most densely populated areas on the planet. Barbados greatly changed from years of settlement and economic pursuits. “Place”...
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History never really happens in a vacuum. Barbados was an amalgam of many cultures, which was made even more complicated by the social control of those in power over those enslaved. The clash of...
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Sometimes, the history of a place begins elsewhere. It is a complex blending of cultures and place.The history of South Carolina is likewise complex, and it began somewhere else, in a place that many...
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Part two briefly outlines the French and Indian War. After England officially declares war on France in 1756, this marks the beginning of both the French and Indian War, and the Seven Years War...
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Although the French and Indian War began officially in 1756, rising tension and engagements between British and French colonists happened years prior. With the English, French, and Native Americans...
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The relations between Africans and those who conquered them would was complicated. Forced to come to a strange country, slaves had vastly different experiences than their white masters in the 18th and...
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Trade was a normal part of the Cherokee culture for thousands of years. European trade eventually changed the Cherokee way of life. In nearly 250 years of contact with whites, the Cherokees faced...