A brief history of colonial Jamaica.

How were New England and the Southern colonies different during colonial times.

The Queen’s picture graces most of our currency, even though she resides in another country. In other countries their currency usually portrays their own political figures or heads of state, so why must we be an exception? Why must we honor someone whose knowledge of our national issues is minimal? Therefore, the monarchy does not serve a useful function within the Canadian political system.

On the progression of the Native American culture from colonial times to present day.

It can more appropriately be called the great American Evolution.

From 1607 to 1763 Colonists became their own society from their British mother country.

The state of Massachusetts is one of America’s oldest and most haunted states. Here is a list of some of the scariest and most paranormally active places in the state.

What are these terms, and how are they connected to each other?

Naming becomes a powerful symbol for the colonial experience, one that the colonized people learn to use to their own benefit. The oppressed people give themselves secret names, strong and empowering names, and even fake names for protection. The act of naming becomes a means of control for the colonizers and a means of strength and defiance for the colonizers. All attempts at ensuring the silencing of a race failed in the end. They would be heard. Their names would be remembered. They would break the silence and the future would be theirs.

Wars in India customarily reflected, and at points anticipated, those in Europe. Between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the consequent wars with Louis XIV’s France and the end of the Napoleonic Wars over a century later in 1815, Britain and France were at war almost every other decade, and these wars provided both the motivation and the opportunity for imperial expansion in India and elsewhere.