13 Pensamientos Sobre el Amor

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

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Jonas y Gregoire son dos amigos de 15 anos. Jonas ve en Suzanne, hermana de Gregoire, el modelo de una juventud revolucionaria y comprometida que a el le atrae mucho. Gregoire ve en la misteriosa Srta. X a su chica ideal. En ambos casos, estos amigos muy pronto aprenderan la decepcionante naturalezade los idolos y el verdadero valor de la amistad. Y cambiaran sus vidas para siempre...

Manifest Destiny the name given in the 1840s to a belief that the coast-to-coast expansion of the United States was both inevitable and justified, regardless of the means. Standing in the way were not only the native populations, but also the descendants of Spanish settlers who had lived in the Southwest for centuries. The racist belief that white men rightfully should expand their institutions into the area brought the United States into conflict with Mexico. War was declared in 1846, and by the time the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, ending the war, the US had gained...