Map of Puerto Rico
Puerto Ricans were recruited as part of Operation Bootstrap. This industrial stimulation plan decreased Puerto Rican sugar and agricultural production and attempted to stimulate industrial production by granting tax …
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Ponce de Léon, Juan 1460–1521
A Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de L©on conquered and settled the island of Puerto Rico. He is most famous for his futile and ill-fated search for the legendary fountain …
American Quebec Act 1774
Passed by Parliament on June 22, 1774, the Quebec Act attempted to secure the political allegiance of Britain’s new Catholic Canadian subjects acquired as a result of the Seven …
Pontiac c. 1720–1769
Little is known about the early life and career of Pontiac, an Ottawa war leader most closely associated with a series of frontier attacks known as Pontiac’s Rebellion. Euro-American …
Delaware: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
Efforts by Spain in the sixteenth century to establish, and later maintain, a foothold along the Atlantic coast between Florida and Chesapeake Bay a region considered vital to the …
Puerto Rico: BIBLIOGRAPHY
Archive of the State Library of Connecticut. RG 12: War Records Department. World War I Veterans. Box 31. Archive of the State Library of Connecticut. RG 12: War Records …
American Chesapeake Bay and the Middle Colonies
Initial voyages to the New World were generally unsuccessful. The first colonists were a mix of a few enthusiastic middle-class adventurers, looking for the vast wealth promised by the …
Prostitution
Commercialized vice appeared early in colonial America. Prostitution was most often connected to urban, maritime, and, especially, wartime societies. Prostitutes plied their trade individually in nearly every community, ranging …