Lucas social sciences Blog 3º ESO

What is the movie about? Summarize the plot of the film mentioning the main characters. The film started in a slavery boat called La Amistad in which Cinque the tribal leader was tiying off his handcuffs, he had designed a plan in which slaves will take part of the boat killing all white people with the purpose of returning back to Africa, but when Africans were asleep two white men who were responsible of the route changed it into the opposite direction America. Until this moment slaves fought for their rights in an American judge, they were defended by a lawyer called Roger Sherman. What was the Triangular Trade? What nations benefited from it? The best-known triangular trading systems were across the  Atlantic Ocean, especially the Atlantic slave trade, which lasted from the late 16th to early 19th centuries. During this time, European countries such as Britain, Spain and France had colonies in the America...

1.  ¿Qué supuso el Tratado de Fontainebleau (1807)?  El tratado de Fontainebleau fue un pacto entre franceses y españoles el cual permitiría a las fuerzas francesas penetrar en España con el propósito final de invadir Portugal . Este tratado permitió a Napoleón no sólo ocupar Portugal sino toda la península. Aquí comienza la guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). 2. ¿Qué bandos se enfrentaron en la Guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814)?   La guerra de la Independencia fue un conflicto entre patriotas (españoles) e invasores (franceses). 3. ¿Qué dos grupos integraban el bando "patriota"? ¿Qué los caracteriza? Dentro del bando español se pueden diferenciar dos grupos patriotas, los cuales tenían un propósito común, defender la nación. Uno de los grupos, los absolutistas asociaban este propósito a la continuidad de la monarquía absolutista y el otro (liberales) deseaban acabar con ella. Además de esta diferenciación entre bandos españoles podemos decir que ...

The American Declaratation of Independence is a document,  approved by the  Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, that announced the separation of North American British colonies from Great Britain. It talks about what they called unalienable rights: equality, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, despite they (upper class) omitted Indians, black slaves and women. I think that both historian,s interpretations of this statement could be close to reality, it is an evidence that Bernard Bailyn one adopts the most extreme position, he says Americans believed an evil and deliberate conspiracy of Britain against their liberty, they believed that England was trying to enslave them and the only option that they had to protect themselves was to use the power which God has given to them. In the other hand Howard Zinn talks about people´s history of the United States, he thinks that the main point of this declaration was the way in which upper class persuade the lower class to jo...