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Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

President Polk and the Mexican/American War

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

Avoiding the Civil War

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Slave Life in the South before the Civil War

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

Internal Migrations

own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...

Federal Bureaucracy

order to coordinate the Union war effort (Federal Bureaucracy) It was in the nineteenth century that Western democracies began ...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

The Mexican-American War

obtained (Lee). There were places that the new Americans wanted desperately, places like California and while the government tried...

Forming an American Identity

state of crisis" (Clay, 2007). Many of the colonists thought that the coming conflict was "between the colonies and the motherland...

George Packer/Assassin’s Gate

war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...

A Summary of Five Acts

was the Great Depression and other conditions at the time that mandated the creation of social and economic programs. One has to r...

Major Issues and Debates Leading to the American Civil War

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

Foreign Affairs During the Civil War

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

Colonization, Economic Development, Geographical Distinctions and the American Civil War

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Gatsby & The American Dream

her well-loved eyes" (Fitzgerald 111). As this suggests, Gatsbys many possessions and signs of extreme wealth are not important ...

Tokyo Story as a Reflection of Conditions in Post World War II Japan

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

Relying Upon Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko as a Historical Source

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

The Individual and Societal Impacts of the Civil War

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

Trans-Mississippi West And The Spanish-American War

as people were filling in where buffalo used to be. Right along side this forward motion was the Trans-Mississippi, which wasted ...

Developing a Communications Strategy for the American Red Cross

foundations for the way that the message should be communicated can be determined, along with channel choice, determination of any...

Social Movements and Their Impact

communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

The Repercussions of the “Boston Massacre”

the two sides mounted (BMHS 2008). They finally erupted on March 5, 1770 (BMHS 2008). On that evening, "the Twenty-Ninth Regiment...

The U.S. Move From Isolationism

independent from outside intervention. This establishment was political but it was greatly facilitated by geography. Indeed, the...

Diabetes and the Importance of Local Education Programs

associated with certain environmental factors and many times these factors can be changed to reduce our propensity for developing ...

Battle of San Juan

become the commander of the Rough Riders. President McKinley asked for men to become volunteers, with Roosevelt one of the...