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

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

But it raises a lot of questions for the future. How did events alter the perception of Americans as the U.S. started its journey ...

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

red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

2005). There were increased attacks and counterattacks, which increased as white settlers moved onto Sioux lands (Sioux wars, 200...

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

onslaught of German forces, Russia released their prisoners, asking many Poles to come out in force in support of the Russian acti...

a tremendous and detrimental way as to completely overshadow the others victory. The Task Force was meant to bolster the desire f...

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

There were many circumstances that combined to eventually cause the outbreak of the bloodiest war in American history....

reduction tools and, to an extent, education on the evils of drug use (Seelke et al 2010). The results have been mixed to not-so-g...

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

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

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

Weapon" World War II...

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

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

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

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

so. Hence, designers went right along with the war time ideology of cutting back. The aura went to uniformity and drabness, a tren...