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1928 election The year of 1828 was a tumultuous year in American politics. It so happened that it was a presidential election
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Alcatraz Alcatraz: United States Penitentiary
As a result of the Great Depression, a new breed of violent criminals swept the streets of Ameri
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ALCATRAZ ISLAND AND PRISON Alcatraz Island has quite a distinct history. Many people know that Alcatraz served as a
federal prison, but most are reluctant to know that this island ser
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Atomic Bomb August 6th, 1945, 70,000 lives were ended in a matter of
seconds. The United States had dropped an atomic bomb on the
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Benedict Arnold No other American is remembered quite the same as Benedict Arnold.
He was a brave soldier, a patriot- and a traitor. Benedict was born in
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Boston Massacre In my report I will be discussing the Boston Massacre. I will be looking at the
Boston Massacre from three different perspectives. These perspectives are
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Charles Manson Air section of southern California. On Saturday, August
ninth, nineteen sixty-nine, all hell broke loose with more than
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Chinese Immigrater Interrogations of Chinese Immigrants at Angel Island
Like Ellis Island in New York Harbor, Angel Island in San Francisco Bay was an entry point for immi
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Cival Rights Act 1964 When the Government Stood Up For Civil Rights
"All my life I've been sick and tired, and now I'm just sick and tired of being sick and tired. No one
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Civil Rights The Constitution Protects the Civil Rights of Americans
The Constitution does protect the civil rights of Americans. Even though some laws are passed
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civil war IN THIS meeting of the Southern Historical Association great emphasis has been placed upon a re-examination of numerous phases of our history relating to t
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Civil War1 The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding
the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war
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Clara Barton Clara Barton the founder of the American Red Cross. Clara was born in Oxford, Masschusetts. She was the first woman hired to work as
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DDay Thesis A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling:
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Colonial Women Women did not have an easy life during the American Colonial period. Before a woman reached 25 years of age, she was expected to be married with at least
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Delaware The Delaware Colony was first settled by the Dutch, but their settlement didn't last a year. The Indians massacred the settlers and burned their forts. I
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compcontslave revolt The American Civil War was inevitable and had numerous causes that led to it. This paper will discuss three important causes of the war the inven
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Corruption and Graft Following Reconstruction in the war torn South, and the Sioux Wars in the West, America was enjoying an industrialization
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Declaration Of Independence The Declaration of Independence was written to show a new theory of government, reasons why they were separating from England, and a formal declaration of wa
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Dreaming in the 1960s In 1962, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said his most famous words: "I have a dream." He was not the only one who felt this way. F
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Early civilizations Native American civilizations thrived in the Western Hemisphere before Europeans discovered the “New World.” These civilizations had many similarities an
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Education and Egalitarianism in America The American educator Horace Mann once said: "As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any pr
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Equality and the American Revolution Equality is something Americans strive to provide and maintain... we always have. It has become a necessary part of our culture... even now to the point
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Essay on Jefferson Jefferson had destroyed political traditions. From his
contradictions and defecting his priciples, Jefferson
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Evaluation of the new deal Franklin D. Roosevelt brought the new deal in to Americans life in the early thirties. Its purpose was to dea
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FDRs Influence as president Some have called him the best president yet. Others have even claimed that he was the
world's most influential and successful leader of the twentieth cent
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Franklin D Roosevelt On January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born.
Franklin's father, was a prosperous railroad official and
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Freedom Have you ever wondered what life at school would be like without “freedom?” In myopinion I think it would be horrid. Think about it. If we had no free
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geaorge This document explains how to gain access to online services to receive
additional Windows 95 files. These include:
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George Meade Do you know who was the general for the Second Battle of Bull Run? Everyone kGeorge
Meadenowswhat the Second Battle of Bull Run is but who
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Great Depression Though most Americans are aware of the Great Depression of 1929, which may well be "the most serious problem facing our free enterprise economic system",
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History of Medicine in America James Cassedy’s Medicine in America, A Short History takes a comprehensive look at medical progress in America from its colonial days to the present time
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Image and Reality Image and Reality
In the years since the thousand days ma
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Jeffersons Views on Education Thomas Jefferson believed that universal education would have to precede universal suffrage. The ignorant, he
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JFK John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected President, the first Roman Catholic and the firs
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Malcolm X All men are created equal. This statement was the basis of the civil right movements of the 1960's. Malcom X is a
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Mercantilism Mercantilism is an economic theory where a nation's strength comes from building up gold supplies and expanding its trade. Britain formed the American col
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HAMMURABI In his position as king of Babylonia, Hammurabi managed to organize the world’s first code of law and establish Babylon as the dominant and
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Motives For Exploration Until the late 1400's, Europeans did not know the existence of the two American continents ( North and South America ). To the European explorers, explo
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Naval Battles The battle on March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the
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Plantation slavery The warm climate, boundless fields of fertile soil, long growing seasons, and numerous waterways provided favorable conditions for farming pl
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AH Born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28, 1926, Nelle Harper Lee is the youngest of three children of
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Populist Party The Populist Party, a third political party that originated in America in the latter part of the nineteenth century, derived as a result of farmer discont
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Robber Barons Robber Barons, a term used in the late 1800s and early 1900s to describe a businessman who made a
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Salt River PimaMaricopa Indian Tribe The Southwest Region Native American tribe that is discussed in the following focuses on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The Pima-Maricop
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Seminoles During the first century, or rather (1789-1812), there were many confrontations between the Seminoles and Americans. From trading w
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Study of Thomas Paine For many years Thomas Paine was the epitome of American histories greatest drawback. In American history there is always that one detai
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The American Dream A Lifetime of Change- American Dreams
The quest for truth and Justice, for social and economic equality. A place where everyone had a fair change at ma
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs is
one of mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of security. The
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The Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party was the key-event for the Revolutionary War. With this act, the colonists
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The Civil War For minorities, as for other Americans, the Civil War was an opportunity
to prove their valor and loyalty. Among the first mustered into the Union
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The Cold War Some say that it is useless to speak of world peace or world law or world disarmament - and that it will be useless until the leaders of the Soviet Union
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The Cultural Revolution of the 1920s The 1920's were times of cultural revolution. The times were changing in many different ways. Whenever the times change, there is a clash between the "o
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION THE GREAT DEPRESSION
The year of 1929 began a time period of horror in America. It was the
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The Hippie Culture Life in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new te
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THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA Throughout history, crime has existed in many different forms and has been committed by not only individuals,
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The Lost Ones 8211 Young Chinese Americans The Lost Ones – Young Chinese Americans
Due to harsh immigration laws, in American history, Chinese have often relied on illegal means of entering
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The Melting Pot In the 1800’s and the early 1900’s, some people gave the America the name, the melting pot. People imagined this because thousands and thousands of immi
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The New American The definition of what it means to be an American has changed dramatically throughout the history of our country. The founding fathers b
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The Roaring Twenties THE ROARING TWENTIES Americans, in the years following the end of World War I found themselves in an era, where the people simply wish
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The Vietnam War very good The Vietnam War was a military struggle starting in 1959 and ending in 1975. It began as an attempt by the Vietcong (Communist Guerrillas) to overthrow
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The War of 1812 The United States of America began to see the effects of Anglo-French War by the
early 1800's. This European quarrel began affecting the United States ship
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Thomas Jefferson sketch Thomas Jefferson- he was a great man. Not only was he one of our founding fathers, he was also the third presid
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THOUGHTS ON ACID RAIN Acid rain is a serious problem with disastrous effects. Each day this serious problem increases, many people believe t
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Truman ”Early Life Harry S. Truman, the oldest of three children born to Martha Ellen Young Truman
and John Anderson Truman, was born in hi
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Vietnam war outline Indochina is made up of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. It was colonized by the French in the
late 1800's and given up in 1939. Japan tooko
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Watergate
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World War II Before World War II broke out the world took a backseat ride during Hitler’s rise to power. The entire world didn’t think that he would become as influen
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truman s harry Truman was a simple honest man. His impact on world history however was much more than
simple. In his life he would take part in both world wars and serve
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Honest Abe Abe Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, Honest Abe, is one of the greatest American Presidents. He is known today for his Presidency in which he fought the Co
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pride The soldiers of my army were pounding at the walls of the enemy base, ramming into the thick stone and metal with tanks and bulldozers. There was l
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George Washington Born February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, he was the first son of
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The Red Scare Many people label Edgar Allen Poe a horror writer, plain and simple others refer to Poe as the father of the detective story, but over all he´s one Americas g
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martin luther king One of the world’s best known advocates of non-violent social change strategies, Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK), synthesized ideals drawn from many differe
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The First Amendment No other democratic society in the world permits personal freedoms to
the degree of the United States of America. Within the last sixty years,
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What then is an American Now *Note: This paper was done as a parallel to Jean de Crevecour's "Letters from an American Farmer," published in London in 1782.
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WATERGATE Sex, drugs, money, power, you name it and there is a scandal for it, but
look back and you will see that from all the scandals there have been
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The American Civil War The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the events surrounding
the end of the American Civil War. This war was a war of
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Trail of Tears The Federalists vs. The Anti-Federalists
When the revolutionary war was over, the American colonists had found
themselves free of British dominatio
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The Battle of Bunker Hill Boom, Bang, Crack! The sounds of muskets being fired, its ammunition
ricocheting off rocks and splintering trees are heard all
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Civil War IN THIS meeting of the Southern Historical Association great emphasis has been placed upon a re-examination of numerous phases of our history relating to t
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gettysburg The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 3, 1863 and it was a
turning point in the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettys
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Imeprialism Should We or Shouldnt We Imperialism:Should We or Shouldn’t We?
The decision of America to branch out and expand the country is a decision that has been highly debated over the c
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Reconstruction The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars in American history. Its damage to America was profound. It tore at the very fiber of Am
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None Provided Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - Two Views, One Cause
Many black authors and leaders of the sixties shared
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The Constitution Right from the beginning of it’s creation the constitution
of the United States has been a shaky document. The very basis
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JFK Life and Death On November 22, 1963, while being driven through the streets of Dallas, Texas, in his open car, President John F. Kennedy was shot de
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REMEMBER THE ALAMO In many book’s about of the Alamo all said, The phrase "Remember the Alamo", an often misquoted reference to the 1836 battle,
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Native Son Native Son: Character Actions Defines Their Individual
Richard Wright's novel, Native Son, consisted of various main an
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The Nineteenth Century The Nineteenth Century American was very different than the Twentieth Century American. They had different technology,
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segregation and discrimination in texas Segregation and Discrimination that effected
Black Texans and Mexican Americans in Texas
Historians have described the early twentieth century as the nad
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rosa parks Racism and prejudice have been dominant issues in the United States for many years. Being such a major issue is society, racism is also a major theme in one
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Native American Purification Sweat lodges were a basic component of Native American life. The Native American completed a purification ceremony in these sweat lodges. This ritual dealt w
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Doc Holliday “Doc” Holliday: A man in search of normality.
John Henry Holliday, perhaps one of the most legendary gunfighters of the west,
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the red scare The Red Scare took place twice in American History. First in the period of 1919 to 1921
which was triggered by a Communist take over of Russia. The Red scare
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before 1865 Nationalism first emerged as the Colonists became more and more Democratic.
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The Lost Generation During World War I, many of the men who fought were only about nineteen years young. These men experienced horrors beyond
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Origins of the Red Scare In the first part of his book "American Anti-Communism", M. J. Heale writes "the fraternal egalitarianism of the American republican heritage with its insiste
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Civil rights timeline
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Gerald Ford When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under
extraordinary circumstances.... This is an hour of
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WWI War solves problems, but the wastefulness of war can only be felt by the people’s families, friends, and of course, the person in the trenches. Hundreds, and s
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slave culture Slavery in America thrived and continued to grow because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on plantations could be supervised
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Theory of Evolution CHARLES DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
It is commonly thought today that the theory of evolution originated from Darwin in the
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World War I OK, in a nutshell, World War I’s cause went as far back as the early 1800s. People controlled by other nations b
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Gun Control "Guns don't kill people; people kill people" is more true than gun control advocates
admit. Look at the number of murders committed each year without guns. S
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The truth about Thanksgiving The truth behind the tradition is surprising. Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims seem to go together, but the truth is, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksgi
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BillGates William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955. "Bill" was called "Trey" by his father, since "Trey" means three. Trey was always smart, and
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westward expansionin nineteenth century The Westward Expansion has often been regarded as the central theme of American history, down to the end of the19t
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Dr John McLoughlin John McLoughlin was one of the most influential figures of the fur trade and
settlement periods of Pacific Northwest history. Chief Factor of the Columbia D
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The Constitution1 The Constitution and who it belongs To
When Thomas Jefferson signed the Constitution, there was a big reason why he believed it would
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Ascertain cause manner and time of death Ascertain cause, Manner, and Time of Death
The Presumptive Sings of Death include c
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Book Review of the Killer Angels Between the days of July 1, 1863 and July 4, 1863, the Civil War’s outcome was decided. These four days have been known as the Battle of Gettysburg, the turnin
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Alger Hiss In August 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist appearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), charged that Alger Hiss, was a Comm
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Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine can be considered as the United States first major declaration to the world as a fairly new nation. The Monroe Doctrine
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Boston Massacre1 John Hancock stated “Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear; let not the heaving bosom cease to burn with a manly indignation at the barbarous
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science and inventions Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are st
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The Right to Privacy In the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, there is in no place a reference to the so called “Right to Privacy.” But in several Suprem
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stalin Joseph Stalin lived from 1879 till 1953. Stalin was one of the most ruthless communist dictators of all time. After Lenin’s death, Stalin pushed his way to t
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Sheppard v Maxwell The wife of Dr. Sam Sheppard(Marilyn Sheppard) was bludgeoned to death on July 4, 1954. She was found in the upstairs bedroom of her home in Bay Village, Ohi
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Prejudice is a Toxic Type of Thinking What is the extent of prejudice? How far will it go until the entire world realizes that it is wrong? Prejudice continues to infect and destroy the dreams an
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the civil war Before the civil war that tore the fabric of American life, there were three sections of American people with different economic, c
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Organized Crime Organized crime has always been occupied with a negative label. Perhaps this is due to the constantly changing environment in America as well as the social s
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Vietnam The Vietnam War was a brutal war that affected millions of people in many different countries. All wars start because there is a difference in people’s opinio
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A More Perfect Union The determined Madison had for several years insatiably studied history and political theory searching for a solution to the
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The Final Months of the Civil War The Civil War was one of momentous proportion. It was disastrous in terms of human life, because more Americans died in
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all quiet on the western front “ I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life
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The crucible 1. The Crucible “The Play in Four Acts”
5. Rev. Samuel Parris- A Reverend
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Reconstruction1 Victoria Hubble February 8, 2000
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Robert E Lee Biography Robert E. Lee has always been thought by many as a god-like figure. To others he was a contradiction. Born on January 19, 18
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Watergate1 Watergate, designation of a major U.S. political scandal that began with the burglary and
wiretapping of the Democratic party's campaign headquarters, later e
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Early 20th Century US Immigration The New American
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American Cowboys Have you ever wondered who the cowboys were; how they lived; or what they did? The American Cowboy’s way of life was interesting and unique
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Roswell The Roswell Incident, which enlightened our minds to the capacity of excepting all, has remained one of the most controversial issues
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colonization Even as Europeans staked their claims to the lands of the Americas, discoveries forced Europe's intellectuals to rethink the geographical, cosmographical,
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BATTLE OF AP BAC On July 7, 1954 Bao Dai, president of Vietnam appointed Ding Diem as Prime Minister. Dai was a pro French president who did not have com
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Candide Translated with an Introduction by John Butt
In a world of bureaucrats, engineers, and producers, Voltai
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War of 1812 The era that was seventeenth century colonial America was very differen
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Manifest Destiny During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the United States saw many problems come and go. Some problems were more important than others, howe
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Bitter Rivals Henry Cabot Lodge and Woodrow Wilson Bitter Rivals: Woodrow Wilson and Henry Cabot Lodge
Political rivalries define American government. The dual-party system by nature sets up partisan rival
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WEB Dubois As African Americans become equal citizens in America they need to establish their own aims and ideas as people. African Americans
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Politics in the Guilded Age Discuss Politics in the Gilded Age. Include major political events and issues
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Manhattan Project Thesis: The research for the first Atomic bomb was done in the United States, by a group of the best scientists; this research was given the name of “The Manha
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The War of 18121 The War of 1812 was a conflict between the nations of Great
Britain and The United States. This was a war fought over the rights
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Benedict Arnold Life in the American Revolution Benedict Arnold: Life in the American Revolution
On January 14, 1741, Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Connecticut. (B Arnold) Arnold’s father, also nam
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Salem Witch Trials Many of the American colonists brought with them from Europe a belief in witches and the devil. During the seventeenth century, people were executed for bein
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William Blount William Blount's great-grandfather, Thomas Blount, came to the Americas
from England in 1660. He first resided in Virginia, the
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WW2 When war broke out , there was no way the world could possibly know the severity of this guerre. Fortunately one country saw and understood that Germany and it
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The People Leisure and Cultures of Blacks During the HArlem The People, Leisure, and Culture of Blacks
It seems unfair that the pages of our history books or even the lecturers in majo
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John F Kennedy Jr John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He was the youngest president ever to be elected, the first Roman Catholic president, and
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None Provided1 John Davison Rockefeller has been accused by many as being a Robber Baron over
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Affirmative Action Affirmative action is one of the more recent and popular civil rights policies that affect today's society. Affirmative action can be d
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color purple At the tender age of fifteen, Celie, the main character in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is raped by whom she knows as her Pa. Pa forces himself upon Celie a
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United States Expansion Throughout the first half of the 1800s or 19th century there were many factors influencing United States expansion. From the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to the
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Outsiders locking in In the United States something very odd happened during the period of time from the middle of the 1950's up to the impact of the cr
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slavery The Slaves’ And The Slaveowners’ Views Of Slavery
“That face of his, the hungry cannibals
Would not have touched, would
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Containment James Livingstone Critical analysis of Americas policy of Containment
America’s Policy of Containment was introduced by Geo
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booker T Washingtin and WEB Du Bois During the time between 1877 and 1915, black Americans experiences many social and economic and political difficulties. Many African Americans supported the pr
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African Women 70% of African women with disabilities get them from their husbands. In Africa, most women have little or no rights. This effects what they
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Henry David Thoreau American literature during the first half of the nineteenth century
took many forms and ideas that still effect our ever so changing
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Lincolns Journey to Emancipation He comes to us in the mists of legend as a kind of homespun Socrates, brimming with
prarie wit and folk wisdom. There is a
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Alexander The Great Alexander the Great and His Achievements
Alexander the Great was the king of Macedon. Alexander of Macedon, or ancient Mecadonia, deserves to be called the "G
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JFK Assassinaton If Lee Harvey Oswald killed J.F.K. and it wasn’t a conspiracy, then why is the government still withholding reports done on the assassi
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World War 2 WORLD WAR II When war broke out, there was no way the world could possibly know the severity of this guerre. Fortunately one country saw and understood that G
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A rough Man Rough, vigorous, hot-tempered and rich is what Mark Twain grew up to be. Born 1835 in Missouri, Florida he always did what he needed to in order for him to rea
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Founder of the Black Panther Party Huey P Newton A Forgotten In the late 1960's and early '70's posters of the Black Panther Party's co-founder, Huey P. Newton were plastered on walls of college dorm rooms across the cou
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Great Depression1 The Great Depression was the worst economic decline ever in U.S. history. It began in late 1929 and lasted about a decade. Throughout the 1920’s, many factor
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Daniel Pratt and His Legacy One who can’t be overlooked in any study of the south, Alabama, Autauga County or Prattville is Daniel Pratt, a pow
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The Great Depression Growing up in a blue collared neighborhood in the 1930’s was very unusual for Mae Arlene Adams of Reading, Pennsylvania. Mae was the daughter of Floyd and Mar
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Mob Involvement with Prohibition In 1917 Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution which prohibited the export, import, manufacture, sal
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Cuban Missile Crisis The Edge of War John F. Kennedy's greatest triumph as President of the United States came in 1962, as the world's two largest superpowers, the Sovie
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Florence Kelley Florence Kelley was born in Philadelphia in 1859 into a cultured and affluent family. Her family was actively devoted to social reform. Her f
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Warren G Hardings Mysterious death Warren G. Harding was born on November 2, 1865, on a farm near Blooming grove,
Ohio. Harding wasn’t always into politics. He started in teaching and selling
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cold war Major Sources of Discord between the Bolsheviks and European States: 1917 to 1921
There were several major sources that created discord between the Bolshev
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UP DATED BENEDICT ARNOLD Benedict Arnold was born in Norwich, Connecticut. Arnold received his schooling at Canterbury. While away at school, a few of Arnold’s siblings passed away f
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Lost Colony The Different viewpoints of what happened to the missing people.
Jamestown is thought by most of our general population to be the first
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Farmer DBQ During the span of 1880-1900 farmers began to feel as if their ways of lif
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Frustrations With Japan December 8, 1941 was a solemn day. The day after Japan dropped the bomb on Pearl
Harbor, the people of the United States mourned. If ever there was
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Bay of Pigs The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs is one of mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of security. The bl
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Lees Surrender Some people believe that Robert E. Lee did not have that much influence on the South. They believe that he was a just a great general a
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Walt WHitman Walt Whitman was looked upon as the forerunner of 20th Century poetry, praising democracy, and becoming a proclaimed poet of American democracy. He was known
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The Cause of the American Revolution Position Paper No matter what it comes down to, the major factor for the cause of the American
Revolution was the ignorance of the British. The irritated colonists were host
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Black Americans Black Americans are those persons in the United States who trace their ancestry to members of the Negroid race in Africa. They have at various
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john locke John Locke was an English philosopher and political theorist during the 1600s.
He was also the founder of British empiricism. He is known for
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Strength Within Creativity Despite oppression, African-American women of the past were able to overcome obstacles by taking on the role of artists. They relied on their creative spirit
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AfricanAmericans in the Civil War The foundation for black participation in the Civil War began more than a hundred years
before the outbreak of the war. Blacks in America had been in bondage
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Farm Life Life as a farmer was by no means easy. There were a lot of problems and strains, but it had its good points. The Homestead Act pass
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The Dredd Scott Decision United States Supreme Court case Scott v. Sanford (1857), commonly known as the Dred Scott Case, is probably the most famous case of the ninete
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Tenskwatawa History has not been kind to Tenskwatawa, otherwise known as Lalawethika or The Prophet. He is inevitably compared to his heroic brother Tecumseh and fails to
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great depression The Great Depression was the worst economic decline ever in U.S. history. It began in late 1929 and lasted about a decade. Throughout the 1920’s, many
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patriotism "It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its cit
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Emmitt Till Emmit Till was like any other ordinary boy. He lived in Chicago in 1955 with his mother. But this summer he was going to visit his Uncle Mose who lived down so
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McCarthyism Vivian Gonzalez
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WEB DuBois WEB Du Bois was born a free man in his small village of Great Barington, Massachusetts, three years after the Civil War. For generations, the
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George Washington1 George Washington is unanimously referred to as the "father of America". The first president of the United States of America, Washington set the manner for wh
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beethoven The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to g
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The Election of 1956 The election of 1956, 48 states were in the union at that time and
Dwight Eisenhower was president. Even though Eisenhower had
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The Common Man And Aristocrat in Early Virginia Media Effects on Governing The mass media has played a major role in American politics since the formation of our country. So much so that it has been called
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Constitution A Bundle of Political Compromises Late in May 1787, George Washington welcomed delegates from twelve of the thirteen states to the Constitutional Convention. The fifty-five men in attendance e
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Astor John Jacob John Jacob Astor lived through1763-1848. He was a fur trader, businessman, and real estate investor. Astor began life as one of twelve children of a poor Ge
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The Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered
around a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divul
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John F Kennedy Life Times John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the 35th president of the United States in 1961. At the age of forty-three, he was the youngest man ever elected president. He
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Civil Rights Movement Timeline 1890: The state of Mississippi adopts poll taxes and literacy tests to discourage black voters.
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Reconstruction2 Reconstruction is the rebuilding process that followed the American Civil War. The war lasted from 1861-1865 and at thet end of the war many
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The Significance of the Title of The Grapes of Wrath Elizabeth Hickert Hickert 1
The Significance in The Appellation of The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, justifies its
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INCAS The vast Inca empire, with its advanced culture and powerful armies, spanned most of the Andes along South America's western coast at the time of Spani
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None Provided2 The gold rush of the 1850’s symbolized America’s quest towards westward movement, challenges of life on the frontier, and the impact it had on California’s gr
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the seventies How the 1970’s Shaped American History
The Nineteen Seventies was a pop culture decade. From Hippies to Disco and Saturday Night Fever to The Brady Bunch,
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cuban missile crisis Many agree that the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever
came to nuclear war; but exactly how close did it come? The Crisis was
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Malcom X Humans are shaped through interactions and experiences with other individuals. What happened to us in the childhood directly forms our identity, character an
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frederick douglas Frederick Douglass was born in Tuckahoe, Maryland, near Hillsborough. He
doesn’t know for sure of his age, he has seen no proof and his master will not infor
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Reconstruction3 The First and Second Reconstructions held out the great
promise of rectifying racial injustices in America
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Slavery as a Cruel Institution Cruelty can be defined as an inhumane action done to an individual or group of people that causes either physical or mental
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is america a success At the first of the year Miss Schoonmaker asked us if we thought America was a success or not. This got me thinking what are we going to learn that will
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is america a success1 At the first of the year Miss Schoonmaker asked us if we thought America was a success or not. This got me thinking what are we going to learn that will
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Charles Dickens Dickens has always presented problems for literary criticism. For theorists whose critical presuppositions emphasize intelligence, sensitiv
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None Provided3 Born into a wealthy and well- known family Patricia Hearst had luxuries that many kids never grow up with. She lived in a mansion and grew up in catholic sch
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American Imperialism The United States became an imperialist nation at the end of the 19th century because Americans wanted to expand over seas with their belief in manifest destin
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Guilded Age There are many different views on whether or not business should be regulated during the Guilded Age. The rich who controlled the government at the time were
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Racism in America If someone asked you what it would be like to live in a
perfect world, how would you reply? Many people might say
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muckrakers Muckraking was a powerful journalistic force, whose supporters made it become so. Muckraking was the practice of writers and critics exposing corrupt politicia
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Cambodia The Impact of the Past on the Present
Cambodia, then, like so many other nations in the developing world, is an agricultural country, and, in terms of the c
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william mckinley William McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio, on Jan. 29, 1843. H
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Martin Luther King JR Martin Luther King and Malcom X are two African Americans
fighting for the same cause but believe in fighting in two totally different
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grapes of wrath John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck wrote this book in the hopes that people would be able to see what was happen
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Gangsterism in the 1920s “The Roaring Twenties,”; what a perfect aphorism. It was certainly roaring with music and dance, but it also was roaring with gangsters. In the aspect of gangs
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Americas involvement in world war 2 America's involvement in World War Two
When war broke out , there was no way the world could possibly know the severity of this guerre. Fortunately one
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The First Reconstruction A Revolution Many people will argue that the social and political changes in the period between 1860 and 1877 culminated in a revolution. This time period, known as the F
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Agent Orange In 1962, the United States Military began to use a p
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Ap History Essay Declaration of Independence is considered one of the most important documents in world history because its effects were felt around the wor
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the civil rights movement black panther party Most of us, being United States citizens, would like to believe that everyone in this country is living in conditions of utmost freedom and equality. Although
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Land Of Desire
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fo “Governments should discourage mergers in the communication industry.”
Our group will be disagreeing with this statement through out the project. We will
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Benjamin franklin Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born into a modest family, but later became to be one of the greatest statesme
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American Revolution American History Essay
Among the many complex factors that contributed to instigating the American Revolut
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good morning Vietnam The movie “Good Morning, Vietnam” Directed by Barry Levinson and written by Mitch Markowitz Had a solid view, that was portrayed in many ways, on the roles of
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the sixties Many social changes that were addresses in the
1960s are still the issues being confronted today.
The ‘60s was a decade of social and politic
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None Provided4 World War Two was a terrible and destructive war. Although many dynamics led to the advent of World War Two, the catalyst of the Second World War was actually
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Anne Hutchinson Anne Hutchinson challenged the traditional role of women in the Puritan society through her opposing religious beliefs. Anne Hutchinson was most likely n
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atomic bomb August 6th, 1945, 70,000 lives were ended in a matter of
seconds. The United States had dropped an atomic bomb on the
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Wilson and the league of Nations The Versaille Treaty, an agreement for peaceful terms among the warring nations of World War I, was extinguished by the insatiable desires of all parties invol
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Marbury vs Madison As the government was newly establishing its stronghold on the nation, forging its way to a powerful republic and instituting precedents for the future, a st
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African Americans In The South As a social and economic institution, slavery originated in the times when humans began farming instead of hunting and gathering. Slave labor became commonpla
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great depression1 Great Depression began in the early 1930's, and lasted about a decade. The main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distr
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Signifance of Anthropology and Archaeology “Anthropologists and Archaeologists”
Anthropologists and archaeologists have influenced our lives in so many ways.
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Great Depression2 The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which
spread to virtually all of the industrialized world. The depression bega
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Immigration Immigration has held a major role in shaping our
country. Immigrants have provided many things such
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Revolutionary War In the American Revolution two totally different armies from two totally different countries and cultures collided in a war to settle the freedom of a nation i
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Columbus Day In April, 1492, Spain received reports that the Portuguese succeeded in reaching the Indian Ocean, therefore Spanish monarchs authorized Christ
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The Other Sister The Other Sister, produced by Mario Iscovich and Alexandra Rose was a romantic comedy. The characters staring in this film were Carla Tate (Juliet Lewis), wh
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Johnathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin
Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin both wrote simply, directly and without aristocratic pretense. They felt writi
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The Transatlantic Slave From the 1520s to the 1860s an estimated 11 to 12 million African men, women, and children were forcibly embarked on European vesse
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The union movement of the late 19th century The union movement of the late 19th century
During 1870 through 1900 workers joined together; responding to the power of their employers cau
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Constitution nonrepresentative More than 70 years had gone by between the writing of the Constitution and the 1850’s. The U.S.’s landscape had grown dramatically and and the North and South
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Nuclear Warfare The effects caused by a nuclear power accident, on the scale of the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl
accident, must override any inclinat
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Lynchings in America Recently, an L.A. Times article (dated 2/13/00) reviewed a new book entitled "Without Sanctuary", a collection of photographs from lynchings throughout America
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Great Depression3 The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which touched virtually all of the industrialized world. The Depr
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The Marine Corps The following was a submitted report for a U.S. History research paper assignment
We fight our country's battles in the air, on land and sea. First to fig
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Citizen Competence in a Democracy Citizens’ tend to make political decisions that are affected by their understanding of political institutions. People with a full understanding of political i
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Four Little Girls When documentaries are filmed, produced, and then viewed, the audience is left with
more knowledge and awareness than before having watched it. When
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native americans American Indian Wars There is perhaps a tendency to view the record of the military in terms of conflict, that may be why the U.S. Army’s operational exp
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The Fall of the Roman Empire Did the Roman Empire deserve to Fall?No
The achievements of the Roman Empire were unmatched at its time. Many things it accomplished are ideas and ways of li
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The Success of England and S Spain in the Colonization of th The Success of England and Spain in the Colonization of the New World
The success in the colonization of the New World (America) depended of many factors such
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None Provided5 Boston Massacre- on March 5, 1770, five years before the American Revolution,there was a dispute between British troops and a group of citizens of Boston. Brit
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Cold War The conflict in ideologies between capitalism and communism
resulted in one of the greatest conflicts of the twentieth century.
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The Bay of Pigs The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs is one of
mismanagement, overconfidence, and lack of secur
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The Watergate Scandal The Watergate Scandal was a series of crimes committed by the President and his staff, who were found to spied
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Reconstruction4 After the Civil War ended, President Lincoln was faced with the task of rejoining a Union whi
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mound builders of north america The mound builders of North America have allured the curiosity of scholars and architects since the days of de Soto. Having
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North vs South In the early American colonies, the south and the north developed into two distinctly different colonies. Although their origins were both from Europe, their
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andrew jackson Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, to a family of immigrants in the Waxhaw settlement on the western frontier of South Ca
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None Provided6 The will of the majority is naturally powerful in a democracy. Most American constitutions have strengthened this natural power even further by providing that
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Mark Twin Throughout the Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) novel, The
Adventures of HuckleBerry Finn, a plain and striking point of view is
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calvinism Since John Calvin first introduced the belief of election, it has caused debate among theologians
in many Protestant churches. John Calvin’s beliefs consiste
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the crucible 1. The crucible attempts to give a generally realistic portait of sseventeenth-century New England. Onrr impotant contributing element to the realism is the w
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The medias role in Watergate In the American Democracy it is vital for our right to freedom of press to be put into full
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Albert Einstein Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. Whil
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The War of Northern Aggression Analyzed from the Confederate The War of Northern Aggression Analyzed from the Confederate Viewpoint
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Road to Democracy Beginning in the early 1600’s, America received a flood of emigrants seeking religious freedom, an escape from political oppression and economic gains. The em
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quotes 1. The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must
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Richard M Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon grew up in Yorba, California the son of Quakers Frank and Hannah Nixon. During Nixon’s childhood in Yorba, the family wa
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Was it Really independance The American Revolution was forced upon the Americans by the cruel
treatment from the British. On May 10 of 1775 the Second Continental
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Amish Culture The past five weeks in my life have really had an impact on me. In such a short period of time, I have become more aware of the different cultures that exist
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Social Darwinism in American History Social Darwinism in American History
Toward the end of the 19th century, the United States entered a period of growth and industrialisation. An abundance
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Rooselvelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States. Roosevelt served longer than any other president. His
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DDay Success or Disaster Twenty years after the end of the First World War a man named Adolph Hitler of Germany began a Second World War. On September
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mediviel Plagiue The Medieval Holocaust was a terrible event for many people in communities of that time period. This was the greatest epidemic that ever happened. People cou
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Ben Franklin BiographyCritique In his many careers as a printer, moralist, essayist, civic leader, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, and philosopher, for
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European Miconceptions about the Indians What types of Indian behavior, rituals and customs did Europeans typically misunderstand or mis interpret? What myths of Indian society resulted?
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European Miconceptions about the Indians1 What types of Indian behavior, rituals and customs did Europeans typically misunderstand or mis interpret? What myths of Indian society resulted?
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Tom edison There is one inventor that stands out among the rest his name is Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas Edison is one of the most famous inventors e
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Huey P Newton and The Black Panther Party During the late 1960's and early '70's posters of the Black Panther Party's co-founder, Huey P. Newton were plastered on walls of college dorm rooms across the
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Immigration1 For many immigration to the United States would be a new beginning during 19th to early 20th century. There were many acts and laws to limit the number imm
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The Killer Angels Wars have been fought for many different reasons through the years, and that holds true for the American Civil War (1861-1865). In Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer
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The Crusades The Crusades were just a war waged over power, fear, and interest. The purpose of the Crusades was to recapture the Christian "Holy Land" from the Muslims, Ar
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The guitar The guitar is a fretted, stringed instrument, and is a member of the lute family. It originated in Persia and reached Spain
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Civil War Inevitability THE INEVITABILITY OF THE BREAKUP OF THE UNION
The breakup of the Union was inevitable. The south was always going to secede; it was just
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Jimmy Carter The President of Peace
Jimmy Carter was born October 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby comm
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desert storm I denna uppsats har jag valt att behandla humanitära och miljömässiga
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American Revolution1 The American War was fought from 1776 to 1778 but the Revolution
occurred much before the war. John Adams best described the revoluti
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the jungle The Jungle is one of the most famous American novels ever written. Most people associate The Jungle with the federal legislation it provoked. Americans wer
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dark side of camelot The Dark Side of Camelot
Most people when they hear the name JFK they think of an american hero. Many people don’
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the sixties1 Why were the sixties a importance to our country's history? The
sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and
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bunker hill Boom, Bang, Crack! The sounds of muskets being fired, its ammunition ricocheting off rocks and splintering trees are heard all around. The pungent smell of gun
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Susan BAnthony Pony Express, mail service operating between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, inaugurated on April 3, 1860, under the direction of the Ce
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Venezula The history of Venezuela has been a long and often turbulent one. It is filled with exploration, religion, and shifts of government. But, the
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american Women During WWII American Women During World War II.
America's entry into World War II posed opportunities for American wom
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causes for american revolution In the aftermath of the French and Indian War, Britain needed a new imperial design, but the situation in America was anything but favorable to change. Long ac
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american revolution In the aftermath of the French and Indian War, Britain needed a new imperial design, but the situation in America was anything but favorable to change. Long ac
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George Washington Carver George Washington Carver was born into slavery January of 1860 on the Moses Carver plantation in Diamond Grove, Missouri. He spent the first year of his life,
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cowboys Cattle ranchers began to move out onto the Great Plains in the mid 1800’s In the late 1800’s cowboys became popular in the cattle
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J Edgar Hoover For nearly half a century J. Edgar Hoover was one of the most powerful officials in the Federal government of the United States. As head of the Federal Bureau
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Lewis and Clark The story The Lewis and Clark expedition across the present day United States began May 14, 1804. With the approval of President Jefferson and the U.S. Congress, Lewis
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energy crisis Late in the autumn of 1973, energy (or the lack of it) grabbed headlines like never before. It was not until the war between the Arab countries
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Native American Abuse Imagine your country had been invaded by a very powerful group of people. Before anything drastic could be done these people had invaded your shores and had
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did america do enought to help the jews in the holocaust Did the Western World do enough for the Jews in th
Description of this essay : Western Civilization - World War II Did the Western World do enough for the Jew
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cather rye Stradlater said, but I knew he probably wouldn't... "Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row." "Okay," Stradlater said, but I knew he wouldn't
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The Civil War1 The civil war was doubly tragic because it was completely unnecessary. Slavery had been ended in other nations with the stroke of a pen, and
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uncletomscabin Analysis of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is thought of as a fantastic, even fanatic, representation of Southern
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Bubonic plague Many have been affected by the plague that has traveled from China - Europe. The plagu
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eisenhower 1. Eisenhower's goals were to break the dead lock in peace negotiations by going to Korea, facilitate the passing of the Cold War by dealing with the USS
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Upton Sinclair “My cause is the Cause of a man who has never yet
been defeated, and whose whole being is one all devouring,
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OREGON TRAIL The Oregon Trail was an overland emigrant route in the United States from the Missouri River to the Columbia River country, was the
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lassezfaire government Laissez-faire policy has always been a fundamental principle of the federal government. Between the years of 1860 and 1900, the government’s role seems to be
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lemon v kurtzman 1971 The name of the case is Lemon v. Kurtzman; the Chief Justice in charge of the case was Warren Burger. The case was argued on March
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Fort William Henry The Savages Explored Fort William Henry: The Savages Explored
The massacre of Fort William Henry occurred in the year 1757, when France’s Native American allies captured, tortur
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Beloved Toni Morrison was born in Loraine, Ohio on February 18, 1931. She has accomplished many things from then until now. From writing several books to
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Ben Franklin Benjamin Franklin was born in the year 1706, in the city of Boston Mass. Ben was a great scientist, inventor and politician. With all of t
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American Tragedy The Kennedy Assassination Where were you November 22, 1963? Any and every American old enough to mourn, to feel sorrow remember where they were and what they were doing when they recei
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Thoreau and Kings ideas There are times throughout the history of the United States when its citizens have felt the need to revolt against the government. T
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Light and the Glory The United States Constitution has been the bedrock for the longest lasting government in all history. Why is it that our consti
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Normandy Invasion Introduction The Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 is variously known as D-Day, the Longest Day, Cross-Channel Attack, and probably some others as well
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Constitution and articles of confederation The constitution of the United States was written to correct weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation. The articles were introduced in 1777 and this gave th
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American Revolution The American Revolution was largely economic and political in nature. The political reasons were that England neglected the colonies, taxation without represen
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Sound Progressexxon valdez 5 pgs The Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound of Alas
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Age of the Bosses As industrialization caused cites to grow in leaps and bounds, political bosses started to take power. As the 19th Century came to a close, almost every sizabl
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Public Hangings Capital punishment seemed to have been regenerated from the beginning of mankind, where beheading was considered an honorable method of meeting death, whe
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Causes of WW1 The Causes of World War I What exactly were the causes of World War I? Sure, it sounds like a pretty simple question, but it’s most definitely not
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Irish Involvement in the Civil Waril More than 170,000 Irish-born Americans fought under the flag of the United States between 1861 and 1865. Society in the United States had, up to that time, dis
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Slave Resistance It could be considered almost ludicrous that most African-Americans were content with their station in life. Although that was how they were portrayed to the
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HaightAshbury In The 1960s The district of Haight Ashbury covered a five-block area starting at the Golden Gate Park and ending around the intersection of Shrader and Haight The appeal
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Pocahontas Many moons ago, an Indian girl was not yet born but there were many problems with Indians and the white man as the Indians. This unborn child would become a
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washington irving Irving, Washington (1783-1859), American writer, the first American author to achieve international renown, who created the fictional characters Rip Van Winkl
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Rachel Carson Hello, my name is Rachel Lousie Carson. I was born on a farm in Springdale,
Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907. My mother, Maria McLean Carson was
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The War Of 1812 With the ongoing battles between England and France in the early 19th century, the newly formed United States found itself thrust in the middle
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None Provided7 Willie Edwards Jr. was a nice and charming guy. He was married and had children whom he loved very deeply. He took care of his wife, children and his sis
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Images Of Vietnam The United States of America prides itself as the self proclaimed leader of the free world. Since the end of World War II the United States has chosen to use
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Characterization of Democratic Republicans The Democratic Republicans were almost always characterized as believing in following the strict construction of the constitution. They were opposed to the l
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unionism Trade unionism, industrial unionism, and
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Uncle Toms Cabin "So you're the lady whose book started this great war." Abraham Lincoln said this to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting her in 1862. Th
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AsianAmericans and concentration camps in WWII In the early 1940’s, there was evidence of Japanese-American loyalty and innocence, but the information was not always well known. This, coupled with the fa
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JFK1 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was one of the most influential people in history. Many people adored him because of his intelligence and his way with people.
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ben franklin Signer of the Declaration of Independence
By Nader J. - Gotha Middle School, Windermere, Florida.
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Abolition The abolitionist movement in the United States sought to eradicate slavery using a wide range of tactics and organizations. The antisla
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None Provided8 Technology made a huge impact in the fighting of World War I.
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Antebellum Periods and Reforms The Ante-bellum Period and The Reforms
The overwhelming number of reforms in the ante-bellum period was a result the rapid change that was occurring around t
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civil war1 Small battles to big battles, no matter where it was fought, many of our soldiers died, for there side. There were many problems that lead to the Civil War.
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A modernday revolution American turmoil in the 1960s Hubert Humphrey once stated, “When we say, ‘One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all,’ we are talking about all people. We either ought to beli
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Road to Brown “The Road to Brown” was lead by a man named Charles Houston. Houston devoted his entire life to try and get equal treatment for blacks. But in order to begin
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Roosevelt He first tried the law profession by enrolling in Columbia University. He did
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150 nazi 1. Hitler demanded that the nation produce a "violently active, dominating,
intrepid, brutal youth." What part did the schools play in carrying out tha
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The MexicanAmerican War The war with Mexico had fundamentally broken out because of America’s rapid
expansion and confidence due to their great size and wealth. Also, because Mexic
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Manifest Destiny1 For two centuries, Americans had been progressively taking over and establishing
a continent. People felt that westward expansion between the 17th century a
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American Immigration In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many n
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Blind Conformity In today's world it is often difficult to adjust to one type of
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Thomas Jefferson What we know Jefferson best for is his infamous phrase in the Declaration of
Independence: “The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. W
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Bay Of Pigs 10 pages The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of
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The Impossible Victory Vietnam In September 1973, a former government official in Laos, Jerome Doolittle, wrote in The New York Times: “ …Afte
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John F Kennedy in Vietnam There are many critical questions surrounding United States involvement in Vietnam. American entry to Vietnam was a series
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Lincon vs Kennedy Many people share similar aspects throughout their lives, but could two significantly relevant people shared such common lives that might even seem eerie. Ab
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1952 In 1954, many barriers were broken that made this a year of success. One of the major achievements is the cure for Polio being discovered which saved many live
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the lost generation THE LOST GENERATION
The lost generation has to be one of the saddest generation of people to have ever lived. The
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Garrett Morgon Garrett Morgon was born on March 4,1877 in Clayville, Kentucky. Garrett
was the second child in the Morgon family. Garrett got his name by his matermal
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Was America a free society in the 1920s Was America really a free society in the 1920's?
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Teddy Roosevelt As Governor of New York, Roosevelt would once again stand on his own and distance himself from the political bosses and machin
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Puritan womens place in society during Colonial America The Puritan Revolution of 17th-century in America endorsed an intimate classification of women with domestic life that achieve a wide acceptance througho
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The Progressive Era What do Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Alice Paul and Samuel Hopkins Adams all have in common? All five contributed
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Jefferson Principles Thomas Jefferson is remembered in history not only for the offices he held, but also for his belief in the natural
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Autobiography as told to Alex Haley
When Malcolm X was murdered in the Audubon Ballroo
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JFK2 On November 22nd, 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the President of
the United States, was assassinated. The man, who was accused of
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The Great Gatsby In the book the Great Gatsby, none but a few people had the idealistic “American Dream”. To some characters it seems the “American Dream, ”has replaced by mate
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World War 2 1.1 HARRY S. TRUMAN & THE BOMB A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
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Native Americans People have been living in the Americas for thousands of years. Only fairly recently, the past few hundred years, have foreigners begun to arrive and drastical
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Black like me chapters John Howard Griffin (JHG) is a specialist for the hard life of Negroes in the south of
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Post Civil War Racism The conclusion of the Civil War in favor of the north was supposed to mean an end to slavery and equal rights for the former slaves. Although laws and amendme
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Western Expansion of the US International borders have always been centers of conflict, and
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Fedralists Most people think that the U.S. constitution was just ratified and there was no argum
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American Expansion American expansion to the Pacific was introduced to the people of the country by several different means. The reasons for expansion did not exclude Politics,
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Kapital When one gets down to the roots of capitalism you find that it is a form of government that allows the rich to ge
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history of the newspaper "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should
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The American Dream1 It is not uncommon for one to pursue their dreams. For example, students
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On My Personal Experience with Other Cultures Encountered by On My Personal Experience with Other Cultures Encountered by My ...
Every lucky man has all five senses, perhaps he or she has also the power of
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Kemble Knight Group A: Our group found passages to support the idea that Knight was courageous. On the first day of their journey they
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The Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet A Jacobs Slavery was perhaps one of the most appalling tragedies in the history of The United States of America. To tell the people of the terrible facts, runaway slave
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madame bovary Chris Irwin January 12,2001
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Atomic Bomb1 The use of the atomic bombs on Japan was necessary for the revenge of the Americans. These bombs took years to make due to a problematic equ
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john adams The second president of the United States of America was John Adams. He was born on Oct. 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts. His party affiliation was the
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Articles of Confederation From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an
ineffective government, however there were some strong steps taken in the
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DrJ hey whtas up? your probably playing your game right now! i bet your doing
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JOHN QUINCY ADAMS John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree (Quincy), Massachusetts on July 11th, 1767. His ancestry lineage was English. Adams’ religion w
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Andrew Carnegie Essay written by aliciareagan@neo.tamu.edu
A man of Scotland, a distinguished citizen of the United States, and a philanthropist devoted to t
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DBQ Federalist vs Antifederalist It can be argued that the Federalists were the first political party in the United States. Their goal was simple; to unite the states and fo
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Entrepreneurial Adventure The Development of Economics in The United States
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riding the rails The Depression caused hard times for everybody, but I think it was especially difficult for men since they were the ones responsible
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What is an American The traits of the typical American has changed drastically throughout the years. We have changed in many ways from when we officiall
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causes of Revolutionary War During the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events
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Jack Kerouac and the beat movement “World War II marked a wide dividing line between the old and the new in American society and the nation’s literature”(The World Book Encyclopedia 427) . Whe
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DBQ Jacksonian Democracy Between the years of 1775 and 1825, the United States government was hypocritical with respect to their Native American poli
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change or preserve The American Revolution was fought to change oppressive taxation and Legislation by the English government in order to reinstate the social political, and econ
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America in the 19th Century In colonial America, most manufacturing was done by hand in the home. Some was done in workshops attached to the home. As towns grew into cities, the demand fo
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President Lincoln In the Civil War How Justified Were President Lincoln’s Wartime Decisions?
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Lincolns Wartime Decisions How Justified Were President Lincoln’s Wartime Decisions?
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Lincolns Wartime Decisions1 How Justified Were President Lincoln’s Wartime Decisions?
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battle of little big horn battle of little big horn
Five springs ago I, with many Sioux Indians, took down and packed up our
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henry clay Clay was born on April 12, 1777, in Hanover County, Virginia. He was born to John Clay, a minister. His mother Elizabeth Hudson was After studying for t
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Causes of the Civil War The American Civil War was a war fought within the United States of America between t
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Causes of the Civil War1 The American Civil War was a war fought within the United States of America betwe
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War Bonds War bonds are money that you give the government to
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Sparta In the 7th Century BC a new era of warfare strategy evolved. Before this new strategy, foot soldiers engaged in battle in the form of one mob for an army. Then
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WORLD WAR I Europe avoided major wars in the 100 years before World War 1 began. In the 1800's, the force of nationalism swept across the continent that helped bring about
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Total War World War One Europe since pre-Roman times has been marked by conflict. Warring tribes often did battle in small skirmishes and hand-to-han
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history of labor in america The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At
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causes of civil war There were many causes for the American civil war. Some causes were underlying and some were immediate
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the last kamikaze The Last Kamikaze. Edwin P. Hoyt. Praeger Publishers, 1993. Pp.xvi, 235.
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Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr. writes the Clergymen that have written him a letter disputing his actions in Birmingham. King is dist
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Battle of the Bulge The Battle of the Bulge was an important fight because it was one that could have turned World War II around for the Germans. The Battle of the Bulge took plac
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economic reasons for involvement in vietnam "We hold these truths that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, among these are Life, Liberty and
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Thomas Jefferson Against His Republican Ideals While Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States, some of his actions conflicted his beliefs and the beliefs of his supporters in the Republican party
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The Great Depresstion The Great Depression was the worst economic decline ever in U.S. history. It began in late 1929 and lasted about a decade. Throughout the 1920’s, many factors
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Marbury V Madison In 1800, President John Adams lost his bid for re-election. Thomas Jefferson was
voted in for the president. Adams, being a Federalist, disagreed with th
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Was the Articles of confederation an efficent form of govern The articles of confederation were a somewhat effective form of
governmnt for the newly founded united states. It was ineffective in many
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civil war2 What is peer pressure? Peer pressure can be described as a positive or negative reaction that occurs when one is influenced by certain people. Peer pressure is
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sam sheppard The media had to much power and are the ones who put Sam Sheppard in jail in
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John dalton John Dalton was born on September 6, 1766, in Eaglesfield, England. He was the son of a weaver and received his early education from his father also at a Quake
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1960 establishment The Establishment in the 1960's
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Injustice Injustice is a problem which everyone faces. Nobody likes to suffer from injustice, yet
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AMERICAS INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR TWO AMERICA’S INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR TWO
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AMERICAS INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR TWO 1 AMERICA’S INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD WAR TWO
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Womens Movement Towards Equality The Women¡¯s Movement Towards Equality
For centuries, all over the world, women have been forced to stand in the shadow of man because they were seen as wea
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Boris, Eileen and Nelson Lichtenstein. Major Problems
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