Essays 331 - 360
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...
occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...
the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...
U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...
that media during the 1960s and 1970s shifted toward "an oppositional relation to political authority" (68). Hallin uses as his ar...
of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...
order to coordinate the Union war effort (Federal Bureaucracy) It was in the nineteenth century that Western democracies began ...
own language. "Indian" is the name Christopher Columbus gave to the natives he met when he came to the New World, believing he was...
rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...
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 ...
In one page the isolationist stance that influenced American policy economically, diplomatically, and militarily is examined alon...
of 1916, the progression of activity in World War I left many strategists wondering how the war would turn out. For most of that ...
In nine pages this research paper examines the reasons behind and the conditions of California's Japanese American internment camp...
victimization. If we could only understand one another, it is reasonable to assume that we would be able to work together within s...
In six pages this paper examines the impact of the U.S. Civil War upon the American family structure and the effects upon juvenile...
This research report looks at the robber barons who lived during the time of the American Civil War. Who were they? What did they ...
Point would be the training site for the 51st and 52nd Defense Battalions. Ironically, these combat units never actually saw comba...
In five pages this paper discusses American intelligence in a consideration of the vast involvement of the CIA in the Cold War. F...
In six pages this paper refers to Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America by Richard Slotkin in t...
In four pages this paper examines the period from the American Revolution to the Cold War to examine how America's style of warfar...
proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
a dilemma -- either an advance to Socialism or a reversion to barbarism" (Rosenberg, 1995, p. 139). Capitalism was at the f...
white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...
interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...
disjoined and cold not be seen as posing such a significant risk mean that there was time for a change. We can...
the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...
Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...
to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...