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A Slavery Overview

In seven pages this issue is examined from the time of the American Revolution through the emancipation of the 19th century and in...

New World Colonization by England

to not only stay afloat but to allocate sufficient funding for the identification and colonization of various new lands which were...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

Joseph Plumb Martin's Ordinary Courage

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

George Washington and the Revolutionary War

as a great leader and notes the following: "Realism, strategic imagination, adaptability, and political savvy are all aspects of W...

The Introduction of Machines

This paper provides an overview of the American Industrial Revolution. There are three sources listed in the bibliography of this ...

Latin America and the Foreign Policy of the United States

is evidence that the U.S. actually supported the revolution. Supposedly, President Kennedy uttered words which would be aligned wi...

An Overview of Urbanism in America

the proliferation of entertainment and leisure. Films, plays, restaurants and night clubs are a part of the landscape. After th...

Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...

History of American Women

single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

1750 to 1790 Colonial America and the Adoption of 'Revolutionary Habits'

operating "mills, tanneries, blacksmith shops, forges, and other community services in connection with their plantation enterprise...

Events and Key Players of the American Revolution

colonists from making their own money. The Stamp Act placed taxation on almost all paper product goods: "all printed materials are...

Second Revolution in America, the Civil War

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

The Industrial Revolution in America

the world" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 550). Raw materials and finished goods could now be shipped all over the country. The Cumber...

Jimi Hendrix, the Counter Music Revolution, and the 1960s

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

George Washington's Experiences in the American Revolution

and in March of 1776 he used a cannon from Henry Knox ("American Revolution - George Washington," 2005). He would make a mistake ...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

The Difficult Beginnings of America

"poor farmers challenged the new Republics monied elite" (Ehrenreich 66) and things in the United States was less than settled. In...

1960s to 1980d' Sexual Revolution in America

In seven pages the US sexual revolution and its impact upon American life and society are discussed. Seven sources are cited in t...

Liberty, Freedom and Their Meanings According to James Madison and Gordon Woods

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the meanings of liberty and freedom presented in James Madison's Federalist Paper and...

Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Enlightenment, Revolution, the State, and the Individual

change and much of the change had hints of individuality and liberty, although most did not demand democracy. In 1776, the famous...

U.S. Political System

In five pages this paper discusses the American Revolution, Framers of the U.S. Constitution, and the evolution of the political s...

Women in the American Revolution

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

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

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

Veterans of the American Revolution

no easy accomplishment for these men or their families; indeed, significant psychological considerations had to be made as a means...

The American Revolution from a Female's Perspective

In an essay consisting of two pages the fictional account of life for a white colonial Patriot living in New York State during the...

The American Revolution and Women

In eight pages this research paper discusses how women participated in fighting and assisted in the colonial victory during the Am...

George A. Rawlyk's 'The American Revolution and Nova Scotia Reconsidered'

settlements, the refusal of Washington to mount an offensive against Nova Scotia, and perhaps the religious revival, all combined ...