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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

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

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

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

attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

rationalized by President Theodore Roosevelt on the grounds that the U.S. had an "obligations to intervene elsewhere in the Wester...