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

of 19th century philosophers. Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that democracy, though touted as a distinct government defined by ...

Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...

general theory of economics in the modern era" (Carson, 2005). Unfortunately, it was "weighted down" by "two assumptions ... whic...

President Bush had in fact stated the obvious and appointed John F. Bolton, a critic of the institution, as the new UN ambassador...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

p. 15). Financial backing is one of the most critical components of such an objective. The U.S. Agency for International Develop...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

This paper examines art like a diversity of art to discern its impact on our culture. World War II's Rosie the Riveter is explore...

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

more familiar, suggesting that the people are not in control and the dictatorships is military style. In other words, force is use...

and Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of Congo. This ended the war between the Northern and Southern parts of Sudan that began in 1...

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...