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War, American colonists including George Washington, pondered how to access the lush soil of the West (Albion and Pope 83). In 17...

slaves, it would have been impossible to maintain the plantations, which were heavily labour-intensive. Apart from the fact that t...

and the turn of the nineteenth century, there would not be any significant economic policies, although it helps to remember that t...

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

any legitimate claim upon the land, the New World was not uninhabited and European settlers necessarily had to contend with and ad...

any colony: its supposed to become self-sufficient and send profits back to the mother country. In Jamestown, the English "were un...

Due process has had a definitive impact on the delineation and definition of the rights of American citizens. Interestingly, howe...

make it legitimate? That question I think I can answer" (Rousseau, 1762). The philosophers answer is in fact the social contract....

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

It was the revenue from the sale of tobacco "that produced the first returns on the investment of the Virginia Company" (Faragher,...

could envision the bravery of the white people coming to tame savages and a savage land. Then there is "the Pastoral State" which ...

middle-class incomes once the frugality and struggles of their youth were over" (108). In essence, once the wilderness struggles w...

strategic outposts for expanding trade with Latin America and Asia, particularly China" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, ...

three largest and probably most important harbors were Boston, New York and Philadelphia (Hashagen, 1998). What many may not know ...

apartments, eat out at restaurants, go to sleep any time they choose, and so forth. In other words, their rights as individuals w...

There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the ot...

state. While Stevens failed to raise enough money to build his proposed railroad, he still desired to apply steam locomotion to ra...

to make cities healthier, greener, and generally more pleasant. Great Britain, however, would obviously feel this need considerab...

slaves from Africa were sold mostly in the Americas. Wolf first discusses who bought these slaves and why, and then answers the q...

Jackson and McGhie were not performers in the circus, however. They were cooks and simple laborers Clayton, Jackson and McGhie. ...

the great melting pot that is the United States. They will no longer be seen as outsiders, but an integral part of the society of ...

emerging technology, no one can know exactly what information eventually can be gleaned from the DNA profiles law enforcement keep...

established that women were not always inherently oppressed around the world, a fair question arises: what is it about Western civ...

products, all of which work their way into both recipes and menus that center around fish. The history of New England cuisine is ...

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

still harbor similar traits that reflect the inescapable impact of genetic tendency. As Harris (2002) points out, genes are respo...

early seventeen hundreds that the slave population was sufficient enough to make an economic impact, and hen it was centered prima...

In five pages Ayn Rand and Alexis de Tocqueville's perspectives are applied to the problems of the individual as the result of dem...

early part of the 20th century and all the years before, health care absolutely lay in the realm only of the privileged, those who...

In six pages this paper defines substantive due process and discusses rights of liberty, individual treatment under the law and th...