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propaganda; they raised money for the army and to support the new government ("About this book"). Berkin shows how they ran farms ...

were taken without what was now a deeply ingrained sense of restraint. Revolutionary warfare was simple and to the point....

to the following conclusion: "Almost at a stroke the Revolution destroyed all the earlier talk of paternal or maternal government...

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

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

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

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...

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

well as the rising tension of the competitive race between the teams from the East and the West" (Rochman, 1998, p. 908). By the ...

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

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...

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

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

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

to love scholarship and excelled. Though John did love the church as well, he found there was far too much controversy taking p...

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

This essay pertains to the Articles of Confederation, which was the first government created by the newly minted United States aft...

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

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

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

1969). When news of the executive of the tsars family reached London, there were "few tears shed" (Dukes, 2003, p. 9). However, wi...

her family were forced to abide by Communist principles even - and especially - when they did not condone them from a personal per...

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

dispute. By 1860, slavery was in full force but shortly after that, the slaves would be freed. Both the 1790 and 1860 periods were...

years later, software for personal computers became available. This software heralded the entrance of Bill Gates to the technologi...

his look at one town in America during the Industrial Revolution. Dawley (2000) breaks down his book entitled Class and Communit...

in our government and our policies. His role extended through the years preceding the American Revolution and on into the early y...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the impacts of the Industrial Revolution. Demographic, social, and economic issues ...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...

a centralized power grid and draw upon electricity as a commoditized "service", rather than an internally integrated aspect of doi...