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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...

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

Still, certain trends never change and social class makes a difference. Historians have examined the occupational and social str...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

want to discuss how Galileo studied religion with great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determ...

in the sixties all the way back to that earlier decade noting: "The 1920s marked...

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

"common" birth (Defoe). She enlists the help of many aids along the way, and finds money to be an especially interesting and infl...