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

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

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

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

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...

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

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

in an abundance in Col. Patton. The first example we have of Pattons intelligence is his experience in various educational/academi...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...

the creation of organizations. NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) is perhaps the best known group that...

most of whom were U.S. citizens or legal permanent resident aliens. They were detained for up to 4 years, without due process of l...

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

inadequacies compiled by Weintraub is impressive. While Weintraub portrays the US as narrowly avoiding another "Dunkirk" -- tha...

with the attack fading, the results of the administration continue to be with us. The hunt is still on for Osama bin Laden who, ac...

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

been prohibited from becoming citizens in the U.S. thanks to age-old biases and prejudices (Asian American History, 2004). Howeve...

government. In particular, concerning a worldwide perspective, it is the Moslem countries that are the most frightening to me as a...

forgive and forget. It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. Although by and la...