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obtained (Lee). There were places that the new Americans wanted desperately, places like California and while the government tried...

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...

removed from the shores of the U.S. itself. Never-the-less, these years became a time of tremendous opportunity for Mexican Ameri...

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...

of those were Americans. The passenger ship, the Sussex met a similar fate (Kunhardt, 1999). Still, Wilson refused to budge, hon...

Santa Anna had been dictator prior to the war, but was forced into exile with the Gadsden Purchase. The military was fairly perma...

south which were somewhat removed from northern involvement for the south was primarily a place wherein the people could see both ...

a tremendous and detrimental way as to completely overshadow the others victory. The Task Force was meant to bolster the desire f...

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

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

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

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, was awe inspiring to some, comforting to others, but to the millions of Japanese-Americans who...

nations. The 1824 U.S. isolation from the rest of the world would be formalized with the Monroe Doctrine, a foreign policy ...

power in the federal government, the North did not directly address these issues. There were no talks. There were no debates. Ther...

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

lived by hunting and fishing; they diversified into many different climatic regions and separated into a number of discrete societ...

obstacles. Americans have grown accustomed to the status quo" (Nadelmann, 1993, p. 41). The situation is quite different across ...

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...

who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...

interested in becoming involved in WWII. We felt that the concerns were not related to us and we wanted nothing to do with it. We ...