The Journey Of Lewis And Clark
.... of Missouri Territory from 1813
to1820, and as federal superintendent of Indian affairs. He laid out the
site of Paducah, Kentucky, in 1828. William Clark died in 1838.
The Expedition
The expedition started May 14 1804, sent by President Thomas
Jefferson to examine the resources of the far Northwest. The 8,000 mile
journey was led by Louise and Clark. The expedition gave valuable
information about the geography, climate, natural products, and plant and
animal life in the area, and about customs, dress, and economy of the
Indians. They discovered many new species of animals and plants of the
area, some of them were grizz .....
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The Boston Massacre
.... is long on political propaganda and short on accuracy or
aesthetics.
Notice how the British Grenadiers are shown standing in a straight
line shooting their rifles in a regular volley, whereas when the
disturbance actually erupted both sides were belligerent and riotous.
Notice also that Revere's engraving shows a blue sky. Only a wisp of a
moon suggests that the riot occurred after nine o'clock on a cold winter
night.
Notice too the absence of snow and ice on the street, while Crispus
Attacks-- a black man lying on the ground closest to the British soldiers--
is shown to be white. As an aside, it should be noted t .....
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Jews In America And Their History
.... accepted many people from many different backgrounds to allow
for a diverse population; this act of opening our borders probably is the
origin of the descriptive phrase "the melting pot of the world."
These German Jews rapidly assimilated themselves and their faith.
Reform Judaism arrived here after the Civil War due to the advent of
European Reform rabbis. Jewish seminaries, associations, and institutions,
such as Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College, New York's Jewish Theological
Seminary, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC), and the
Central Conference of American Rabbis, were founded in the 1880s.
Ameri .....
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The Battle Of Gettysburg
.... whalers, merchants, loggers,
farmers and city dwellers who made up the raw material that transformed
fresh recruits into soldiers of valor. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was the
regiment's original Lt. Colonel and upon the promotion of Ames, he was made
Colonel of the 20th Maine. He was wounded six times during the War. He was
promoted to the rank of Brigadier General for his conduct of the 20th Maine
at Petersburg, Virginia, in June 1864. In April 1865, Chamberlain was
promoted to the rank of Major General. At the surrender of Lee's Army of
Northern Virginia, April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Chamberlain
and the 20th Maine .....
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The Vietname War In "America's Australia: Australia's America" And "Into The Dark House"
.... and the outcomes associated with the War. The outcomes of these
problems associated with the War primarily manifested themselves on the
battlefield not in the sheltered walls of the decision makers.
D.J.Dennis's Vietnam diary takes an in-depth look at the effects of policy
on the battlefield focusing on the Australian Soldier . These four books
provide a comprehensive and unique perspective on the Vietnam War.
Vietnam, located at 108 degrees latitude and 13 degrees North
longitude is a small and meagre economic actor of Southeast Asia. It is
surrounded by the South China Sea, Laos and Kampuchea. In spite of its
diminutiv .....
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The Causes Of The Civil War: Slavery, Economics, Or Constitutional Differences
.... the South was scared of Lincoln abolishing slavery, they thought it
would be a wise decision to secede from the Union. In fact, Lincoln had no
plans of abolishing slavery, but stated that it should not spread to the
territories. The South, basically misunderstood, and decided to secede
anyway. The reason slavery was so important to the South, and lead them to
break apart from the Union was that it tied into their lifestyle and
economy.
The South had wanted a plantation lifestyle, where the owner could
relax and supervise his workers. Also, slavery was very important to their
economy because if their were no slaves .....
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Life In The British Colonies
.... A county is a large part of the colony.
Colonies with cash crops would take their crops to the county seat several
times a year to sell them and buy imports.
The cities were developed in the middle 1700's along the Atlantic
coast where there were good harbors. Ships docked at these harbors and
brought imports from England and left with exports from the colonies. An
export is goods that were to be sold to other colonies. The first cities
were New York City, Philadelphia, and Charleston. These triangle trade
routes linked Britain, the British colonies and Africa. These countries
traded with each other. Most cities grew becau .....
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The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy Or Single-gunman?
.... nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the
city to the county jail.
At a glance, the above story sounds as if this should be an open-and-shut
case. After all, according to the facts above, Oswald must have killed
Kennedy. However, you must take a deeper look into this case. Many people
who witnessed the murder of John F. Kennedy dispute the facts above, saying
that they heard shots from places besides the book depository, and other
things that may contradict what is stated above. One of these witnesses,
Abraham Zapruder, captured the entire assassination on his Bell and Howell
eight millimeter movie camera. This m .....
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The South's Finest Hour: The Battle Of Chancellorsville
.... 40,000 Union troops at Fredericksburg. Nevertheless,
on April 30, the main body of Lee's forces marched toward Chancellorsville
numbered 50,000 against 70,000. On May 1st, the Yankees were marching
toward Fredericksburg, while the rebels were marching toward
Chancellorsville. In the middle of the dense Wilderness, the Battle of
Chancellorsville gently began. Gently because when Hooker met the
Confederacy, he withdrew his troops back into trenches. Lee took advantage
of this action.
Hooker and his troops were badly beaten on May 2, and were in bad
fighting position on the third. The two armies stayed still on the fourth
and .....
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The Issue Of Slavery In The Westward Expansion
.... and hot topic at the
Philadelphia Convention in the fall of 1787. The northern delegates “
detested the slave trade and wanted it to end” (pg. 187). The slave states
came out ahead in this battle as they got congress to agree that they would
not interfere with the slave trade until 1808 and the south obtained a
fugitive slave law. The only victory the north received was that the Union
remained intact.
The slavery extension issue took a back seat to other pressing
problems and states were admitted to the Union usually in pairs with one
entering as a free state and one as a slave state. Popular sovereignty
became the method .....
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The Salem Witch Trials
.... they thought
was a person who believed to have received such powers from evil spirits,
such as the devil. Many people believed in witches because more than half
the people in the world assumed it was true.
People were certain that witches could harm their victims in
various ways. Such as, by giving them a magic potion which would make her
victims fall in love against they're will. Another form of witchcraft was
that "witches would make a small wax or wooden image of her victim. She
might put something from the victim's body into the image, such as
fingernail clippings or a lock of hair. She then would destroy the image
by c .....
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New Jersey During The Revolution
.... chased by the
British after the fall of NY to the British. In late December 1776 to mid
Jan 1777, he in turn chased the British out of most of NJ. This period of
time is called the Crisis of the Revolution because it seemed the American
army could not stand against the British, and the support for the
Revolution came to a low ebb, until Washington reversed the military and
political situation by the victories in Trenton and Princeton. During the
Crisis, NJ, like many states, did not always perform well. The militia in
large part refused to turn out to fight with Washington, many began to
refuse to accept Continental paper money, .....
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