The Beginning Of The Civil War
.... The constitution stated that slaveholders had the right to own property, which included slaves, since slaves werent human, according to the South.
There were three candidates in the election of 1848: Lewis Cass Martin Van Buren and Zachary Taylor. Cass was representing the democrats and was a man who believed in Popular Sovernty. Van Buren was nominated by the Free-Soil Party. Taylor was a war hero, a General from the Mexican War. He was chosen to represent the Whig party and, since he owned slaves, was pro-slavery (Stated on COMPTONS ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE.).
Gold was discovered in 1848 in California, and confirmed by .....
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The Seminoles
.... white immigrants and Native Americans of the land would take place soon. The U.S. began a policy of taking or buying land from the Native tribes. By 1813, some of the tribes rose up against white settlers and against other tribes that supported white settlement. The Second Seminole War (1835-1842) was the longest and the last of the USs Wars of Indian Removal fought. It was fought at the east of the Mississippi River. It was the first guerilla style war fought by the US Troops. After the US withdrew from the fighting in 1842, an uneasy peace lasted for fourteen years.
Their descendants remained isolated in the Everglades .....
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Causes Of The American Civil War
.... the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer. It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. The North also wanted a good banking and currency system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements. The South felt these were discriminatory and that they favored Northern commercial interests.
Now the main reason for the Souths secession was the Slavery issue. Basically the South wanted and needed it and the North did not .....
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The United States' Rise To A World Power After 1930
.... then turned his attention to industry and farm workers. He enforced strict regulation of business and provided money for public buildings, bridges and tunnels through the National Industry Recovery Act. The Agricultural Adjustment Act compensated farmers for not producing at the top of their ability. This was to help raise both wages and prices of commodity and farm products.
In 1934 the depression had been somewhat halted, but the nation had a long way to go to full recovery. A year later Roosevelt enforced the second New Deal including the right for workers to join any union to be able to bargain with employers. It .....
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What Are The Decisive Events And Arguments That Produced The American Revolution?
.... spirit. Harvard College allowed most Americans to read protests against British injustice printed in papers, pamphlets, and books. The college provided education and writings of Greek philosophers such at John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau. The ideas of these Greek philosophers that men were created equal dwelled in these colonists mind. England expected the American Colonies to serve its economic interests, and it regulated colonial trade.
In general, the colonists accepted British regulations. For example, they agreed not to manufacture goods that would compete with British products. Things began to change in the 1700s. E .....
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Early National Literature
.... was Charles Brockden Brown, whose gothic and philosophical romances, beginning with Wieland (1798), anticipated Edgar Allan Poe.
Early in the 19th century, Washington IRVING gained European recognition as America's first genuine man of letters. A History of New York (1809) is a whimsical satire of pedantic historians and literary classics. His best-known tales, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," appeared in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, which was published serially in 1819-20. William Cullen BRYANT emerged in the 1820s as a poet of international stature. His "Thanatopsis" (1817), influ .....
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The Immigration Experience
.... aside in a cage. Another test was that of sanity. An interpreter would ask each person a few questions just to find a sensible answer to test mental stability. The last and most feared doctor checked for disease by lifting the eyelid. He scared children, and probably spread more disease than the people he checked. From an eyewitness account, his gloves were not sterile, and he did not change or even wash them between examinations. I, myself, found this disgusting, and dangerous. Then, immigrants filed into lines by nationality to be questioned. The questions scared many people. Should they tell the truth or lie. Which answer would .....
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A New World Power
.... had begun to declare independence from Spain so they were placed in these camps. Support for Cubans cause of independence affected “deep historical roots” in the US which became the main cause for war. In World War I, problems developed when the following happened:
- Germany violated the Sussex Pledge
- Arthur Zimmerman wrote a note of alliance to Mexico
- Germany sank the Lusitania
Other problems developed with nationalism and military expansion. Since the French revolution, Europe has had the idea of national in which “people of the same ethnic, language, and political ideals have the right to be an independent n .....
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The Boston Massacre
.... colonists in their thoughts on the British. But why was the Boston Massacre such a turning point for the Colonists? To answer this question one must look at the events that lead to the Boston Massacre to fully understand the state of mind that the colonists were in.
Since the end of the Seven Years War against the French, the British had gone into a great burden of debt. England finally confronted the matter when it appointed George Greenville to Prime Minister in 1763. Facing a debt that had nearly doubled since 1754, from 73 million pounds to 137 million pounds, Greenville had to find new ways to gain funds without tax .....
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Confederate States Naval Technological Advances
.... When the South began their moves on Northern Naval bases and ship yards on the James, they had no idea what they were about to unleash. After the seizing of Union shipyards, the Confederate Navy was several times stronger than it had previously been. Using the strategic positions they had gained, some good horse sense from their commanders, and a whole lot of luck, the South managed to turn the tables on the Northern water forces. CSN ships Cumberland and Pawnee were laying siege to the United States shipyard in Gosport, VA. The Confederacy was severely overpowered there and should have been defeated. However, "the spir .....
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The California Gold Rush
.... (Seidman 99). California at that time had a population of around 14,000. Not included in these estimates were the 200,000 Native Americans that lived within its borders. Prior to the Mexican War of 1846-1848, California was an isolated northerly province of Mexico. Due to the lack of a large population and association to belong to, some said, Politically, technologically, and socially, revolutions were occurring everywhere (Axon 5). The year of 1848 was the year of the revolution. There was suffering from a variety of problems, including the change from agriculture to industry and from undemocratic rule to popular electi .....
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Nuclear Physicists And The Development Of A Nuclear Bomb
.... to President F.D. Roosevelt, warning him to take action. This, and a second Einstein-Szilard letter of March 1940, joined efforts by other scientists to prod the United States government into preparing for nuclear warfare. Einstein played no other role in the nuclear bomb project, but during the war he performed useful service as a consultant for the United States Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. nd in itself."
Asked how intellectuals should respond to McCarthyism, Einstein wrote, "I can only see the revolutionary way of non-cooperation."
"Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescap .....
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