Farmers' Discontent In The 1800s
.... shortages and the
demonetization of silver as threats to their way of life, though in many
cases their complaints were not valid.
The growth of the railroad was one of the most significant
elements in American economic growth. However, in many ways, the railroads
hurt small shippers and farmers. Extreme competition between rail
companies necessitated some way to win business. To do this, many
railroads offered rebates and drawbacks to larger shippers who used their
rails. However, this practice h .....
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The Nation’s Sectional Discord And The Unity Within The Nation
.... remarkably simple. Why not divide the Congress into two houses? In one house (the Senate) each state, regardless of population, would have the same number of representatives. In the other house (the House of Representatives) each member would represent the same number of people. ‘Quite appropriately this came to be called the Great Compromise. Other major compromises came on slavery and on the control of commerce. The southern states, where the slaves were really treated as property, still wanted the slav .....
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It Was For The Best: The Long Island Railroad Massacre
.... Carolyn McCarthy’s son Kevin, was among the passengers who were wounded and her dead husband Dennis was found slumped over his lap. Kevin was the most severely wounded of the survivors. He was left partially paralyzed as a result of the Long Island Railroad Massacre.
The mass killing that went on in that commuter train was a tragedy with such extreme dimensions that, yet despite all the misfortune the outcome had an optimistic effect on the life of Carolyn McCarthy. A few years after the illogical act .....
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Hostile Takeover Of The New World
.... spirit throughout America. The tale is a sad one, one that Americans should not be proud of. After every broken treaty, the Americans blamed the Indians for existing, despite the want of the Indians to simply live on their lands peacefully.
The "Trail of Tears" was a great tragedy and many thought it would be the last now that all of the Indians were out of the eastern United States. But the U.S. government became land hungry and due to their idealism of "Manifest Destiny," the "Trail of Tears" was on .....
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Willie Lynch’s Speech
.... He listed several differences among the slaves and created his own form of conditioning. He used fear, distrust and envy as his unconditioned stimulus to create a controlled response, which would lead to an obedient slave. His objective was to turn the slaves with visible differences in color, age, size and intelligence against one another. Turning slaves against one another would redirect any negative attention towards slave owners. Like chapter 6 Willie Lynch claims that if you expose a slave, in t .....
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The Battle Of Saratoga
.... and gradually forced the Americans to withdraw.
Shaken by this American victory, the British commander ordered his troops to lodge in the surroundings of the farm area and wait for support from Clinton, in the south. They waited for almost three weeks, but he didn’t come. By now Burgoyne’s situation was tough. He was now facing a growing American army without help from the south, and their supplies were rapidly diminishing. They grew weaker every day. Burgoyne had to choose between advancing or retr .....
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Importance Of The American Revolution
.... faces and wore strange costumes. This surprised the British and it also led to what is now known as the Boston Massacre. This massacre included some angry civilians and four ill-tempered British soldiers. With all these events occurring it angered the Americans so much that they waged war with Britain. The first battle of the American Revolution took place in Lexington, Massachusetts. There were many soldiers awaiting the first shot of the revolution, then suddenly a shot came from the dead silen .....
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The Constitution: Discord And Tension In 1850
.... that have made history, it was remarkably simple. Why not divide the Congress into two houses? In one house (the Senate) each state, regardless of population, would have the same number of representatives. In the other house (the House of Representatives) each member would represent the same number of people. ‘Quite appropriately this came to be called the Great Compromise. Other major compromises came on slavery and on the control of commerce. The southern states, where the slaves were really treated as p .....
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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How miserable that Man is that Governs a people where six parts of seaven at least are poore Endebted
Discontented and Armed”.
He states that of all the people in Virginia the majority of people are poor and has no land that is sufficient. They
have no money not to consider that most of them owe people money, for example in the case of indentured servants that are
poor and owe work to there masters and freed indentured servants who have not gotten their land they were promised. This is
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The Beginning Of A Journey
.... in 1803 for a visionary project that was to become one of American history's greatest adventure stories. Jefferson wanted to know if Americans could journey overland to the Pacific Ocean following two rivers, the Missouri and the Columbia, which flow east and west from the Rocky Mountains. If the sources of the rivers were nearby, Jefferson reasoned that American traders would have a superior transportation route to help them compete with British fur companies pressing southward from Canada.
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Aaron Burr And Alexander Hamilton's Duel
.... On June 18, 1804 Burr penned an epistle to Hamilton that enclosed a challenge to battle a duel. He included with the dispatch, a replica of the article enclosing the annotations. Burr demanded “a prompt and unqualified acknowledgment or denial” of the “despicable opinion” credited to Hamilton. The code for gentlemen at the time demanded that Hamilton respond to Burr if he wanted people to acknowledge his remarks. If Hamilton wanted to break away from conflict, he would have to openly testify that Burr w .....
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Alexander Hamilton And The National Debt
.... The protective tariff plan was a plan that didn't work. It was supposed to place a tax on imported goods, in hopes of protecting American manufacturers. Congress did not pass this bill. This did not stop Hamilton. He came up with another plan to raise money, an excise tax on distilled liquors. Congress adopted this proposal, but probably wished they had not. The proposal was very unpopular, so unpopular that it caused a rebellion. Out of all these strategies the one that had an impact on the dev .....
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The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
.... acre Hopi reservation; one degree latitude by one degree longitude, hence its original square shape. The executive order was intended to alleviate local land conflicts among the tribes and to establish a protected homeland for the Hopi. Instead, it effectively set the stage for a convoluted century-long dispute.
From 1882 on, no real problems occurred until one of the world's densest deposits of accessible coal - representing about $10 billion in revenue - was discovered in the 1950s beneath land occ .....
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Jim Jones And The Peoples Temple
.... to take place. He started preaching that the end of the world is coming band it will end in a nuclear war. To keep members he told them Ukiah was the safest place to be if a nuclear war broke out, but then as the Temple grew he moved to Los Angeles. When suspicions were raised by newspapers on how Jim Jones was condoning illegal activities he moved again as far as he could get from the outside world.
When Jones decided to move to the lush jungle of Guyana no one questioned him they seemed happy on t .....
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The First Battle Of Bull Run
.... commander of the Union Army of the Potomac had 31,000 men in Washington. General Beauergard of the Confederate Army had 20,000 troops camped around Manassas Junction.
To the north, near Harriers Ferry, Confederate General Joseph Johnston with 9,000 soldiers faced off with Union General Patterson who was dug in with 18,000 troops. These are forces that would be involved in the First Battle of Bull Run.
On July 18, 1861, General McDowell’s Army of the Potomac marched from Washington toward Manas .....
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