The Journey Of Lewis And Clark
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the expedition to explored the uncharted Northwest. During the expedition,
Clark was a mapmaker, artist, and astronomer for the expedition, and kept a
valuable diary.
Clark went on to serve as governor 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. .....
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The Boston Massacre
.... Paul Revere wasted no time in
capitalizing on the Massacre to highlight British tyranny and stir up anti-
British sentiment among his fellow colonists. As you will see, Revere's
historic engraving 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 en .....
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Jews In America And Their History
.... they moved up to business positions in
the south, midwest, and on the west coast. New York City had 85,000 Jews by
1880, most of which had German roots. At this time in American history, the
government 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 t .....
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The Battle Of Gettysburg
.... the American Civil War, was organized at Portland, Maine, during August,
1862, and was officially mustered into Federal military service there on
August 29, 1862. The 20th Maine consisted of 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 .....
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The Vietname War In "America's Australia: Australia's America" And "Into The Dark House"
.... In keeping with the main focus of the War,
American involvement, McMahon deals with this concept in fourteen tightly
written and easily comprehendable Chapters. This results in identifying the
problems 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 o .....
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The Causes Of The Civil War: Slavery, Economics, Or Constitutional Differences
.... slavery was to each side, and it gives us a good idea of why
it could be important as one of their goals during the Civil War. With
slavery in mind, it brought about ideas of succession to the South.
Because 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. T .....
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Life In The British Colonies
.... market and brought back imports in Conetoga wagons. A Conestoga wagon
is a big covered wagon.
The county seats were developed in the southern colonies. A county
seat is a main town in each county. 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 impo .....
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The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy Or Single-gunman?
.... Harvey Oswald, a former U.S.
Marine, at a nearby theater. By the next morning, Oswald was booked for
the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed
by Jack Ruby, a Dallas 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 witn .....
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The South's Finest Hour: The Battle Of Chancellorsville
.... or face the threat behind him. Here,
Lee made one of the boldest, most brilliant moves of the war.
Lee completely split up his army. He left only 10,000 Confederates
to defend against the 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 Wi .....
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The Issue Of Slavery In The Westward Expansion
.... to be fantasy. This
method of thinking and the Northwest Ordinance started our young country
down the dark road that would end in the War of the Rebellion.
Extension of slavery next became an argument 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 o .....
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The Salem Witch Trials
.... since even dolls were considered to play a part in witchery.
Many people believed that witchcraft was the use of magic powers,
generally to harm people or to damage their property. A witch 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 .....
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New Jersey During The Revolution
.... engagements, skirmishes, raids, etc. involving regular
troops, militia units and loyalist units, and many actions off the coast of
sea vessels.
Washington's troops crossed NJ from NY in 1776, 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
Revolu .....
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Conditions Of The Slaves As They Were Brought To America And Why Slavery
.... 1700 Africans were arriving in the colonies in huge amounts.
Most Africans came from the western coast and western Africa. They
came from many different ethnic groups and therefore spoke different
languages, which made it very hard for the Africans to communicate with one
another. Their only way of communication was a common music stile which
they all shared. Lineage was very important to the Africans. Many
families were separated which was one of the worst things for them.
The Africans were expo .....
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Analyze The Triumph And Tragedy Of The Manhattan Project
.... that had held the bomb and created a crater 1,200 feet across. The
triumph of scientific creativity and genius entered us into the new Nuclear
Age.
President Roosevelt died of a stroke before he see the success of
the Trinity (the code name for the test of the first atomic bomb) in July
1945. Vice President Harry S Truman became the thirty-third president of
the United States. At the time, Truman didn't know anything on the
Manhattan Project, but he sought to carry out Roosevelt's plans.
Roose .....
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The Manhattan Project
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fulfill my interest.
The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort during
World War II to produce the atomic bomb. It was appropriately named for
the Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, because
much of the early research was done in New York City (Badash 238). Sparked
by refugee physicists in the United States, the program was slowly
organized after nuclear fission was discovered by German scientists in 1938,
and many US scientists expressed .....
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