The History Of The Panama Canal
.... it. Nothing came of this
effort, however, and the revolt of the Spanish colonies soon took the
control of possible canal sites out of Spanish hands. The republics of
Central America instead tried to interest groups in the United States and
Europe in building a canal, and it became the subject of debate in the US
Congress. The discovery of gold in California in 1848, and the rush of
would-be miners stimulated US interest in digging the canal. Various
surveys made between 1850 and 1875 indicated that only tw .....
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Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan Of Union
.... went back to the Ohio Valley as a
major who was leading a company of militia. A few miles south of the
French Fort Duquesne, he built Fort Necessity. Fort Duquesne was located
where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join to form the Ohio River.
There was a battle fought at Fort Necessity on July 4, 1754 in which a
small force of French and Indian Troops defeated Washington and his troops.
The French were now securely established along a line of spread out
points from the Great Lakes south .....
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Our Country And The Affect Of Changes
.... Americans wanted
to have a new form of government. They were fed up with the British's way
of running things they decided to take matters into their own hands. By
demanding the British to step aside, they were changing their form of
government, and symbolically, a whole lot more. This document also states
some changes the people wanted to see in their rights(p110-111). This
immediately points to the fact that the Americans desired to change their
way of life. This choice the people made in supporti .....
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The Manhattan Project
.... to actually 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. 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 the fear that Hitler wo .....
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The Declaration Of Independence
.... was unanimously elected by a
Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence.
Jefferson Took to work at his desk in the attic of a brick layer's
house where he was staying while in Philadelphia. As a distinguished
writer Jefferson knew just what needed to go into his document, he took the
feelings of the people of the 13 colonies and put them into his words. He
addressed the reasons for our independence, which he listed in a set of
complaints to the King of England, even though Jefferson knew that .....
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The Gold Rush
.... of success Sutter wanted more. He was soon
due to get much more. In 1848 Sutter decided to increase his wealth with a
saw mill. On January, 24,1848, during construction of the mill, one of
Sutter's carpenters, James Marshall, saw something glistening. He picked
it up,examined it, and picked up a few more. He was sure he had found gold.
James Marshall took a 40 mile journey to Sacramento where Sutter
was dwelling, and told him about his fabulous discovery.The rise of the
gold rush
Word got ou .....
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Significant Presidential Decisions
.... president considered before making
the decision he did was to simply ignore the issue, keep the present
involvement with Vietnam the way it was, or he could decrease involvement
with Vietnam. Well, luckily the president did in fact reach the decision of
aiding South Vietnam, otherwise Vietnam would most likely become two
separate nations. There were many people supporting the presidents decision,
as well as opposing people. There were American citizens who supported his
decision and American citizens opp .....
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The Invasion Of Panama
.... 69). This meant they
wanted to protect the lives of the 35,000 U.S. citizens in Panama from attacks
by Noriega's Panama Defense Force or PDF; they also wanted to protect the lives
of Americans at home by attempting to eliminate drug trafficking. Second, they
wanted to "protect American interests and rights under the Panama Canal Treaty"
(Watson 69). This could be done by abolishing Noriega's control of the workers
who operate the canal, and his control of the canal itself. Third, they wanted
to "res .....
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CIA Covert Operations: Panama And Nicaragua
.... have lost their lives to these actions. By 1980, covert
operations were costing billions of dollars. CIA Director William Casey was
quoted as saying “covert actions were the keystone of U.S. policy in the Third
World.”(Agee, 2) Throughout the CIA's 45 years, one president after another has
used covert operations to intervene secretly, and sometimes not so secretly , in
the domestic affairs of other countries, presuming their affairs were ours.
Almost always, money was spent for activities to prop up po .....
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The Civil War
.... April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from his box in Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. The one man who might have brought about a just peace was dead. The Civil War had solved some old problems for the United States. But it created some new problems as well. But many of the problems created by the Civil War have been solved. Towns have been rebuilt, new industries flourish, and new school .....
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Romanticism
.... the outlook of reality versus illusion took its course!
Romanticism is the belief in religion, beauty, pursuit in individualism and striving for personal freedom. It is also, considered to be a particular kind of fiction that demonstrates allegory(more than one meaning in stories or poems that ends with ambiguous notions). Overall, Romanticism states imagination above all else. A period with good perspective for the future and roots based on religion.
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I Have A Dream
.... presidents actions to bring about more civil rights in the past. Second, Dr. King uses a similar style of speech that Lincoln used in his Proclamation address such as the use of the word “score” instead of saying twenty years. In the introduction, Dr. King also gives a chronological history of the negro through the course of time in an effort to point out that blacks have not come very far in terms of freedom.
Throughout the body of his speech he gives a feeling of urgency that this problem nee .....
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The Great Depression
.... Ramsey MacDonald and his government, a group called the “National Coalition Government of Conservatives, Labourites and Liberals”, stated several ideas which together would cause a solution to the falling financial and industrial markets. Great Britain first off closed their market from others, forcing the people to purchase their products rather than ones from other countries. Great Britain thought that if they could the costs of productions were reduced then more people would be willing to buy more .....
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The Battle Of Gettysburg
.... "explored" for much needed supplies to continue the Southern offensive. While looking in Gettysburg, Pettigrew's brigade spotted Burford's cavalry on a ridge a mile west of town.
The Battle of Gettysburg began on July 1 with Confederate troops attacking that Union cavalry division on McPherson Ridge, west of town. Out-numbered, the Union forces managed to hold, and even drive the Confederate army back, after the addition of John Reynold's Infantry division (and Reynold's subsequent death on the front .....
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The History Of The Pony Express
.... telegraph meet at Fort Bridger in Utah territory. The first transcontinental telegraph was sent from San Fransico to Washington. The message was from the states Chief Justice to President Lincoln.
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/travel/pony1.html
The telegraph line only went as far west as St. Joseph, Missouri in 1860. It was 2,000 miles from St. Joseph to the west coast as Sacramento, California. It took over months for messages to be carried by ships, wagon trains, or stage coaches to r .....
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