Salem Witch Trials
.... minds of nearly all the people, and the dread made the affliction spread widely. "The afflicted, under the influence of the witchery, "admitted to see the forms of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted and the accused became so numerous thatno one was safe from suspicion and its consequences. Even those who were active in the prosecutions became objects of suspicion.
Revenge often impelled perso .....
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What Is Meant By The Era Of Good Feelings
.... to achieve a government of national unity. Through his efforts he hoped to counter-act the rising feelings of sectionalism. His cabinet reflects this attitude. Representing the North he appointed John Quincy Adams (a Federalist) as secretary of state. To represent the South he appointed John C. Calhoun as secretary of war. In an attempt to create a government of unification, a major problem is encountered, the issue of slavery. In 1819 the number of slave and free states was equal. Then, Missouri .....
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African Americans In The Civil War
.... enlist Blacks as soldiers as he did. Whereas the later was the Black Man’s will to fight for his freedom and prove himself as equal as any White man. However, because the Black population was stopped from entering the army under a 1792 law, the Black Man becoming a soldier was not officially noticed until late 1862. 1
“There was strong anti-black prejudice among most people in the free states, and in the loyal slave states the idea of arming the Black Man was anthema”. 2This statement talks about th .....
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The Effects Of The French And Indian War
.... to a boycott by the colonists. The Tea act which gave the East Indian Tea company a monopoly on tea. And The coercive Acts, which led the upper legislative chamber of govtermant to be appointed rather than elected. These laws passed by England made the colonists furious because it took away their rights to choose what kind of tea they liked or pick who they thought fit to be in the legislature. This led to a rising level of political tension between the colonists and the mother country. These tensions .....
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The Salem Witch Trials: First Person Point Of View
.... the rest of us in the forest. We were all as guilty as she was, yet it was so easy to hold her responsible. I can’t believe that we would do something like that.
I regret so much of what happened. I wish that I could go back to that day and have put and end to the horrible things that were going to come. Abigail was so persistent and intimidating, and no one wanted to go against her. We were all too afraid that if we had said something, then she would have killed us. I feel that Abigail is the .....
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The History Of General Motors Corp.
.... he could build a horse drawn carriage from the ground up. In the early 1900's a neighbor watched as Durant built these carriages and offered to buy it once he had finished. Durant was building that particular one for himself but promised to put his neighbor on a list and build him one next. His popularity grew and along with it so did his wealth. He became wealthy enough that in 1908 he began his own company and named it the General Motors. Instead of just making horse drawn carriages he started .....
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The Debut Of Television In America
.... America. This is when television began to take the nation by storm.
Television slowly started to take over the lives of many. Families became less “family oriented”; family time, for the most part, was now spent in front of the TV. Dinner time, which used to be an important part of the day when many families came together, was now being spent apart, in front of the television. I suppose it could be concluded that from this, TV dinners came about; a quick and easy way to make a half way decent .....
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Native American Genocide
.... political, or cultural group” or the killing of a people. When genocide is spoke of, most people think of the Holocaust, or the troubles in Bosnia, but not all people realize that the Native Americans went through their own “genocide” except theirs wasn’t as outspoken and not as public as the others. Their silent genocide if you will has a twisted tale that begins as far back as when Europeans first landed on the Americas and up to the signning of the Constitution and persevered until this very day.
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Between The Wars: 1919-1941
.... Warren G. Harding, a man who, himself, condemned the United States joining the League of Nations, held the Washington Naval Conference. In this meeting of Asian and European countries, the United States actively participated in three treaties to begin to ease the tension already forming in the Pacific. In 1932, when the League of Nations proposed an economic boycott against Japan for reparation of the occupancy of Manchuria, President Hoover refused to participate, in fear of involvement in an Asian wa .....
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Slavery And The South
.... to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on 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 ban .....
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Events Leading To The American Revolution
.... strengthen the grip of the English crown. "I.That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain." This statement can be used as a summation of the entire document that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated. The statement depicts the colonists has having to be submissive and servile in the view of Great Britain, this po .....
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The Civil War
.... Federalize than Confederates “crossed over.”
The South had superior officer personnel. For twenty years before Lincoln’s inauguration, southern officers had dominated the US Army. Another source of southern confidence was cotton. Secession leaders expected to exchange that staple for the foreign manufactured goods they needed.
The South’s most important advantage was that it had only to defend relatively short interior lines against invaders who had to deal with long lines of communication and to atta .....
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Ground War In The Persian Gulf
.... urging, Israel stayed out of the fighting and accepted U.S.-manned Patriot antimissile batteries. The Patriot intercepted or partially destroyed many of the approximately 85 missiles that Iraq fired against Saudi Arabia and Israel.
President Bush's decision to terminate the ground war at midnight February 28 was criticized for allowing Baghdad to rescue a large amount of military equipment and personnel that were later used to suppress the postwar rebellions of its Shiite and Kurdish citizens. In .....
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Civil War
.... General, and the war continued. This paper will follow the happenings and events between the winter of 1864-65 and the surrender of The Confederate States of America. All of this will most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy.
CUTTING OFF THE SOUTH
In September of 1864, General William T. Sherman and his army cleared the city of Atlanta of its civilian population then rested ever so briefly. It was from there that General Sherman and his army began its famous " .....
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The War Of 1812
.... Queenston Heights, York, Lake Champlain, Lundy's Lane, Lake Erie, Raisin River Massacre, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., New Orleans.
The War of 1812 affected not only the United States, but Canada and Great Britain as well. In Great Britain, the war did not have a strong effect on the country. Although the United States was declared to be the winners of many of the wars which took place during the War of 1812, the Royal Navy was quite successful in maintaining it's blockade of the American Co .....
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