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- 5001: The United States Completed Manifest Destiny At The Cost Of The Mexican Government
- The United States Completed Manifest Destiny At The Cost Of The Mexican Government The Mexican-American war lasted two years, and ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadeloupe on February 2 1848. The United States had succeeded in winning the war. With the Treaty of Guadeloupe the United States ... expansion policies and Mexican fear for the United States. The Americans saw Manifest Destiny, westward expansion, as there God given right. The United States proved often that it supported policy of expansion. With the Mexican-American war, the United States completed it's Manifest Destiny. The United States completed Manifest Destiny at the cost of the Mexican government and its people.
- 5002: William Clark's Slave York
- William Clark's Slave York The names Lewis and Clark have been branded into history, along with Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who helped guide their expedition across the uncharted American continent. How about York? Remember him? If not, you're not alone. York was a slave - the property of Capt. William Clark. Now a group of historians says York has not been given the attention ... s history and yet hardly anybody knows him,'' said James Holmberg, curator of special collections at the Filson Club Historical Society in Louisville, Ky. York is believed to be the first black to cross the American continent. Yet there are no coins or stamps with his image. There is one known statue of York, standing on a bluff at the University of Portland, where he overlooks the long Columbia River valley ...
- 5003: The Turning Point of the Civil War
- The Turning Point of the Civil War Gettysburg was the turning point in the American Civil War. It was a battle that would change the future of the Civil War. The stage was set for an immense struggle at Gettysburg after the May 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville. The Battle of Gettysburg was a prolonged three day, bloody battle, a decisive engagement in that it was a serious fight between the two major American cultures of their time: the North and the South, it ended the Confederates' second and last major invasion of the North and it was a missed chance for the North to end the war. General ...
- 5004: Our Country And The Affect of Changes
- Our Country And The Affect of Changes Change, for the better, or for the worst. Generally, when I change it's for the better, yet the whole world doesn't think like me. In the American Heritage Dictionary, (which should be even more precise, since the subject at hand is U.S. History) it is stated that change is: to be or cause to be different, alter (p116). There are an ... for which was a change for the worst. The Treaty of Guadalpe Hidalgo is a transparent example of change during the Age of Reform and Manifest Destiny. This treaty signified the end of the Mexican-American War and the U.S. also gained territory (p288). Our nation war changing rapidly, physically and mentally. The U.S. was getting a lot bigger, and with the inspiration of manifest destiny we were running ...
- 5005: The Boston Massacre
- ... British started firing wildly. Other weapons were clubs, knives, swords, and a popular weapon, your own bare hands. The people that died are: Crispus Attacks, one of the more famous people who was an African American sailor, Samuel Gray, a worker at rope walk, James Caldwell, a mate on a American ship, Samuel Maverick, who was a young seventeen year old male, and Patrick Carr, a feather maker. The purpose of the Boston Massacre was to try to make liberal and moderate people become radicals. It ...
- 5006: The Boston Massacre
- ... British started firing wildly. Other weapons were clubs, knives, swords, and a popular weapon, your own bare hands. The people that died are: Crispus Attacks, one of the more famous people who was an African American sailor, Samuel Gray, a worker at rope walk, James Caldwell, a mate on a American ship, Samuel Maverick, who was a young seventeen year old male, and Patrick Carr, a feather maker. The purpose of the Boston Massacre was to try to make liberal and moderate people become radicals. It ...
- 5007: Analyze the Triumph and Tragedy of the Manhattan Project
- Analyze the Triumph and Tragedy of the Manhattan Project The making of American's first atomic bomb was a long and triumphant journey. The United States set out on the development because of fear-fear that the Nazi Germany would develop the bomb first which would then use ... Now it's being readied for possible use on Japan. U.S. strategists told the president that the invasion of Japan would take one year or more and would cost at least half a million American and several million Japanese lives. Secretary Stimson pointed out that the Japanese would likely to fight to their death to preserve honor. However, the US decided to give Japan the choice to choose. At the ...
- 5008: The Broadcast of "War of the World" in 1938
- ... the president. Over in Europe, Adolf Hitler had taken control and was looking towards invading more countries and terrorizing more people. President Roosevelt was debating whether to go to war or not. Most of the American people did not go to war, but some of them did. Many Americans had relatives in Germany or in Czechoslovakia. Everyone was extremely worried and stressed out due to war threats and viewed everything that ... were landing and would be impossible for them to survive. They were striding towards getting a job and supporting their family, but their hopes and dreams were being shattered by the threat of Martians. The American citizens in 1938 were hit with an onslaught of depressing and nerve-racking situations. Two of these Americans decided to create a cartoon character named Superman. He had the strength to lift any object. To ...
- 5009: Depression of the 1930s
- Depression of the 1930s The economic depression that beset the United States and other countries in the 1930s was unique in its magnitude and its consequences. At the depth of the depression, in 1933, one American worker in every four was out of a job. In other countries unemployment ranged between 15 percent and 25 percent of the labor force. The great industrial slump continued throughout the 1930s, shaking the foundations ... the Depression (1987); Mitchell, Broadus, Depression Decade, 1931-1941 (1977); Rothbard, Murray N., America's Great Depression (1975; repr. 1983); Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., The Age of Roosevelt, 2 vols. (1959); Swados, Harvey, ed., The American Writer and the Great Depression (1966); Wecter, Dixon, Age of the Great Depression, 1929-1941 (1971).
- 5010: Son of Dallas Cop Says Dad Was 1 of 3 Who Shot Kennedy
- ... questions in May 1988. "I'm telling you a story that has touched me, not only others, and I feel uncomfortable just telling it to strangers," White said during a recent interview with the Austin American-Statesman. Monday in Dallas, White is scheduled to show reports material implicating his father, Roscoe Anthony White, in the 1963 assassination. It suggests that White, who died in 1971, was a member of an assassination ... FAMILY TROUBLE AND DEATH By early 1970, Roscoe and Geneva White were a deeply troubled couple and sought help, said the Rev. Jack Shaw, their Baptist minister in Dallas. During a recent interview with the American-Statesman, Shaw said Roscoe White told him at the time that he and his family were "in danger." White confessed to leading "a double life," the minister says, "and I knew something was not right ...
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