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- 12161: Biographical Influences in The Great Gatsby
- ... her. This also takes place in The Great Gatsby. Daisy secretly fell in love with Jay Gatsby, and also makes him prove to her that he can make enough money for her to keep her high-class financial status. Even though she doesn't leave her husband for Jay Gatsby, he does become one of the "rich."() Jay Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald were both deeply in love and spent an ...
- 12162: Bacons Rebellion
- ... area and moving inward. The tidewater gentleman or Jamestown elite taxed and controlled the Jamestown elite meaning that they dominated all of the taxation and trades so the were able to tax these men very high and exploit money from them causing these lower class people to be poorer. However in the dog eat dog cycle were the Indians were cheated and taken advantage of by the Frontiersman and these men ...
- 12163: The Battle of Saratoga
- ... But, darkness ended the days fighting and saved Burgoynes army from immediate disaster. That night the British commander left his campfires burning and withdrew his troops behind the Great Redoubt, which protected that high ground and river flats at the northeast corner of the battlefield. The next night, the British began their retreat northward. They had suffered 1,000 casualties in the fighting of the past three weeks; American ...
- 12164: Jane Addams and The Hull House
- ... living in the overcrowded tenements. Urban Chicago women were required to work long hours because of the economic conditions leaving their small children unsupervised and forcing older children to scrounge for themselves and to leave school and work. Women were always in fear of losing their jobs and the little pay were harder to bear than the work itself. Schooling was inadequate, and teachers were scornful of children who could not ...
- 12165: The Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine
- ... the best answer, since to live in America there was a need to trade and ship in freedom. He declared: My belief, gentleman, is that this nation can go its own way and it is high time to say so. This affords a suitable and convenient opportunity to take our stand against the Holy Alliance, and at the same time to decline the overture from Great Britain. It would be more ...
- 12166: The United States' Involvement In World War 2
- ... darkness that protected the fighters also obscured the target; and ended up killing thousands of German civilians. It proved to be mostly ineffective. The United States on the other hand, entered the war with a high altitude strategy of daylight precision bombing. (Sulzberger, 423) The United States used over 700 planes in 3 shifts while bombing the Germans. The raids concentrated on the Rhine and Rhur industrial areas of Germany. They ...
- 12167: The Disadvantages and Advantages of the War of Independence
- ... also had funding from the British government. It seemed as though it was going to be an easy victory. The Americans had the odds against them but they still put up a fight. They had high morality and a lot of heart. They used gorilla warfare that they learned from the Indians. They had a leader with devotion to his colonies and its cause. They got aid from the French ...
- 12168: The Iron Horse: The Impact Of Railroads On 19th Century America
- ... a trip from the Atlantic to Pacific by rail , Robert Louis Stevenson once said: "not only I , but all passengers on board threw off their sense of dirt and neat and wilderness, and bawled like school boys, and thronged with shining eyes upon the platform and became new creatures within and without." The railroad gave people a chance to explore the west "with no beginnings or ends" or start a new ...
- 12169: The Stamp Act
- ... The tax was basically levied on all legal and commercial documents and printed materials. Although this was an unfair to the American colonists, it was enforced equally among all classes of society. All men of high or low rank spoke out against the act and did not think it was fair. This was a matter that affected almost all Americans in all colonies. Many opposed the tax because they were unable ...
- 12170: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
- ... members, And made one and a half million dollars from the sale of robes, ritual equipment and other paraphernalia. It was only ten dollars for a membership. A 1924 estimate of its membership was as high as 3 million. In 1944 the Klan formally split up when it was unable to pay taxes owed the federal government. After World War II, widespread public sentiment developed for the suppression of the organization ...
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