America was fractured and each state was separated by ideals and ideologies. ... In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism 1776-1820. ... There was a lot of tension between the North and South states created by the differing opinions on the topic of slavery. The North wanted to promote a gradual emancipation program to abolish slavery in the southern states. ... In addition if the North still had the intention to continue with this emancipation of the slaves then the South would break off from the rest of the Union. ...

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This war took place because the Vietnams couldn't agree on one government so they broke up into two major parts, North and the South. North Vietnam wanted to have Communism for a government under the influence of Ho Chi Minh, and the South wanted to have democracy, under the influence of the French rule. ... The First Problems The Americans came up to a dross road. ... The North Vietnamese being that they knew the land so well, set booby traps all over the place. ... Trouble Inside America Johnson, the president at that time, couldn't face that thought of being the first American p...

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The dilemma of whether or not the taking of colonies or the annexation of territories beyond the bounds of the North American land mass was congruous with previous American policies, including the Declaration of Independence, remained a major foreign policy debate between the Spanish-American War, beginning in 1898, and World War I, beginning in 1914. The truth of the matter was that expansion beyond the North American land mass was in fact a departure from earlier procedures but it was a departure that many Americans considered justifiable. ... Another difference between t...

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In America level of scare of N. ... America could not do anything about N. ... Still with help of China there are discussions between North Korea and US. Level of North Korea's scare wasn't as high as the level of terror scare was in America. ... The biggest event of the year wasn't great invention thought but huge invasion in Iraq by American troops. ...

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Later America plunged itself into a war with North Korea to protect its neighboring South Korea, this was possible through the United Nations Security Council and although many Americans lost their lives, we created a bond with the South Koreans. ... Kennedy sent 16,000 American military "advisers" to Vietnam. The southern based republic of Vietnam was in desperate need of help against the Viet Cong, which was the Communist funded North Vietnamese. ... He increased the United States troops and started a plan to bomb the North Vietnam area. ... He thinks that only America can achieve global pea...

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In the years before the war of 1812, social and economic differences between the North and the South led to sectionalism. The South was an agrarian society while the North developed an industrial society. ... American cultural identity allowed Americans to see themselves as their own nation. ... Distinct American art, literature, poetry and music developed. Americans began to dress less like Europeans. ...

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The Spanish American War is considered one of the biggest turning points in United States foreign policy. ... That is why the Spanish American War is one of the most important times for American Foreign policy. The Spanish–American War took place in 1898 between Spain and the United States, this resulted in America's intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. In 1823, President James Monroe presented the Monroe Doctrine, which stated: the United States would not tolerate efforts made by European governments to colonize the North and South America ; however, exempting Spain...

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What damage terrorism has left for us to clean up and the message it has left us in fear of is some thing that has not only changed the American people but the Government in which the American people look to for safety and reassurance. ... At 10:50 a.m., the report is proved false. 10:22 a.m.: The State and Justice departments and the World Bank are evacuated in Washington D.C. 10:28 a.m.: The North Tower of The World Trade Center collapses. 10:30 a.m.: Immigration and Naturalization Services place U.S. ... He remains firm, stating, " Theses acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the...

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Many average Americans would attribute the cause of the American Civil War to slavery, but are there other possible causes? ... When asked what caused the American Civil War, most will say that slavery caused it. ... President Abraham Lincoln never really addressed the slavery issue until support of the war started dwindling in the north. During the early days of the Civil War, he actually ordered slaves who escaped from the south to the north to be return to their owner. ... As support for abolition quickly spread throughout the north, Lincoln quickly became more agreeable to the movement...

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Subsequently, American people lost trust in government and in the political system itself. ... However, his efforts to negotiate a compromise with North Vietnam were futile. The key challenge was to force North Vietnam to consider giving the South its independence. But North Vietnamese would not even consider divided nation. Therefore, in late 1969 Nixon decided that the only way to appease Americans at home, while preserving nation's honor was to slowly withdraw American forces, reassuring South Vietnam that air power would be enough to cover the extraction; increase bombing the North ...

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Changes in America's two-party system can be broken up into five distinct systems. ... Jackson's image of the average man appealed to many Americans and created as shift in the party system, by giving a greater voice to the lower and middle class of America. The third party system came about during the American Civil War. ... The north came out as the winner and thus enjoyed the spoils of victory. ... Due to wide spread poverty in America, the nation blamed the controlling Republican party. ...

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The American people were outraged by this increase. ... He sent envoys to European, Asian, African, and Latin American capitals carrying a message of America's desire for peace. ... The president's performance was not being approved by the American public. ... Tonight, I renew the offer I made last August-to stop the bombardment of North Vietnam. ... The area in which we are stopping our attacks includes almost 90 percent of North Vietnam's populated areas, or in the food-producing areas of North Vietnam . ...

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Federal system in the United States of America: its origins. ... I n my opinion American political system conforms to all these features: u American system composed of national government and governments of 50 states. ... By the moment of Constitution ratification in Confederation became more acute the problems of slavery between north and south, economic chaos, absence of strong efficient government , that could rule the states. ... American political system has weak sides also. ... among the other associations people named America. ...

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Lincoln establishes this by using optimal diction through how he invokes a sense of togetherness and intermutual ground for both, North and South, to find a compromise. ... The optimistic tone encourages all Americans to end the Civil War and progress to tending the wounds as a nation, calling the American people to action with phrases like, "Let us all strive on to finish the work we are in" and "to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace.... Through this, Abraham Lincoln allows for his argument for uniting America to truly come full circle. Lincoln'...

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A very real "geographical Isolation" permitted the United States to "fill up the empty lands of North America free from the threat of foreign conflict." ... (Overy 261) Why risk going to war, when it is unfavorable to the American policy which most Americans were in agreement with and not mentioning the fact that the American military was in a bit of trouble. ... The health of the American economy could not be in problems. ... America was now involved in World War II. ... America's most vital interest, defense of American soil, had been challenged. ...

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Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina. ... Polk, other North Carolina born presidents. ... He then moved to Carthage, North Carolina, which is sixty miles away from Raleigh. ... His support of the Union was big in the North and not in the South. ... He was wrapped in an American flag and laid on a copy of the Constitution. ...

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The typical American citizen knows very little about American foreign policy. ... Its not that the typical American isn't capable of understanding American foreign policy, but rather that we choose not to. The typical American takes a more domestic approach to life. ... We can even choose, as most Americans do, to ignore the role that American foreign policy plays in our ability to enjoy such freedoms. ... Within the past few weeks the United States has diplomatically confronted North Korea after North Korea admitted that it has nuclear capabilities and has no intentions of disbanding...

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The Spanish American War of 1898 One hundred years ago, in 1898, the United States was fighting the Spanish-American War. ... The Spanish colonies in mainland North and South America became independent in the early 1800s, but Cuba and Puerto Rico remained Spanish. ... Spain was by this time a decaying, weak empire, and no match for a vigorous, muscular American military kept in shape by killing American Indians. ... Slowly the two American warships gained on the Colon. ... The battle between the American fleet and the Spanish Fleet was decidedly one-sided in favor of the Americans and resu...

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I will also tell you how he impacted many people in America and how he solved many problems that accrued while he was president. Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. ... He soon started his journey to the north and made a stand. ... Johnson went against the interests of his state's planter class even to the point of wanting to create a separate mountain state from the poorer upcountry regions of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. ... Most importantly, Johnson's strong commitment to obstructing political and civil rights for blacks is princip...

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Johnson broad military powers, the Vietnam War became Americanized with the first American combat troops arriving and the first continuous bombing of North Vietnam. Although never declared an official war by the United States, it was "entered" by the Americans in order to stop the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. ... Although many Americans supported this at the start of the war, as the fighting progressed it came to divide the United States as no other event had since the Civil War. ... Many returning soldiers faced apathy or antagonism from an embittered America. ...

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The court case that I have chose to represent for the seventeenth Amendment is United States v. aczel consistent with this view federal Courts declared that when local party authorities acting pursuant to Regulations prescribed by a party's state executive committee refused to Permit an African American on account of his race, to vote in a primary to Select candidates for the office of U.S. ... So that People would have even votes so that the north would not take over the North. ...

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Late Friday night, Abe Lincoln and his wife went out for the night to see Our American Cousin at the Ford Theater. ... Booth was a famous American stage actor that had some very strong political views. ... John Booth's original plan was to kidnap Abe Lincoln and turn him into the confederate army until the North had agreed to resume exchanging prisoners. ... Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated. His assassination had a long-lasting impact upon the United States, and he was mourned throughout the country in both the North and South. ...

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It was on this day that America, a long time domestic animal, went into the ocean and discovered salt. ... in the affairs of America. ... With those words a century of American internationalism was born; a century whose people, politics, and overall advancement was shaped by America's entanglements with the rest of the world. ... In 1972 Nixon was forced to send America back into the war when he bombed North Vietnam. ... Virtually paralyzed, North Vietnam retreated; the war ended, but has left an immense scar on this nation and the others involved. ...

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Before Lincoln's death, the Reconstruction after the war of America was still in progress. ... He attempted to restore the peace in the North and South with the Radical congressional leaders, however he was murdered. Andrew Johnson had to deal with the Reconstruction of America after Lincoln was assassinated. ...

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He married Sara Childress and graduated from University of North Carolina in 1818. ... James Polk's main plan for improving the country as the President was to expand America's western region. ... Following his death, thousands of Americans rushed out west to California in search of gold. ...

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