Every American president has made good and bad decisions. ... This gave the federal government the power to trade the land west of the Mississippi, which was Oklahoma, for the Indian land in the south-eastern areas. ... Many Indians, however, didn't want to leave their beautiful ancestral land in Illinois for the barren land of Oklahoma and Kansas. ... Army pressured Black Hawk into the Wisconsin territory and killed 850 of his warriors at the Battle of Bad Axe. ... This tariff was supposed to make Adams look bad because it was well known that tariffs were despised in the south and favore...

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• Grade Level: High School

Optimism is the ability for you to go on when bad things happen. ... Since we as Americans are optimistic, we don't let bad things suffocate us. ... Even our forefathers were optimistic of our future and visioned a land of freedom and equality. ... Yes, America is the land of the free. ... No matter how bad things are stretched out to be, America and its people will always bounce back into place. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the period after the War of 1812, during the so-called "Era of Good Feelings", the United States was with faced many good things, but seemed to be outweighed with bad things such as a failing economy, the beginning of sectionalism, and more issues with foreign policies, therefore the label of the "Era of Good Feelings" does not seem accurate. ... The biggest hit to the economy was by far the Panic of 1819, which stemmed from the over speculation in Western land. Over speculation occurred and people would have their land foreclosed. Once the banks owned the land, they cou...

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• Grade Level: High School

Things got so bad that there was a war between the North and South called the Civil War. ... In 1896, Harriet got some land at an auction located in Auburn, NY (not far away from here!) Eventually, she opened a home for old people on that land. ...

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"Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which land the U.S was supposed to govern.... The main reason the war happened was because in 1845 when the United States annexed Texas, which Mexico considered their land even though Texas was independent from Mexico in 1836 after the Texas Revolution. ... In my opinion, John Polk has no right to say this because because even though he is a journalist, he doesn't know how Mexico governs its land and treats its people. ... According to the Hook Exercise when it says: "For Mexico, this turned out to...

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• Grade Level: High School

They were delayed because of bad weather. ... With fresh troops and the Confederates tired the union reclaimed the land they lost. ... They also needed to win so they could take back the land they lost in Tennessee. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the video you could see what things looked like, such as: the geography of the land, what the soldiers looked like, how they dressed, what a battle field looked like after a battle, and what their artillery looked like. ... It makes you realize how bad things actually were back in those days. ...

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Finally seeing that his state was in bad shape John C. ... The third and Fourth parts were tied into each other, the third part was that Land in dispute between New Mexico and Texas would go to New Mexico and for giving up this land Texas would receive 10 million dollars. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The 1850's in American History were a time of turmoil because of the sectionalism between the North and the South due to the increasing problem of slavery in the territories. The Compromise of 1850 was supposed to be a way for both the North and the South to get what they wanted. The Compromise woul...

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As a die-hard abolitionist, He wanted to show the world how bad slavery really was. ... "I remember thinking that God was angry with the white people because of their slave holding wickedness, and therefore his judgments were abroad in the land" (Douglass, 89) Douglass became educated through his own means. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The reason that this was such a bad idea is that it is in the upper portion of the South's territory right next to Washington D.C the Union's Capital. ... He wanted his generals to fight their way up into the North's territory which even if they had of managed to take a large portion of land from the Union there was no way that they could have kept it....

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The 1831 slave narrative The History of Mary Prince is indeed a multi-layered text. Transcribed from Mary Prince's own words, it was written as abolitionist propaganda for England's Anti-Slavery Society. Yet, the autobiography's complexities make it difficult to examine solely as a publicity piece....

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• Has Bibliography
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The Reconstruction Era is called one of America's most controversial periods. A lot of social and congressional changes happened during this period of time. Many books have been written on this subject, but I have chosen these two authors Kenneth M. Stampp and George Clemenceau. The Era of Recon...

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• Grade Level: High School