Native American children had to sit and watch as their parents were being massacred and know that they were next. ... In 1865 the settlers tried to invade Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, in the Powder River Invasion. ... In 1868, at the Medicine Lodge the Cheyenne, the Kiowas, the Comanches, and the Arapos all agreed to live in a reservation just below the Powder River. ... He was then invited to the White House to sign the Treaty of 1868, which would allow them to move back to Powder River. ... The Indians refused to sell the Powder River, On March 17, 1875, the U.S. attacked the Sioux and Cheyen...

• Word Count: 1920
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... There were four million men, women, and children in slavery. ... But, in the state of Louisiana it was against the law to separate children under the age of 11 years old from their parents. ... It was against the law for slaves to read, write and name their children after themselves. ... If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. ...

• Word Count: 1311
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Angela is grief stricken, her husband turns once more to drink, and the children, the eldest of whom is six, have to fend for themselves. ... They move into one room, and before too long the two youngest children, twins, have both died. ... The family moves from the room to a terraced house next to the river, although hovel is a more apt description. ... However, one day he finds the money-lender dead at home so he steals her money and throws the debtors' book into the river. ... "Consumption," pneumonia, and typhoid are rampant; children go to school barefoot or in pieces of flopping ru...

• Word Count: 3537
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

These children did not always go peacefully to the new life of an indentured servant or apprentice. Children were lured to go aboard a ship and the results had to be heartbreaking to say the least. ... Within the Quaker society, children were treated as valuable members of the family. When children were placed in other families, they were cared for as members of that family. ... While the group was isolated in the Delaware River Valley, they had considerable influence in the government of Pennsylvania from 1681 to the 1750s. ...

• Word Count: 2129
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

During the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era (GAPE), many atrocities were directed towards African-American people. This period of history was one of the great advances. The nation was making incredible advancements in industry, science, and the settlement of the frontier. America was growing...

• Word Count: 802
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

When they came to America, they believed that communicating with God should be done as individuals so they taught all children to read and write. ... The English started the Northern colonies, the German settlers went to Pennsylvania, the Dutch settled in New York, the Swedes lived along the Delaware River, and the French Huguenots lived in the Hudson Valley of the colony of New York. ...

• Word Count: 855
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Sol was born on Oahu in 1902, and was one of twenty-one children. ... Shortly thereafter the Blues worked its way up the Mississippi River and along the Blues Highway 61. ... They talked about poverty and hard times, sexuality, street children, lost loves, and oppression. ...

• Word Count: 1380
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Although Jeanne's family had some typical Japanese traditions, none of the children spoke any Japanese. ... His tribe, the Pima Indian tribe, lived on a reservation located south of Phoenix on the Gila River. ... With no privacy or father figure to keep all the members of the family together, Jeanne lost sense of her heritage as did many other children in the camps. ...

• Word Count: 3609
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Consequently, in 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, providing for the transplanting of all Indian tribes then east of the Mississippi River, to what is present day Oklahoma. ... Eventually these settlements were not only trading posts but also actual settlements with women and children, and soon became small towns and even cities. ... During the war the Creeks attacked in the south but Andrew Jackson led an army seeking revenge against the tribe and slaughtered the Creek warriors, and even women and children. ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

For Americans, this transition is ambiguous, in that at no single point are American children considered officially adults. ... The Okiek peoples of the Narok District of Kenya, Africa hold a series of ceremonies in which Okiek children officially become young adults in the community. ... They are also said to be "like children" (83), which downplays their strengths and bravery shown throughout the initiation. ... During much of the process, the children are secluded from everyone but each other and the leader, who is responsible for guiding and teaching them during this time. ... When t...

• Word Count: 3412
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, t...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

Between the Missouri River and California there lay plains, mountains, and desert ready for development. ... This would include preparing meals, taking care of the children, and keeping up with the household chores. ...

• Word Count: 2185
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School