History Extra Credit Essay It has been said that,Early United States foreign policy was primarily a defensive reaction to perceived or actual threats from Europe.? ... Washington also said that America needed at least a generation without interference from Europe to grow and if America was to enter a war now it would be a catastrophe. Jefferson and Hamilton argued and almost ever issue yet they both agreed on the tactic of delay, therefore in 1793 Washington presented the Neutrality Proclamation. ... The Proclamation showed a defensive reaction after a threat of war from Europe because...

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Even though America had the highest literacy rate in the world in the early 1800's, the country had no statewide system of free, public elementary schools. ... Furthermore, Emma Willard held seminars in the North that trained female teachers in math, physics, history, and geography. ... " These ideas were gathered from his tour of eight European countries. ... " Some prisons in America were simply, "holes in the ground," (American History: Connecting with the Past). ... "I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane and idiotic men and women" she sa...

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History trends have shown us the effects, social cost, policies and interventions that this population of individuals has encountered in the United States. ... History of Underage Drinking It is said that under age drinking has been a problem for adolescents for many years. ... History has shown how the legal age for drinking changed from 18 to 21 over thirty years ago. ... They have changed the law, do to European standards. ... According to Doweiko, alcoholism was rampant among youth in England during the early 1800's (pg 283,2002). ...

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Richard Hofstadter presented social Darwinism as a convergence of evolution and social theory. ... There was also a shift in immigration from western to eastern European many of whom would become the working class. The ardent question then became, what to do with the poor and how to deal with the new immigrants that were mostly seen as less civilized then western Europeans. Another class had also recently been created in the late 1800's, freed slaves. ... It is hard to imagine a person like Oscar McCulloch a reverend in the Midwest and Kropotkin getting along but I think they would have ...

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