The American Revolution marked the beginning of a new nation. The Revolution's leaders believed in a set of principles and achieving specific goals. ... The successful revolution against the British, the ratification and successful implementation of the United States Constitution in March of 1789, and the development of manufacturing and westward expansion fulfilled the American Revolution's goals. ... Franklin explains that American colonists governed themselves many years before the revolution. ... The Americans fought a long war for their independence. ...

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James Fenimore Cooper was the first American novelist. ... The immigrants came to America for a better life. ... They were often regarded suspiciously by the old-stock Americans. ... This led to a modern factory system, and the industrial revolution. ... Transportation Revolution Railroads, canals, better roads, and steamboats all played a vital role in improving transportation. ...

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A child of the American Revolution, John Quincy Adams was the first President of American History whose father, John Adams, also served a term as President of the United States of America. ... It was at nine years of age that JQA experienced, first hand, the American Revolution. ... It was within the first year of the war that it has been said that JQA learned of the harsh realities of growing up into a man, and later recalls in life feeling responsible "as the eldest son "for protecting his mother while his father attended to the business of revolution (The American Preside...

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This question of slavery was a main reason why early America was so fragmented and prone to implosion. ... America was fractured and each state was separated by ideals and ideologies. ... Nationalism is the unifying force that allowed the American people to break free in the first place. ... In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism 1776-1820. ... Ellis used many examples to support his claim that America was fragile in her early years. ...

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Rahman burned a flag (though protected by Texas v Johnson, 491 US 397, "O"Brien 626"), and presented a speech where he called for "death to any country that supports Zionist aggression against true believers" as well as cataloging "American crimes against humanity." In a speech on the day of his arrest in this same Middle-Eastern neighborhood, the appellant catalogued "America's crimes against humanity and the believers," as well as declaring "We must not sit by idle. ... Rahman encouraged these groups and "all of the efforts made at reversing the tide of Zionist-Crusader imperialism" as...

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After gaining independence, our founding fathers created an extremely unique, and revolutionary government in order to set up a social contract between America and its people. Purposefully not trying to be anything like their previously rulers the British, Americans created a new one from the ideas of republicanism. ... The first is known as the Progressive Era, which was named that for the progressive agenda that was put together by the government due to the sudden rise of income from the industrial revolution. There was an extreme need for economic reform within the federal government and s...

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Abstract The American dream comes to mind to most of us when overlooking some of the greatest accomplishments that some of our most inspiring American icons have achieved. ... In United States history there has been numerous memorable icons that Americans admire. ... Reagan saw the Soviets at the heart of every international dispute, from revolution in Central America to international terrorism in the Middle East. ... He made America one of the strongest military powers when in office. ... Reagan had upheld all of his promises and more for the American people, and proved to the world that Am...

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Sample Essay 2 Some historians consider the confederation period of American history, from 1781 to 1789, the most critical era in the nation's development. Having rebelled against royal authority, the collection of American colonies, now become a collection of American states, had to develop a new government. ... But they did serve a purpose in that they pointed out the need for a strong central government, and served as a transition from the disunity of the colonial period to the creation of a United States of America. ... Sample Essay 2 The period in American History from 1781 to 1789...

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Abraham Lincoln and Equal Rights With America struggling in a state of Civil War, the nation's very core was being shaken. ... After the war was over the American people knew what it felt like to finally be free. ... Times ironically sparked by the same conflicts that ignited the American Revolution. ... Lincoln, knowledgeable of this fact pleaded with the Americans to once again, "have a new birth of freedom". ... The Civil War was, and still is, a very dark point in American History. ...

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When the Americans resisted at an engagement near Gonzales on the Guadalupe River, the Texas War for Independence begins. ... His mother and younger brother were bereft with sickness during the American Revolution. ... ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN OFFICE: One of the most pressing problems of Jackson's presidency was how to remove Native Americans from their ancestral lands in the Southwest. ... By the end of the 1830s, virtually all Native Americans indigenous to the East had been resettled in the West. His foreign policy mainly focused on resolving trade disputes with the French and the Brit...

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This man, the thirty-second president of the United States of America, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ... In which, he improved working conditions, created public works, and set up a bright future for America. ... Some, like Herbert Hoover may say that nobody deserves help from the government; whether one believes that or not, with such large numbers of the American population seeing troubling financial times, communist revolution could have broken out if the government did not help it's citizens. ... Herbert Hoover disregarded the impoverished Americans, and favored the rich. ... Yet, hi...

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There are better ways to have an incompetent leader removed from the government without revolution or violence. ... This illegal activity of allowing the rich and powerful to have enough money and the poor get nothing is typical of some American companies. ... There are some agencies in America that specialize in helping homeless women and debt-ridden families. ... In the image on the right, the picture describes how government officials distract the American public from the underlying issue by distracting them with other stories. ... Or that the Bureau of Indian Affairs does not really offe...

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Taxes have always been a major part in American history. America has had taxation dating back to the colonial era. ... Reaganomics changed America. ... And we all know how well that turned out for America. ... There was a violent revolution in the former country of Czechoslovakia, where the rebels won and broke away from the USSR. ...

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Take China for example, in 1960s, during the Cultural Revolution, China govern the country by the martial law, which is not a subject ot the rule of law. ... The fundamental difference between two models In United States of America, the independent was got through the war with the settler from European and United Kingdom, so Americans abrogated the law system more completely than New Zealand. ... The President in America is the direct elector; his political party may be not the majority in the Congress. The America President has the power to vote the bill, so that the bill cannot be the law...

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In the face of the aggressive West-oriented autocracy of the Shah's ministry, the people of Iran turned to conservative Religion, establishing a Theocratic Republic of Islam via Referendum through the 1979 Revolution. ... The President faced what has been described as an 'impossible situation"; the American public called for harsh reactionary measures against Iran, which in reality were far too risky and could mean the deaths of thousands, including the hostages. ... This united European and American effort to minimise Iran's threat to World Order culminated in the crash...

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Another unique feature of our constitution is that it is not as rigid as the American Constitution or as flexible as the British constitution. ... Another problem which is said that our constitution had is that the American Constitution stands for "brevity, restraint and simplicity", and our constitution is complex and long document. The comparison of this two different country's constitution with each other, it is wrong to compare our Constitution with the American Constitution. ... The problems which America faced after its revolution were few and simple and were different fro...

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Such events were the rising into power of the United States of America and the success of its Marshall Plan or the European Recovery Program which was an effort to rebuild Europe from the ravages of war. It was a theory of development based upon the successes of the West and was prescribed to developing newly-decolonized nation-states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. ... The Marcos regime was said to be very much notorious for rampant graft and corruption, numerous human rights violations, and political repression which was overthrown by a series of nonviolent civil uprisings which is know...

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After the revolution, Major Job Sumner served as the U.S. commissioner to settle the accounts between the Confederation and Georgia. ... Stanton created the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission on March 16, 1862 . ...

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