We see changes first begin to occur in 1870 in the Wyoming Territory, the first place women are legally allowed to vote. ... Native Americans, through the late 19th century, had a growing involvement with blurring the lines between Indian identity and other Americans. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. After intervening between Cuban and Spanish conflict, the U.S. was then dragged into the Philippine Revolution which incited the Philippine–American War. ... However, it was a huge advance in the environmental st...

• Word Count: 2011
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Failure to live by the statement, "All men are created equal," and honor the inalienable rights of people following the American Revolution, is not the main precursor that doomed the United States to a Civil War. ... The Democratic-Republicans felt this way because they feared, that if given too much power was given to the the federal government, the would begin to resemble a monarchy. ... Quarrels between the two parties continued, until eventually 11 states made a resolution, and finally disaffiliated from the United States in 1860-1861, and formed the Confederate States of America...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lincoln realized that the nation must seek a transformation, away from the divisiveness and towards unity, and he freely calls on a Biblically-based use of time-based terms to connote that it is indeed divine providence that led to the creation of the United States to begin with, and that it is the responsibility of all citizens to keep this creation of God alive. ... There is also the aspect of how Lincoln invokes Jefferson's language from the Declaration of Independence and states that the Union must be preserved not only to honor those that gave their lives, but to als...

• Word Count: 1066
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Racism is an ongoing issue that has occupied many years of American history. ... Martin Luther King, Jr., who established a push to end slavery and inspired an entire revolution to eliminate racial discrimination, it seems that a successful eradication of racism is not an option. ... This was the last and final urge to release America from slavery's shackles. ... This was a period of creativity and prosperity for African-Americans. ... The fifties and sixties brought on a revolution, and it was one that nearly everyone wanted to be a part of. ...

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To begin, freemasonry is believed by masons to have been around since the time of Solomon, but the first official Masonic lodge was built in England in 17172. ... Prince Hall, an ex-slave, became a mason while fighting in the American Revolution alongside white soldiers who were freemasons. ... The revolution was a complicated battle because Americans were fighting for equality, yet America had slaves. Upon returning from the revolution and opening the first black lodge in Boston, MA, Hall was faced with discrimination and the idea of separate but equal, meaning not equal. ... In Hall's...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He is best known for his revised assessments of three central chapters in the American experience: slavery, the coming of the Civil War, and Southern Reconstruction. ... Kenneth Stampp says, "Nevertheless, whatever methodological or conceptual strategies a historian may devise, his search for answers to questions concerning slave behavior and personality must begin with the accumulation of a reasonable amount of empirical data.... Herbert Aptheker was an American historian and political activist. ... Aptheker examined slaves and their mentality toward bondage in American Negro Slave Revol...

• Word Count: 712
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ... However, the predominant reason behind the Revolution was political. ... America was no longer a truly British nation, so they decided to break away. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ... But after the American Revolution slavery really died it the North, just as it was becoming more popular in the South. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

All over the world the modern era is being born that leads to the industrial revolution. ... By 1830 America was producing half the world's cotton. ... Tubman was one of America's first civil right activists. ... Now, no Africans Americans is safe anywhere. ... As our country begin preparing to elect a new president people wonder if the nation would survive Abe Lincoln soon became the president in 1860. ...

• Word Count: 1311
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• Grade Level: High School

Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. ... Subsequent writers on the American Civil War looked to several factors explaining the geographic divide, including sectionalism, protectionism, and state's rights. ... These four doctrines comprised the major ideologies presented to the American public on the matters of slavery, the territories, and the U.S. ... National Elections Beginning in the American Revolution and accelerating after the War of 1812, the p...

• Word Count: 7511
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Civil War historian Shelby Foote describes the American Civil War as the most important event in American History. The Civil War was, at the very least, one of the most controversial periods in American history. ... The issue of slavery is significant and affected many other aspects of American life, specifically the culture of the South. While America modernized in the mid nineteenth century "the slave states remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural." ... The Confederate Constitution of 1861 begins by stating "each State acting on it's own sovereign and ind...

• Word Count: 2247
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• Grade Level: High School

Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. ... Subsequent writers on the American Civil War looked to several factors explaining the geographic divide, including sectionalism, protectionism, and state's rights. ... These four doctrines comprised the major ideologies presented to the American public on the matters of slavery, the territories, and the U.S. ... National elections Beginning in the American Revolution and accelerating after the War of 1812, the pe...

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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. ... To begin with, the first reason the United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico was because of John O'Sullivan. ... " shows us that this caused americans to become more angry with Mexico than ever before. ... But now, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon the American soil.... James Polk ...

• Word Count: 1637
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

When did the American South become less distinctive from the rest of the United States? ... To assess when the American South lost this, first we must find what made the American South distinctive. ... The American Reconstruction effort would be the first of these attempts. ... Coal was increasingly important as it was the energy source that was fueling this revolution. ... This would begin to disintegrate the racial tensions for many. ...

• Word Count: 1444
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