Even when the United States was still smoothing out the wrinkles in its constitution it had an incredible tendency of getting itself involved in European affairs. ... The Louisiana Purchase was widely embraced by the Americans since it began to close off the British threat from Canada and had more than doubled the size of the nation. ... The New York and Canadian border was in a state of insurrection and there was talk of secession in New England. ... The War Hawks wanted more land, such as taking Canada from the British and Florida from the Spanish, who had been allies to the British. ...

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Three years after passing the Brady Bill, in 1996 alone, handguns murdered 2 people in New Zealand, 15 people in Japan, 30 people in Great Britain, 106 people in Canada, and 9,390 people in the United States (US Federal Bureau of Investigation). ... Over 200 years ago, the founding fathers of the United States drafted the Constitution. ... The bill of rights is the set of amendments to the Constitution intended to secure these objectives for the individual citizens of the United States. ... Today, gun control advocates argue that the founders of the Constitution did not want guns to be in th...

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All of this was basically a different interpretation of the United States Constitution on both sides. ... Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. ... Many Northerners set up underground railroads where the runaway slaves could hide and get food and be directed to Canada for freedom. ... On February 4 delegates from all these states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they drafted a constitution for the Confederate States of America. ...

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All of this was basically a different interpretation of the United States Constitution on both sides. ... Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. ... Many Northerners set up underground railroads where the runaway slaves could hide and get food and be directed to Canada for freedom. ... Some of the most famous abolitionists were William Lloyd Garrison of Boston, Wendell Phillips, who in 1836 gave up his law practice because he couldn't support the United States Constitution, James G. ...

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Each of my prime time "specials" is now carried by nearly three hundred stations across the U.S. and Canada, so that in a single telecast I preach to millions more than Christ did in his lifetime" (Postman, 118). ... Based on the First Amendment to the Constitution, which states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances," government is powerless against any inst...

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"NO nation can enslave a group of people for hundreds of years, set them free "bedraggled and penniless "pit them, without assistance, in a hostile environment against privileged victimizers, and then reasonably expect the gap between the heirs of the two groups to narrow. Lines begun parall...

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Under both the Articles of Confederation, which had united the colonies during the Revolution, and the Constitution which joined the new states after 1787, the national government didn't have authorities to end slavery in any of the states (Hodges 1997). ... If they were slaves north of the Mason Dixon Line, they were freed about 30 years after the adoption of the constitution. ... American blacks ended up in Canada, Britain, the West Indies, and Europe" (NPS, 2008). ...

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Growing up, we are taught that the Revolutionary war was a necessary war with unmistakable objectives and was fervently fought by all Americans in an effort to rise up against the tyranny of British rule. We are taught to view the war as a Revolution, a fight for freedom, liberty and the right to ow...

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The American Revolution: A Loyalist's Perspective Growing up, we are taught that the Revolutionary war was a necessary war with unmistakable objectives and was fervently fought by all Americans in an effort to rise up against the tyranny of British rule. We are taught to view the war as a Revol...

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He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: • For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: • For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: • For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury: • For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: •...

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HISTORY: in its broadest sense, is the story of humanity's past. It also refers to the recording of that past. The diverse sources of history include books, newspapers, printed documents, personal papers, and other archival records, artifacts, and oral accounts. Historians use this material to form coherent narratives and uncover linked sequences and patterns in past events. Most histories are concerned with causality, that is, why certain outcomes happened as they did, and how they are linked to earlier events. 1 Origins of Historical Writing In preliterate societies, the acc...

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