Traditional narratives of the Western expansion described western tribes as a part of the dangerous environment that the American travelers had to endure throughout their journey. ... Tate challenges this convention by highlighting the human to human interactions that defined the westward journey of the American emigrants. ... Most important was the reliance of the emigrants on the Native American's knowledge of the land which was needed to survive the journey. ... The American emigrants would have never been able to complete their journeys without the vital aid provided by the Native...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny, along with his two thousand soldiers, began their epic journey from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, towards California. During their journey, America was heavily involved in territorial expansion. ... His writing creates a visual image for readers that make them feel as if they're right along side Kit Carson and other mountain men, taking place in the epic, historical journey with them. ...

• Word Count: 693
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As she once pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger." ... She developed clever techniques that helped make her "forays" successful, including using the master's horse and buggy for the first leg of the journey; leaving on a Saturday night, since runaway notices couldn't be placed in newspapers until Monday morning; turning about and heading south if she encountered possible slave hunters; and carrying a drug to use on a baby if its crying which might put the fugitives in danger. ... Harriet had made trips to rescues slaves nineteen...

• Word Count: 789
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• Grade Level: High School

Women saw the beginning of their journey to equality at the turn of the Revolutionary War. ... After the Revolutionary War, groups of women, Native Americans, and African Americans all fought for their God-given rights, and though they were overall not successful, they began the journey to equality. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Quaker sympathizers helped her on her 20 dangerous journeys to the South to collect new groups of fugitives, and John Brown was one of her friends. ... Throughout the 1850s she made repeated journeys into slave territory, leading about 300 other fugitives, including her parents, to freedom. ...

• Word Count: 667
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• Grade Level: High School

Admittingly, the tale of young Huck Finn's journey - between his brief stay in civilization at the Widow Douglas? ... Jim naturally cared for Huck and it showed by the way he helped him throughout their journey. ... However, the circumstance in which Jim was able to show his humanity throughout the journey was a little suspect in its possession of real-life drama. ...

• Word Count: 2137
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• Grade Level: High School

"Robert had made his westward journey with his wife, whose name we do not know, and son Harry and daughter Virginia both of whom were born in Virginia." (2) The Newsom's settled in Callaway County by eighteen twenty two where Robert built his farm at. ...

• Word Count: 434
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• Grade Level: High School

I read the Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, which was written to about the harsh Civil War realities. The novel begins with an army that is along a bank and seems that they will never leave camp. All the soldiers are very frustrated because they had been waiting a long time for some action. Then...

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The post-civil war period was one of great economic expansion for the United States. Transportation develpoments, notably the building of trans-continental railroads, helped spard this growth mastly by making transportation between the east and west easier. Although railroads were being b...

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The exhausting journey form slavery to citizenship cripples to depict the miseries of those countless people who were just turned out of doors with ingratitude and detestation, ruthless than the stabbing winter's wind. ... "African slaves were placed on ships and began the long journey to the Americas.   ... Because the journey was so long and disease was easily contracted, about 10 to 20 percent died on the way to the Americas-.2 But it was soon realized that slavery is thoroughly inhuman and insult of human being. ...

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An Analysis of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In the first few decades of the 19th century, the rapid development of the American politics, economy and culture led to the growing acuteness of sectional struggle between the North and the South, the central point of struggle is over slavery. B...

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While reading "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano," it came to mind exactly how much I take my freedom for granted. On the other hand, unlike Olaudah Equino, I have nothing to compare it to, for I know nothing but freedom - the freedom to read, write, vote, practice the religio...

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"Dances with Wolves" is a movie that takes place in the western United States during the Civil War era. The film in general is not historically accurate. The relationships between American soldiers and the Sioux tribe were not as optimistic as portrayed in the film. If it was reality, I do not think...

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• Grade Level: High School

So often you hear people critique the fine artists of Europe such as Michael Angelo, Picasso, Rosso Florentino, Degas and his ballerinas. However, American Art has its place too in the importance and history of art culture. American Artists such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West,...

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• Grade Level: High School

"We don't want no negro thinkin' that he has the same rights as us! Slaves should always be slaves!" Shouts a Southern citizen at the Memphis Tennessee Race Riot of May 1866. Violent riots like these were not always common in Tennessee and Louisiana, but due to the Radical Republicans, the Democrats...

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"Douglass Proves the American Dream" The American Dream is the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity, and a life of personal happiness and material comfort, traditionally held to be available for every American. Everyone's American Dream is different. There is not one dream for all Americans....

• Word Count: 1886
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• Grade Level: High School

1. Discuss the novel as a psychological journey. Discuss how Henry Changes throughout the novel. What causes him to change? Henry Fleming is a young solider fighting for the union army during the civil war. Throughout the war Henry ventures on a long psychological journey to discover himself. Ofte...

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During his journey to America, he suffers from diseases, filth, brutality, heat exhaustion, and hunger. ... Haley portrays the inhumane journey from Africa to America so that the reader may realize that African-Americans suffered great difficulties during their reluctant voyage. ... Even after the long, tortuous journey across the ocean, Kunta continues to face many difficulties. ...

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Throughout the 1850's she became one of the Underground Road's most active conductor by making repeated journeys into slave territory, and leading over 300 other fugitives, including her parents, to freedom. ...

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Frederick Douglass claims that the advancement of education is crucial to personal development as well as the ability to truly see what is transpiring around him throughout his journey towards freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1456
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Every American president has made good and bad decisions. One such decision was that of Thomas Jefferson. He called for an embargo in his Embargo Act. He cut off exports to foreign countries, which, as a result, limited imports as well. Even though he just wanted to hurt the British and French econo...

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• Grade Level: High School

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln grew up working on farms with his father. At the time the Lincoln family did not have money for the children to go to school. Abraham was very interested in education and bettering himself. He would barrowed books from his ne...

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• Grade Level: High School

In 1839, Spanish slave traders attempted to transport 53 illegally purchased Africans to Havana, Cuba and during this journey one of the Africans, Cinque, killed his captors and took over the ship (Jones et al. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Andrew Johnson In the year 1808, Andrew Johnson was born, from childhood to presidency. I outlined key points, which include: His Childhood, which briefly describes how his family was like, how he grew up and how he accomplished his goals. His presidency outlines, how he accomplished his vic...

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• Grade Level: High School

When Americans first began to dream of a land where one could live in freedom, away from the reign of Europe, was a glorious time indeed. These dreams were eventually met with reality when Americans banded together and fought for their rights, as citizens of the United States of America. This was ...

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• Has Bibliography