Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that our measures are forging for them, if they did not resist." ... Republican newspapers were railing against the Federalist and especially against the Sedition bill. ...

• Word Count: 2353
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Second Great Awakening was a religious impulse that swept through the nation post-1790s. The churches of the nation began to reject the Calvinistic belief of, "Pre-Destination," – the belief that one's salvation or damnation was predetermined at birth. Rather than preach "Pre-Destination" they...

• Word Count: 2362
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the 1800s and early 1900s the amount of Irish people immigrating to America increased greatly. The peak of the immigration occurred between 1845 and 1855 due to the spread of famine in Ireland which took the life of near a million people. The Famine was caused from a virus that infected t...

• Word Count: 1897
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School