It is also our culture to go to war with other countries (and apparently ourselves) since we have been involved in so many wars in our relatively short history. ... I, like a lot of people, have not seen the men as real people, pitted against their friends and family, all for the better of our unique American culture. ... Buford's Union cavalry runs into Confederate infantry (without cavalry scouts) just north of town and they secure a defensive position. However, on the next day, the Confederate army defeats Union defenses north and the newer defenses south of town. ... The Union troops...

• Word Count: 1226
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Yet, it has not been our right. ... William Byrd founded the present City of Richmond by having Major William Mayo lay the town out into lots and promoting a lottery to sell them off. ... Richmond's first baptism of fire was in 1781 when the traitor, General Benedict Arnold, captured and burned a large part of the town. ... It is hard not to, we are consumed with our liberties and the importance of keeping our states free from oppression. ... I had no hand in it but many of our best citizens did. ...

• Word Count: 1215
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Wanting to spread our ideas that has changed over the years by cultures and the way the world is seen through times like slavery, poverty and expansion. ... While they had their mansions and lived comfortably, many Americans lived in a company town. Like in Statement from the Pullman Strikers, everything in their lives was controlled, "when we went to tell him our grievances, he said we were all his children.... Something that he said was, "The Senator from New York said yesterday that the whole world had abolished slavery the name, but not the thing...God only can do it our slaves ...

• Word Count: 790
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

" In the same document, the African American citizens of Boston passed a resolution stating, "Resolved, that our feelings urge us to say to our countrymen that we are ready to stand by and defend the Government as the equals of it's White defenders-to do so with "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor" (Pg. 97) Though their attempts were unsuccessful, they kept trying. ... We can afford to pay these licenses, and will do it before we will be defeated, and then we will have full control of the city's washing at our own prices as the cities have control of o...

• Word Count: 1964
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Michigan exposed all the fundamental elements and income of a stunning state; cities, prosperous towns, and highly cultivated fields with a population that out numbered three or four times that of Arkansas. ... "When the day of trial comes, as many, many southern men fear it may come, we stand ready with our money, and our blood to rush to the rescue. ...

• Word Count: 786
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

They made a major impact, and tainted our way of life for the better. ... On Oct. 16, 1859, they seized the town that occupied the federal arsenal. The town soon surrounded by local militia, and the next day, federal troops under Robert E. ...

• Word Count: 1363
• Approx Pages: 5

He sent an advance search party into town to find shoes. ... The Second Day The morning of the second day yielded Union forces in a "fish-hook" shape surrounding the town. ... The Gettysburg Address Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ... The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. ...

• Word Count: 1716
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Frederick Baily was born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. ... At times Frederick would be beaten for letting oxen run wild or for acting our of line or sometimes for just not being quick enough to the slave owners demands. ...

• Word Count: 791
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

He was praised after the speech and was asked to give a speech to the town's leaders at the hotel ballroom. ... He is aware and understand his grandfather's words "our life is a war". ...

• Word Count: 751
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Our country is no stranger to riots that cause major civil disturbances, which often result in thousands of dollars in damages and mass amounts of both injuries and casualties. Since the end of slavery after the Civil War, race riots found their place in our country's history, and though it has been decades since extreme situations of racial segregation or discrimination have plagued our society, that doesn't mean either one has completely vanished. ... The riot in Chicago grew out of anger and resentment between two races, while the riots in Ferguson erupted out of resentment for th...

• Word Count: 1061
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On April 14, 1865 our sixteenth president was assassinated. President Abraham Lincoln was attending a comedy entitled "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. when "A shadowy figure stepped into the box, stretched out his arm, aimed a small derringer pistol at the back of Lincoln's head, and pulled the trigger" (Freedman 123). ... Grant suddenly left town to visit his children("Overview of Assassination"[online]). ...

• Word Count: 1156
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Students had to travel across town due to Residential Segregation. ... Since then, Black Americans in our country have more equal rights and equal opportunities. ... The civil rights movement, of 1860, was definitely significant to our nation....

• Word Count: 974
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

The next three days would change our nation forever. ... The second and arguably the most important contingency factor were the efforts of one man and his troops who took part in one of the most important battles in our nations history. They defended a small lonely hill in a small Pennsylvania farm town to the death. ... These three factors changed our nation forever. ... If any of those "what if's" occurred our nation would be drastically different today, but that's what makes history so interesting. ...

• Word Count: 1496
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

It is remarkable to see our President start off his childhood like this. ... Alderman means: A member of the municipal legislative body in a town or city in many jurisdictions.http://dictionary.reference.com/search?...

• Word Count: 1062
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

At age sixteen her mother, father and some of her brothers and sisters died of a tragic yellow fever outbreak when she was in another town visiting relatives. ... She attended the organizational meeting for the NAACP and attended meetings threw its starting years to reform the racial injustices of our country. ...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Taking place in a little town of Ohio, many African Americans traveled a road past Sethe's place, and often were leery of it because of what she did to her children. ... We all family situations that affect our decisions and participation. ... If others go unappreciated, we will start to lose our grip on tightening that connection....

• Word Count: 1629
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

She made her film debut around 1914 with a comedy titled Coon Town Suffragettes, which "dealt with a group of bossy mammy washerwomen who organize a militant movement to keep their good-for-nothing husbands at home But the militancy of the washerwoman served as a primer for the mammy roles Hattie McDaniel was to perfect in the 1930's" (Bogle 9). ...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The proclamation had immediate and long term effects on our nation. It played an important role in the anti-slavery movement from the smallest towns of the United States all the way to the shores of Europe. ...

• Word Count: 1677
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One group pro-slavery group destroyed the town of Lawrence and the antislavery newspaper there. ... In conclusion, when we look to the past and see that this hunk of rock now known as the United States was given to us to explore our freedom of religion, who would of thought that it would be taken this far. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Thomas, an African American coal miner and organizer for the Greenback-Labor party in the Birmingham mineral district, stopped in the town of Oxmoor to post signs announcing a public meeting where he was scheduled to speak. ... It would ultimately be the coming of World War II that would dramatically change the face of our nation. ...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Prior to the Civil War most women stayed at home tending to their families and homes because they thought that they were fragile delicate little creatures. They were not considered strong enough to fight in the Civil War. Two ways for women to participate were through aide and relief societies an...

• Word Count: 1973
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

McPherson's hesitance to order an all-out assault on the Confederate supply line forced the Union troops to shift the fighting southward until both armies hit the small town of Resaca, Georgia on May 13th, where the first major encounter of the Atlanta Campaign took place. ... Lieutenant Andrew Jackson Neal's opinion that "Johnston can save Atlanta by fighting for it but the preservation of the Army is infinitely of more importanceas long as our Army continues in the field Sherman can do little damage in Georgia and I cannot believe it possible for him to remain in Georgia much...

• Word Count: 2262
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the victory at Bull Run, Jackson wrote in a letter to his wife, stating 14"Whilst great credit is due to other parts of our gallant army, God made my brigade more instrumental than any other in repulsing the main attack". ...

• Word Count: 2042
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Although they are very busy all the time, they manage to find the time to relax by the town well and gossip amongst themselves. ... Furthermore, the reader gains knowledge of Haley's ancestors and their unique culture thus partially understanding the origin of African-Americans in our society today. ...

• Word Count: 4104
• Approx Pages: 16