Category: American History

Introduction On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall spoke at Harvard University and outlined what would become known as the Marshall Plan. Europe, still devastated by the war, had just survived one of the worst winters on record. The nations of Europe had nothing to sell for . . . Read more

Centuries before our time, the Greeks considered the question of how to speak so as to sway the hearer’s mind with the power of words. The first to examine the ways in which we relate to one another through language, the Greeks wrote detailed treatises laying bare the sinews of . . . Read more

The idea of imperialism during the 19th century was mostly associated with European powers. The United States was not viewed, especially by itself, as an imperialist power. In fact, the US attacked imperialist views by way of the press. However, the US had criticized Europe and expressed their anti-imperialism views . . . Read more

Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, was the first president to be impeached. The issues that led up to this monumental event in 1868 were for the most part, based on the issue of Reconstruction. Reconstruction aimed to create equality for Blacks in voting, politics, and with . . . Read more

“It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.” – George Washington Carver. George Washington Carver paved the way for agriculturists . . . Read more

Woodrow Wilson was born in Virginia in 1856. Wilson was the last U.S. president to have viewed the civil war. He was 4 years old when Abraham Lincoln was elected president. His father served the Confederacy as a chaplain. Wilson was an eyewitness to the hardship and damage of war . . . Read more

November 20, 1969 We have made it to the island and managed to escape the White Man’s Coast Guard. Their ships tried to stop us from landing on Alcatraz. This time the White Man will not take away our land. My family and many more will join us. We are . . . Read more

The Cuban Missile Crisis is widely considered as the closest the world has come to nuclear war. Former US Secretary of State Dean Rusk, called it “the most dangerous crisis the world has ever seen, the only time when the nuclear superpowers came ‘eyeball to eyeball’.” Over the years many . . . Read more

Although Britain’s North American colonies had enjoyed considerable prosperity during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, beginning with the Stamp Act in 1765 the British government began to put pressures on them, largely in the form of taxes and new trade restrictions, that drew increasingly resistance. (Out of Many, . . . Read more

MacArthur was a famous general. He served in the United States Army for almost fifty years he receives high honours. He won many victories. He was a controversial man because of his personality. He was an actor as well as a soldier. General Douglas MacArthur was born in Little Rock, . . . Read more

Example 1 At a time when the black community was being afforded a free status, but not one of equality, many leaders arose to appeal to the white governing body for social equality. The transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century gave birth to two of 
these leaders, . . . Read more

The national bank was observed by Jackson to jeopardize economic stability and served as a monopoly on the country’s currency. Jackson explained his decision by vetoing of the bank renewal bill declaring that some of the powers and privileges possessed by the national bank are unauthorized by the Constitution. Jackson . . . Read more

This paper discusses some of the issues surrounding the grant process with regard to Native Americans. It also discusses Native American issues with regard to politics and legislation. U.S. Government Grants to Native Americans Introduction The history of the U.S. government’s involvement with the indigenous people of the nation is . . . Read more

This paper explores the reasons why the colonists revolted; what was radical about the Revolution and what was conservative. (2.5 pages; 1 source; MLA citation style) Introduction The American Colonists fought a war to found the United States. Rebelling against the crown, taking up arms and in many cases dying . . . Read more

Take-Home Examination: Section A Through a series of conferences, preliminary debates and caucuses each of the presidential parties select chosen candidates to race in the candidacy for the President of the United States. Coined as the ‘Primary election’ in political circles across the country, this is the process through which . . . Read more

In 1941, A. Phillip Randolph’s March on Washington movement forced the nation to take notice of African Americans. Following the march, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order that mandated the end of racial discrimination in defense industries. The agency in charge of enforcing the executive order, the Fair Employment . . . Read more

So how did African-Americans get looked down on? Well, it was in 1619 when Africans were brought to America as slaves for the white settlement. While slavery was eradicated after the Civil war the racism and segregation side of it still occurred. During the 20th century, the fight for equality . . . Read more

For the American people, John F. Kennedy was the bright future. He was a young man that they were as holding the torch for this country. When he was elected, he brought youth and a relaxing calm to the White House for the first time in our nation’s history. Not . . . Read more

A quarter of a millennium ago, the founding fathers of the United States of America created a new republic of democracy. This revolutionary form of government aimed at putting power into the hands of the common citizen and also to deter tyranny as much as possible. These noblemen set forth . . . Read more

At the base of the South African and American systems of racial discrimination is an understanding and internalization of the structural implications of capitalism and its accompanying spirit. Applying Karl Marx’s and Adam Smith’s definition of capitalism in conjunction with Max Weber’s understanding of the “spirit of capitalism”, it is . . . Read more

The abolitionist movement in the United States sought to eradicate slavery using a wide range of tactics and organizations. The antislavery movement mobilized many African Americans and some whites who sought to end the institution of slavery. Although both black and white abolitionists often worked together, the relationship between them . . . Read more

The Algonquin was a northern tribe that settled in Canada sometime around the 1400s and now have settled in Quebec and nearby Ontario. The Algonquian’s history was not exactly a pleasant one they suffered many hardships and obstacles to overcome. Samuel de Champlain established the first permanent French settlement on . . . Read more

“Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” Those are the words of Thomas Jefferson; one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and among the first Americans to have to defend the newly won liberties of Americans from intrusion against a . . . Read more

Back in the 1960’s African-Americans were inferior to the white people. White people had the control over black people. People started taking actions against it. The black people now wanted equal rights since they were born here and had the citizenship, and all rights to stay in the United States. . . . Read more

America as we know it includes a vast network of representative governments. During the colonial period of early America, Virginia was the first to introduce a representative assembly. This first glimpse of democracy influenced the shape of America today. It eventually caused the colonies to drift away from monarchial England, . . . Read more

November 22, 1963 was a day no American will ever forget. Most people remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. At precisely 12:30 P.M. [Central Standard Time], the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was shot and killed in . . . Read more

In the years leading to the U.S. Civil War, the controversy over slavery became not only a social issue but also a political and legal one as well. Opponents and proponents of slavery each looked to the American constitution, as well as the prevailing culture of the time, for direction . . . Read more

The Ku Klux Klan was a very powerful and organized secret society that began in the years directly following the Civil War and is a society whose influence is still felt today. Although the reasons for the rise of the Klan vary from source to source, there is one common . . . Read more

In 1689, John Locke published, what proved to be, a valuable document for the American Revolution as well as life in present-day America, known as the Second Treatise of Government. In his document, he creates a model of his ideal civil government, which is created by the people to ensure . . . Read more

The Decade of the 1950s in American History The 1950s were an important decade full of historic events and changes in technology. Important historic and cultural events such as the approval of the hydrogen bomb and transcontinental television in 1950, the signing of the Immigration and Naturalization Act in 1952, . . . Read more

The definition of a true American. It can’t be found in any text, the possibilities are too vast. There are those who consider the place of birth and citizenship, those who feel that residency is the only factor, and there are some that will not make a judgment unless an . . . Read more

Philadelphia, PA. 1787, the Founding Fathers set before them a foundation for a new nation. This nation was to be formed in the interest of its people: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable . . . Read more

The Seminoles who lived in East Florida caused problems for the Americans living there. They would raid and pillage the American settlements. Andrew Jackson went to war with the Seminoles and forced them east to Pensacola. From 1835 to 1842 the federal government fought the Second Seminole War. The Seminole . . . Read more

The United States of America has remained a successful and industrious nation ruled by the principles of federalism for the past 200 years. The Framers of the Constitution proposed the federal system in an attempt to guarantee democracy and liberty throughout a sparsely populated nation. By granting enumerated powers to . . . Read more

Tobacco was introduced into the American colonies in the early 1600s. The tobacco plant soon became the leading crop and trading commodity in America. Tobacco was widely accepted up until the 1960s when researchers found that there was health effects directly associated with tobacco use. However, since the 1970s tobacco . . . Read more

When examining the effects of American Indians on European exploration and early colonialism, it is difficult to overstate its importance. It is believed that the first human in the Americas can be dated to 30,000 – 15,000 B.C. In the thousands of years that elapsed between the native settlement of . . . Read more

To decide whether or not the colonies were ready for independence at that stage of American history is very strange. The colonies of that time were very different in a lot of ways. Many of those ways were so big that if they would have waited a few more years, . . . Read more

The Progressive Era provided a solid effort to improve the lives of Americans by emerging presidents and multiple reforms. Through the progressive politicians, trusts were busted and relief was given to small businesses. Working and societal conditions were forever reformed during the Progressive Era. During the Progressive, Era Americans had . . . Read more

The Algonquin was a northern tribe that settled in Canada sometime around the 1400s and now have settled in Quebec and nearby Ontario. The Algonquian’s history was not exactly a pleasant one they suffered many hardships and obstacles to overcome. Samuel de Champlain established the first permanent French settlement on . . . Read more

Between the settlement at Jamestown in 1607 and the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the most important change that occurred in the colonies was the emergence of a society quite different from that in England. Changes in religion, economics, politics and social structure illustrate this Americanization of the transplanted Europeans. . . . Read more

The Articles of Confederation, a document that laid a foundation for the Constitution, provided a somewhat effective government. The American colonists possessed a fear of central authority, which inhibited the creation of a government with great constitutional order. Congress, however, felt that a stronger central government was needed to keep . . . Read more

This is a question that inevitably arises in the mind of anyone who studies, even on a casual basis, the founding of our nation. Washington lived and worked with brilliant philosophers, thinkers, writers, orators and organizers, such as Franklin, Mason, John and Sam Adams, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Hamilton, Madison, Dickinson, . . . Read more

Prohibition led to the bootlegging of liquor and the gang wars of the 1920s. The most notorious gangster of all time, known as Al Capone, was the most powerful mob leader of his era. He dominated organized crime in the Chicago area from 1925 until 1931 Capone had liked that . . . Read more

America is a society that has grown from the roots of money. Its entire history is evidence of this fact. During the course of its existence, great concentrations of wealth have been accumulated. To criticize these billionaires, tarnish their success, labels like “robber barons” have been used. This denigration serves . . . Read more

The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 helped bring about the demise of the aristocratic Federalist Government in favour of the democratic Republican Government, concerned with the needs of all of its citizens. The new country of the United States of America suffered many growing pains in trying to balance its commitment . . . Read more

The Missouri Compromise is commonly thought of as the beginning of American sectionalism, although the signs were visible long before 1819. The crisis solved by the compromise certainly alerted the South for the need for political unity in order to maintain its way of life in the face of a . . . Read more

John F Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29th, 1917. He was the second of nine kids. He graduated from Choate School then entered Princeton College. Then quickly transferred to Harvard. After Harvard Kennedy joined the Navy in 1914. In August 1943 he was a commander of a . . . Read more

Analysis of the Events of The Great Depression “We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.” (Herbert Hoover – 1928) “The nation is marching along a permanently high plateau of . . . Read more

The first paragraph contains the essay instructions. During the Jacksonian Period, American politics were altered. What were the most significant changes from previous policies? What were the long-term implications of the new political methodology? Were the long-term results beneficial or detrimental to the quality of government? Why? What was the . . . Read more

The 18th century saw a change in the way people viewed themselves and their country. By the mid-nineteenth century, Americans had developed an increasingly democratic system of government, whereas England’s monarchy remained firmly entrenched. British authorities believed that Parliamentary Sovereignty allowed Parliament alone to tax and govern within England and . . . Read more

Example 1 The Coolidge Era that lasted from 1921-1929 produced a consumer economy. With the consumer, the economy came widespread prosperity and wealth. Just being another decade on a timeline does not do it for the 1920s. From the beginning to the end it was the biggest, the loudest, the . . . Read more