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… up to it How would you feel if you were forced to abandon your home or business for no reason other than your ethnicity? That is exactly what the American government did to the Japanese living in the United States during World War II. The Japanese-Ame…

… American Revolution, they were many great accomplishments, and a number of heroes were brought up to fulfill these roles. One of these heroes is Ethan Allen; he possessed the attributes that separate a good man from a hero. There lay many heroic qualit…

… what the British had envisioned when they began to colonize the New World. It was, most likely the distance between the new areas that resulted in the various dissimilarities between Great Britain and America. As time passed and changes took place,…

… weaken the Confederates in the Civil War? The reasons for the secession of southern states that led to the American Civil War were based largely on their belief and ideas of state rights (or "states rights," a variant that came into use after…

… the white explorers first crossed over to America in search of a fresh start away from taxes, crime and persecution, the Native Indians Frontier had gradually been drawing to an end. The explorers constantly broke agreements with the Natives about…

… by 3 million people in the United States of Amereica to a total of 4 million, so did support for the abolitionist movement, a group that sought to end the enslavement of blacks within the South. Though they did help to free thousands of slaves and moved…

… the North ever since the Civil War started. By December of 1864, when it was clear that the outcome of the American Civil War had been decided and that it was only a matter of time before the Confederates would be crushed, the debate about reconstruction…

… The stock market was going through the roof and the United States seemed to have the formula for limitless prosperity. However, the same formula that generated all of that profit would also be the cause of Black Tuesday. For five years prior to 1929,…

… interpretations of Feudalism over the years. One interpretation incorporates a whole system of life, as Marc Bloch states. The other system explained Feudalism in more legal and political terms. This is the interpretation that is most commonly referred…

… was born with the given name Gaius Octavius on September 23, 63 B.C. Three hundred years after Alexander the Great. He took the name Julius Caesar Octavius after the murder of his great uncle, Julius Caesar. In his will Caesar had adopted Octavius…