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… near Hodgenville, Kentucky, the son of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln, pioneer farmers. At the age of two he was taken by his parents to nearby Knob Creek and at eight to Spencer County, Indiana. The following year his mother died. In 1819 his father…

… 1917 in the Boston suburb of Brookline. Kennedy was the son of Joseph P. Kennedy a formerambassador to Great Britain. Kennedy was much like his father, possesing a delightful sense of humor, a strong family loyalty, a concern for the state of the…

… Forgotten Founding Father. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. This is a very well documented source. Bremer includes an "interlude" describing his interpretation of Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" speech (173-4) complete with endnotes…

… I was not primarily the result of American bankers protecting their wartime loans and profits, but rather the need to safeguard democracy after the major events in Europe, the United States' failure to remain a neutral country and the conflicting…

… presidents adopted a bombastic, aggressive, imperialistic policy when they had power, and didn't when they didn't have power. The presidents had power in the Western Hemisphere, so they were able to adopt an aggressive policy, but in the Far East and…

… was a decade of friction and conflict between the values of urban and rural America. Traditional, rural Americans were conservative, and as a result feared change advocated by the new urban Americans who brought forth new attitudes and ideas. Both…

… resisted taxation by British Parliament and how the colonies finally started to break free from Britain's rule through the idea of sovereignty. Sovereignty is the idea that the government of a country (or colony in this case) is governed by its…

… and historical data, I will disprove that the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government. The Articles of Confederation was the first written constitution of the United States. It established a loose league…

… the 19th Century were "Robber Barron's". However, in this very competitive time period, many new businesses were being formed. It took talented businessmen such as Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Rockefeller to get ahead and keep the companies running,…

… Americans who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area were aware of the other culture overseas (Kupperman, 1). The Americans had watched the establishment and eventual abandonment of the Roanoke settlement some twenty years before Jamestown and gained…