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… was happening in pre-Civil War time. To show the reasons for the war. To show the differences between the Northern, and Southern states.                  The antebellum period started with the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolu…

… find a answer to. The Battle of Little Big Horn is one of those secrets. Sure we know that General George Armstrong Custer and his company were massacred there, but there has always been stories about survivors. This paper is going to compare the…

… one of the worst surprise attacks in American history. For every Japanese crewman or pilot killed, almost thirty-eight Americans were killed.         Before the attack, the American government had tried to negotiate many times with Japan's …

… in early 1863 by Robert Gould Shaw, twenty-six year old member of a prominent Boston abolitionist family. Shaw had earlier served in the Seventh New York National Guard and the Second Massachusetts Infantry, and was appointed colonel of the Fifty-four…

… over slavery. Unfortunately, there is no 'simple' reason. The causes of the war were a complex series of events, including slavery, which began long before the first shot was fired. Competing nationalism, political turmoil, the definition of freedom,…

… and the U.S.-Mexican border is no exception. With the European colonizing the New World, it was a matter of time before the powers collided. The Spanish settled what is today Mexico, while the English settled what is to day the United…

… whatever they do, from baseball or football to something like being President. If you are a member of any hall of fame (including the one for the Presidents), it means that you have done something special or have a certain quality about yourself that…

… unusual because of the number of candidates running for president. One of the candidates was Andrew Jackson, or "Old Hickory" as they called him, a general that had won the Battle of New Orleans(which was a battle not needed) in the War of 1812. Jackson…

… his life from his birth to his death. It mainly focuses on the major things that he did while he was alive such as battles and becoming president         Who Was George Washington? We all know him from the one dollar bill and the quarter, but…

… start briefly with the democratic convention of the previous election. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was running for his fourth consecutive term, but there was some changing done to the ticket by the Democratic Party. Then Vice President Henry Wallace…