American History

By 1819, a heated controversy over whether or not Missouri was to be admitted to the Union as a slave state or as a free state was underway. Before Missouri’s admission to the Union, there was an equal balance of free state and slave state senators in the United Sates Senate. If Missouri was to…

The movement had many causes, most notably the Depression of the 1 sass and the Populist movement In fact, a Kansas editor referred to Progressivism as “populism that had shaved its whiskers, washed its shirt, put on a derby, and moved up into the middle class. ” The Progressive Era, the years 1895-1920, was an…

Black Elk Speaks Black Elk Speaks is an autobiography and a tribal history of Black Elk and the Lakota people. Throughout the book there are many elements of symbology such as important numbers, colors and animals. Most of the symbols are shown through Black Elk’s vision because this is the time where Black Elk is…

The words that come to mind when I think of “cowboy”: lasso, boots, spurs, horses, ghost towns, pistols, high-noon, damsels, saddles, dynamite, posies, tumbleweeds, rifles, deserts, the “West”, and cattle. Badman “Billy the Kid”, aka, Henry McCarty, was born on November 23, 1859. After a troubled childhood and finally being arrested for hiding clothes and…

1. Explain the philosophy of “Manifest Destiny. ” What forces created this concept? -The Manifest Destiny is the belief that the United States had a divine mission to extend its power and civilization across North America. The idea that created this concept was the rapid expansion of America into the West from the East. 2….

Muller vs. Oregon Since its creation in the late 18th century, the Supreme Court has made numerous decisions that impacted the course of history. The Supreme Court has a very important job, to interpret the constitution principles and make decisions based on these important standards. Had it not been for the rulings made by this…

Over the last decade The United States of America has been fighting an ongoing battle, a battle between guards and detainees, the pentagon and its own lawyers, the war on terror and the US Constitution, and finally a battle over national security and liberty. This is the battle of the Guantanamo Bay Detainment Center. Over…

The effects of this attack were uniting to America and caused many key issues shortly after. Before the attack on pearl Harbor the United States agreed not to get involved in any part of the disagreements between the quarrelling countries. While the United States decided not to get entangled into any conflict, World War II…

The Oregon Trail was a wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri Valley to valleys in Oregon. It opened new ways of life in the west coast. The Oregon Trail was the beginning of an increased expansionism west, resurfacing the issues of slavery and sectionalism and forever changing the economy of America. “The…

The construction of Hoover Dam is considered to be one of Americas finestengineering achievements. However the dam that rose from the floor of Black Canyonwas not only a structural accomplishment, it was a proposition firmly rooted inpracticalities. The necessity of such a dam had been obvious for more than twodecades. The Colorado Rivers cycles of…