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Consider a hypothetical situation in which you are on a jurydeciding whether to convict four policemen on charges of police brutality. You know that the policemen are innocent, but if you acquit them the general public, believing them to be guilty, will riot and innocent people will die. If you convict the policemen, they will…

There are many opinions about Alexander the Great effect on his world. One opinion was that he was a leader who had positive effects on his empire as I would agree. However, there are others who feel that he was a cruel leader which I would disagree about but there are many explanations for why….

Reconstruction after the Civil War was a time period in which different groups in the United States fought each other to rebuild the South the way they saw fit. Opposing radical groups both took this opportunity to show their differing political views. On one end of the political spectrum, republicans wanted to reform the south…

The Gilded Age existed during the late 1800s where the corruption of the government was at its peak and the lowest point of American politics. “The Gilded Age” was a name given by Mark Twain in his belief that politics corruption and greed lurked below the polite and prosperous luster of American society. He believed…

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the top three floors of a ten-story building in New York. On those three top floors was a sweatshop with about 500 workers, mostly made up of young Jewish and Italian immigrant women, making ladies’ blouses. As the fire roared, the girls tried to make their…

In the past century, our country has experienced major transformations due to extraordinary individuals who have emerged as heroes and leaders. One such prominent figure is Jackie Robinson, renowned for becoming the first African American player in Major League Baseball (MLB). Despite encountering racism and threats, Robinson is widely remembered for his crucial role in…

In the Gilded Age, big businesses were getting larger and laborers were working in poor conditions with long hours and low wages. Laborers did not approve of low wages, especially when the low wages were going to become lower. Eugene Debs supported higher wages for the laborers and the Pullman strike of 1894. The strike…

There are many important matters that are going on in the world that are connected to historical events discussed in the class. Even though they happen during different time periods, the events can be related to each other. A lot of situations that happened in the past is similar to some events that happens in…

Sojourner Truth was one of the earliest and most passionate female abolitionists, for she herself had once been a slave. She came to be known as the nationally known speaker on human rights for slaves and women. Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree between 1797 and 1800 in Hurley, New York. (There is no exact…

The decades between Reconstruction and World War I were a period of vast transformations in American society. In his book, The Search for Order, Robert Wiebe seeks to address these rapid changes in analyzing the changing values among individuals in the United States. Wiebe’s central thesis argues that the Progressive Era was a period in…