… looking for a Western route to Asia, but found North America. After that settlers from different parts of the world start to come to America. The United States really begin to develop when Christopher Columbus found the region. From the nation had…

… the mountains of California, the Native Americans should have run for the hills. By 1850, a flood of white settlers swarmed into the west filled with dreams of gold and prosperity. It was the single greatest migration of people in a shortest amount…

… long experiment in reform and change. The balance of direct and representative democracy with a positive, socially responsible government is a unique feature to our country. By improving social, political, and economic conditions, reform movements bolste…

… on the Progressive Era Progressivism was a period of American history in which reforming working conditions, improving the way of life, exposing corruption, and expanding democracy rose from the city slums to Washington D.C. The lower and middle…

… victim of friendly fire? Perhaps some of you are thinking of Stonewall Jackson. At Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863 Jackson was accidentally shot by his own men. He is known as an outstanding tactician, and one of the Confederacy's ablest commanders.…

… Joseph Ellis <Tab/>Joseph J. Ellis has written a book titled Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, published by Vintage books, a Division on Random House, Inc., New York, in the year 2000. The Pulitzer Prize winning book follows…

… "is the act of estrangement or withdrawing affections" - www.dictionary.com. There are many factors that lead to the alienation of humans and alienation can take many forms, within a family or within society. When a person is considered 'different',…

… to state that I found parts of this projects impractical, mainly the part about this essay to be written as a newspaper article, as if we were an early 1900s reporter. There were articles about Ishi, but they were not an accurate interpretations of him.…

… a variety of reasons including economic and religious factors. Other reasons for colonization include the desire to expand the British Empire, establishing order, protecting colonies and to rehabilitate debtors. <Tab/>Religious factors…

… by a variety of factors to write a new Constitution, including reaction towards the weakness of the Articles of Confederation, group attempts to establish a new national government and the desire to limit "democracy".<Tab/> <Tab/&am…