… when it came to making this country great. Franklin was even thought as the "first American" because of all the affairs he managed. He was a scientist, a printer, a patriot and a much admired individual. He was revered everywhere he went, whether…

… the American northwest, the Blackfeet are a confederacy of three independent tribes presently living in Montana and Alberta, Canada. The name "Blackfeet" originates from the distinctive black hue of their mocassins, either painted that color or perhaps…

… there was great dispute over the morality and legality of the government's decision to force the Native Americans off their land. Throughout the attempt to gain more land from the Indians, the government made many treaties and agreements. Even…

… industrial revolution. Still standing tall to this day, the mills served as the source of employment for thousands of young women, children, and immigrants. Without the industrial revolution, we would not have some of the machinery we have today,…

… bible. Now we have the Bible and the white man has the land." -Dan George, 19th Century Canadian Indian Native Americans lived in America long before the Europeans happened to come across and settle the land there. Native Americans had their own belief…

… Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859, involved only a handful of abolitionists, freed no slaves, and was over in two days. Although many Northerners condemned the raid, by 1863 John Brown had become hero and martyr in the North. To what extent and in what…

… not provide the United States with an effective government. The remarkably weak central government provoked a hostile environment within the United States and led to the diminishing of the country politically and economically. Under the Articles…

… people started with the forging of slavery, in the "new world" of North America massive amounts of labour were needed to farm the sugar and cotton plantations of the American south. British merchants went to Africa and offered tribal chiefs arms to…

… man. He once said "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." He lived the words to the fullest by writing as much as possible and doing even more. He became…

… The Significance of the Frontier in American History, the conditions of frontier life produced many intellectual traits. He described these character traits as, "...acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find…