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The Spark of a Match: Colonial rebellion against British mercantalism. AP US History Free.
... mercantile theory Britain expected the American colonies to furnish products and raw materials needed in England, buy British goods, and not bother with ideas of self-government or economic independence. Though the colonies received direct economic benefit from the mercantile ...
Was Truman Justified in dropping the atom bomb?
... class. President Harry S. Truman - unexpectedly thrust into the position of Chief of Command - was confronted with the raging World War II and the creation of this new mystery weapon. It is known to all that Truman gave the order to drop two atomic bombs over two Japanese cities ...
Review of John Blassingame's "The Slave Community". Rather specialized, I'm afraid. Review of a book on slavery in the South.
... of John Blassingame's The Slave Community John W. Blassingame was born in Covington, Georgia, in 1940. Blassingame joined the faculty of Yale University in 1970, where he taught in the African American Studies, History and African departments. He chaired African American Studies for most of ...
The OK Corral
... American War. He served in the American Brigade during China's Boxer Rebellion and finally returned to work as a code clerk for the Arizona Legislature. Former Cochise County Sheriff John H. Behan died of Bright's disease and acute hardening of ...
Susan B. Anthony and what she did for the female race.
... war, slaves had finally been freed and legally considered citizens. They had all, or most, of the rights given to American people. And after such a big controversy over the question, "Are slaves people?", no American ...
Why has American society developed so violently?
... slave revolts had always been violently put down, real violence occurred much later. The debate on slavery began in the 1850's and its abolition after the civil war opened "one of the most violent periods of American history ...
Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives"--Some opinions about the nature of the photograph for historical purposes.
... of my grandmother sipping tea with American expatriates Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. However, in the decades since the 1960s, historians have shifted their focus to, as The New American History author Eric Foner describes it, the "experience of the ordinary American ...
By the 1850's the Constitution became a source of sectional discord, ultimately contributing to the failure of the union. This tries to disprove this statement. *AP US DBQ from 1987
... of doing what is right for the Nation as a whole. One act passed by Congress that further drove the North and South to disunion was the Fugitive Slave Act. This act stated that all runaways had to be returned to the South. Even African Americans ...
Laissez- Faire Capitalism vs. Modified Market Capitalism Which has Biblical support?
... world that practices Laissez-Faire capitalism. All governments regulate the merges and monopolies of companies. Darwinism has run rampant in business throughout history. "Robber baron" capitalists such as John ...
Al Capone
... United States, where Alphonso Capone was the first of the nine Capone children to have been conceived and born in America. Born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New ...