North American History Essays and Term Papers

also known as Lord Baltimore I, tried to get a land grant from the king. The land north of the Potomac river was his aim. This land was part of the Virginia colony. Calvert was the king`s advisor, he had recently converted to Roman Catholicism, and…

took over the CRBC facilities and was created as a Crown Corporation on November 2, 1938, by an Act of Parliament following a Royal Commission that was concerned about the growing American influence in radio. In 1941, the CBC assisted in starting…

in both Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life" and Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers." Although they both are trying to illustrate the same thing (American values), the descriptions shown of American values and morals are drastically different from…

nation's situation is only a reflection of our personal failures in our inability to 'Just Say No' to ourselves. We must have everything and we must have everything now. We have become a country of consumers instead of a populace of producers. Let's…

of author Anne Moody's maturity from a child, to a high school and college student, and then into an active participant in the civil rights movement. Moody portrays her black family living in the rural South and her involvement with such groups…

between foreign policy and between two factors: Where a country is located and the domestic issues or economic constraints. Depending on economic strength, military power and the type of government of a country, the foreign policies will vary. Post…

of this country were writing the document that was later to be known as "the most perfect document", they were designing the framework of how the country's government would operate. One of their priorities was to create a system that consisted of…

and molding the government of the United States. History has since forgotten some of these founding fathers. The ones remembered throughout history are those we hold up for their accomplishments. Thomas Jefferson is one of the American Statesmen…

that took place in the 1840's. The belief was the expansion of the United States farther west, all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Americans believed that it was meant for them to go cross-country. They thought that they were supposed to explore…

the Civil War and the Great Depression America went through many social, economic, and political changes. America around 1930 was urban, industrial, and becoming more and more populated by immigrants from everywhere but Northern Europe. This transforma…