North American History Essays and Term Papers

In a foreign embassy there are three American ambassadors that have been taken hostage by foreign rebels. Late in the night, dressed in solid black, a group of six men land on the roof of this same embassy. The roof area is secured, and…

Revolution was accomplished through the contributions of many great men all of which had inside them the "Spirit of '76." With the vacuum of power created once the British relinquished control of America a new system had to emerge that established law…

I was eight years old my parents decided to move to America. I wasn't sure about going, but my parents said America promised free land and easier work. So we went to the New World. It was 1850 when my family decided to move to America. Our farm…

was a time of drastic and transformation from hand tools, and hand made items to machine manufactured and mass-produced goods. This change generally helped life, but also hindered it as well. Pollution, such as CO2 levels in the atmosphere rose,…

Fort Sumter prompted Abraham Lincoln to call for volunteers to suppress the rebellion and in reaction Jefferson Davis called on volunteers. While the states of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Arkansas, disgusted at the idea of attacking their…

were formed by people who emigrated from countries of strict Christianity, many colonies developed their own religious beliefs. By the year 1700, there was a scale of religious freedom ranging from high tolerance to low tolerance. Groups of strict, accep…

events leading up to the independence of America. One of the most important and influential events was the Boston Tea Party. Leading to this, angry colonists boarded a ship filled with many chests of tea and threw them overboard. The Boston Tea…

an arbitrary ruler-whether Parliament or King-was violating their inherent rights, to feel that rebellion was justified. This conviction was bred in them by the series of events that occurred between 1763 and 1776. The language used to protest the Britis…

be explained from individual experience"1. -Ralph Waldo Emerson. American author, poet and philosopher. 1803-1881 History relies on the biography and personal accounts of average people in order to be relevant. It is essentially the stories…

from racial tensions well into the Twentieth century. Throughout the 20th century many white people believed that blacks should be separated from whites, causing much animosity between the two. Blacks experienced stereotyping, unequal opportunities,…