North American History Essays and Term Papers

17, 1706. He was the 15th child of 17 kids and the youngest boy in the family. His parents were Josiah and Abiah Franklin. Josiah Franklin owned a small soap and candle shop on Milk Street. The law said that every child 8 years of age and up had to…

not knowing or quite understanding what it was or what it was going to do to them. They were loaded onto a train like cattle with no food or water and taken away from their homes to a place that would haunt their dreams forever. Those people whose…

native language of Penutian. The Maidu lived in California, along various streams and tributaries in the Sacramento Valley and the surrounding foothills. Some were based by the Feather River, in the area that is now known as Butte County, others by…

candle light. In everything one could do one needed a candle next to them to make it possible for it to be done. It was not until the birth of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison that this was changed forever. These two great men's inventions are what…

Virginia by Edmund S. Morgan is an in depth book written about Virginia's colonial experience. The emphasis of Morgan's book centers around contradictory institutions of slavery and freedom. He argues that Virginians' definition of freedom and…

together various strands of the historical record in a stunning fusion that points the way to a definitive history of American Slavery. In this fusion of history, anthropology, and sociology, Gomez has made expert use of primary sources, including…

a massacre at all because only five people were killed. It was a considered a massacre because the British government's authority was not going to be tolerated. The name Boston Massacre was invented by speechmakers and used to stir the anger of the…

a few hundred years after its discovery. Inspired by adventure, riches, and the desire to escape political and religious oppression, Europeans came to the continent. Two of the immigrations that took place were those of the French and British. Upon…

monetary value than it imports, or mercantilism, held the colonies together and built them into a unity that would soon become a nation more powerful than England itself. Mercantilist ideas shaped the policies of all major nations of Europe from…

10 that were ratified became the Bill of Rights in 1791. They defined citizens' rights in relation to the newly established government under the Constitution. During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged…