North American History Essays and Term Papers

significant leap into the future. This introduction of two entirely opposite and completely separate cultures inevitably molded and shaped our present existence. Fortunately, European culture prevailed because of its technological and social advancement.…

13, 1997 CP-11 Period 6 Outline                  Thesis: The Roswell Incident, which enlightened our minds to the capacity of excepting, has remained one of the most…

by the 1750s, great tensions were wrought between the two contending countries. While the French were mainly occupying North America for the possibilities it presented involving trade, the English were looking to colonize the continent and spread through…

optimism to a vision of a reborn America. After two decades of troubles, assassinations, urban riots, the agony of Vietnam and the disgrace of Watergate the nation was ready to move ahead. Here was the oldest man ever to serve as president, Ronald…

is one in which there is political stability with the preservation of democracy, economic growth and confidence, social mobility and order, and a foreign relations policy in which trade is allowed to boom and safety is imperative. The form of government…

the Savior of the Civil War Though some circles may make Ulysses S. Grant seem to be a drunkard and an anti-Semite, he was not. In reality Grant was an outstanding military figure, especially during the Civil War. One may ask, "how did President…

also one of the greatest military leaders in American history. He led brother against brother, and he did it all for his home state of Virginia. Not because he agreed with all the politics of the South, but he loved where he had grown up and where his…

donkey and the Republican elephant. Most of us have seen the pachyderm and the beast of burden in countless political cartoons, but how did they come to be the official "mascot" for the two parties? "Righty" the elephant, as he is known today,…

will always have two sides to the story. What most Americans refer to today as the American Revolution is no different. As Americans, most of us view eighteenth-century England as a tyrannical power across the ocean, and see men like George Washington…

Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia on February 22, 1732. His childhood was uneventful while he was educated in mathematics, The Classics and surveying. In 1743, his father died and his older half-brother Lawrence became a substitute…