North American History Essays and Term Papers

by congress on June 13, 1866 and ratified (approved) July 9, 1868. It was passed giving previous slaves- (slavery was abolished in the 13th amendment except as punishment.) the rights that all United States citizens should have. It stated in section…

        "There never was an innocent year...but there was a time when the delusion of innocence was easy to believe." (Margolis, Intro) The Draft, Vietnam, Flower Children, Riots, Women's Lib, Free Love, Hippies, the Grateful Dead, Drugs, Sex,…

they all faced many of the same hardships. Hardships such as: trouble with the Indians, England's varying control, and the wars they were each dragged through. The problems with the Indians stemmed from the abuse of them by the original colonists…

signaled to start the Boston Tea Party, with the words "this meeting can do no more to save this country." With that, they set out for the famous rebellion. But what really signaled the Boston Tea Party? Taxes. In attempt to increase England's…

disastrous result when a situation is influenced and controlled by an ineffectual leader such as General Howard who had been matched against an effective leader such as Chief Joseph. Chief Joseph valued ethics and continuously involved his people in…

always felt as though I knew my destiny at a young age, I had a clear vision for myself and fought to succeed at it. I am James Wolfe, a professional soldier. I was born at the vicarage in Westerham, Kent, on the second of January 1727. My father,…

are all thinking about the circumstances that have brought them to this point. How could they stand by as their family was being killed off, one by one, like vermin? Is it not a matter of honor? How could they call themselves a man if they do not…

Those individuals hardest hit by the economic uproar were the farmers. The lengths to which the American people were pushed to in order to survive were unnatural and gruesome, even for a third-world country. "In 1931, Cameroon, in West Africa, sends…

Pleasant, Ohio, was a child destined to be the president of the United States; the little son of Jesse and Hannah Simpson Grant would change history forever. Christened Hiram Ulysses Grant, the infant soon grew to be a youngster who embraced his…

the Sioux women in a Sioux Indian Camp, their jobs, expectations and most generally all their daily chores, also why they did these things and how it might have affected everyone else in the camp. The Sioux women in the Sioux Indian Camp were seen…