North American History Essays and Term Papers

the late seventeen hundreds, many tumultuous events resulted in Colonial opposition to Great Britain. The conditions of rights of the colonists will slowly be changed as the constriction of the parliament becomes more and more intolerable. During…

a better life, where you depended on nobody but the land around you and yourself. They thought their lives would be simpler, easier when they came here. They read the advertisements of the Canadian government about free land, and all the space you…

been considered controversial. Most of the presidents had their own personal scandals covered up, or made an attempt to do so. Kennedy, Nixon, Washington, even the most recent, Clinton and Bush have secrets that they feel need to be kept from the public.…

different regional groups. These groups were the Mescalero, who roamed east of the Rio Grande in Southern New Mexico and the Pecos River; the Jicarillo in northern New Mexico, Texas and parts of Colorado; the Chiricahua, who were located in southwestern…

sadness, pain, suffering, happiness, loneliness, fright, strength; hopefulness and hopelessness. Most people can't find a way to express themselves in such dark times; but the people that wrote it all down, the people that set down the memories and…

was the biggest and the richest of them all, but it was no different from any of those that followed in providing the majority of its participants with much rushing and little gold. When forty-niners reminisced through beards grown longer and…

have been telling of what a great man Christopher Columbus was and of his "discovery" of America. What would one think of him if years from then one were to discover he was just as bad as Hitler if not worse? In 1492, a Holocaust began against the…

the postwar era - diversity in the face of uniformity, the creation of close-knit communities despite massive mobility, changes in sex roles occurring in the face of the 'feminine mystique,' the emergence of cultural rebels in the midst of chilling…

had become a source of sectional discord and tension due to the different interpretations taken by the North and South. The North's interpretation was that slavery was immoral and not protected under the Constitution. The South, on the other hand,…

lever we have for social uplift." -Lewis Hine Photographs were on the periphery of American's lives as a sort of visual undergrowth that is sometimes underestimated. Photography not only had an influence on how people saw the world, but on what…