The revolutionary era debated over morals and corrections of slavery for blacks and many other nationalities. ... At this time American revolutionaries brought their opposition of slavery into the war. The African American participation happened way before the war era even started. ... Many of the African Americans use this war to escape and be freed slaves, others died, some turned on their masters, and few became heroes of the war. ... I feel the evidence of the war made a clear statement about slavery period. ...

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The post-civil war period was one of great economic expansion for the United States. ... Although railroads were being built in the U.S. since the 1930's this industry bontributed greatly to economic development after the Civil War. ... This sparked economic growth in the post-cilil war era. ... Civil War. ...

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"Dances with Wolves" is a movie that takes place in the western United States during the Civil War era. ... By the Civil war era, thousands of Native Americans have already been persecuted and evacuated from their land so they would not be so peaceful with any white men. ...

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The Democratic Party in that era was closely associated with the believers of the Manifest Destiny. ... One of the outcomes of the Manifest Destiny was the Mexican war. ... The expansionism also caused the spread of slavery, war, racism, and displaced native people from their land. ...

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The next era is known as the arrival of the salty men. ... This era lasted from 1600 to about 1800. ... A British man by the name of Captain Samuel Argall names the bay and river after Sir Thomas West, Lord De La War, and the governor of Jamestown. ... This brings us to the Industrial Revolution era. ... The modern era now begins. ...

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During one of the most significant periods of twentieth century America, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. sought to hypothesize the elements of American politics that allowed the United States to escape the Great Depression of 1929, Roosevelt's New Deal, and fight the second world's war, without the federal government becoming a dictatorship. ... Schlesinger illustrates his point with Jacksonians bank war and the hard money policy of 1836. ... The hard money policy was conceived from Jackson's bank war and was as the alternative to the conservative system of economic theory and to exclu...

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Not only did the Colt impact the general public's perception of fire arms, it affected how wars are fought. Colt firearms have been the sidearm of choice through much of American military history, ranging from the Colt Model 1860's use through the Civil War to the Colt Model 1911A1 in World War II. ... War and life as we know it could be very different if it wasn't for Samuel Colt. ... Additionally it has changed the face of armed combat with the introduction of multi-shot firearms and thereby altering the way wars were fought and won. ... It was developed based on early princi...

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The actions of the US Government with regard to the expulsion of Indian tribes east of the Mississippi during the 1830's and the actions of the Federal Government toward the Japanese-Americans in California during World War II hold many similarities and many differences. ... In following time, the Secretary of War, Stimson, planned the relocation of the West Coast citizens of Japanese decent to Internment camps. ... The second were the Japanese during World War II who were removed from their homes and sent to internment camps in the central states. ... In conclusion, the actions of the...

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The era of change began when affluent American merchants were forced to pay taxes on imports and were meant to trade with only the British empire due to British mercantile laws. ... After winning the war against England, the new United States no longer paid taxes to absent leaders and gained control over its own people, letting its wealthier citizens gain the power they had desired in colonial times. ... After the Revolutionary War, the Articles of Confederation formed the federal government of the United States. ... They gained no more freedoms due to the Revolutionary War. ... The letter exh...

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There is an abundance of reasons that explain the inevitability of the conflict, but the different philosophies that confronted each other at that time, the sudden feeling of superiority that grew on Europeans toward the Native Americans, and also the "clash of cultures" which occurred when Europeans reached America, were the ones I consider most relevant and influential to the inability of stopping "the war". ... In order to understand the huge differences, it is not a bad idea to take a look right back to the late fifteenth century, the era in which Europe was looking to expand and found n...

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The book begins innocently enough, with an introduction that tells us that the setting is the third year of the French and Indian War. The author's use of historical facts allows the reader to more vividly imagine what is being described, and allows Cooper to draw on the reader's knowledge of the French and Indian War. ... This fear of Native Americans is what fueled, in part, the Jackson-era anti-Native American policies circa 1830. ... Between war, disease, and the eventual anti-Native American legislation during the Jackson era, c. 1830. The book seems to take a clear pro-Native A...

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African American's Great Migration to a better Economy and Freedom After the Reconstruction era the African American's population changed in the south during the 19th and early 20th centuries. ... Many Northern states needed labor due to World War I and they were offering higher wages than the South. ...

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His election marked an end of a political era dominated by the planter aristocracy of Virginia and the commercial aristocracy of New England. ... Prior to his presidency, Jackson was very active in war and politics. ... The Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Seminole War that was renewed in 1835 represented the last efforts of the eastern Native Americans to retain their ancestral lands. ... When this war between Biddle and Jackson was over, Jackson had won his greatest political victory, and the Second Bank of the United States passed out of existence when its charter expired in 1836. ...

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The fifty years period between the war of 1812 and the Civil War is called the Jacksonian Age. ... He led troops against them in both the Creek War and the First Seminole War and during his first administration the Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830. ... Although his presidency was described as an "era of good feelings" and he was said to have paid off the national debt, he was using the presidency for his own gain. ...

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Around the Civil War era, there were quite a few expeditions funded by the Government devoted to investigating scientific matters. ... Evaluation: "Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West" By Eva Weber and Ansel Adams This book has given me insight into the history of landscape photography in America and who are the great landscape photographers of their era. ...

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However, in 1876 after several brutal wars, the Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, and Comanches complied to move to certain areas where whites were prohibited (Greenberg 33). ... Polk in the war with Mexico, which started in 1846. ... After the war, filibustering, another tactic of U.S. territorial expansion, was also driven against Spanish Florida, Mexican Texas, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean Islands. ... According to Greenberg, "in order to ˜prove' that Anglo " Saxons were destined to dominate lesser races, leading scientists of the antebellum era, many from the Sout...

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It was a time when a person's social class was largely determined by his or her racial identity, with the whites at the top of the hierarchy, playing dominant roles of the ambitious era, which was making an eager call for the Westward Expansion. ... Those who rejected to move later went to war with American governments, and as a result, many were killed. ... The desire of white Americans to expand the U.S. territories resulted directly into the Mexican-American War, which ended with Mexico's surrender and led to the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 and the Gadseden...

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As a man of the Romantic Era he saw them as unspoiled, the "noble savage". ... Perhaps this comparison with Europe's heroic era was to support his defense of all things American. ... In Notes, perhaps Jefferson's greatest scientific work, he listed the tribes with a fullness and precision that were uncommon of his era. ... William Apess, a Native American of mixed Pequot and white parentage who fought for the United States in the War of 1812, became a Methodist minister in 1829, and championed the rights of the Mashpee tribe on Cape Cod in the 1830s. ...

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Similarly, the Indians were seen only as sources of trade, and as useful allies during times of war with other Europeans. ... Butler proves that these characteristics of American culture and the American people have their origins in the late colonial era. ... While today's American economy is geared primarily towards the service sector and advanced manufacturing, the economy of the late colonial era centered on agriculture. ... Changes in the political realms of the late colonial era heralded the beginning of large-scale participatory politics "one of America's crowning achievem...

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For example Indian hunters hunted animals based on demand and not on need as they once did depleting the animal populations and causing competition for hunting grounds and creating inter-tribal wars. ...

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The team also experienced hardship because a few of the players had to quit playing for the team because they were drafted to the army for World War II. ... This is because these men from San Francisco were able to leave and travel America and Canada, which was impossible for any person of color during that era and they were able to provide hope for Chinese Americans....

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And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of established means while deepening inequalities among whites. Numerous events during and after the misnamed Era of Good Feelings "among them the neo-Federalist rulings of John Marshall's Supreme Court, the devastating effects of the panic of 1819, the launching of John Quincy Adams's and Henry Clay's American System "confirmed a growin...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated links between material conditions, ideology and power. It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the con...

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