… century. He sp most of his life studying, thinking and writing about history and economics. A many years of study, much of it spent in England, he believed that he understo more deeply than anyone who had ever lived before him why there is…

… signs the Emancipation Proclamation. 1865: Civil War ends. Lincoln assassinated (April15). Freedman's Bureau, to help former slaves, established. Ku Klux Klan organize in Pulaski, Tenn. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified stating…

… The depression was started when the stock market crashed in 1929 then the depression started in 1930. The depression caused people to loose there jobs there homes and some even there families. The depression was very difficult times and very interesting.…

… the Cold war was a very awkward time. Nobody really knew what was going to happen. Some were frightened and some didn’t even pay attention to it. Communist and democratic relations in the late 1980s were not going too well. The United States and the…

… many countries including Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines among others. In the same era, the native Philippinos under the guidance of their leader Aguilenaldo fought the Spanish with the help of the United States to win the War for their…

… 1836 the abolitionists acted radically by demanding an immediate end to slavery and recognition of equality. Written for Document Based Question section on the Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam. Radical Actions of Abolitionists Before…

… the world today? Waterways influence the economic, social, and the political developments of a nearby nation in many different ways. The water ways that I have chosen to discuss are seas, rivers and oceans. In this essay I will talk about how water…

… was much more than battles, statistics, politics, and opinions. The things that contributed to its beginning, what happened during the war, and the effects of the war are still being debated and discussed. Patrick Finney assembles some of the best writin…

… and other sayings typify Harry S. Truman, the 32nd president of the United States. He was a man who decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, fire Gen. Douglas Macarthur from leading the Korean War, and form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.…

… running high in all parts of the world. Many nations were frightened that nuclear war would put everyone in misery. While “America was holding their breath as the possibility of nuclear world war grew greater and greater as the Soviet Union continued…