America changed forever as daily routines of men, women and children rushed around this Tuesday morning. On September 11, 2001 planes were hijacked, buildings collapsed, and many lives were lost. Washington, Pennsylvania and The World Trade Center was the target for these men to destroy. Will we ever know the real reason for this disaster? […]
In a letter written in 1780 for her son, John Quincy Adams, Abigail Adams attempts to convince her son that he should travel with his father to France after making a decision that he didn’t want to go on the trip. Adams does so by establishing the importance of her word as his mother with […]
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” -Declaration of Independence of the United States (1776) In the first century after the American foundation, however, there is a […]
When advocating for social justice, there is little more that stings than the remains of a broken promise. Four years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood in front of our nation and declared an “unconditional” war on poverty in his State of the Union Address, saying, “Our objective is total victory” (Shore). Since then, the […]
Slavery shaped the lives of so many people all around the world. Many African Americans were drug from their homes and used for labor. These slaves worked mostly in horrible conditions, some suffered physical abuse, and some never even made it off the ship to their slave owners land. Slaves often had a long journey […]
African American life in the United States has been outlined by relocations, constrained and free. A constrained relocation from Africa—the transoceanic slave exchange—conveyed individuals of color to the Americas. A second constrained relocation—the inside slave exchange—shipped them from the Atlantic coast to the inside of the American South. A third relocation—this time started generally, however […]
Slavery’s presence has tormented mankind’s set of experiences for millennia. Slavery appears to fill a need to deliver things at a huge scope. For the United States, that item was irrefutably cotton. Dark Americans – both male and female – were exchanged as slaves to till the ground on huge cotton ranches in the South. […]
George Washington was an American political leader, military general, and Founding Father who also served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. He led Patriot forces to victory in the Revolutionary War, and he presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which established the new federal government. He has been […]
I am pleased to share with you the progress that has been made to the U S Constitution since the process started. Since the Constitution was first written, persons eligible to vote has widened with the introduction of various amendments. The Constitution has been amended 27 times over the past 200 years and these amendments […]
The Revolutionary War was an insurrection by American Patriots in the thirteen colonies to British rule, resulting in American independence. The American Revolution not only remains revolutionary because of its bringing of a self-government civilization to Britain, but The Sons of Liberty and their actions, The French & Indian War and how it ended, and […]
Compare and Contrast: Lincoln on Leadership The books assigned for this course have been great to read. Each book is similar but go into depth on different subjects. In the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell explains each law and gives examples to better understand the law. In the book Leadership: […]
Cornel West is the author of Democracy Matters, Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. It was published by the Penguin Group in 2004. Cornel West is best known for his literary work, Race Matters, which analyzes the impact race has had in American history. In Democracy Matters, West dives into the problematic behavior of the United […]
Many people know about the American Revolution. People know why the American Revolution started but we are going to look at the specific reasons. Some of the reasons the American Revolution started was because of taxation without representation, they wanted their freedom from Great Brittan, and the federal government made the states pay the war […]
Throughout most of history humans have been controlled by absolute monarchies or regimes run by a single family. As well as given very few liberties and the ability to freely live their lives. It wasn’t until around the 1500’s that certain individuals began to freely think for themselves without the influence of their government and […]
The issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation was largely influenced by Abraham Lincoln’s negative opinion of slavery, however he was also under pressure from his peers and the slave owners of the United States as well. The President expressed his dislike for the concept of slavery in documents and speeches more than thirty years before the […]
Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address at the Solder’s national cemetery on November 13, 1863 (Biography.com). Lincoln did not attend much school growing up. He mostly learned everything he knew from reading books. His parents recalled him walking miles just to get another book he could read (Biography.com). When he got older he decided that […]
Bostonians, like Philadelphians and New Yorkers were involved in the Dutch trade, that is, smuggling of tea and other commodities and got into colonial non-importation agreements. However, some Bostonian traders violated the nonimportation treaties by importing tea. This essay discusses the significance of the Boston tea Party, Events that provoked the Tea party, impact of […]
The United States Presidential Election of 1860 main issue was slavery and states’ rights. In the spring of 1860 the Democratic Party met in Charleston, South Carolina. A disagreement over the parties stand on slavery had many southern states withdraw candidates. In Baltimore of June 18-23, they met for a second time with a split […]
On January 1st, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of the Civil war. The proclamation declared “that all persons held as slaves, within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be free.” But the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways, it only applied states that […]
The presidential election of 2016 between democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump was a barbarous and crude feud between not only the nominees but the citizens of the United States. This race was touted as one of the most hostile and cut-throat contests for the presidency, from the back and forth social […]
President Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He was elected in the year 1860, beating out Stephen A. Douglas in the election of 1860. Lincoln would be the first republican president the country would ever have. He would have Hannibal Hamlin as his Vice President during his first term as […]
On July 1st General George Meade learns the armies were engaged at Gettysburg and learns Gen. John Reynolds was killed. Meade sends word to Major General Winfield S. Hancock and wants him head to Gettysburg and assume command of the 1st, 3rd and the 11th corps. He arrives at to find General Howard, commander of […]
The Battle of Gettysburg fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. Where Confederate forces led by General Robert E. Lee and the Union army led by General George Meade. The battle left more than 51,000 wounded, killed, captured, or claimed to miss. The […]
Introduction The following essay is a summary of the address delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the time he was dedicating the cemetery of Gettysburg during the American civil war 1863. The speech came just after the war with the belief of transcendentalism which came upon with Henry, Ralph, Margaret and other members in a club. […]
The Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre took place in 1770 outside the Boston Customs House. More than one hundred Bostonians confronted a band of nine British soldiers near a sentry box outside the Boston Customs House (Gale, 1999). Tensions between the Bostonians and the British soldiers rose, and the British ended up fatally wounding five […]
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occured on December 16, 1773. At Griffin’s Wharf in Boston Massachusetts. American colonist, frustrated and angry at britain for imposing “taxation without representation”. Dumped 342 chest of british tea into the harbor. This act was a major defiance to british rule over colonist. It showed great […]
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, is well known as one of the Great Emancipator in United States history and The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most highly criticized and analyzed documents of his Presidency. On the surface the proclamation granted the freedom of every slave in the Confederate States of […]
Academy award winning Gone With the Wind is a classic that will forever remain among some of the greatest love stories. This story follows Scarlett O’Hara as her life changes drastically before, during, and after the civil war. Scarlett faces death, famine and poverty as she attempts to maintain her home, the O’Hara plantation, and […]
The Antebellum Era in the American South lasted roughly seventy-five years, beginning in the late eighteenth century and ending with the outbreak of the Civil War. During this time, Southern society was deeply divided by wealth. Only 0.1 percent of whites owned more than 100 slaves, while 76.1 percent owned none at all. Even so, […]
Lincoln, the 16th president of the US, is renowned for his role in leading the nation through the Civil War, abolishment of slavery, modernization of the economy and stabilization of the US federal government. This paper aims to provide a brief history of Abraham Lincoln’s life as well as a comprehensive analytic review of the […]
