The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. After Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, the animal, plant, and bacterial life of these two worlds began to mix. By reuniting […]
Growing up in a big world not knowing how we have the things we do now and where they had come from or how was the environment before and after. As we look back, in the 15 and 16 century many explorers wanted to venture out in hopes to find wealth and undiscovered land, such […]
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Get startedOn October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to Asia and ran into a new country called the New World. Columbus brought over many different things to the New World. He brought smallpoxs and sugarcane. When he arrived there was another illness syphilis. Smallpox, sugarcane, and syphilis could the greatest impact of the Columbian Exchange. First, […]
Language and Structure in The Gettysburg Address The Gettysburg Address was given on November 19, 1863 to the Union soldiers four months after they defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Gettysburg. This speech brought a new outlook on what was currently happening in the war and what was yet to come. Lincoln uses language […]
The Battle of Gettysburg was a three-day battle between the Union and the Confederate States of America that took place on July 1-3, 1863 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, decided that the time was right to invade the north and capture the Union’s capital. So, Davis commanded General Robert E. […]
There were nearly 50 major battles in the American Civil War, but which battle was the most important? Well, The Battle of Gettysburg is to be considered the most important match of the Civil War. This battle was taken place from July 1st to July 3rd, 1863. Who knew that in just three days this […]
Between the Mongol Conquests and the Crusades, Europe was affected drastically with each expedition. The Mongol Conquests, while permanently altering life and health in most of Asia, left an almost dark shadow over the continent. The Crusades brought a little glimmer of hope to the people of Jerusalem and in the long term, changed the […]
The Crusades were a lengthy and tiring battle fought between the Muslims and Christians. These crusades took place during the 11th to the 13th centuries. The crusades were sanctioned by the Papacy, the head of the Papacy known as the Pope. Several people have fought and several have fallen, the Christians only won due to […]
In the Roaring Twenties Jazz-Age flappers flouted Prohibition laws and the Harlem Renaissance redefined arts and culture. The Roaring Twenties was time of cultural and political change. The Great Gatsby relates to this topic by showing different types of social classes during the 1920s. In 1920s New York was at the highest point for prohibition […]
The Culture of Consumerism: During the Roaring Twenties and Today The economy of the 1920’s, also known as the Roaring Twenties, soared like never before. It was a time in history when the American people were big consumers while working hard and trying to earn an income. With this income, Americans were able to […]
Roaring 20’s Positives The Roaring 20’s was the an age of economic prosperity and cultural explosion after WW1 and brought a wide array of great changes and a few bad changes. The roaring 20’s birthed revolutionary new technologies that changed the way American society lived forever. The Roaring 20’s also was a time of social […]
The decade that left behind the ideologies of the old Victorian way of life and brought on a new era of a more a modernized America is the 1920’s, bringing an escalation of the economy, transforming mass consumerism, and a new political and social way of life for American people. The American people were ready […]
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat slow anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow (Rupert Murdoch). The Roaring Twenties is an example of this, it was the year of changes within the social and political views of many Americans, where the youth took charge and changed America to become […]
Many people question the existence of the Ku Klux Klan these days. The Ku Klux Klan became an organization of institutional race hatred after the Civil War in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee (Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2014). It would seem like it could be something from the past and the older generations but according to Selepak […]
The United States was changing and so were the people in it. As the war ended and the confederate military was done some people were still not happy. The veterans themselves formed a secret society, this was born the Ku Klux Klan. The secret society quickly grew to a unofficial force that was well bent […]
Despite operating under the same name, the first and second rises of the Klan were extremely different in their tactics, impact, and expanse. While much of their ideology remained consistent, rooting in racism, white supremacy, and violence against the non-white and non-Protestant population, though their bigotry extended to additional groups in an attempt to recruit […]
The end of the Civil War marked the end of two centuries of slavery, but it did not give complete relief and equality to the freed African Americans. After the war, many newly established groups from the South, including the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), worked to ensure that whites stayed superior. The groups, which was […]
The Great Migration occurred in the early 1900s, and it involved the migration of over 6 million African Americans from Southern cities to the North of the country specifically, Newark. The Great Migration resulted into what can be described as a shift in massive demographic shifts across the United States. African Americans migrated to Newark […]
Immigration in the United States has been around since the country’s creation. From the Puritans who left England to escape religious persecution, the Irish who left Ireland to escape the great famine, and now the people of Mexico who are leaving to escape a corrupt government and merciless drug cartels. When a country is having […]
The Great Migration Although the passage of the thirteenth amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States, took place in 1865 by the House of Representatives, the pain and suffering of African-Americans was far from over. Immediately after the House pushed the thirteenth amendment into effect, the roots of Jim Crow laws began to […]
You wake up one morning thinking that today is going to be normal day. You follow your daily routine and turn on the TV news channel. Your surprised by the chaos on the news and from your apartment you can hear people screaming and shouting. Out of nowhere you hear a loud boom. This is […]
For Americans, the date 9/11 holds much historical significance. On the eleventh day of September in 2001, there were a series of four attacks across the nation by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. These attacks were made against the United States as a whole, and serve as a political statement that has forever changed the […]
Tragedies happen all around us sometimes they can not be avoided. For instance 9/11 was not something that could have controlled, likewise grendel was not something you could control either. Both 9/11 and Grendel brought great sorrow to people and took many lives. They also happen to be killing for hatred, Grendel hated how happy […]
The Cycle Of 9/11 9/11 had a major effect on our society. It plunged our economy into a huge deficit and engaged the U.S.A in a war in Afghanistan. Many people lost their lives on this tragic day. This profounded day was a day to remember, a day that everyone will always keep in […]
More than enough people are still terrified that the world is in danger when it comes to dealing with terrorists and their threats. Today people make it seem like we’re in harm’s way and that authorities aren’t doing anything to protect us. When it comes to 9/11 the people that were younger back then are […]
Have you ever thought of how many churches are in the city you live? There are probably many different churches with different denominations that could be found where you live. Most of these churches would be classified as either Protestant or Catholic. With all these different types of churches, have you ever thought of where […]
The Romans were one of the greatest empires that there ever was. They had power, wealth, and at one point ruled majority of the known world. They built one of the strongest and vast empire that the world has ever seen. They rose from nothing and grew into one of the strongest empires known to […]
There are many reasons historians say caused the downfall of the Roman Empire, but I believe the main cause of the downfall in the Western Empire was the brutal attacks of the Barbarians. Now, although many groups attacked the Roman Empire, the German Goths were the most successful at doing so. They went through the […]
Rome, an entire empire with a lot of power ceased to exist. It was one of the mightiest empires in its time, undefeated through ferocious battles and wars, but it didn’t last forever. This corrupted civilization came to an end. There was a lot of reasons why the Roman Empire fell, three of these reasons […]
Thomas Jefferson had written in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal. The Patriots, from the original Thirteen Colonies, emphasized this idea of equality as they believed that they deserved their independence from Great Britain. During that period of time, no one would have ever predicted the damage the institution of slavery […]
