THE WORLD LEADER IN AGRICULTURE IS THE U.S.Since the agricultural transformation began in the United States, the United States only seemed to improve agriculturally. The Western Hemisphere was the first to progress towards this transformation, displaying the United States as a leader in agriculture...

Flandreau, South DakotaIn the southeastern corner of the State of South Dakota, 40 miles north of Sioux Falls and about 12 miles west of the Minnesota border, lies an interesting territory known as Moody County. It is comprised of the county seat city of Flandreau, several smaller towns, a Santee S...

The Colombian Exchange When Columbus sailed over in 1492 he had no idea how his voyage was going to affect the old and new worlds. Christopher Columbus first journeyed to find Asia brought him to the Americas and forever changed the course of history for both. The exchange of ideas, technology, ...

Native American stories reflected their lives and beliefs vividly. Through stories Native Americans could explain natural phenomenon such as earthquakes and thunderstorms. They would often blame these events on gods that were "responsible." Creation stories are also common among Native Ame...

In 1971 the face of Iron Eyes Cody, the Crying Indian, and the slogan, "Pollution: it's a crying shame. People start pllution. People can stop it," helped shape America's idea of what Shepard Krech III refers to as the "Ecological Indian" in his book, The Ecological I...

Hawaii's environment began as a pure and pristine paradise, untouched by foreign creatures. When the English first invaded this paradise, they brought diseases, wild pigs, dogs and other unwanted species that upset the agricultural and environmental cycle of life. The more outsiders come to the isl...

When talking about Indians who lived in North America, we actually refer to people who are called Natives. For a long time, they have been known as Indians because of a wrong belief of a very famous Italian explorer Christopher Columbus who said, that the Americas were the Indies\' lands. Today thi...

In the latter half of the 19th century, the United States government began to take actions that would ultimately limit the presence and culture of Native Americans in the Great Plains region. These government actions were often corrupt in how they prompted the mistreatment of the Plains Indians whil...

No nation has ever existed without some sense of national destiny or purpose. Manifest Destiny, a phrase used by leaders and politicians in the 1840s to explain continental expansion by the United States, revitalized a sense of "mission" for many Americans. Manifest Destiny, meaning "obvious or unde...

Thomas Jefferson supported the territorial expansion of the U.S., for the progress and successful domination of the Western Hemisphere by a Republican, agrarian society. Thomas Jefferson held firmly to the belief that this domination would occur naturally and function in balance, with the absen...

Indian Policy: In 1881, President Chester Arthur said that the U.S. had to deal with "the appalling fact that though thousands of lives have been sacrificed and hundreds of millions of dollars" have been spent on "the Indian problem," nothing has been permanent or satisfactory. A...

Native American Religions Native American religions happen to have to real geological boundaries. We can see remnents of them all throughout the Americas. It was not until about 400 years age that a literary basis was formed. And through that basis we can concluded that the religions are based u...

The Cherokee: A Proud PeopleThe Cherokee Indians are of the Iroquoian linguistic family. Their economy, like that of most of the other southeastern tribes, was based on intensive agriculture, mainly of corn, beans, and squash while the typical hunted animals were deer, bear, and wild turkey. Corn w...

Throughout the ages, war has altered and shaped the paths of history. Such carnage and butchery has taken a heavy toll on mankind, but it has, nonetheless, created who we are and the being of our ancestors as well. There will always be disagreements and even conflicts between men, but should the m...

Andrew Jackson, who was believed to be a man of dignity and self respect, was in addition, incredibly undemocratic. Jackson's followers presented him as the hero to the common man and although Jackson as well viewed himself as a man of the people, he was anything but that. Even though born in a...

Have you ever driven down the road in some town somewhere and saw a person wearing different clothes than you or selling their cultural arts and crafts, that are unusual to you, but not to them? Have you wondered where they "got" that idea from, or who "taught" them that? I'...

Horses have been an important and influential part of North American and European history. In his book, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, Alfred W. Crosby argues that horses helped to bring about European's successful colonization of a number of temperate regions ...

In the beginning of American History there have always been differences and clashes of different groups of travelers and settlers. Three main groups that are going to be focused on are the Native Americans, which are also known as the Indians. They were said to be the first group of people in Nort...

Thomas Jefferson was a man with new ideas and open minded ideals. Unlike most of his fellow politicians, he had his own strong beliefs and looked for answers in the questions instead of around them. Jefferson said that \"the state of peace is that which most improved the manners and morals, the pr...

There were many country-splitting issues that characterized the United States in the 1800s. A major one of these was Manifest Destiny, the belief that the United States was destined to extend its territory west to the Pacific Ocean. The country separated as many people supported the idea, and many o...

Open land, additional benefits, and other existing problems encouraged Americans to expand westward. The American people began to realize that the future of the country lay in the development of its own western resources (Nash 533; 1). There were many reasons that made the people face the grueling a...

Exploitation of the Canadian Aboriginal The Plains Natives of Canada, two major tribes being the Cree and the Blackfoot, faced many obstacles in their pre-treaty days. These obstacles made them more open to a change in life-style proposed to them by the inflow of Europeans to the West of Canada, ...

In 1830's the Plains Indians were sent to the Great American Deserts in the west because Indians in white men's objectives did not deserve a good fertile land to live on. When the white men realized they could still use the land they gave the Natives because the land could support agricult...

American Indians were the first inhabitants of this land we call home. They were here way before the United States was created. The Native Americans did not even know the term America until the \"white man\" came. The \"white man\" influenced the natives; however, the Native Americans also did th...

Before one of the most devastating wars in the history of the U.S., the American Civil War, the country was divided in to sections: North, South, and West. With the North and South having very different sectional beliefs on issues, the West would often have to position with one or the other dependin...