Informative Speech I. Introduction. A. Attention Getter: For sixteen hundred years prior to the war between Great Britain and the Colonies, the pages of history bear no record of the Negro as a soldier. Tracing his separate history in the Revolutionary War is a task of much difficulty, fo...

Thomas Paine Thomas Paine For many years Thomas Paine was the epitome of American histories greatest drawback. In American history there is always that one detail that doesn't make it into popular curriculum. Whether it be the point of view from the loosing side of a war, to the secret dall...

In 1775, war broke out between the British and the American colonists. By 1776, the colonists had declared their independence, and after eight years of a prolonged and bloody war, in 1783 Britain was forced to recognize the independence of the United States. Many people never thought that the Americ...

The Strange Death of Silas Deane Silas Deane was a very ambitious man. He went from the son of a blacksmith, to a lawyer, to a business man, and then entered himself into the political world. He served on Connecticut's Committee of Correspondence and in later years as a delegate to th...

In many ways, women were not allowed to play an important role in society during the 1770's. For the most part, it was illegal for women to receive any form of higher education. Thus, their involvement in the affairs of government was very limited, including of course, that they were not allo...

Virginia"For the next half-century these products of the golden age served as leaders successively in the War of Independence, in the formation of a new nation based on the new principles of the inalienable rights of man, and in governing the republic during its formative years" (Dowdey, 337). The...

Thomas PaineFor many years Thomas Paine was the epitome of American histories greatest drawback. In American history there is always that one detail that doesn't make it into popular curriculum. Whether it be the point of view from the loosing side of a war, to the secret dalliances of a popular po...