Thomas Jefferson's and Alexander Hamilton's visions of America differed greatly. Jefferson wanted the Farmer's dream and Hamilton wanted the Merchant's dream. Both thought their dreams would secure happiness and people's natural rights. Jefferson was very well inform...

The most important principle on which the founding of the American republic was based on is the written constitution. With the Constitution the elite society protected rights for every American that would secure and ensure our nation's existence for hundreds of years. Our first form of gove...

The War of 1812, also called "Mr. Madison's War" and " a second war for independence" was a conflict between the United States of America and Britain. It lasted between 1812 and 1815. Since 1796, France and Britain had been continuously fighting. The United States, rather than take sides, co...

Erin Molthen WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES AMERICA DESIRE YOUTH? What is it about those golden years that makes everyone older try and stay that desired age forever? In our society we can find countless examples of the older generations trying desperately to hang on to their youth. It has almost bec...

The Great Awakening was the religious revival that swept through the world in the mid 1700's. In the colonies it was the beginning of Evangelical Calvinism, and was centered mainly in the South. Johnathan Edwards was a Congregational Pastor in Northampton Connecticut. He was extremely outspoken...

African Americans played a significant role in protecting and liberating many Europeans from Nazi invasion and rule during World War II. They helped fight for human rights over seas, yet they were being denied these same rights back home by the very country they were fighting for. It seems somewhat ...

Constitution's Significance and Law in America The definition of constitution is the act or process of composing, setting up or establishing (Websters Dictionary online). When I think of constitution I think of our "founding father's", the ones who established our governemnt and...

America's first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams, both resolutely adhered to the idea that America should endeavor to stay out of war at all times, and did everything in their power to evade declaring and entering into war. Throughout their reigns, war was ubiquitous in Eur...

Under the new Constitution, the infant country of America began the long crawl to independence. The country began facing many problems as a new nation and slowly began to wade out from the international troubles that it faced. The 1790s brought on many foreign and domestic affairs for the United S...

The War of 1812 The war of 1812, supposedly fought over neutral trading rights, was a very peculiar conflict indeed. Britain's trade restrictions, one of the main causes, were removed two days before the war started; the New Englanders, for whom the war was supposedly fought, opposed it; the mo...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past ...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past s...

A funny thing, though: The man who started the tradition in the 1920s didn't think it would last. He didn't want it to last. Some day, he thought, African Americans and their history would enter the American mainstream. A special day, week or month to tell their stories and study their past ...

America's first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams, both resolutely adhered to the idea that America should endeavor to stay out of war at all times, and did everything in their power to evade declaring and entering into war. Throughout their reigns, war was ubiquitous in E...

America's first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams, both resolutely adhered to the idea that America should endeavor to stay out of war at all times, and did everything in their power to evade declaring and entering into war. Throughout their reigns, war was ubiquitous in E...

Nicholas Grosz Mr. Burke Econ 3/1/00 ETHICAL ECONOMICS? The term ethical and economics should never be put into the same sentance. They are almost oxymoronic in the sense that in order for one to succeed on an economic level, ethics are usually never...

American Civil War Ever since the beginnings of America there have been consequential events that led to the American Civil War. Throughout history, there has been much controversy over whether this war was or was not unavoidable. Upon looking back into the chronicles of history and the longtime c...

By 1860 the Union had grown to over 36 states. Much of the population had moved its center from farmland to large cities. With the invention of the cotton gin the South ushered in a whole new era of profitable slave labor. In Virginia in 1831 and 1832, the legislation defeated numerous gradual emanc...

The Civil War began in 1861 with the conflict at Fort Sumter, South Carolina and ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant in Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia in 1865. However, the sectional conflict between the North and the South began long before the war. Many people believe the main c...