For as long as society has existed it has been made up of two categories of people, law abiding citizens and menaces to society. Today these menaces to society are more commonly called criminal offenders. As long as we have criminal offenders we are going to need some type of sanction to detain, ...

DBQ – Indian Removal The 1830's removal of the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral land to distant reservations in Oklahoma, known as the Trail of Tears, represented a marked divergence from American national policy. The decision made by the Jackson administration differe...

Cronon's Changes in the Land The colonization of New England by English colonists sparked many changes throughout an environment that was already inhabited by the local Native Americans. This change occurred at many different, correlated levels. Both the economical and environmental state...