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If you look at the flag of the state of California you'll notice that it has a large grizzly bear on it. This is a reference to the short-lived Bear Flag Revolt of 1846. At that time, California...
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1). Latinos come from a culture which is far removed from the traditional understanding of "100% pure Americanism" which developed in the United States as a response to mass immigration in the...
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The legitimacy of this statement really just depends on your evaluation of the circumstances of the Roosevelt administration surrounding it. I typically tend to disagree with it, and most American...
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Both Bismarck and Cavour were superb diplomats who relied on promises from other nations to either assist or at least to not intervene in unifying their respective countries. Both were experts at...
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Industrial capitalism is the economic system that the US has; trade and the economy is controlled and operated for a profit, and is usually controlled by private individuals rather than the...
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World War I was indeed a prelude to World War II. WWII can also be viewed as a continuation of the same struggle. In both wars, the Germans and Austrians fought against the French, British,...
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At the time, World War I was the deadliest conflict in world history, and President Wilson was determined to keep the U.S. out of it. America had enjoyed a mostly isolationist foreign policy stand,...
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In the long-term, the intervention in the Hawaiian Islands changed the United States the most. The intervention started when American sugar and pineapple planters on the island overthrew the...
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The difference between the Assyrians and Persians can best be understood in the context of their treatment of the Hebrews. The Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom of the Hebrews, Israel, in...
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Religion was a prime motivation in the Europeans's conquest of the "New World." They looked upon the Indigenous people as little more than heathens and savages in desperate need of the Gospel...
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Barbarian tribes' movements into Roman lands eventually led to the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476. The Roman Empire was too extensive and its borders were too porous. The border garrisons...
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I would argue that European interest in the New World had much less to do with creating a religious utopia and more to do with interests in exploration and material exploitation. For the French...
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The Cold War was a low-grade conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies that extended from the end of World War II to the early 1990s. It was characterized by an...
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What an interesting question. Since border patrol is tasked with monitoring the inflow of people to the United States, their job is more akin to law enforcement than to immigration services....
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Natasha Zaretsky's 2007 monograph No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline 1968–1980 indicates the scope of the work and, to some extent, the thesis in the subtitle....
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Public opinion is seldom clear. This is demonstrated by the frequency with which pundits and pollsters—who spend their careers studying public opinion—are completely mistaken about the result of...
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The mid-1800s saw an increase in European immigration to the United States, particularly those from Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Poland. Despite facing discrimination from Americans, they were...
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"Imperialism" is a loaded and problematic term, notably due to the fact that some critics of American foreign policy use it to describe many American actions around the world since the late...
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This question refers to the Stono Rebellion of 1739, an uprising of enslaved men and women in Low Country South Carolina. James Oglethorpe, the English reformer who founded Georgia as a debtor...
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Around this time, more people were able to join middle management at factories. This gave the United States a new leisure class who had disposable income to go to baseball and football games. The...
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There were a number of motives for this imperialism. The ones that are most commonly cited are: Economic gain. Countries wanted to gain empires so they could take resources from those empires and...
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The period between 1630 and 1734 was an exciting one in both colonial American and British history. Some notable events include: In the Colonies: 1634: John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts...
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The impact of World War Two can be considered in two ways: during and after the war. In the 1930s–1940s, while Liberia remained independent and Germany retained Togoland, the rest of West Africa...
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In feudal Japan the hierarchical social system was dominated by powerful families who were given control of vast plots of land in return for rendering military service to the Emperor. This is...
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Stalin used the collectivization of Soviet agriculture as a way of breaking the back of peasant resistance to his rule. He knew that the peasants, who formed the overwhelming majority of the Soviet...
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Some of the principle values that came to define thought in the nineteenth century were directly derived from the European Enlightenment. Enlightenment thought, which itself built off of the...
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During the Congressional Reconstruction of 1867-76 African-American men participated in Georgia politics for the very first time. Newly freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and given their civil...
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Several factors led to the so-called "conservative revolution" of the 1970s. One was popular unease with the pace of social change in the country, especially in the late 1960s. Many people believed...
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Woodrow Wilson was first elected President in 1912 and re-elected in 1916. During his first term, and up to the time he asked Congress to authorize the United States’ entry into the Great War, in...
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One of the central ironies of the American revolutionary spirit was how laden it was with internal contradictions. Although the Constitution of the United States commenced with the timeless words,...
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The Articles of Confederation and the original constitutions of the founding states reflected a political desire for more decentralized state power that did not mirror the centralized power of the...
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Leviticus is the third book of the Old Testament. It follows Genesis and Exodus. Unlike those two, Leviticus is not presented in a story format. There are no primary characters like Adam and Eve,...
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The Americans were able to prevail in the Revolutionary War (1775–1783) for three reasons. First, British generals committed a number of serious mistakes. Many of them were overconfident. They...
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Shay's Rebellion was a historical event that actually occurred after the Revolutionary War. It happened in Massachusetts between 1786 and 1787. It was basically carried out by farmers that had...
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There are similarities between the state government and the federal government. One of the similarities is in the structure of government at each level. Both the state government and the federal...
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There are both similarities and differences in the way the peoples of Latin America and the United States achieved their independence. The differences outnumber the similarities, however. One...
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These three men represent three different approaches to civil rights, although some might say that the differences were caused more by when and where the men lived, not necessarily their own...
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Progressivism in the United States, a movement that took place around the beginning of the twentieth century, was extremely varied, and it is thus difficult to pinpoint any one particular...
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Domestic radicalism, such as the emergence of certain socialist groups, initially emerged in Britain as a result of the liberal politics unleashed by the French Revolution. Several new social...
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Both platforms were designed to help the disadvantaged, most notably farmers and industrial workers. Both platforms also had ideas that were picked up by mainstream Democrat and Republican...
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The Spanish were overwhelmingly interested in two things during their colonization of the New World: the extraction of New World silver for trade in the European market and the conversion of the...
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Post-WWII First-World discourse has dominated the academic, economic, political, and public sphere ever since the ascension of the United States as a world superpower and the globalization of the...
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A key to our understanding of this issue, in my view, interestingly enough can be found in a book now little remembered but highly influential in its time, The Managerial Revolution (1941), by the...
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The primary tax arguments that were used by the colonists during the pre-Revolutionary War era were that they were not being represented in Parliament; therefore, they could not be taxed without...
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Liberal democracy and authoritarian visions of modernity represent starkly different worldviews. In abstract, these ideologies are virtual opposites, but as we will see, in practice, some...
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The main reason given by Monroe for the foreign policy measure bearing his name, the Monroe Doctrine (which was actually authored by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams), is that the United States...
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As World War One drew to a close, the best way to establish a lasting peace, not merely a cessation of hostilities, was a major concern for the nations involved. President Woodrow Wilson very much...
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Although the president has the authority to conduct international treaty negotiations, it is up to the Senate to ratify them. When it came to the Treaty of Versaille, the vehement objections in the...
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Starting in the 1950s, the Civil Rights movement shaped the idea of American identity as one of greater equality among different groups. While all of the goals of the movement were not met and the...
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Trade was important to the growth of West African Sahelian Kingdoms in the postclassical period, 600-1450 CE. Three examples of centralized West African Kingdoms were (in chronological order)...