George Crockett
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MAEd with 18 grad sem hr in History. Graduate course work included Tudor-Stuart Britain, Problems in British History, Revolutionary America, The Old South, The Early Republic, Industrial America, Economic Analysis of Law, Natural Resource Economics, Teaching English Composition, and a workshop in Teaching Study Skills and Developmental Reading. Taught post-high school students 4 years full-time and 3+ years part-time. To these students, I taught courses in History, English Composition, Study Skills,Developmental Reading, and G.E.D. B.S. in Wildlife Management and worked in that field for 9 years; one of the positions I held was Interpretation and Recreation Assistant on a National Wildlife Refuge.
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The North and the South's fears of each other's influence on the course of national affairs: The Industrialists of the North wanted tariffs. Tariffs artificially raise the price of... -
Answered a Question in The Market Revolution, Industrialization, and New Technologies
1800's advances in transportation: Early in the century, a lot of barge canals were built. Canals were not new, but the number of them built was an advance. On the Documenting the American... -
Answered a Question in World War II
World War II allied military strategy for Europe: Churchill and Roosevelt and their advisers met in Washington in late 1941. They decided that they must fiirst make a big effort at defeating... -
Answered a Question in History
Differences in World War II allied strategies for Europe and the Pacific: In the Pacific, because of the long distance from allied bases to Japanese targets, and because of the ocean separating... -
Answered a Question in History
The USA engaged in much diplomacy to end World War II, but not with its opponents. The only thing acceptable to USA from its opponents was total surrender without conditions. This... -
Answered a Question in Japanese Internment
Mostly fear that there were among the Japanese population in the USA, people who would help Japan in its war against USA; there was fear in America of a Japanese invasion of California. Another... -
Answered a Question in History
Social and Political Impacts of the Mahele: Below are three web links that give some answer to your question. This was not a topic that I knew anything about. Thank you for bringing it... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind is the Southern epic. It is about the journey of a flawed heroine from a position of status, through downfall and ruin with much trial and... -
Answered a Question in Civil War Battles and Strategy
Battles of First Manassas, Sharpsburg, and Gettysburg. Similarities: C.S.A. was outnumbered by U.S.A. at all three battles. Differences: Each battle had a different outcome;, C.S.A. won one,... -
Answered a Question in Civil War Battles and Strategy
Confederate strategy in the War to Prevent Southern Independence: Tactics or strategy? Tactics are battlefield maneuvers. Tactics depend upon such things as the characteristics of the weapons... -
Answered a Question in The Market Revolution, Industrialization, and New Technologies
Industrial workers before the industrial revolution, usually learned how to manufacture a complete item, such as a wagon, or a rifle. They learned their trade from a master craftsman. ... -
Answered a Question in Abraham Lincoln's Presidency
Jefferson's and Jackson's ideas of who should participate in governance: A point of clarification: In Jefferson's time, there was a political party which believed that only wealthy men should... -
Answered a Question in History
Was Calhoun attuned to the ideas of Thomas Jefferson? The articles linked below will give some answer to your question. One article is written by Prof. Clyde Wilson. He has great credentials and... -
Answered a Question in History
Innovations in warfare that occurred during World War I: Submarine warfare: The Germans introduced submarine warfare in 1915. Germany used submarines both to try to break Britain's blockade... -
Answered a Question in The New Deal
Depressions are not uncommon. Previous to the Great Depression, there were depressions in 1819-20, 1839-43, 1857-60, 1873-78, 1893-97, and 1920-21. America recovered from the depression at the end... -
Answered a Question in History
Why Hitler hated Jewish people: World War I was a great disaster for Germany. One of that war's causes was competition between industrial England and industrializing Germany for world trade... -
Answered a Question in Secession and Civil War
The War to Prevent Southern Independence did bring America together, though not at once. Before the War, there were two dominant and competing social systems in the US: industrialism and... -
Answered a Question in History
On some levels, revolutions might be inevitable. The Russian Revolution was "worth the trouble" because there was a general and real feeling tha the Czar's autocratic ways needed... -
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Why are revolutions worth the trouble? Why are revolutions worth the trouble? Governmental revolutions, strictly speaking are only a change of government; the changes need not be violent to qualify... -
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The French Revolution. In reply to #4:I question much that is said in this post. That the present French government exists because of the French Revolution seems questionable to me; I... -
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The Economy of the North and Views of Slavery before the War to Prevent Southern Independence: The economy of the North was mixed, but industrialism was dominant because of its wealth. If a... -
Answered a Question in Slavery in the Nineteenth Century
The idea that slave owners killed their slaves so that they did not have to care for them during their old age is ludricous and slanderous; and probably is not what the writer meant to say, but... -
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Robber Barons or Industrial Statesmen: Here is some information that will help you answer the question. I will describe two ways of accumulating wealth. 1) Using bribes and other political...
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