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Kennedy’s was known to, be one of the greatest president ever known for the United states. He was known for being a big, and very good communicator. Kennedy’s era of being president was,called ‘The new frontier’ Due to his speech about how he wanted to make this country whole again. His biggest speech was when…

With the newly expanding American West came many new lands and adventures. One of the new ventures was in the Hawaiian Islands where Captain George Vancouver gifted cattle to the King of Hawaii Kamehameha I in 1793, introducing a new livestock to the islands and beginning a very long history of cowboys, ranches, and cattle…

The citizens of the colony of Massachusetts snuck onto a boat and threw all of their tea over the boat into the water to waste it, So they didn’t have to be taxed without representation. Their saying during this time was “no taxation without representation.” This was one of the many acts of civil disobedience…

On April 12, 1861, The American Civil War started! The war started when Confederates attacked Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, which is located in South Carolina on April 12, 1861. When the war finally ended 4 years later, Robert E. Lee surrendered the last living major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at a courthouse…

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, written by Carol Berkin, features the revolutionary war through the eyes of women. She makes a point that women played one of the important roles in the war, though the history books often rule them out, or romanticize their roles. Carol Berkin has textual evidence that…

In 1777 on the hills of Valley Forge during The Revolutionary War, the Colonial Army Troops lead by General George Washington were struggling. The Colonial Army troops faced many disadvantages such as diseases, sickness, malnutrition, exposure and wounded soldiers and crowded living quarters that lacked established standards. In fact, around 16,000 soldiers died from starvation…

In December 1752, George Washington became the commander of the Virginia Militia. He saw action in the French and Indian War and was put in charge of all Virginia Militia forces. In 1759, Washington resigned his commission, returned to Mount Vernon, and was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served until the…

The Civil War was a devastating event that ended up tearing the United States apart despite desperate attempts at trying to keep the country together. The Union was the one who won the war, and the Reconstruction era that came after the devastation of the Civil War attempted to rebuild the South and make it…

The American Civil War not only led to racial equality, but also gender equality; trialed by the role of women disguised as men to fight in the war. Women who fought in battle played a fundamental contribution to the outcome of the war, all fighting for the same common goal: to prove their capability in…

The Progressive era and the New Deal era both reflect time periods where major reforms were enacted politically, economically and socially. Although both of these periods in history can be seen through the prism of reform, the genesis of each and the focus of how the reforms impacted those living in poverty is quite different….