What Unifies Americans? The United States is a diverse nation of people with origins around the world. Since the nation’s colonial days‚ people have moved to the United States for different reasons. Most come to seek greater opportunities for themselves and their families. They come speaking different languages‚ having different beliefs‚ and practicing different customs. The differences lend themselves to different ideas about how government should function as well. With a population well over 310
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The Middle Passage was the name for the route across the Atlantic Ocean‚ where African people had been captured and were taken as slaves to the Americas in the 1500s. It lasted for more than 400 years. The slaves were taken to work in sugar‚ coffee and cotton plantations. This essay is about the living conditions that the slaves suffered on the journey‚ the food they were given‚ the punishments that were used to control them‚ and the death and diseases on the boats. There were two types of ways
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African-American soldiers in the U.S. Civil War In the Civil War‚ the Confederates and the Union ensured that African American troops had an opportunity of visiting the battlefield. Prior to the onset of the Civil War in 1861‚ almost 4 million slaves were present in the United States of America. Among these‚ at least 180‚000 served in over 163 units of the army and a thousand others in the navy (Bob and John 94). Freedmen and slaves started serving the Confederate Army in the year 1865. This was the
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What would you do if one country’s dominance over your country changed your life for the worse? This is what was occurring to the lithuanians. During Stalin’s rule‚ There were many things he did to ensure soviet dominance. Stalin had a five year plan. This five year plan was to gain complete soviet dominance through the secret deportation of Lithuanians to siberia. The lithuanians faced many hardships not only in Siberia but on the way there as well. The first part of the plan was to deport them
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Jocelyn Bedard The Spanish Inquisition was a time period that lasted roughly 700 years. When King Ferdinand used many torture tactics to establish religious unity. There were multiple gruesome tactics used to keep the citizens in the Catholic Church. It all started when a monk Martin Luther let out the many corruptions in the Catholic system. Following that many people started following Martin Luther. To stop the movement King Ferdinand the Second of Aragon and‚ Queen Isabella the First of Castile
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They represented a departure from medieval views by emphasizing individual talent and curiosity. This individualism was a major shift from the communal ideals valued within the guilds during the Middle Ages. Guilds were professional associations devoted to protecting the special interests of a particular trade or craft and were established to monopolize production and
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The American Frontier was the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness‚ especially referring to the western US before Pacific settlement. The development and conquering of the American Frontier was extremely important to the country because of the many benefits it would have to the country with things such as more space and more states for the country. It is explained through works like Excerpts from Frederick Jackson Turner‚ The Significance of the Frontier in American History. 1893
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It was a mutually beneficially situation. For the children‚ they could have a stable home life and learn a trade all while being homeschooled. Likewise‚ the Shaker community was enriched just from having the children there as well as extra hands to help with various chores and trades within the community. The children were raised until adulthood and then were given the choice on whether or not they would like to stay with the Shakers. There was never any pressure to stay and
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A long time ago there was a princess who had the same strong character as the king. The king found out that the princess was having a love affair with a handsome commoner‚ which was a crime and he wanted the young boy to be punished. The king had a unique way to punish crime. He had created an arena that had two doors. One door held a lovely lady behind it to which the accused would be married to immediately. The second door held a hungry tiger that would end up chewing the accused to death. The
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"This Side of Paradise‚" a semiautobiographical novel by Fitzgerald chronicle the life of the young Amory Blaine as he entered the World War I. The war devastated the youth of the 1920s and 1930s‚ where many felt that their morality vanished and found themselves losing hope in America. The novel portraits two significant time periods‚ the "Jazz Age" and "The Lost Generation". The Jazz Age took place in America during the 1920’s and considered as a cultural movement from which dance
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