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Papers on History
American History 2
Number of words: 1861 | Number of pages: 7.... the split occurred. The compromise of 1850 stated that California enters free, and New Mexico and Utah decided on their own which is giving them more state rights in which the South heavily supported. This compromise did not satisfy each side fully. The issue of State rights intensified by the issue of slavery because the Southern states felt they had the right to decide on their own about Slavery without Federal intervention. It seems the Southern states felt that the "American dream" was out of their reach because they felt powerless and inferior with the Central government. When the American revolution was fought to break f .....
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Kristallnacht
Number of words: 3463 | Number of pages: 13.... a four stage revolution,
distinct symbols, recruiting requirements, and strong
political beliefs.
Formed in the 19th century, the Ku Klux Klan has
attempted to instill fear in the minds and the hearts of
black citizens in the United States. The Klan was first
organized on December 24th, 1865 in the Law Office of Judge
Thomas M. Jones. There were six people who organized the
Klan. They included Calvin E. Jones, John B. Kennedy, Frank
O. McCord, John C. Lester, Richard R. Reed, and James R.
Crow. This information is proclaimed on a wall in Pulaski,
Tennessee. It was unveiled on May 21, 1917 by the widow of
Ca .....
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Chaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation For The American
Number of words: 1606 | Number of pages: 6.... ugliness, its abominations! (The Chosen 127)
The Chosen "deals with the problems Jews have faced in trying to preserve their heritage – in particular, the problem of how to deal with the danger of assimilation" (Young)). The Jews have always been professionals occupying jobs in medicine, law, education, and other fields requiring a college degree. American Jews, however, face a dilemma: "Ideas from this secular world inevitably impinge upon an individual born in a church community or a synagogue community, especially when that individual embarks ona college experience" (Potok 2). American Jews must either .....
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The Beginning Of The Civil War
Number of words: 1341 | Number of pages: 5.... was unconstitutional. The constitution stated that slaveholders had the right to own property, which included slaves, since slaves weren’t human, according to the South.
There were three candidates in the election of 1848: Lewis Cass Martin Van Buren and Zachary Taylor. Cass was representing the democrats and was a man who believed in Popular Sovernty. Van Buren was nominated by the Free-Soil Party. Taylor was a war hero, a General from the Mexican War. He was chosen to represent the Whig party and, since he owned slaves, was pro-slavery (Stated on COMPTON’S ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE.).
Gold was discovered in 1848 in Califo .....
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Tenskwatawa
Number of words: 1032 | Number of pages: 4.... (p. 73). Two activities Lalawethika liked were drinking and talking. He wasn't as gifted a speaker as his brother Tecumseh, but he was nonetheless manipulative and forceful. Using these qualities he became a medicine man in Tecumseh's village. Lalawethika's transformation from a lazy drunkard into a powerful spiritual leader came after a dream in which he claimed to have been visited by the Great Spirit. He proclaimed his new name to be meaning "The Open Door." White settlers began to call him The Prophet because he said the gods had shown him the path to salvation for his people. This new religion called upon Nati .....
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The Manhattan Project
Number of words: 1621 | Number of pages: 6.... appropriately named for the
Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, because much
of the early research was done in New York City. Sparked by refugee
physicists in the United States, the program was slowly organized after
nuclear fission was discovered by German scientists in 1938, and many US
scientists expressed the fear that Hitler would attempt to build a fission
bomb. Frustrated with the idea that Germany might produce an atomic bomb
first, Leo Szilard and other scientists asked Albert Einstein, a famous
scientist during that time, to use his influence and write a letter to
president FDR, pleading for .....
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Asia 2
Number of words: 1719 | Number of pages: 7.... a towering plateau region located where the borders of India, China, and Afghanistan converge. It is known as the Roof of the World. Mountain ranges spiral out from the Pamirs to the west (Hindu Kush), and southeast (Great Himalayas). These ranges form an imposing eastern-western arc, about 2500 km (about 1550 mi) in length, that contains numerous peaks of heights well more than 6100 m (20,000 ft), including the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest. Other ranges extend east and northeast of the Pamirs (Karakorum, Kunlun, and Tien Shan). Between the Himalayan system and the Karakorum-Kunlun ranges lies the high Tibetan Pla .....
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American Revolution 3
Number of words: 694 | Number of pages: 3.... channelizing of all trade through England, was a restriction upon economic prosperity of the New England colony. The major cause for revolution within the economic theory is of economic subordination of colonies to England. The Grenville Ministry passed a number of acts, but of provocation to the colonists was the stamp act. On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee’s passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. The stamp act was protested upon the principle of "no taxation without representation". The stamp act was affecting virtually all the colo .....
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Aaron Burr And Alexander Hamilton's Duel
Number of words: 585 | Number of pages: 3.... the article enclosing the annotations. Burr demanded “a prompt and unqualified acknowledgment or denial” of the “despicable opinion” credited to Hamilton. The code for gentlemen at the time demanded that Hamilton respond to Burr if he wanted people to acknowledge his remarks. If Hamilton wanted to break away from conflict, he would have to openly testify that Burr was a gentleman, and no rogue.
In an attempt to escape the duel, Hamilton declared that he had never set eyes on the piece before getting Burr’s note. Aggravated, Burr wrote back to Hamilton, condemning him of artificiality and demanding a explicit answer.
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Political Morality
Number of words: 899 | Number of pages: 4.... sense
of morals. They believed that men were given rights by God that
no one could take away. This is essential to the issue of
morality because it determines the rights- that are agreed upon
all- are wrong.
This brings us to religion. Religion is a major contributor
to how we think and act because it mirrors our beliefs in what we
hold as right or wrong. An example of this is the native tribes
of africa and South America where a number of tribes practice
cannibalism. While this is considered a sin in most christian
religions, the tribes have evolved into cannibalism as a way to
survive in life and .....
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