999 Search Results for United States History
" (Gilmore, 2008) in fact, it was communists "who promoted and practiced racial equality and considered the South crucial to their success in elevating labor and overthrowing the capitalist system. They were joined in the late 1930s by a radical left Continue Reading...
United States History 1492-1865
Q.1) Why was it necessary to change the Articles of Confederation?
Drawbacks of the Articles of Confederation
Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress was given charge of many affairs such as making decisio Continue Reading...
United States History Up to 1877
The work of literature examined within this analytical book review is entitled Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. It is written by John Demos who is a professor of history at Brandei Continue Reading...
U.S. History
The first important event that encouraged freedom was the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which recognized that women are human beings. Before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, women were not considered Continue Reading...
United States History
On April 19, 1775, a detachment of the British regular Army marched inland from Boston, Massachusetts, in search of a cache of arms and with orders to arrest certain prominent local leaders. At Lexington, they confronted and f Continue Reading...
House of Representatives passed Health Care reform. What is the next step in the legislative process before it goes to the President to be signed? Do you think it will be signed by the President in its present form or will it die before it gets to hi Continue Reading...
The Progressive Movement in the early twentieth century had a somewhat similar though less socialist-leaning agenda; regulation of business and the environment were major policies of Progressives. Theodore Roosevelt was the leading figure of the mov Continue Reading...
Conservative American Presidents
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the return to conservatism in the American presidency after the 1980s. It will compare the similarities to earlier periods in the 19th and 20th century, and discu Continue Reading...
United States vs. Soviet Union
The Cold War, although over now, had a demonstrative effect on the United States culture and political sphere. Indeed, some of those effects are still felt in the United States to this very day. However, this report wi Continue Reading...
United States Congress:
The legislature of the United States was established in 1789 under the country's constitution and divided structurally from the judicial and executive arms of the government. This legislative arm in separated into two houses Continue Reading...
Reception, Perception and Deception: The Genesis of Slavery
Progress has a way of making itself known to the world, even in a situation where there exists resistance. Considering Olaudah Equiano's "The Interesting Narrative, the issue of slavery thr Continue Reading...
Natural Resources in US History
The study explores how the US has used the historical wealth of its natural resources to offer the country a strong and sustained economy for many decades.
The USA is one of the greatest countries in the world, not Continue Reading...
S. Supreme Court's rendering of its decision in Brown v. Board of Education (Brown v. Board of Education, 1954) that overturned the separate but equal standard that had been the law in the United States. In Brown, the Supreme Court recognized that th Continue Reading...
Constitution of the United States was ratified after lengthy debate, mainly focused around issues related to the powers that would be bequeathed to the federal government. Although a gross oversimplification, the debate can be loosely qualified as b Continue Reading...
U.S. Japan
On December 7, 1941, Japan launched an assault on the U.S. Naval Headquarters for the Pacific Fleet, located at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This assault led directly to the open war between the U.S. And Japan, which several years later would cu Continue Reading...
Colonial America: Questions
Puritans
Unlike previous European settlers who came to the New World primarily to make a profit, the Puritans arrived with a commitment to create a new society and genuinely 'settle' on the land. They had no plans to ret Continue Reading...
U.S. History 1877-Present
America has changed so vastly since the U.S. Civil War that it is hard to single out three events that have had the most beneficial impact from the later nineteenth century to the present day. However, in terms of selecting Continue Reading...
Assassination of JFK
Why is your chosen turning point actually a turning point and not just another event?
One of the most commonly analyzed and a questionable event in the history of the U.S., the assassination of JFK was a real turning point. The Continue Reading...
History Of Probation and Parole
The modern day probation and parole has its roots in the English criminal law during the middle ages. During this time, harsh punishments were handed down to offenders indiscriminately; both adults and children were p Continue Reading...
Democracy's Guidelines and the Supreme CourtIntroductionThe United States has followed important democratic guidelines from the beginning. These are written in important documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Over the Continue Reading...
USA as Policeman of the World
THESIS STATEMENT AND OUTLINE FOR A PAPER ON THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN MILITARY ACTIONS ABROAD, 2009-2014
The industrialization and imperialism that followed the U.S. Civil War would have a permanent effect on Am Continue Reading...
United States and the Trans-Atlantic Powers during the Civil War
Prior to and during the earliest months of the U.S. Civil War, the Confederacy banked heavily on the intervention of Britain and France. Relying on the importance of Confederate cotton Continue Reading...
The Supreme Court is the most powerful body of men in the United States, contrary to what many people believe.
The powers of the three branches of government are enumerated in the three charters of freedom: The Declaration of Independence, Constitu Continue Reading...
The effect is that exclusion is not only applied to those who would hurt the government but also to those that would uphold the same. The Patriot Act provides facilitation of shared information as well as cooperation between agencies of the governm Continue Reading...
United States and Russia After the Cold War
After taking oath of office in January 1989, President George H. Bush was determined to strengthen the new found relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. His administration reviewed the Continue Reading...
United States Federal Reserve System
Factors that influence the Federal Reserve in adjusting the discount rate
Interest rates are charged for loans to commercial banks. In accordance to the rules and regulations of the Federal Reserve, this is a pr Continue Reading...
United States' Involvement in the First World War
America's Involvement in the First World War
The president is well aware that Americans often face the temptation to disengage from the rest of the world, especially when the issue at hand has to do Continue Reading...
USA Business Cycle
This report will focus on the business cycle of a country of the author's choice, that being the United States of America. The author chose that country because it is one of the most scrutinized and analyzed countries in the world Continue Reading...
The Myth of Homeland Security. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Thornton, Rod. Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the Twenty-First Century.
Cambridge [u.a.]: Polity, 2007
Ranum, Marcus. The Myth of Homeland Security. Hoboken: John Wi Continue Reading...
United States and the International Criminal Court
i request writer "jonsmom2" topic: "The United States International Criminal Court." paper reflect research explain U.S. association ICC. Also briefly examine goals ICC, review U.S. attitude joining Continue Reading...
USA Hegemony
There are no fundamental differences between now and what international politics used to be in the first half of the 20th Century. It is true that the post-WWII period has been more peaceful, but it is not because of a fundamental trans Continue Reading...
Bonta states of Rome that, by the first century B.C., sexual mores had been abandoned, and the former sanctity of marriage forgotten. Crime, once almost unknown in Rome, became rampant. In such an environment, Rome became an easy target for politica Continue Reading...
United States of Man
During the American Revolution, the fundamental rights of women seemed unattainable. In a period where there was relative little other choices than to obey, women grew accustom to their ill treatment -- treatment could now be li Continue Reading...
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has stated that up to 50% of the heroin coming into the United States passes through Nigeria.
Concern over progress towards democracy -- that Nigeria is backsliding towards military dictatorship, and human rights vi Continue Reading...
The movement to stop apartheid in South Africa really became popular on college campuses all across the United States during that time, and it begin to spread out eventually into other areas of society as well, which brought it to the notice of the Continue Reading...
This strategy, along with an "old-fashioned slap shot" - which was "drilled home...by Bill Baker of the University of Minnesota, in front of a crowd of 4,000 that half-filled the new field house" in Lake Placid. Only half full meant that perhaps mos Continue Reading...
22 (United States Census Bureau). Finally, Best Market Research surveyed a disproportionate amount of those with incomes under $20,000 per year (United States Census Bureau), sample issues that most likely arose from the media of the survey, a survey Continue Reading...
Domestic Terrorism
Since the days of the Old West, domestic terrorism has dug its roots into the United States. From Timothy McVeigh, whose motivations for the Oklahoma City bombing ranged from his complaints over the governments' dealing with cer Continue Reading...
At the same time, there were planners (who shared similar views as Rumsfeld) that this strategy was obsolete. This contention between the two sides would create a conflict in U.S. military strategy. As the country needs a sustainable fighting force Continue Reading...