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Oregon Trail Gold Rush
1,781 wordsCalifornia has always been associated with cutting edge development and ideas. For over a century and a half it has been the leader of what the rest of the country follows. No single event has been as groundbreaking (literally and metaphorically) as the Gold Rush of 1849. This historic event single-handedly connected the East to the West in what proved to be the perfect model of expansion. It was what brought hundreds of thousands of Americans and immigrants alike to the fast-paced, ever-changin...
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Indian Tribes La Belle
1,650 words... xp loring the hinterland of the Lavaca River, still hoping that it was really an outlet of the Mississippi. Finally, conceding that he had settled on the wrong river, he decided to try to find the Mississippi by hiking east along the coast, with the help of the ship La Belle sailing offshore. La Salle selected twenty soldiers to accompany him. On October 31, 1685, the group set off with their weapons, provisions, and Indian trade goods slung from their backs. Other soldiers, commanded by the...
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The French And Indian War
1,598 wordsThe French and Indian Wars were the last conflicts between the French and the English for control over New England. They were a series of four wars including the King Williams War, The Queen Annes War, The King Georges War, and the Seven-Year War all fought between the years of 1689 to 1763. These Wars took place in Europe and America between the British and the French. None of the wars were directly fought between the French and the Indians. They were actually between the French and the English...
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Continental Congress West Indies
2,032 wordsThe Continental Congress met in one of the most conservative of the seaport towns from which the revolutionary movement stemmed. Philadelphia patriots complained that there was more Toryism in Pennsylvania than in all the colonies combined; certainly the Quakers who dominated the province were more concerned in putting down radicalism at home than resisting tyranny from abroad. The character of the delegates who assembled in Philadelphia in September 1774 was likewise a good augury to the conser...
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A Summarization Of The American Civil War
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Dred Scott Decision Kansas Nebraska Act
2,058 wordsThis is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, these men were true champions of patriotism. The cause of the Civil War was tension between the North and the South. The sectional division between the areas began in colonial times, largely resulting ...
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Glass Menagerie Character Analysis
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Civil War Began Robert E Lee
1,290 wordsOn February 11, 1861, Lincoln left Springfield to take up his duties as president. Before Lincoln reached the national capital, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America. When Lincoln reached Washington on February 23, he found the national government incapable of meeting the crisis. Congress fruitlessly debated compromise. The national treasury was near bankruptcy; the civil service was a riddled with secessionists; and the miniscule armed forces were bei...
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Republic Of China Qing Dynasty
2,505 words... to attack Zheng's forces and many of his generals had died in battle which left him and his remaining coastal resistance no option but to retreat back to the coastal province of Fujian. Prince Gui (Emperor Yongli), received from him the title of "Prince of Anping Prefecture, " and waged war against the Qing army in the coastal regions of Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang. Dongshan Island off the shore of the Fujian province, was one of Zheng's military bases where he trained soldiers and built ...
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Parke Custis Harpers Ferry
4,411 wordsRobert E. Lee They say you had to see him to believe that a man so fine could exist. He was handsome. He was clever. He was brave. He was gentle. He was generous and charming, noble and modest, admired and beloved. He had never failed at anything in his upright soldiers life. He was born a winner, this Robert E. Lee. Except for once. In the greatest contest of his life, in a war between the South and the North, Robert E. Lee lost (Redmond). Through his life, Robert E. Lee would prove to be alway...
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Parke Custis Harpers Ferry
3,615 wordsRobert E. Lee Introduction Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the life of Lee and begins with a detailed account of his family history and his birth, through his college years, military experience and his work in later life ...
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Hudson Bay Company Rocky Mountains
781 wordsJohn McLoughlin was one of the most influential figures of the fur trade and settlement periods of Pacific Northwest history. Chief Factor of the Columbia District of the British Hudson's Bay Company, he reigned as a benevolent autocrat, befriended Americans, and eventually became an American citizen at Oregon City. He was born in Quebec in 1784 and trained as a physician near Montreal. He became a physician and traveled to the Northwest region in 1824 as a representative of the Hudson Bay Compa...
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Liberty Or Property Due Process Of Law
1,814 words" Shocks, Throes, and Convulsions" " Slavery is founded on the selfishness of mans nature opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow. " (Abraham Lincoln) [ 1 ] America in 1857 was " A Nation on the Brink" as defined by Kenneth Stampp in his book with the same title. Relationships between the...
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Seven Years War French And Indian War
694 wordsThe French and Indian War, a colonial extension of the Seven Years War that ravaged Europe from 1756 to 1763, was the bloodiest American war in the 18 th century. It took more lives than the American Revolution, involved people on three continents, including the Caribbean. The war was the product of an imperial struggle, a clash between the French and English over colonial territory and wealth. Within these global forces, the war can also be seen as a product of the localized rivalry between Bri...
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Captain John Smith Virginia Company
601 wordsIn June of 1606, King James I granted a charter to a group of London entrepreneurs, the Virginia Company, to establish a English settlement in the Chesapeake region of North America. By December, 104 male settlers sailed from London instructed to settle Virginia, and find gold and a water route to the Orient. According to a list published by Captain John Smith, Gentlemen made up about half of the group, whose gentle birth suggests they knew nothing of or thought it their personal duty to tame a ...
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Ulysses S Grant Robert E Lee
2,816 wordsUlysses S. Grant rose to command all the Federal armies in the Civil War and lead them to victory. He was respected so much that he went on to be president of the United States for two terms. His time of glory didnt last forever though, he developed cancer and died bankrupt. Ulysses Hiram Grant was born April 27, 1822, in a two room frame house at Point Pleasant, Ohio (Ulysses S. Grant 1). His father, Jesse Root Grant, was foreman in a tannery and a farmer. His mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, was ...
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Washington D C Army Of Northern Virginia
2,101 wordsRobert E. Lee was born in Stratford Hall, near Montrose, Virginia, on January 19, 1807. He grew up with a great love of all country life and his state. This stayed with him for the rest of his life. He was a very serious boy and spent many hours in his fathers library. He loved to play with some his friends, swim, and he loved to hunt. Lee looked up to his father and always wanted to know what he was doing. George Washington and his father, Light-Horse Harry Lee, were his heroes. He wanted to be...
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William Henry Fort William
628 wordsThe Last of the Mohicans James Cooper was a great writer, and very talented with descriptions. This would explain the enormous detail the movie involves, and the powerful views the movie shares with its audiences. The characters consisted of the typical majors and minors. The majors included Nathaniel or Hawkeye, as he s referred to in the movie, Chincagook, the father, Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, the Huron warriors (antagonists), Mogua (Leader of the antagonists), and the British offi...
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Recommend This Book William Henry
1,516 wordsThe Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Coopers the Last of the Mohicans is a gripping novel that depicts the travel of 7 people through the dangerous woods of western New York in the late 18 th century. The story takes place during the French and Indian war at the height of conflict. Major Duncan Heyward is accompanying singer David Gamut and the two daughters of the English colonel Munro from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry. Along the way, the four travelers discover that their Indian guide ...
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Robert E Lee Ulysses S Grant
2,699 wordsRobert Edward Lee is considered one of the greatest generals in the history of the United States. Lee was opposed to many views of the south, including succession and slavery, yet his loyalty to his native state of Virginia forced him to fight for the south and refuse command of the Union armies during the Civil War. Because of this, he was respected by every man in America including Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. Robert Edward Lee was born to parents, Henry Lee of Lee sylvania, and mothe...
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