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"Roosevelt was indeed a liberal because he created numerous government agencies to alleviate the problems of the Depression. Hoover was indeed a conservative because he initiated no new policies that would increase government's role in alleviating the people's suffering." (These 2 sentences are your thesis. Now you are going to give the topic sentence of the next 3 paragraphs.) "FDR's TVA, for example, revolutionized government involvement in areas ...
"Roosevelt was indeed a liberal because he created numerous government agencies to alleviate the problems of the Depression. Hoover was indeed a conservative because he initiated no new policies that would increase government's role in alleviating the people's suffering." (These 2 sentences are your thesis. Now you are going to give the topic sente...
The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American politics. The country was for once free of the threat of war, and many of its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat, once the bulwark of agriculture, were...
During the time period including the close of the nineteenth century, with the climax of the industrial revolution, the United States had become an industrialized and more sophisticated nation. The United States now had the resources, technology, and political organization to hold the status of a World Power. Consequently, the United States took...
Romantics often emphasized the beauty, strangeness, and mystery of nature. Romantic writers expressed their intuition of nature that came from within. The key to this inner world was the imagination of the writer; this frequently reflected their expressions of their inner essence and their attitude towards various aspects of nature. It was these...
I. The Great American Desert a. Used to describe the Great Plains East of the Rocky Mountains. i. The term desert describes treeless and uninhabited land, not necessarily arid. II. Frontier a. A term referring to areas near or beyond a border. i. In these terms, the American Frontier, land gained by the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1783) Locat...
A constitution is the legal structure of our political system, establishing governmental bodies , determining how their members are selected , and prescribing the rules by which they make their decisions . The nation's founders , fifty-five men , met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to write a new constitution and to form a new government. Ge...
was the impetus for the change in United States foreign policy, from isolationist to internationalists; thus we were drawn into two wars of containment and into world affairs. led to a major change in U.S. foreign policy from its inception - aid to Turkey and Greece - to its indirect influence in Korea and Vietnam. The aftermath of World War II...
Neither a book nor a work, but an energy Theater is the most remarkable art of life. It is a collaborate art combining different people into one solid group in which they work together harmoniously in order to portray a certain idea, concept, or piece of art. Theater deals with various forms of emotions and is most commonly expected to leave a tr...
My Cahuilla Book The Cahuilla Indians have inhabited the area from Borrego to Riverside for more than 2000 years, an area of about 2,400 square miles. They are generally referred to as Mountain, Desert and Pass Cahuillas. There are 10 reservations in Southern Ca. Those who settled in what is now Palm Springs are the Agua Caliente Indians. Other B...
It was May 25th 1978, Terry Marker was on his usual patrol on campus at the University of Illinois. This earmark package, addressed to an engineering professor at Rensselaer from a material science professor at Northwestern, was found in a parking lot. What seemed like an insignificant misplaced parcel was about to start a reign of terror and the...
The reason behind Franklin's Albany Plan of Union is the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War started because British colonists were said to be moving in on territory that the French had claimed for themselves. Then, in 1753, the French started constructing a chain of forts connecting Lake Erie with the Ohio River. This caused the go...
The Colony of Roanoke was one of the first English colonies to be established; but was not a successful one. Most likely due to the lack of needed resource, location of the colony, or Indian inhabitants. was attempted several times. The time period between John White's return to the island was estimated at three years. If the colonizers were wai...
Jamestown was considered by many scholars as the first permanent English settlement in North America. Jamestown was founded on May 14, 1607 by a group of settlers led by Captain Christopher Newport, who was hired by the London Company. In looking at the first fifty years of the colony's existence, historians have learned much about early colonial a...
Governor Berkeley, the man in charge of running Virginia in the representation of the interests of the Virginia Company had total control of this colony since he was there and the Virginia company was in England. Due to Having this power for more than thirty years was able to dominate all of the colony's politics. Due to having this power he was...
