Manifest Destiny
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This 6 page paper explores the concept and how the United States changed between 1812 and 1860 as a result. Ideology, as well as specific events, are discussed. The California gold rush is examined. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Manifest Destiny and American Imperialism:
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This 5 page report discusses the concept of "manifest destiny" that is best described or explained as the concept that it was the obligation of the founders of the United States, the "new" Americans, to expand their territory into as many regions of North America as possible regardless of the indigenous people already inhabiting the land or settlers originally from Mexico. Manifest destiny was one of the major motivations for American western expansion and one of the primary causes of the U.S.-Mexican War. Many, if not most, Americans believed that they had a God-given right to the land to the west of their already established borders. Later in the century, the US expansionist desires arose because of a powerful industrial economy that wanted control of new lands in the Pacific and Caribbean. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Manifest Destiny and Native American Culture
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This 7 page paper considers how the paradigm of the manifest destiny influenced the culture and history of the Native American Indians. Aspect such as divine rights and noblesse oblige on the part of the white man are considered. Particular attention is paid to the Cherokees in Georgia and Indian Removal Act of 1830. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Maroon Societies
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This 12 page paper delves into the makeup of the societies composed of escaped slaves during the Civil War period. Slave life is compared with life in maroon communities. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Medical Conditions During the Civil War
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A 7 page paper discussing the state of medicine at the beginning of the US Civil War, how those conditions changed throughout the war and the implications of those changes for medicine today. We take medicine for granted in so many ways in today's world that a review of how conditions were only 150 years ago are nothing short of horrifying. It truly is amazing that the injured survived many of the cures that were used at the time, but it did contribute to the conditions that are so vastly improved today. Includes an outline of the paper. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Michael Shaara's Account of Gettysburg
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A 7 page essay that examines Michael Shaara's fictionalized account of the Battle of Gettysburg as presented in his novel, The Killer Angels. In this book, Shaara takes the reader into the possible mindset of three of the principal players in that drama, Lee, Longstreet, and (for the Union) Chamberlain. The writer specifically looks at the decisions that Lee made in this battle, according to Shaara's account. No additional sources cited.
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New Lanark, Oneida, & Other Utopian Societies In America
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Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, numerous utopian groups created their own "heavens on earth" in the American heartland, ranging from the Shakers, to Robert Owen's "New Harmony," to the Oneida community. They struggled in vain to create "perfect" societies that would differ in contrast with the dreary ones overseas in Europe. This 6 page research paper examines the purpose, attempts, and failures of these communities -- concentrating primarily upon the examples of New Lanark and Oneida. The themes of these communities and their decline are discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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News Coverage of the Election of Abraham Lincoln
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A 5 page research paper that examines how election coverage differed between the North and South. The writer gives a detailed summation of the coverage that appeared in the New York Times and the New Orleans Daily Picayune as being representative of these regions. As one would expect, the tone employed by these newspapers was quite different. While the northern paper saw the upcoming conflict as dealing primarily with the issue of slavery, the southern paper pictured Lincoln as an enemy of the South in general. Bibliography lists 6 original articles from these two papers.
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