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    The American Revolutionary war was a fought between Britain and America. It took place from 1775-1783. In 1776 France started to aid the Americans. In 1778 the American Revolution took a turning point, France decided to join in war allying the Americans helping them fight the British. On September 3, 1783 the Americans and Britain signed the peace treaty, ending the American Revolutionary war. The American Revolutionary war is one of the top events in U.S. history, because it helped American claim

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    AMERICAN HOLOCAUST The other side of the story to our great American history is not as pretty as they teach us in grade school. The American Holocaust by David Stannard is a novel full of live excerpts from eyewitnesses to the genocide of the American Indians. He goes as far as to describe what life was most likely like before Europeans came to the Americas and obliterated the "Paradise" so described. Columbus even wrote how beautiful the places were in which he committed acts against the Natives

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    In Theodore Steinberg’s book, “Down To Earth: Nature’s Role in American History,” he draws multiple correlations between the climate and the development of agricultural practices in the United States, yet he completely misses the connection between the development of slavery and the erratic climate in the United States at

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    The significances of the Civil War was a true tragedy in American history, from tensed disparities between states to mass killings of the brutal battles. Prior to the Civil War there was mass tension between the North which were the Union and the South that were seen as the confederacy. The disagreements between the two consist of states’ rights, economic development, and slavery that ultimately separated the two sides. What both sides contributed was the self­inflicted conflict that angered many

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    Society seems to change and advance so rapidly throughout the years but there has always seemed to be a history, present, and future when it comes to the struggles of the African Americans. The hatred of a skin tone has caused people to act in violent and horrifying ways including police brutality, riots, mass incarcerations, and many more. There are three movements the renaissance, civil rights, and the black lives matter movements that we have focused on. Our artist come from different eras but

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    The most important event in American history is the Revolutionary war because it helped us gain our freedom. By having this war we became America. Without it we would be British. This war made america different than Brittain. A lot would be different if it didn’t happen. That is why i chose it to be the first important event in american history. The second one is the declaration of independence because it made our country's government. It gave the government laws and rules that they had to abide

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    The American Travesty: The History and Evidence behind the Veil of Racism John Locke, a social contract theorist, says that mankind is equal and independent and “no one ought to harm another of his life, health, liberty or possessions.” When humans enter into a society and form a contract, which leads to government, Locke holds that it is the job of the government to take on the responsibility of protecting the life, liberty and property of its inhabitants; however, the US government failed to protect

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    African American history plays an important role in American history not only because the Civil Rights Movement, but because of the strength and courage of Afro-Americans struggling to live a good life in America. They have been beaten, scorned, and embarrassed for centuries but they never gave up on freedom. African Americans underwent immense segregation and racism regardless the “equality” President Lincoln granted them in the earlier amendments. The Anti-Black laws like, Jim Crow, affected the

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    The American Civil war, also know as the War Between the States, was a bloody war to end slavery. It all started with eleven states seceding from the Union to form their own nation to be able to enslave the African American. The eleven states formed the Confederate States of America, also known as Confederacy, under their president Jefferson Davis. The Civil war came about in 1861 as the North wanted stop the eleven southern states from seceding and forming their own nation just so they can uphold

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    ANDREW JACKSON Andrew Jackson was a great man in American history who was once honored above any other man alive. His childhood prepared him for the military and political life. Andrew Jackson was a great historical figure. Through Jackson's political life, war involvement, and presidency he became a very famous and respected man. Andrew Jackson's immediate family sailed from Ireland to America in 1765. Two years later in South Carolina, Andrew's father died before he was even born. Jackson

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