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    Kristin Quick Term Project 3-7-2016 How the Cherokee Nation Can Overcome Generational PTSD. The Removal Act of 1830, that forced the Cherokee Indians from their homelands with just the clothes on their backs have created tragic effects which have continued to be passed down from generation to generation, causing a near loss of the Cherokee culture. In 1838, the United States Military utilizing surprise attacks, snatched Cherokee families from their homes, work, and play at bayonet point to face

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    Throughout human existence, mankind has had to overcome difficult obstacles in order to prosper. In Diane Glancy’s “Pushing the Bear”, the reader discovers how the Cherokee Indians overcome their hardships and flourish into a new, thriving community. In this novel, the audience observe how these Cherokee Indians outlast the harsh environment during the Indian Removal Act. Additionally, Glancy creates a human experience during the Trail of Tears; giving a different perspective of various characters

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    John Wilkes Booth was born on May 10, 1838 in a small log cabin that no longer exists, this cabin was located in Harford County, Maryland. He was one of ten kids, four of which did not live through their youth and were buried in a small family cemetery. Most of his neighbors adored Booth in his childhood. One of Booth’s favorites was Aunty Rogers, for when one day “he got a large cut in his head” she came over to the farm to stitch up the cut and to sterilize the wound. His parents Junius Brutus

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    O’Neaka Rendon History 1302 Standiford, Les. Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry clay Frick, and the bitter partnership that transformed America. New York: Crown Publishers, 2005. Meet You in Hell is the Les Standiford’s twin biography of both Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie. As highlighted by Standiford, both had a similar background. Both of them began their lives as clerks, but to begin amassing riches, they made use of the business connections they had made during their lowly clerk

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    1800’s Strikes Pullman Strike: The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894. The American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, and the government of the United States, President Grover Cleveland. The issue began in Pullman, Chicago, on May 11 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike.org about “4,000 factory employees of the Pullman Company began a strike in response to lowered wages.” According to https://www.britannica.com

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    Andrew Washburn Doctor Foster HIS 121 27 November 2016 The book I read is titled “Andrew Johnson – A Biography” written by Hans L. Trefousse in 1989. Trefousse was born in Frankfurt, Germany on Dec 18, 1921. He has a master’s and doctoral degree in History and is also a professor of history at Brooklyn College. He wrote seven other books some of which were also biographies of other historic influencers. He wrote about Andrew Johnson in chronological order, including many details that might otherwise

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    The topic of childhood vaccinations and the dangers that accompany them has been a topic of controversy in contemporary times. At the near edge of the twenty-first century, a man named Doctor Andrew Wakefield released a study which created a mass uproar in both parents and health professionals alike. Parents were panicked as to whether or not they should have their young child vaccinated (in fear of their acquiring autism), and health professionals fearful that the population percentage of people

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    gets the popularity of either being America’s top leader or most questioned. Our seventh president, Andrew Jackson, from the state of Tennessee, has become one of the most popular and studied. He is nicknamed King Jackson, King Andrew, and “Old Hickory.” President Andrew Jackson’s life and presidency however, I will present the arguments of our colleagues and past scholars on the perspective of Andrew Jackson. If American historical inscription is more interdisciplinary today than those fifteen years

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    fortunes and unprecedented poverty, loosening social mores, unsanitary food production, the onrush of foreign immigration, environmental destruction—confronted Americans. The rise of fortunes came the rise of the keepers of fortunes, one of which was Andrew Carnegie. His business, which became known as the Carnegie Steel Company, revolutionized steel production in the United States. Carnegie built plants around the country, using technology and methods that made manufacturing steel easier, faster and

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    The main topic of the snapshot autobiography is having student be able to think like a historian. Historians don’t include every major detail when telling a key event in time. They include what is the most important and leave certain events out without taking away from the entire story. When students are creating their own autobiography, they are learning decision making skills by having several events that make up their story, but also being able to narrow this key events down to only a few while

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