Category: American History

In politics there was a topic in a democratic debate on how meaningful the war with Iraq was. This war started in 2003 and ended in 2011. It all started because Iraq was a threat, and they had possible ties with Al-Qaeda, etc. People are against the war since it caused casualties, had high expenses,…

The Revolution of 1800 was a conflict of two political ideals between Thomas Jefferson and John Addams and the result was a compromise of who became president after the election of 1800. The United States presidential election of 1800 was the third presidential election, the incumbent John Addams of the Federalist party was defeated by…

Pearl Harbor was an event that took place on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu. At 7:55 AM on December 7th, 1941, 360 warplanes of the Imperial Japanese Naval air arm carried out an unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor, a U.S naval base containing most of the American pacific fleet. After the attack most of the…

In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to…

Sacagawea was born in 12 /10/ 1812 and she died in the lahimi river valley in 1788. Sacagawea was an important figure in American history who went on the famous Lewis and Clark expedition. She was a Lemhi Shoshone Indian woman who spoke Shoshone Hidatsa and the English language thus, she had an essential part…

The article describes the first woman’s rights convention in the United States, otherwise known as the Seneca Falls Convention. The convention was held at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls on the 19 and 20 of July 1848. It was held on behalf of women’s social and political , their movement fed by the…

Many circumstances and events led to the American Revolution, but the relationship between Americans and British had worsened overtime from the First settlement with and the beginning of the American Revolution. During the beginning when the colonist first arrived the Americans and British had a peaceful relationship. But as the years passed their relationship became…

How are people to judge thier nation’s hero’s actions from the past? There are two choices to decide how we see a person, by the standards of the past or of the present. One of American nation’s important figures of the past David Crockett falls under this category. He lived a life of legend and…

Introduction: The Oregon Trail was a great historic movement that expanded America towards the western land. The trail was a 2,000-mile journey that stretched from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon. This trail was traveled by thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s. The Oregon Trail was a very long trail that passed through present-day…

Imagine yourself an emigrant headed for Oregon in the early 1800s; Could the promises of rich farmlands plentiful of resources maybe this is the reason why the trail lured over 400,000 people , more than 2,000 miles of track left as an reminder of the sacrifices, battles, and triumphs of early American settlers. But what…