Category: American History

Life on the Oregon Trail was a strenuous experience for over 400,000 pioneers who were in search of a new life on the West Coast. The 2,000-mile route took travelers from Independence, Missouri, to the undiscovered territory of Oregon. The most prominent trailblazers of the time were missionaries who were spreading Christianity across the frontier.…

You might wonder what it was like to travel in the early and mid-1800s. What did Pioneers struggle with in their 2,000-mile trip to Oregon just for fertile soil and a good amount of rain. In this essay I will discuss about the landscape in the way, who they met and diseases, and their food…

The Montgomery bus boycott was not a small event in the History of the United States, it was a focal point of massive changes in culture and law. Desegregation and equality followed in its footstep and has made the country more free and unified. The reason for its massive success was its strong and determined…

Was the United States justified in going to war with Mexico?” This is a trigger phrase similar to watching two siblings fighting over who gets to play the Xbox. “It’s MY Xbox.” “But you ruin the whole game.” In this case, Mexico owns the land of dispute and the US is eager to take it.…

The ways European colonization impacted in the early modern period were the circulation of peoples, plants, animals, goods and diseases. The discovery of the new world opened doors to the Columbian exchange which shaped through the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution. Once the Spanish conquistadores encountered the Aztec Empire, everything changed after that. Those domains…

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again” – Maya Angelou. Due to innumerable accounts of iniquity in history, the despair that results from these actions outweighs the hope for a better future. This is apparent even in deplorable cases such as racially fueled hate…

Beginning in the 15th century, many countries around the globe were in need of specific resources to prosper and create a highly-developed society. However, there were no forms of an exchange of goods during this time. This catastrophe led to a highly-valued method of transportation of assets among many civilizations known as the Columbian Exchange.…

Table of contents Antecedents Barton Stone and the Cane Ridge Revival (1801) Timothy Dwight and Yale College Charles G. Finney Outcomes References Generally regarded as a second groundswell of evangelical Protestant religious interest following the Revolutionary War, the Second Great Awakening was more extensive and enduring than the Great Awakening of the 1730s-1740s. While a…

Table of contents Introduction Context of Puritanical New England in 1692 Cotton Mather: Background and Influence Cotton Mather’s Role in the Salem Witch Trials Counterarguments and Rebuttals Conclusion Introduction The Salem Witch Trials stand as a stark reflection of human nature’s darkest inclinations. From the lens of New Historicism, these trials emerge as both products…

Scattered through the history of humanity are certain episodes of inexplicable extremism. In some cases it is strongly linked to the culture of a society, but in others it is merely the fruit of a seed planted by something or someone more important, that is, someone with power or influence. One of the cases that…