A Fight for Freedom
Slavery and racial discrimination served as two considerable conflicts during the 1800s. A large portion of American Society treated many African Americans unfairly. However, in the mid 1800s African Americans finally set out to stand up for their freedom and equal rights. This long, violent ....

affirmative action
Once upon a time, there were two people who went to an interview for only one job position at the same company. The first person attended a prestigious and highly academic university, had years of work experience in the field and, in the mind of the employer, had the potential to make a posi....

Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson may have been our seventh president, but he was first in many ways. He was the first populist president who did not come from the aristocracy, he was the first to have his vice-president resign ( John C. Calhoun), he was the first to marry a divorcee, he was the first to be nominated ....

Cherokee Nation
In the early 1700s, the Cherokee Indian's population estimated between 17,000 and 21,000. The Cherokee Indians were organized and functioned independently, before the Whiteman came. "Cherokee territory prior to European contact included portions of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennesse....

Civil Rights and the US Supreme Court
Civil Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court Think of civil rights in the USA and the campaigns of leaders like Martin Luther King, Booker T. Washington, A. Philip Randolph and Malcolm X spring to mind, together with the organizations they headed up, such as the NAACP (the National Association for th....

Corporate Personhood Defined by the 14th Amendment
Corporate Personhood Controversy There has been a long standing controversy over the issue of corporate personhood. The corporate personhood debate is based on questioning whether the subset of rights provided under the law to biological people should also be given to corporations as legal persons....

How Documentary Film Practice Has Changed
I look upon cinema as a pulpit (John Grierson). How has documentary film practice changed over the past half century? In answering this question, you will need to both engage with the history of the different documentary traditions covered in the lecture and reading and refer to specific filmic ....

Impact of the Anti-Federalists
The drafting of the U.S. Constitution involved days and days of debate and compromise between the delegates. The task at hand was to repair the Confederate government and institute a system that would comply with the needs of the newly found country. After its completion, the representatives divide....

Indian Removal (Zinn Chapter 7)
Once the white men decided that they wanted lands belonging to the Native Americans (Indians), the United States Government did everything in its power to help the white men acquire Indian land. The US Government did everything from turning a blind eye to passing legislature requiring the Indians t....

Jacksonian Democracy
The 1820's and 1830's were a time of much change, and conflict. Not only was the country changing, but so were the ideas of the people who lived in it. New ideas were being spread around the nation, and of the many new ideologies, one set became the most popular. Jacksonian Democracy, as it was c....

Jacksonian Era: Democracy
By definition a president is defined as the highest executive officer and chief of the United States. President Jackson was the seventh president of the united states and was also called the common mans president. President Jackson was not a normal president; unlike all presidents before him....

Jacksonian Period
In the 1820s and 1830s America was dominated by Jacksonian Democracy. Although the Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as guardians of the Constitution, democracy and individual liberty, they actually disregarded the essential characteristics of American society. The disregard of essent....

John Marshall versus Thomas Jefferson
John Marshall become Chief Justice on January 27th, 1801 and Thomas Jefferson became President on March 4th of the same year. It was around these times that the battle over who possessed the right to determining what is and is not constitutional began. Marshall had the opinion that the President....

John Marshall's Contribution to Nationalism
John Marshalls Contribution to Nationalism John Marshall was chief justice of the United States for almost thirty-five years, from 1801 to 1835. Judge Marshall was an essential figure in the history of American law. A well-known Virginia lawyer and Federalist, John Marshall had served as secretar....

Louisiana Purchase
Several great American Statesmen were pivotal in shaping and molding the government of the United States. History has since forgotten some of these founding fathers. The ones remembered throughout history are those we hold up for their accomplishments. Thomas Jefferson is one of the American Statesm....

Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, for nearly half a century known and celebrated as "Mark Twain," was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. He was one of the foremost American philosophers of his day; he was the world's most famous humorist of any day. During the later years of his life he ranked....

Nunna daul Tsuny
Nunna daul Tsuny is directly translated as The trail where they cried. Between 1838 and 1839 the Cherokee Indians, along with other tribes, were forced out of their own lands by the whites, which later came to be known as the Trail of Tears. These Indians had remarkably unfortunate but respecta....

Sedition Acts of 1789
The Sedition Acts of 1789 resulted in a divided country which saw Federalists and Democratic-Republicans were going head to head with each other. This caused bitter controversy on many issues including, foreign affairs, freedom of the press, and the role of the executive branch. Conclusively, the Se....

Sex Offenders
Sex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43,000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510,000 children are sexually assaulted (Oakes 99). The latter statistic, ....

supreme court cases
Case #1 Heart Of Atlanta Motel V. U.S. (1964) 1- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most comprehensive Civil Rights legislation passed by Congress since 1875. The second title of this law prohibited discrimination on your religion, color, nation origin, or race. Its goal was....

Supreme Court Justices
The U.S. Constitution should be amended to establish a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court Justices Ladies and Gentlemen, a dilemma must be resolved in our government and in our constitution. Currently, the U.S. Supreme Court handles over 8,000 cases per year and lives are given to the ha....

The Indians
The major American aspiration during the 1790s through the 1860s was westward expansion. Americans looked to the western lands as an opportunity for large amounts of free land, for growth of industry, and manifest destiny. This hunger for more wealth and property, led Americans conquer lands that w....

trail of tears
Trail of Tears During Andrew Jacksons presidency, he did many things for the common people. The common people often referred to him as the common man. He got rid of the National bank because he believed that it was only beneficial to the upper class and not the lower class. President Ja....

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