American History

Britain stationed troops in Boston to protect cargoes from India. A crowd gathered near the port. The British soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five people, including Crispus Attucks, a mulatto worker. John Adams, the defense attorney of the soldiers, described the incident as a rabble of troublemaking immigrants and slaves. Two of the soldiers were lightly punished. Six of them were acquitted. England removed the troops from Boston. From the point of view of the colonists, England was transforming...

The Atlantic System British colonial supremacy in North America was due primarily to the creation of a commercial enterprise  the Atlantic System. This commercial framework was not just a system of colonial ports it was rather a system of colonies and markets in which the ultimate beneficiary was the island of Britain. The creation of the Atlantic System in the 17th century facilitated trade and commerce between Europe and the Americas. Spain and Portugal controlled large colonies in the New...

Two decades before the civil war there was development of conflicting sectional ideologies. Both Southern and Northern societies viewed themselves as one fundamentally well organized and the other one going against its cherished values and thus a threat to its existence. The development of these two ideologies was in many ways interconnected. This made the Southerners and the Northerners grow apart. The Northerners had their own ideologies as well as the Southerners which made them two very different...

Phineas Banning is a renowned historian from America. He was born on 19th August 1830 in Wilmington, Delaware and died on 8th March 1885 in San Francisco (Wilmington Historical Society, Drum Barracks Civil War Museum, Banning Residence Museum, 2008 pp.11). He was born to John Alford Banning and Elizabeth Lobwer as their seventh child. In total he had eleven siblings. He was an entrepreneur, businessman, a financier and the founder of one of the busiest ports in the world, the Los Angeles Port.  This...

The government of Great Britain had thirteen colonies in North America who felt discontentment with their rule. The overwhelmingly high level of mistreatment and lack of representation in the government on their own land was the basis of their discontentment. This led to rebellion of Americans to the British administration. At first they revolted against the parliament of Great Britain and then the British monarchy later on. They wanted to have a government where they can feel well represented and...

Question Number 2 As a historical source, what does Douglass narrative reveal about the lives, culture, and psychological struggles of American slaves Literature as a repository of human experience manifests the social, cultural, and psychological conditions of a particular group of people in history. Such is the case since literature serves as the locus of a condensed and social evaluation of the events in a particular period in history. As a storehouse of human experience, literary texts also...

In the narrative about his life as a slave and subsequent escape to freedom, Fredrick Douglas applied extremely clear and striking language to bring out the reality of the kind of violence that slaves experienced during their daily lives in the American plantations. Throughout the narrative, Douglas provided the reader with a detailed description of horrendous accounts of violence that slaves were exposed to under their masters, which stole the very dignity of this sector of society yet, which no...

In 1830, a debate ensued in the halls of the United States Senate between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina.  The debate initially stemmed from the issue of the sale and purchase of government lands in the west.  From this issue would come forth a much bigger issue  sovereignty.  It was an issue of which was held in high regard, the national (federal) government or the local (state) government.  Webster took up the nationalist position while...

The Cold War that took place between 1945 and 1991 began after the termination of the World War II. It was the ongoing situation of political clash, military pressure and fiscal competition. The tension was basically between the Soviet Union and the powers of the west, including the US. Even if the key participants in the Cold War never had a direct military contact, they conflicted through military alliances, organizing tactical conservative forces, nuclear weapons contest, surveillance, substitute...

For many years, the United States had a policy of isolationism. As George Washington, the first president of United States left office, he warned the American against entering into alliance with the European countries. This policy was in effect until the early 20th century where the United States could no longer stay in isolation. The change in policies however transformed the United States which has since then risen to a world superpower. Today, the United States is the world superpower controlling...

After the English North American colonies declared their independence in 1776, the conventional interpretation was that there were 13 little sovereigns (states) wielding power over their citizens. So, after winning independence and with a rewritten constitution, the new nation had to unify itself, put its ideals into practice, and form a stable United States. Needless to say, the early national period in America was overfilled with political, economic and social confusion. Little sovereigns found...

Eisenhowers plan for D Day was to fully control the seas and the air as such the date of the invasion was initially set for early May however was changed till June due to the fact that more landing crafts were not available. This was to ensure that the allied troops would be able to overwhelm the Germans stationed at Normandy. The plan of attack was to initially bombard the German positions with artillery as well as bombs from the air to ensure than a sea based invasion wouldnt be beset by an entrenched...

It was in November 1943 when the allied troops finally landed in Morocco and Algeria for the operation torch. These landings combined with the lieutenant general Bernard Montgomerys triumph during the Second Battle of El Alamein positioned Italian and German troops in Libya and Tunisia in a shaky state. In an attempt to avert the forces which were under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel from being eliminated, backups were immediately transferred from Sicily to Tunisia. On November 8, 1942, the military...