Essays on American History

The battles of Lexington and concord fought on April 19th started the American Revolutionary war. The fighting started on the Lexington Green and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. Many more battles followed, and in 1783 the colonists formally won their independence....

It is a bright, sunny morning in Manhattan with the azure sky contrasting with the gray skyscrapers of the city. The date is September 11, 2001. It is supposed to be another ordinary day in America. However, this would not be the case. At 8:46AM,...

As all historians and anybody who has studied the brief period between the end of the revolutionary war and the ratification of the constitution, there was total chaos. That chaos can be attributed to the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation were like the...

Emmett Till was a 14 year old boy who got killed for whistling at a white woman. On August 28, 1955 Emmett was taken from his great- uncle’s house by two white men, Roy Bryant and JW Milam. Emmett Till lived in Chicago, but traveled...

Throughout American history there have been many civilizations that have come and gone. Many of which stayed and many of which have since been terminated. There have been many factors that contribute to the ultimate demise of these towns; some being man-made, and some being...

The Boston Massacre, in many ways, was once a tragedy, yet was once crucial to the improvement of America as a nation. It used to be a misrepresentation of the concept of cruelty in the feel that an entire nation was once judged thru the...

Many people in the United States do not even know that we had a war in Korea. It is often referred to as “the Forgotten War”. It occurred shortly after World War II and is often overshadowed by the Vietnam War. I interviewed my grandpa...

Since 1492 when Christopher Columbus first stepped onto the new land, he had values and laws. Many of which we still have today. Some of these values were good, while many were not. Some of the values that Columbus had were their selfishness, forcefulness, greediness,...

The plants associated with the Columbian Exchange drastically changed both the economy and culture of the New and Old Worlds. European voyagers returned home with New World plants, for example, beans, squash, stew peppers, sunflowers, peanuts, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, avocado and pineapple. In any case,...

The early Colonial American authors wrote in a way that shaped the world as we know it. Their experiences shed a different light on the new world. Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Paine are two authors in specific that informed and changed a plethora of the...

American history teachers from our youth to high school have taught us the general ideas of slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights movements. But failed at giving students the details of the time eras leading to Civil Rights, they left out the impacted African-American...

Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States, is a widely known public figure. In The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, he accounts his early life and depicts how he, a self-made man, became what he became. He addresses the work to his son, but...

Antebellum is a Latin idiom that means ‘before the war.’ It was employed in the background of the history of the United States to offer clarification regarding the time that led to the Civil War . Many consider the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 as being...

One of the US politicians felt sympathy for Natives. His name was Theodore Frelinghuysen. He said, you would have to provide a good reason for that policy. Snatching the lands of Natives will become a serious debatable matter and it is against the quality of...

Could you Imagine being just one year old, and your father says goodbye to you in China and returned to Canada. He wouldn’t see you for the next 18 years, and you were prevented from joining him by a racist Canadian law. This was not...

Through the course of reading these forums, doing further research and the discussions my peers discourse about, I think to myself, “Are we seriously debating about trapping coyotes and relocating them to different regions for our own selfish needs?” Coyotes are known to have a...

The treaty of Paris in 1783 ended the revolutionary war between Britain and its former colonies, America. After a long and gruesome war with many lives lost, the former colonists finally won their independence at the Battle of Yorktown. The defeat of the British at...

The Articles of Confederation were created in 1777 to bring order and a strong government to the states. The Articles gave the government very little powers. However, some of the powers passed national policies. Others settled disputes between the states. Due to the government having...

From the 17th century through the mid-19th century, slavery had been a common practice within America. In 1865, slavery was abolished; however, white Americans still held many prejudices against black Americans. As black men and women worked towards social equality, white people did whatever it...