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....

When we think of the relationship the United States has with Japan today, our first thoughts usually go to their cuisine, technology, pop culture such as anime, and traditions that could be considered the exact opposite of our own. Many of those things have managed...

Concentration Camp- a large number of people, mostly political prisoners or minorities. Deliberately imprisoned in uninhabitable facilities in a very small area. The prisoners are forced labor and awaited execution. The first concentration camp started in 1895 by Arsenio Martinez Campos, the camps were set...

Shortly after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, the lives of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Japenese people, both aliens and Citizens of the United States, would be changed in some major ways. Executive Order 9066, signed two and a half...

The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 was brought about by the Puritans severe religious standards and intolerance of anything not acknowledged with their scripture. The biggest record of witch trials as well as deaths due to the witch trials occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, a town...

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,...

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 myriad of viewpoints exist, it is generally recognized that the Second Great...

As an immigrant migrating to a foreign land, one is destined to be faced with many obstacles that might hinder their prosperity. For German Americans in the mid-1800’s the hurdles of language, politics, trust, customs, and alcohol set up these peoples for almost a century...

Introduction The 1920s up to the early 1930s came with one of the most bizarre of prohibitions that the country has ever experienced. Referred to as the prohibition era, this was a time that alcohol was banned in the United States. This was a time...

The United States of America, the land of the free. Many people know this vast land for being made up of its fifty states, from Alaska to Wyoming, but how this land came to be is not as well known. Originally there were thirteen colonies,...

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...

“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...

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 the modern world through the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution. Once...

In 1861, eleven states in the south of The United States of America ceded from the Union and war broke out between the Union and the Confederacy in April 1861 at the battle of Fort Sumter. The main reason of the divide between the northern...

Mexican Americans often wore zoot suit consisted of high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders that displayed their culture. These zoot suits were often worn by Mexican American youths and were attacked because of it. People...

Hiram Ulysses Grant, most commonly known as Ulysses S Grant, was the United States of America’s eighteenth president.  Grant was born on April 27, 1822. When Grant was growing up he attended schools in Georgetown, Ohio. When he wasn’t at school, he was working on...

Ulysses S. Grant’s full name is Hiram Ulysses Grant. He was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April, 27, 1822. He was the son of Jesse Root Grant and Hannah Simpson Grant. His father was a tanner and a business man. He was the eldest...

There are numerous different qualities that someone would want to have and acquire to be recognized as one of America’s major generals during the Civil War, become an American president, and be known in U.S. history. Hiram Ulysses Grant was mostly recognized as a leader...

“Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” is a comparison and contrast essay by Bruce Catton about the opposing generals of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant of the Union and Robert E. Lee of the Confederacy, describing their virtues, as well as their similarities...

Robert Edward Lee, born on January 18th, 1807 and died on October 12th, 1870, is regarded as one of the most successful generals of the Civil War era. Lee enrolled to the “…United States Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1825 in which...

Many consider Robert E. Lee a great general and while some do not support the cause he was fighting for they must give credit where credit is due. Lee was a natural leader who took control and led the southern army to great successes during...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”, which translates to “It is sweet and honorable to 1 die for the fatherland”, is the phrase said by Director Dalton Trumbo at the end of the film, Johnny Got His Gun. During WWI, United States had the...

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...

Some 19th-century industrialists UN agency were known as ‘captains of industry’ overlap with those called ‘robber barons’. These embody individuals like J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew W. Mellon, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller. There was a time in U.S. history when the business...

With industrialism looming and the first transcontinental railroad on the verge of completion, the notorious Collis P. Huntington laughed all the way to the bank as he had just invested in the railroad-building venture that would begin one of the most oppressive monopolies in American...

There were many individuals who contributed to the advancement of America during the industrial revolution. Most of these individuals were labeled either robber barons or captains of industry. Captains of industry typically led in truthful, hard-working ways to the nation. However, the robber barons were...