Slavery was caused by economic factors of the English settlers in the late 17th century. Colonists continually tried to allure laborers to the colony. The headright system was to give the indentured servant, a method of becoming independent after a...

The one and only James Buchanan was born on April 23, 1791 in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania being raised by Irish immigrant parents. At a rattling young age of 16 he attended Dickinson college and graduated in 1809. James Buchanan constituted a wonderful...

We are in the Army now. I am sitting inside my little old tent listening to the gentle drops the raindrops on the tent. It began raining this morning and it is still at it. We had no drill today, so I will have time to write a letter. We got into...

Robert E. Lee was the son of Henry Lee who was a revolutionary war hero. In April of 1861 Abraham Lincoln offered Lee the position of commander of the Federal forces. Robert Edward Lee declined Lincolns offer and started on a resignation from the...

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a terrorist group that would terrorize, kidnap, kill, and torture African Americans. Reconstruction was an act of getting the United State's back to normal after the Civil War, and the Ku Klux Klan made this difficult. The...

Evan K #13 7BMrs O'ConnorELA/Literature10 May 2016The HolocaustIntroductionGermany had just lost World War 1. The society was collapsing and they didn't know what to do. Hitler had already tried taking over once and was put to jail. He tried again...

Why Robert E. Lee Wanted to Invade MarylandRobert E. Lee had many reasons of why he wanted to invade Maryland. One reason was that Maryland could provide food and other supplies for his army. Another reason was that he thought that if he could take...

America was able to change significantly after WW1 including the political, social, and economic changes in the 1920s. One of the social changes includes that cars become more common after the WW1 as people had the money to purchase the cars. There...

The election of 1912 was a growing standpoint for the progressive era. The candidates for the election of 1912 where William Howard Taft, Eugene Debbs, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt. This election formed new groups like social reformers...

From the years of 1759-1175, George Washington returned to Mount Vernon, and began to settle into a different lifestyle away from war. During these times, a revolution was occurring, and slavery was widely accepted in the south. It was said that...