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Laura Secord
1,152 wordsLaura Secord was originally an American. She was born in Massachusetts on September 13, 1775. Her father was Thomas Ingersoll. He was a major in the American army. They were well known because Laura's father was a clever man. In her family there were inventors, mechanics, merchants, magistrates, teachers and soldiers. Laura had three sisters. When she was eight her mother had died and her father had gone off to war, so Laura had to look after them. After two years or so Laura's father married so...
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Lewis And Clark Expedition
683 words"My response; they do matter!" Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clark took the risk of life, limb, and liberty to bring back the precious and valuable information of the Pacific Northwest of the United States territory. Their accomplishments of surviving the trek and delivering the data to the U.S. government, have altered the course of history, but have some Historian's and author's stating, "It produced nothing useful". , and having "added little to the stock of science and wealth. Lewis a...
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Native Americans The Civil War
1,711 wordsPeople have been living in the Americas for thousands of years. Only fairly recently, the past few hundred years, have foreigners begun to arrive and drastically disrupt the way of life of the aboriginal population. The situation has become so severe that a population that was one believed to be numbered in the millions, was at one point reduced to as few as 220,000 in 1910, and entire tribes have been either irretrievably warped or have disappeared altogether. While Native American Indians have...
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Uniqueness Of The Frontier Spirit For Americans
1,230 wordsWhat is exceptionalism? As defined by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, is it: 1) the condition of being exceptional or unique; and 2) the theory or belief that something, especially a nation, doesn't conform to a pattern or a norm. Some historians credit the terms origins to Alex de Tocqueville, the 19th century French historian. Since colonial times, Americans felt of themselves as the preeminent example of a social and morally advanced society. John Winthrop's 'City on...
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Trial Mexican Americans
1,042 wordsWho's country does this really belong to Since the beginning of the colonization of America it has been known as the" melting pot combining different races and cultures. Only one has always been in power and dominated this country. One of the main ideas that comes across to other nations is the diversity of races and cultures within this country. Even though that is this the idea that our government is trying to portray it seems that the constitution has only included one of these races, the whi...
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Earliest Asian Indian Immigrants To North America
3,154 wordsTheir homeland has the second largest population in the world, yet in America they form one of our smallest minorities. Americans were influenced by their beliefs long before the first immigrants arrived, and an important interchange of ideas has continued to the present day. Although many came to America as early as the turn of the century, they were denied citizenship until a congressional act granted it in 1946. Now they are students and teachers in our universities; they are artists and writ...
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Indians In White American Film
630 wordsREPRESENTATIONS IN JOHN FORDS "THE SEARCHERS" In the film, 'The Searches', originally written as a novel by Alan Le May, John Ford (director) explores the themes incest and miscegenation. In the film, John Ford, uses stereotypes to construct his plot and create his characters. The main characters in the film, being Ethan, Martin, Scar, Look and Debbie are all shaped by white American stereotypes of the 1950's. Ethan, a respected war veteran, is represented as a wise but shifty character, (e.g. t...
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Seminole Indians
371 wordsThe Seminoles who lived in East Florida caused problems for the Americans living there. They would raid and pillage the American settlements. Andrew Jackson went to war with the Seminoles and forced them east to Pensacola. From 1835 to 1842 the federal government fought the Second Seminole War. The Seminole refused to give up their land and Osceola; their leader was determined to fight. He was captured and died in prison. The government sent many of the Seminoles west to Oklahoma. However, some ...
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Leonard Peltier
677 wordsMy life is a Sundance The book Prison Writings by Leonard Peltier is an inspirational story of a martyr in today's time fighting for the rights of his people, the Native Americans. The book is a biography explaining the events that led up to his being wrongly convicted and his experienced being imprisoned for a crime that he did not commit. Leonard Peltier, now in his twenty-fourth year of confinement, was wrongly convicted of the murder of two FBI agents and has been doing hard time ever since....
