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Founding father Alexander Hamilton was born January 11, 1755, on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies. Hamilton’s parents were Rachel Fawcett Lavien, who was of British and French Huguenot descent, and James Hamilton, a Scottish trader. Orphaned early, Hamilton worked for a merchant on the island of St. Croix. Although Hamilton had…

Farmers across the Great Plains longed for rain during the spring of 1934. But day after day, the weather offered no relief, only intense sun, wind, drought, more sun, then gale-force winds. On April 14, massive clouds of dust blotted out the sun over western Kansas. At first the wind raced along the surface, tearing…

Most people think that the U.S. constitution was just ratified and there was no arguments over its passing. In fact there was almost enough opposition that it came very close to not being passed. It was the Hamiltonians vs. the Jeffersonians in almost all cases. Even before the United States Constitution was ratified there was…

Alexander Hamilton started off on the Island of St. Croix. His father left when he was young, and his mother was unable to really support the family. Because of this Hamilton started work in a mercantile business at the age of 10. There was a hurricane in the Caribbean that he wrote about which got…

At the turn of the 20th century, the Gilded Age arose as an era of major technological advances. Before the Gilded Age, the economy relied heavily on agriculture, but following the advances in technology- specifically the steel industry- large factories and mills began to dominate the economy. With the economy now focused on manufacturing, thousands of…

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Progressive movement began in response to economic, political, and social issues that occurred during the Gilded Age. In this time period, women and factory workers had many social inequalities. The economic aspect was unfair to the people who weren’t rich and the government was full of corruption. Progressivism…

The most pressing problems of the Great Depression included unemployment. Low prices and wages, bank failures, and an unbalanced budget (government deficit). While the New Deal was unable to fully solve these problems, for the most part it ameliorated them and was therefore a 7 in effectiveness. Unemployment spiked during the Great Depression, and the…

American expansion to the Pacific was introduced to the people of the country by several different means. The reasons for expansion did not exclude Politics, economy, nor society. Primarily the contributions that that the rise of expansion can be attributed to include Manifest Destiny, land hunger, suspicion of British intentions as well as trade opportunities….

Manifest Destiny took place in the US in the mid-1800. Manifest Destiny was used among the Americans in the 1840’s as a defense for U.S. territorial expansion. It is the presumption that God had destined the American people to at divine mission of American movement and conquest in the name of Christianity and democracy. In…

Manifest Destiny in combination with the slavery issue greatly contributed to secession and Civil War. Manifest Destiny was the idea that the US was chosen by God to populate the Americas. The 1800s were a time of expansion but every time the US gained land they had to deal with the issue of slavery. Some…