the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America (1988)‚ which won Columbia University’s Bancroft Prize in American History in 1989‚ and American Slavery‚ American Freedom (1975)‚ which won the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize‚ the Southern Historical Association’s Charles S. Sydnor Prize and the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award. Two of his early books‚ Birth of the Republic (1956) and The Puritan Dilemma (1958)‚ have for decades been
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Notably‚ Henry Nash Smith disputed tuners findings as he examined many of the heroic photos examined by Turner‚ but rather he treated them less the American west and the process through which individuals of European descent settled there. Moreover‚ Francis Parkman developed classic American literature disputing Turner’s opinion. He went forth to explain turners assumption in another new perspective thus shaping the way and perceptive of later generation concerning West and its
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a nation that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The American people themselves had underlying reasons for their imperialistic actions as well‚ mostly economic and political. During the conquest of manifest destiny the US acquired Texas‚ Oregon and California. Americans tooled over the West like an aggressive imperialistic empire reaching
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Lewis Henry Morgan (November 21‚ 1818 – December 17‚ 1881) was a pioneering American anthropologist and social theorist who worked as a railroad lawyer. He is best known for his work on kinship and social structure‚ his theories of social evolution‚ and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together‚ he proposed the concept that the earliest human domestic institution was the matrilineal clan‚ not the patriarchal family; the idea was accepted by most pre-historians and
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Native American territory. Traveling the trails west is one example of M.D. The settlers and traders who make the trek west used a series of old Native American trails as well as new routes. One of the trails was the Santa Fe Trail‚ was one of the busiest routes. It stretched 180 miles‚ from Independence‚ Missouri‚ to Santa Fe in the Mexican providence of New Mexico. Another was the Oregon Trail which stretched from Independence‚ Missouri‚ to Oregon City‚ Oregon (Settling the Frontier). Then there
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hunter-gatherer life style and not keeping up with modern technologies (Document F) they had little power or influence. Even if manifest destiny did not happen‚ Native Americans were going to lose their land one way or another. This is not to say that the trail of tears was by any means a good thing. The religious fervor spawned by the Second Great Awakening created another incentive for the drive west. Indeed‚ many settlers believed that God himself blessed the growth of the American nation. The Native
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Forensic Science: Evolution and how it has helped to solve many infamous crimes Forensic science: its evolution and how it has helped to solve many infamous crimes. A murder mystery‚ an unidentified body‚ stab wounds to the chest‚ a pool of blood in a high end street in New York‚ photographers‚ police‚ investigators rush in to begin their course of work to solve the mystery of the dead body‚ to solve the puzzle‚ to tell the world the story
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railways‚ the Oregon Trail lead people from major cities like Independence‚ Missouri to Oregon City or Sacramento in Oregon and California. This ‘train’ of sorts moved as low as 350‚000 people across America on this famous wagon route between 1841 and 1866. By 1869‚ the transcontinental railroads such as the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific had been built after the Pacific Railway Bill had been passed in 1862. The Union Pacific was built westward from
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Preview: Menand’s article “Live and Learn” covers the idea of the educational system and higher education. Trying to answer the question: what is the most appropriate system for higher education? He answers this first by describing three theories that higher education runs off. The first is that education should be ran by the book and by a grading scale‚ the second is using the pass fail incentive‚ and the third and‚ the most important to our modern society‚ is the ideal that college is more for
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Spanish settlers‚ and the Indians of the past. These routes‚ which flowed through the only passable areas of the Rockies‚ naturally led to Oregon and California‚ which caused an increase in the population of these regions at the time. These trails‚ such as the Oregon Trail to the north‚ the Mormon and Spanish Trail to the south‚ and the California and Overland trails in between were very rough and bumpy‚ making the trek no easy task. On the home front‚ the environment played an important role on the
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