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    Because of history, we are able to comprehend how historical events shaped our civilization. Also, we can acknowledge outstanding individuals that with their actions and ideas, helped frame our present. By learning about history, we are able to uncover how societies managed themselves and changed over time. Uncovering how human life and society behaved in the past and developed to what it is today, can help us on dealing with current events or cope in times of calamity. It is evident how history…

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    Native American history Name Course Institution Tutor Date 1. Who were the Earliest People in North America according to archeologists? 1. The First Nations 2. The Inuit 3. The Métis 4. The Native Americans 5. The Alaska Natives the first three groups of people are the found in Canada, these are the first nations, the Inuit and the metis people. They are famously known as the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. What do these mean? BCE: it means Before the Common Era. CE: it means…

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    3. What did your teachers teach you about African American history in high school? My teachers in high school did not teach us very much at all about African American history aside from a bit about the Rwandan genocide. They did show us a video clip from a movie, I think it was called “The Middle Passage”, about slave ships. It showed a lot of African people completely naked and chained being loaded into a ship. White men on the ship were yelling at them to lay down ontop of eachother, as if…

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    A lot of incidents being happening in the African American histories, and it will still happens because other minorities don’t know their histories and even though if they did, they still doing basically the same thing. If minorities were to be part of the “conversation” about race were to give more coverage in mainstream press it will be a great cause of it. People would be fighting against each other of what their belief. We would not be able to get the right answer or the true story behind…

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    African- American Civil Rights, John Wilkes Booths undying love for the confederacy, and the ultimate fall of the Confederate army. Independently, each of these points hold little weight of importance, but together these three points created a fire storm lasting close to six years, costing more than 620,000 Americans lives, and two faiths’ that will ultimately be entwined with each in the history book. A collision of two people that will be forever attach with each other in the history book a…

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    The American Revolution Essay The American Revolution was a huge event in history. It was known as the beginning of America. Thanks to the Continental Army and their leader General George Washington we were able to secure American Independence for the greater good. This essay will explain the events and what happened leading to the American Revolution and the Revolution itself. The American Revolution happened because of many events back in the 1700s. The Boston Massacre was one of the…

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    The American Civil War The American Civil war was one of the bloodiest wars in American History, but one of the craziest things about this war was that it was a war between our own country. There are many reasons and causes that led up to the event known as the Civil War, some of them being that the north wanted to stop the act called slavery, which is when whites treat blacks terrible and make them follow commands and especially make them do hard work, if the order is not followers, they could…

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    goal of many artists in American history. Artists react to events as they occur, voicing their opinion through visuals rather than words. Sometimes the opinions of the artists reflect the public opinion, and sometimes they reveal reality. Art and architecture are important to U.S and world history, not just for understanding the past, but interpreting the present. The Colonial period was a critical time in American History that would shape the remaining course of U.S history. Johannes Stradanus…

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    The idea of manifest destiny is without a doubt one of the most influential philosophies in American history. It called upon Americans to establish an empire from “sea to shining sea.” Even if it was coupled with strife, the movement helped more than hurt those involved with territorial expansion, the relocation of inhabitants, and the prosperity of the nation. The idea that America could expand to the Pacific was an impossibility before 1800. However, after the purchase of the Louisiana…

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    over museumgoers. The distinctive architecture of the National Museum of African American History and Culture is inspired by the three-tiered crown motif portrayed in Yoruban art. Within the museum, artifacts are displayed over five floors of galleries. The exhibits are placed in chronological order, the basement addressing the early beginnings of the African slave trade and the second floor, which concludes the history section, addressing the black lives matter movement. Departing from the…

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