Joyce Appleby

it could've been prevented and that it couldn’t be prevented. World War II was one of the bloodiest wars, if not the bloodiest, in all of the wars ever. The total military deaths that came from the war were roughly around 19 million people killed (Appleby 519). It featured great Allied leaders: Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. The Axis leaders consisted of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo. These six men were some of the greatest leaders of all…

to power as America’s third president of the United States, he caused a revolution to occur. Unlike most revolutions, war didn’t actually happened, but change did come from this. In the article “The Second American Revolution” by a lady named Joyce Appleby, she explains what Jefferson’s time in the Whitehouse was a time like no other, and something that lives a legacy throughout our daily lives. A title can explain a lot about a novel, and the…

Anti-federalists believed that each state should have an independent government with more power than the national government, so it can’t get overpowering like the government in England. Most of the Anti-federalists were people of low or medium class, because they felt the Federalists idea of government would be populated with wealthy men, giving them little to no say in what happens in the government. Many of the Anti-federalists wanted there to be a Bill of Rights, to state all of their…

much worse for African Americans. “Along with restrictions on voting rights and laws to segregate society, white violence against African Americans increased. Many African Americans were lynched because they were suspected of committing crimes,” (Appleby et all, 520). Even if African Americans were innocent, they were killed because many were not allowed to go on trial. All it took was an accusation from a white to destroy the life of an innocent black. Legal slavery in the United States ended…

John Adams Switching Sides John Adams is now a patriot that is a lawyer, and writer for the colonists. He first wrote for the newspaper to have dissertation about Canon and Feudal Law. Then he wrote for protests. Adams began to defend the colonists and started to become a patriot. He was married to Abigail Adams from 1764 to 1818. With her he had two children, John Quincy Adams and Abigail Adams Smith. John Adams and his family were loyal to the England king. In 1761,…

Teresa Nguyen Mrs. Pante and Mr. McWaters 10th Grade Honors English and History 18 November 2016 Comparison of the Colonial Regions Before there was America, it was just thirteen colonies divided into three regions under the control of the British government, known as the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies. People came to the new colonies to create a new society and economy. Each region had their own lifestyle. People learned to use the sources within their…

different groups both heavily influenced the young generation of the 1950s. The term beat may have come from “the feelings among group members being beaten down by American culture, or from jazz musicians who would say “ beat right down to my socks””(Appleby, Joyce, et al, 579).…

Have you ever wondered what the women did in WW1? The women’s suffrage movement and the 19th amendment were a tough movement for women to accomplish until its victorious day granted women the right to vote. To understand the women's suffrage. I will be diving into why women should vote and the conventions. The 19th Amendment lawfully promises American women the right to vote. In the early 1800s, women prearranged, petitioned, and demonstrated to win the right vote, but it took them years to…

Shayne Bhatia US History Dr. Alves Period 1 From the time America gained its independance all through the 20th century, Americans only cared about expanding their territory, forcibly taking away land from groups they oppressed. Families of natives that had been thriving in one location from generation to generation would be weary seeing a bunch of new people wander to their land. It would take time, but the families would become trusting and accepting towards the strangers. Sadly, white…

Roosevelt in his speech “The Strenuous Life” argues that the people of the nation must support it while it is fighting to determine how people in centuries to come will live in America. In the text United States History & Geography, the author Joyce Appleby describes the…