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    1865, Crazy Horse lead war parties to stop roads to goldfields from being built. To discourage white settlers from moving to his lands, he helped massacre Captain William J. Fetterman and his soldiers. Crazy Horse refused the second treaty of Fort Laramie, and he than moved to unclaimed lands and continued to fight. In 1874, gold was found in the Black Hills. Prospectors broke the treaty and began mining on Native American land.…

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    the silver screen the genre of Hollywood Westerns created protagonists who exemplified qualities often associated with what it means to be an American. Cole Hardin, of William Wyler’s The Westerner, and Will Lockhart, of Anthony Mann’s The Man From Laramie, are two characters in particular that personify the heroic qualities of what it means to be American in the late nineteenth-century and embody traits that Americans for generations to come admire and aspire to…

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    theater and took German and Italian courses. He then attended Catawba College in North Carolina and Casper College in Wyoming, before moving to Denver, Colorado. Shepard became a first-year political science major at the University of Wyoming in Laramie with a minor in languages, and was chosen as the student representative for the Wyoming Environmental Council. He was defined by his father as "an optimistic and accepting young man who had a special gift of relating to almost everyone. He was…

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    The purpose of this investigation is to understand the question: What were the determining factors in making the Oregon Trail a success or a failure? The focus of the paper is the 1840s, a period during the expansion of the US. The journey of several pioneers and the events that impacted them will be analyzed and categorized into the determining factors. Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life originated as a book and was published in 1849 with the…

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    Starting with the invasion of Europeans, Native Americans have been actively destroyed as a people. Remarkable levels of discrimination towards minorities such as Native Americans, in the United States, after the invasion are displayed through media outlets like the internet and television networks. Commonly, those who tune in to watch the daily news and the newest post on the internet are intruded with one sided bias, sometimes unknowingly. My goal throughout this informative essay is to give…

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    clear. On both occasions, the federal government attempted to reform legislature to accommodate these peoples; the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments were passed in the South, granting blacks equality and the right to vote, and the Treaty of Fort Laramie in the West, reserved the Black Hills for the sole use by the Lakota Sioux. Lastly, the United States government used land management as a tool to control both peoples, sharecropping used in the South and the Dawes Act in the…

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    Native Americans started coming to North America, but while they were there whites started coming and taking over their land. Natives had to adapt to many different things going on around them. Native Americans looked for new opportunities in the west but they lacked money and it made their experience bad. They were dealing with people not liking them and taking advantage of them. The Natives also had to worry about fighting such as battles like the Sand Creek massacre. Native Americans had…

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    GOLDEN GEOLOGIC HISTORY REPORT It all started with the Big Bang then the whole universe is formed, continued with the formation of the Milky Way, where there is a solar system with the planet Earth and then there were this little town called Golden. This is a report that will travel through time telling the stories of the incidents happened in to this town of Golden. During our journey we must note that the whole geological of Golden is tilted and there were mining done here. Let’s start our…

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    Terry Mort, the author of Thieves’ Road: The Black Hills Betrayal And Custer’s Path To Little Bighorn, was born in Poland, Ohio, where he then shortly moved to Morristown, New Jersey. It was in this town that his fascination of United States history began; stemming from the close proximity of the Jacob Ford Mansion, as well as the abundance of Civil War monuments littering the town. Throughout his primary schooling, Mort credited many books given to him during this time as inspiration for his…

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    Enrolling in college is one of the most desirable accomplishment i have strive for since a young age. I enrolled to college to specifically earn a degree, my choice of careers varied since high school. I changed my mind more than three times, the careers i had chosen at the time were all somehow related. My first choice was to be a emergency medical technician, second choice was a forensic pathologist, third choice was a detective and final choice is to become a psychiatrist by majoring in…

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