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    The foundation of the United States was based upon expansion of territory on several ideological bases. Post revolutionary and establishment period expansion came to the budding nation of America as it formed a conceptual necessity to move westward. Westward expansion in the United states took several motivating purposes after crossing the Appalachian mountains in the late eighteenth century. Broad purposes for expansion from the early nineteenth century to the civil war include the idea of…

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    In the 19th century, territorial expansion played an important role in the United States. The American people adopted an audacious attitude believing that they had a divine obligation to stretch their boundaries from the east coast to the west coast. In 1845 an editor and prominent democratic politician, John L. O’Sullivan, published an article on the annexation of Texas identifying the imperialistic endeavors of the U.S. with the phrase: Manifest Destiny. He stated, “Our manifest destiny is to…

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    To some degree a precedent had been set in American politics. This was the fact the president’s secretary of state became president next. John Quincy Adams, Monroe’s secretary of state, intended to keep the train rolling. Benefitting from being the former president’s son, Adams also had some unpleasant associations with it. In 1808 Adams, in order to remain politically viable, left his federalists and became a republican. To some extent Adams was overqualified to be president having served as…

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    resources, the American Indians established a culture that, in some ways, was far superior to the society of Europe. Social structure was a vital component to any Native American tribe. The Algonquians, for example, a group that inhabited the Northeastern portion of the continent, “lived in bands ranging from one to three hundred members”. Families lived together in wigwams “made of bent saplings covered with birch bark”. Not only did a husband, wife, and their family reside in these structures…

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    Schulman. William Anderson was the editor , Peter Weir was the director, Steven Haft was the producer and The starring Robin Williams. The movie is talked about the Welton Academy, which is on the Northeastern United States It established on 1959 and it's the most Prestigious school on the United state. its famous on the commitment and the student whose graduated from it has higher qualify from those graduated from other schools. Robin Williams (Dr, Keating) play the new English teacher role on…

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    After World War 1 America was viewed as a superior power in the world, the economy boomed, people were living lavish and comfortable, and a way of life quickly devolved that was dramatically different from the one people once knew . The 1920’s was a pivotal time in America’s History. It was a time when morals were lost, social revolutions were fought and a new “urban culture” was born. These new ideas and philosophies were so pivotal that America 96 years later is still running off the fumes of…

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    Puerto Rico, which is officially known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a 3,500 square mile territory of the United States that is located in the northeastern Caribbean. It is not just one island, but in fact, it is a small archipelago made up of the main island and a few smaller islands. The current population is around 3.4 million. Puerto Rico’s rich history, varied natural scenery, tropical climate, and outstanding traditional foods has made it a favorite place for people from around…

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    In the 19th Century governement of Brazil implemented prolicies to encourage migration from Germany and Italy inland of the country. In 20th century the similar policies were used to attract also migrants from Japan to immigrate to the southern states of São Paulo, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul. Until this day the economic development of Brazil’s market is influenced mainly by immigrants from the neighboring counties that are undocumented. The state’s government has not any policies, until now…

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    Whitney convincingly supports his opinion that indigenous peoples did not leave the land in an immaculate state, and arguments from other sources such as William Cronon’s Changes in the Land and Carolyn Merchant’s American Environmental History: An Introduction defend correspondingly. Whitney, Cronon, and Merchant provide evidence that the goal, and impact…

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    the United States and Great Britain, and when the United States still existed as small colonies controlled by the British empire. How Great Britain made the U.S. colonies socially inferior, didn’t accept their religion belief, and used the colonies’ wealth for their own needs. It was exactly because of the injustice behaviors that the colonies separated themselves from Great Britain and became the United States of America, one of the strongest nation in the world. Ironically though the United…

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