Essays on History of The United States

Introduction The concept of a moral compass can be quite the subjective realm when considering the management of a nation. Take for example the decision by U.S. president Harry S. Truman, to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, ending the Second World War. Even more…

Migration has been a highly significant force in the development of America, without migration America wouldn’t be what it is today. The westward expansion helped stimulate the American economy in an abundant amount of ways. One of the main reasons people migrated west was because…

In 1803, Thomas Jefferson and the United States government purchased land from France, which during this time was led by Napoleon Bonaparte, for $15 million dollars. This was a plot of land on the western side of the Mississippi River in America that was a…

Before the Trail of Tears occurred, the Cherokee were living peacefully in the Southeast regions of the United States, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. They also adjusted to the European culture. They used their farming techniques and started to plant more, different crops, and…

Migration is a concept that is known all over the world. People move from one area to another in search for a better life, to escape prosecution, environmental issues, and many other reasons. However, not all migration is good. One of these types of migration…

The United States were destined to Expand westward since the U.S.A was gaining people and the U.S. needed more land to benefit the U.S.As growing population, The Westward expansion connected the U.S. to the “Great Western Ocean’ allowing more trade, according to Senator Lewis Cass,…

Some of the challenges that settlers had while moving west was they ran out of food a lot easier since they had more people. Wagons broke down and didn’t have anything to fix it. Also, they didn’t know exactly where they were. They would follow…

The manifest of destiny was a term that was coined in the mid-18th century by a journalist called John L. O’Sullivan, where he urged his fellow Americans to uphold their Divine Providence and undertake the mission to conquer the entire country. Furthermore, the American frontier…

While most people believe that the idea of Manifest Destiny was primarily beneficial for American citizens, it ultimately did more harm than good, as many conflicts with the land, people, and animals arose with Native Americans. White settlers moving west found that the Native Americans…

Katrina hit on August 29, with this hurricane there was 130-miles-per-hour winds, 10 to 12 inches of rainfall, and a storm surge approaching 30 feet. Katrina is the third worst hurricane in histiry. For my paper I decided to write about how Katrina affected New…