Category: History 3303

  • The Great Fire of Chicago Causes Analysis

    Table of Contents Background Cause Of the Fire The Spread of The Great Chicago Fire The Consequences of The Great Chicago Fire Rebuilding Of the City References Background The Great Fire of Chicago of 1871 has been one of the highly debatable issues in the history of the United States. The exact cause leading to…

  • The US History and Its Five Critical Moments

    Table of Contents Introduction The End of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era that Followed The Great Depression and the New Deal The Civil Rights Movement The Vietnam War The Election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The American Dream is an ideal that has been a part of the nation…

  • The Stamp Act Resolutions and the Declaratory Act

    During the second half of the eighteenth century, the tensions between American colonists and the British government intensified because the Parliament did not want to delegate some of its authorities to the local people who believed that they had been excluded from the political life. Overall, the nature of this conflict can be better explained…

  • The Senkaku Islands Territorial Disputes

    Table of Contents Introduction The Senkaku Islands conflict Analysis of the Conflict Position of China The position of the Japanese The situation as it is today What can be done in future? Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The current state of relationship between Japan and China is largely due to their conflict with regards to control…

  • English Reformation and Its Consequences

    The great Protestant Reformation took place in Europe from approximately 1517 to either 1555 with the Peace of Augsburg or 1648 with the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia1. There were many movements that were sparked due to Martin Luther nailing his Ninety-five Theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany. Each movement’s…

  • Andrew Johnson and the Battle Over Reconstruction

    After the Civil War, the North was determined to help rebuild the South, leading to a period of Reconstruction in 1865-1877. During this period, states that had seceded from the Confederacy were put under the control of the federal government before being readmitted to the Union. Abraham Lincoln and, later, his successor Andrew Johnson developed…

  • “The Fire Next Time” a Book by James Baldwin

    Table of Contents Introduction Analysis: Race Relations in Early 1960s America Conclusion Works Cited Introduction “The Fire Next Time” is a book written by James Baldwin. It is a collection of two essays “Down at The Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind” and “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One…

  • Complications of Studying & Writing About World History

    Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. The main idea with which Diamond begins his global explanation of the difficulty of studying human history is as follows. People and human collectives are living systems that exist among other living systems and are subject to the general laws of evolution. According…

  • The Features and Peculiarities of the State of Kentucky in 1784

    The discovery and the first settlements of the territory of the United States opened a wide range of new possibilities for people across the country back in the 18th century. The nature, native inhabitants, plants, and weather conditions presented aspects for developing convenient life for settlers. People were trying to find a land they would…

  • Appius’s Demise and Verginia’s Death

    The arrest and imprisonment of Appius Claudius resembled Verginia’s death in several ways. Verginius, a prosecutor in the trial, underlined that Appius “who had annulled the right of appeal was himself making an appeal” (Livy 232). He connected the outcomes of Appius’s decisions with the current situation and made the latter guilty of all his…