Essay provides a description of the California Gold Rush.

Reviews the use of capital punishment from early America to nearly present (about 1990's). This paper goes over each century and provides details of how people were punished through the government.

Provides the pros and cons of Capitalism in relation to the United States and its history. Focuses mostly on the Industrial Era. Promotes a laissez faire attitude by government to allow for a free market and massive economic growth.

Capitalism is economic system in which private individuals and business firms carry on the production and exchange of goods and services through a complex network of prices and markets. In America, capitalism is the most dominant idea of how the economy should be run. In capitalism, people do things for themselves, and the government doesn't have to say much or interfere with how things are run.

Essay is a case study regarding if it would be a good decision to legalize marijuana.

The five main causes of the Great Depression of the 1930s in the United States were the stock market collapse, farm failures, bank failures, widespread poverty, and the unequal distribution of wealth.

Essay critically examines and explains the most damaging aspects of slavery.

The causes and effects leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation.

Describes the causes and the effects of the Mexican War. Explores the history of the war, including American support of the Texas fight for independence. Discusses the American policy of Manifest Destiny.

The events leading up to the Southern states' secession from the Union and the ensuing Civil War did not happen all at once. Slavery played the lead role in this process, forming the basis for disagreements between North and South over economic and social matters as well as differences over Constitutional interpretation. The election of Abraham Lincoln, a Republican and an abolitionist, as president drove the South even further away from the Union.

There are many underlying causes for the bloodiest war in U.S. history. For the most part the North and south were competing in four main issues: Government, the economy, the general geography of the two regions.

Explores the causitive factors that contributed to the commencement of the American civil war. Describes the war as a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events. Describes lingering southern resentment.

The primary cause of the American Revolution is a topic subject to heated debate between many historians. Arguments have been made supporting economic, political, and social motives of the war.

Examines factors leading to the American Revolutionary War. Provides a timeline of events tracing from 1620 to 1776. Details major historical factors leading to the war.

Essay discusses the various potential causes of the Civil War in the United States.

Describes a sample documentary based question on the Civil War.

Gives a history of the American Civil War. Provides several of the most significant causes of the war, including economics and slavery. Discusses the firing on Fort Sumter.

The fundamental cause of the cold war was never a clash of Capitalism-Communism, because Communism was arguably, never achieved. It is unlikely that the two different social systems could co-exist, but if it had not been for all the other causes of the Cold War, the struggle might not have been as long or as dangerous.

The great Depression was a decade long span of a poverty stricken world. It began in 1929 with an unequal distribution of wealth between classes, which lead to the collapse of the stock market this created financial panic for all. This essay examines the politics and events that led to this dramatic decline and eventual economic fallout.

Essay explores the various causes that led up to the Revolutionary War in 1776.

Harsh rules, acts, and actions on Great Britain's part led the American colonists to feel violated and angered. Continued enforcement of freedom-tightening regulations against the colonists led to boycotts and various rebellions against the king and Parliament. The growth of the colonies' political and economic strength, along with the Britain's unwillingness to respond to the boycotts, made the Revolutionary War inevitable.

Comparison and order of importance of three factors that started the Spanish American War.

Essay provides a discussion of the causes of the First World War.

Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers

Discusses the The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in 1986. Describes the tragedy and questions how it could have been avoided. Considers it a major breach of ethics.

The changes that America went through during the revolution.

Under Andrew Jackson, early 19th-century America saw tremendous changes, including population growth and movement westward. This essay explores the causes and nature of these changes, including immigration and the influence of German settlement of the mid-west.

What changes did American society go through in the 1920's and what brought about those changes?

Discusses the novel My Brother Sam Is Dead. Analyzes the character of Sam Meeker, a young boy in the revoultionaery war.

Essay provides a discussion regarding Charles Darwin.

The life of Charles Lindbergh and relation to The Great Gatsby.

Charles Manson is known as one of the most sinister and evil criminals of all time. He organized the murders that shocked the world and his name still strikes fear into American hearts. Manson's childhood, personality, and uncanny ability to control people led to the creation of a family-like cult and ultimately to the bloody murders of numerous innocent people.

A brief biography of the life of Charles Pinckney Jr.

Motion picture actor, director, editor, composer, and producer, Charles Spencer Chaplin, has certainly made his mark in film history.

Essay is about the Cherokee Indians and their removal from their original habitat.

Reviews the book Chesapeake, by James A. Michener. Focuses on Voyage 5. Describes the character Rosalind.

Explores the similiarities and differnces of the Cheasapeake and the New England colonies During the late 16th century and into the 17th centuries. Describes how differences in colonial motivation, religious, political structures, socio-economic, and race relation, were responsible for molding the territories.

Compares the Chesapeake Bay vs. New England colonies and how they developed into distinctly different cultures.

Chester A. Arthur served as the 21st president of the United States. Sworn in as president in 1881, following the assassination of James Garfield, Arthur is best known for the civil service reforms passed during his administration. These reforms, however, cost Arthur much support and, eventually, the Republican presidential nomination to James G. Blaine in 1884.

Overall the economy of Chicago in the 1880's was successful because there were seven good years and only three bad. People flocked to Chicago for the chance of employment. But what separated Chicago from other cities was that every type of person came, ranging from immigrants to business tycoons, looking to get their shares of Chicago's growing economy. And at the center of the economy was the railroad.

The industrial revolution and the railroad industries helped Chicago because a chief destination for immigrants and free slaves in the post-Civil War era.

Provides a brief summary as to what child labor was like during the Industrial Revolution and child labor today. Describes the effects of child laborers. Also includes some ideas as to how it can be prevented.

Provides a brief overview of Chinese immigration into the United States. Examines contributions of Chinese immigrants.

An opinionated look at the abolitionist John Brown, based on the reading of Clinton Cox's biography Fiery Vision: The Life and Death of John Brown.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus began a historic voyage to the New World. Columbus discovered a new continent and proved his theory that the earth was not flat. His discovery of this new land sparked interest in many large European countries to discover the New World.

Very briefly discusses why Christopher Columbus is a great European Explorer.

The question asked by many people is whether or not Columbus deserves his own holiday. He is the only man in our nation and history with his own holiday celebrated in every state. What people of America do not realize is that Columbus was a murderer.

CIA's involvement with Guatemala during the Cold War.

In Frederick J. Turner's essay "The Significance of Frontier," he argues that the expansion of the American frontier happened only because American settlers or farmers were in search of good soils and fertile lands. What he failed to mention is the fact that Americans migrated further west not only because they were in search of productive land, but also many migrated because of religious persecution.

The theory of civil disobedience, as defined and practiced by Henry David Thoreau, Ghandi, and Martin Luther King Jr., and its history in the United States, including the civil rights movement and protests of the Vietnam War.