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… 'Creating the Balance' on the EDSITEment resource The American President , "Madison's presidency was dominated by … Great Britain, which for years had been grossly violating American shipping rights." This crisis over U.S. shipping …
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… through the EDSITEment-reviewed resource Academy of American Poets . Between that and the website for Tanka Splendor , also available through the Academy of American Poets , you can experience such a variety of tanka …
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… Communist regime led by Ho Chi Minh in the North and a pro-American regime in the South. The story of America’s long involvement in this war has been told many …
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… Wikimedia Commons Matters of foreign policy dominated American political concerns in the final decade of the … out between Revolutionary France and Great Britain, and American commercial interests became a target for both … with France, which dated back to 1778, still in effect? Did America’s nascent economy require the maintenance of close …
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… One of the most persistent and overarching complaints the American colonists had about the rule of the British … all power into its impetuous vortex." The founders of the American states, he says, "seem never for a moment to have …
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… Companion led to an unprecedented conversation with the American people. During World War II, she took an active … and asked readers to write to her; three hundred thousand Americans had done so by January 1934. The Eleanor Roosevelt … Bethune, " What Does American Democracy Mean to Me? ", America's Town Meeting of the Air, New York City – November …
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… in Marbury v. Madison , 1803 Who was the most influential American of the founding era of the United States: George … ground-breaking decisions still affect the lives of every American? This lesson is designed to help students …
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… the Annals of Congress, on the EDSITEment-reviewed website American Memory , the earliest mention of the Cumberland … Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury (also available on American Memory), describes in its first point how the … the first commercially successful steamboat to sail America's waters. A mechanical genius with many talents, …
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… Discuss: Why do you think that almost every high school in America has an athletic program? What is the best rationale …
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… several phases, including the early colonization of North America, to its involvement in South Asia, the colonization … Shooting an Elephant and Kipling's famous poem urging American imperialism in the Philippines, The White Man's …
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… followed. These states formed the Confederate States of America." The lessons in this unit focus on the presidency … the last page of Lincoln's first inaugural address from American Memory . (NOTE: Background information is available …
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… information, the EDSITEment reviewed resource Teaching American History offers an interactive website that includes … at the Digital History website . The Library of Congress' " American Memory " project includes a brief summary of the plans debated at the Convention. America's Founding Documents at the National Archives also …