ORIGINS: The discontent of the colonies began to be truly obvious in the war fought between 1689 and 1763. At the end of this war England had acquired from France: Canada and all the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, and from Spain Florida...
He was born in 1871 in New Jersey. He studied in the Universities of Lafayette and Siracuse. In 1890 he moved to NY to work as a reporter in the poorest suburbs, a work that together with his poverty would supply him with material for...
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachussets. He was a descendant of a long line of puritan rulers. As a child, he heard many different stories from this puritan past. One of his forefathers was the one that prosecuted the famous witches of Salem,...
The British tried to colonize America twice in the 16th century, but they only succeeded in 1607, when they founded Jamestown. However by general agreement, the Pilgrim Fathers who travelled on the Mayflower were to be the first settlers; they founded Plymouth...
The present unit, Unit 46, aims to provide a useful introduction to the historical development of the United States of America from the War of Independence to the Civil War so as to examine the link between the changing social, economic, political, cultural and...