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How historically accurate is the movie The Post
...papers and Katharine Graham, who was the first female publisher of a major US newspaper. ...t in Vietnam and how it cannot be won. However, after arriving back in the US, McNamara gives a glowing review of the war effort. Daniel Ellsberg had gon

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Why was the Turner Thesis abandoned by historians
...nt westward explain American development.” (<i>The Frontier in American History</i>, Turner, p. 1.) Jackson believed that westward expansion allowed Ameri ...nored. During the mid-twentieth century, most people lost interest in the history of the American West.

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51 Great Online Resources for History Teachers
We are currently building this page to help history and social studies teachers, instructors and professors find useful online * [[United States History Study Guide|United States History]]

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What is the History of US Presidential Scandals
...hard to believe even, yet the American public has often been forgiving, as history shows. ...ly angered France, the ally of the United States, and led to a split among US politicians, with Jefferson accusing Washington of treason.

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Federalist Number 1 - Introducing the Constitution's Goals
...them to suspicion) into interested or ambitious views. Candor will oblige us to admit that even such men may be actuated by upright intentions; and it c ...of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction

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Why was George Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 Significant
...abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the ex ...ducation on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious prin

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The Federalist Papers - Number 67
...ity and splendor to those of a king of Great Britain. He has been shown to us with the diadem sparkling on his brow and the imperial purple flowing in hi ...tion of the clauses, and to the obvious meaning of the terms, will satisfy us that the deduction is not even colorable.

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Why did the Continental Congress adopt the Articles of Confederation
...that we the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that purpose, do by these presents, in the name and in behalf of {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=15}}

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How did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 end the American Revolution
{{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=9}} * Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian], United States Department of State

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Why did the Continental Congress draft and sign the Declaration of Independence
...stems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the estab He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the consent of our legislature

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Why did France side with the American Colonies during the American Revolution
* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State] * Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/french-alliance| French Alliance, French Ass

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The Federalist Papers - Number 2
...ts have hitherto prevailed among all orders and denominations of men among us. To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual ...may be so considered and examined. Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes. It is not yet forgotten that well-gro

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The Federalist Papers - Number 3
...e comes first in order, it is proper it should be the first discussed. Let us therefore proceed to examine whether the people are not right in their opin ...them, except Prussia, are maritime, and therefore able to annoy and injure us. She has also extensive commerce with Portugal, Spain, and Britain, and, wi

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The Federalist Papers - Number 4
...and India, we interfere with more than one nation, inasmuch as it enables us to partake in advantages which they had in a manner monopolized, and as we ...and the enterprise and address of our merchants and navigators, will give us a greater share in the advantages which those territories afford, than cons

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The Federalist Papers - Number 5
...uld invite dangers from abroad; and that nothing would tend more to secure us from them than union, strength, and good government within ourselves. This ...is the one with which we are in general the best acquainted, and it gives us many useful lessons. We may profit by their experience without paying the p

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The Federalist Papers - Number 6
...h of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption from the imperfections, weaknesses and evils [[Category: US History Documents]] [[Category: Historical Documents]] [[Category: Federalist Papers]]

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The Federalist Papers - Number 7
...nts of a federal constitution, we have had sufficient experience to enable us to form a judgment of what might be expected if those restraints were remov ...lated the earth have sprung from this origin. This cause would exist among us in full force. We have a vast tract of unsettled territory within the bound

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The Federalist Papers - Number 8
...to the lot of all neighboring nations not united under one government, let us enter into a concise detail of some of the consequences that would attend s ...iderable. The history of war, in that quarter of the globe, is no longer a history of nations subdued and empires overturned, but of towns taken and retaken;

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The Federalist Papers - Number 9
...s with a transient and fleeting brilliancy, they at the same time admonish us to lament that the vices of government should pervert the direction and tar {{#dpl:category=Colonial American History|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=7}}

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The Federalist Papers - Number 11
...ally indicate the policy of fostering divisions among us, and of depriving us, as far as possible, of an ACTIVE COMMERCE in our own bottoms. This would a ...hange in the system of Britain, because she could prosecute her trade with us through the medium of the Dutch, who would be her immediate customers and p

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