… be a National Assembly. They invited the nobles and clergy to join them in this single-chambered legislature. June 20th, 1789: Tennis Court Oath declared. In fear that they would be stopped, the members of the National Assembly regrouped at…

… of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian Empire, and one of the greatest military geniuses of all times. This man had a plan to make the ultimate empire. He had many plans for this great new culture. He planned to create new city-states, Merge two empires,…

… and officially ended by the turn of the eighteenth century, another revolution was rising within the United States. Immediately following the Treaty of Paris was an era of political upheaval in the states. Stability was in sight after the formation…

… the south honor-less and depressed, lead to the freeing of the slaves shortly after. Poor whites and others against freed blacks feared and rejected this change and wouldn’t tolerate it. The Ku Klux Klan, a.k.a. the KKK, formed by whites against freed…

… history when people were stimulated by two events of 1816, during the presidency of James Madison: the enactment of the first U.S. protective tariff and the establishment of the second National Bank. With the decline of the Federalists the United States…

… changes were dividing our nation. The south because their agricultural economy was starting to slow down, was losing political influence. With technological advances our nation began to grow. The north’s industrial economy was thriving and provided…

… American people through thick and thin. In the end, it proved to be ineffective government despite the many victories it had accomplished during its time. The articles accomplished many things during the time it was the U.S. form of government.…

… due to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. There are political explanations of why these Acts were passed which center primarily around the state of foreign relations. Two parties of the day, the Democratic-Republic and the Federalists were initially…

… only since the early years of the nineteenth century. From being "friends of the friends”, the more important Mafiosi were soon known as "men of honor”. By the 1850s it was clear that the Mafiosi also represented the interests of an ordinary…

… “I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom,” Words from a true heroine. Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well known of all the Underground Railr…