… born a poor man, but he then became a successful lawyer. Andrew Jackson was the president of the United States of America from 1829 to 1837. Andrew Jackson is very democratic because he believed that the people should rule and have the power, there…

… want anything to do with the war going on over seas. This was partially due to the first World War. A large majority thought that the United States had made a mistake to fight in 1917 and did not want to make the same mistake twice. It all started…

… of 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt urged the coal mining workforce to join the union. By no time at all workers everywhere were flocking to the union by the thousands. The miners believed that Roosevelt was trying to get them recognition of the…

… other governmental social services programs? How about why we spend billions of dollars on National defense? Why we have so many nuclear weapons? Or who are we actually training to fight when we have our military exercises? All of the previous…

… after a hard day's work, and have a comforting Martini. This was a time in our history in which our government felt as if the root of all evil was alcohol, it was their belief that if alcohol were no longer here, then there would be no more…

… how a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends who survived for ten weeks in the Andes after their chartered plane to Chile crashed. The plane took off on October 12, 1972, from Montevideo for Santiago. Reports of bad weather in the Andes brought the…

… were very linked. They go together step by step in the Middle Ages. Feudalism concerned the rights, power, and lifestyle of the military elite: manorialism involved the service and obligations of the peasant classes. Word feudalism was invented in…

… MAYANS The ancient Maya once occupied a vast geographic area in Central and South America. Their civilization extended to parts of what is now Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador, and most of Guatemala and Belize. From the third to the ninth century,…

… the South Americas. They had amazing architecture, which was so good that it could hold a 40 foot stone wall together with out mortar. Their empire had over six million people in it, who were very law abiding people, and their strong government…

… America's poster child for how to make it big in the United States. He is proof that with hard work, perseverance and a little bit of luck anything is possible in the land of opportunity. As the son of a soap maker and having seventeen siblings, Ben…