.... over to America by the ideals of British Mercantilism which called for strict regulation of the state and its people for the good of the national economy. In the early 1700’s, Frenchman Colbert stated that, "no commerce in the world produces as many advantages as that of the slave trade"(Williams, 144). The inhumane practice of began in the American colonies in 1619. Although Africans first came to the New World around 1501, the early colonists did not think to use them as slave labor. Instead, they imported poor, white indentured servants from Europe to clear forests and cultivate fields. It was the English colonists that incited the idea of using Black sla .....

.... the atomic bomb and the advent of long-range military technologies greatly increased the chance of hostilities between the two states, the fact that they occupied opposite sides of the globe became less of a barrier to potential conflict. The origins of the friction and disharmony between the two states, which served as a prelude to the Cold War disunity, can be traced back to the First World War. The War, the Russian revolution and the Russian civil war brought the armies of the two powers together for the first time, and paved the way for a continuing struggle for mutual survival, influence and dominance. The fundamental cause of the tension between Amer .....

.... hieroglyphs, for instance, have provided priceless data. The framework for the study of the Dynastic period of Egyptian history, between the first dynasty and the Ptolemaic period, relies on the Aegyptiaca of Manetho, a Ptolemaic priest of the 3rd centry b.c., who organized the country's into 30 dynasties, roughly corresponding to families. General agreement exists on the division of Egyptian history, up to the conquest of Alexander the Great, into Old, Middle, and New kingdoms with intermediate periods , followed by the late and Ptolemaic periods, but chronology and genealogy are continually being refined in light of new evidence and by the use of increasi .....

.... people to look up to and many times over people have in books, movies and songs. Thomas Glidden and his revulationary invention of barbed wire took something from America that can never be replaced, I imagine that most people consider this progress, the never ending evolution of The United States of America, but I can not help but wonder if America might just be a little better if there were a few of those good ol’ boys left. Many early americans expereminted with a lot of different materials. Hedgerows were gradually developed, and a few homesteaders even resorted to mud and ditch enclosures. timber was brought from neighboring states, but its cost was gener .....

.... Point. The popularity of the show when it first aired "almost single-handedly brought NBC out of its third place slump in the ratings and was one of the network's biggest successes ever."1 Yet, what secret formula did Stephen J. Cannell (Executive Producer and the man who started the show going) tap into to get the audience to bite? Why was everyone so turned on to, and tuned in to The A-Team in its first few seasons? Were the Am erican audience that thrilled hearing B.A. Baracus (Mr. T) say "Shut up fool!"; were they that interested in seeing if Hannibal's (George Peppard) plan always comes together, or was it truly the violence that sold .....

.... way women began to see themselves. Many married workers realized that they must be quite capable to hold down two jobs at once.” (Kaledin 68) “The percentage of women in the paid workforce had risen steadily after 1950.” (Mansbridge 22) “More Americans have changed their way of thinking, they had come to approve of married women earning money in business and industry.” (Mansbridge 22) The shift in attitudes encouraged women to work. The status of women changed after the war because they took on the same jobs of men while they were at war, proving that what a man could do a woman can do also. The war gave an opportunity, a chance for women to show off .....

.... to starve Germany out of supplies, Great Britain was the first to declare a naval blockade by seizing ships that were en route to Germany. The seized ships included American ships, which cause President Wilson to protest the seizures as a violation of a neutral nation's right to freedom of the seas. In retaliation for the British blockade, Germany announced in February of 1915 a submarine war area around Britain. The submarine had just been developed and therefore, existing international law could not be made to fit it. Traditional warships were bound by international law to stop and board merchantmen, but this rule could hardly apply to the U-boats. These .....

.... was out of reach for most Americans. Who were the progressives? They were a group of young professional, middle class people. They wanted to apply principles of medicine, law, business and teaching to problems of society. They believed that progress and the education of people would overcome many problems. They organized many volunteer organizations to work on these issues. Illinois Factory Act. Passed in 1893 the act prohibited child labor and limited women's working hours. This act soon became a model for other states. During this time many children went to work full-time out of necessity. Wages in factories were low, they worked long h .....