what was the greatest thing t happen in american history and how did it change history today in america?
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I seriously suggest you choose the answer yourself.\n\nStill, I'll give a few possible choices for you to think through.\n\nThe Constitution\nFreedom of Speech\nRight to Assembly\nDemocratic voting\nDiscovering electricity or harnessing steam, etc.\n\nPlus, the Civil War, as mentioned in another person's answer
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It slavery never happen America wouldn't exist today. They probably would be ruled by Indians or Mexican or something. The slightest thing can completely change History. And you know they would be in Africa.
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The Second Great Awakening was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of several kinds of activity, distinguished by locale and expression of religious commitment.
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I have a masters degree in this and it will take a long time to answer your question.  I suggest that you take a look at any History of US Education book.
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8:00 pm east coast, history channel. Maybe some people can learn a bit of truth about this holiday. Native Americans have gotten the crappy end of the stick more than any other race of people in America. If more people really knew their history, not the crap they teach about feel good history, they wouldn't write the kind of responses I have read. I guess it applies to all forums on here. Some people wouldn't believe the truth even if it was smacking them in the face. Demonize it, then kill it or pass a law to control it. Worked then, works now.
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I think that depends on who you are...\n\nList of things that happened on November 1st:\nnovember 1st: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1\n\nList of things that happened on November 2nd:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2
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Key Event: America Signs Treaty with Tripoli.\n\nSome more Key Events in President George Washington's Administration\n\n• Precedents---Washington established two main precedents: a cabinet and the two-year term.\n• Whiskey Rebellion, 1794---Washington ordered 15,000 troops to Pennsylvania and crushed the first challenge to federal authority.\n• Farewell Address, 1796---Washington warned against the evils of political parties and "tangling alliances" abroad. \n\n\nOn April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles." \n\nBorn in 1732 into a Virginia planter family, he learned the morals, manners, and body of knowledge requisite for an 18th century Virginia gentleman. \n\nHe pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion. At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War. The next year, as an aide to Gen. Edward Braddock, he escaped injury although four bullets ripped his coat and two horses were shot from under him. \n\n   \n From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life. But like his fellow planters, Washington felt himself exploited by British merchants and hampered by British regulations. As the quarrel with the mother country grew acute, he moderately but firmly voiced his resistance to the restrictions. \n\nWhen the Second Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia in May 1775, Washington, one of the Virginia delegates, was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his ill-trained troops and embarked upon a war that was to last six grueling years. \n\nHe realized early that the best strategy was to harass the British. He reported to Congress, "we should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn." Ensuing battles saw him fall back slowly, then strike unexpectedly. Finally in 1781 with the aid of French allies--he forced the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. \n\nWashington longed to retire to his fields at Mount Vernon. But he soon realized that the Nation under its Articles of Confederation was not functioning well, so he became a prime mover in the steps leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington President \n\nHe did not infringe upon the policy making powers that he felt the Constitution gave Congress. But the determination of foreign policy became preponderantly a Presidential concern. When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British. Rather, he insisted upon a neutral course until the United States could grow stronger. \n\nTo his disappointment, two parties were developing by the end of his first term. Wearied of politics, feeling old, he retired at the end of his second. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to forswear excessive party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances. \n\nWashington enjoyed less than three years of retir
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The history of the United States is something everyone who lives here should know. How the people before us devoted their lives and some times died so that a country could be born. The people back then had interesting lives and it is informative to look at them from our perspective because we are living in the fruits of their labor.
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History has a strange way of changing with time. You will see how history changes if you do some research in old history books that were once used in classrooms. \nSoon after the Mexican war, classroom history books blame the entire war on Mexican aggression. By the 1890s, the history books had an entirely different slant. By then, it was described as a race war that the U.S. had to engage in because of Manifest Destiny. That slant was very similar to Hitler's concept in Germany. By the 1960s, a very new story was told. There it was described as being started by the USA simply to grab land.\nThru a 100 and some odd years, the history of the Mexican war did a 180 degree shift from Mexico being the aggressor to the USA being the aggressor.\nTo answer your question, you really can't believe history as it is written anymore than you can believe Fox news. It's all slanted to suit someone's interest.
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Well, the early colonies didn't have techonoly, cars, music like today, movies, clothes, food, the knowledge, and the books that we have today. There are PLENTY of changes from today and the colonies. It's pretty simple if you sit down and think about it.
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I've always wondered that too. I think that Washington and Lincoln are more important than MLK to American History. I think that MLK was a great man and did great things, but he didn't go nearly as much as our early presidents did.
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Throughout the ages there have been events that have shaped the world that we now know. Events such as the Agricultural Revolution, the Reformation, the Renaissance and the French and American revolutions have all played a part each in their own little way in moulding the society we now live in. However no event has had as far reaching consequences for future generations as the Industrial Revolution.\n\nThe topic for discussion in this essay is “The Industrial Revolution was the most significant event in the making of the modern world”. The term “modern world” refers to world we live in today including its politics, social class structure, economies, environment and technologies among many other things.  This essay will outline the impact the Industrial Revolution had on creating the “modern world” and will therefore prove that the “The Industrial Revolution was the most significant event in the making of the modern world.”\n\nThe pre-industrial economy in England was very different to the post-industrial. The English economy was “dominated by fairly primitive agriculture and construction”1 as were most. Peter Mathias (1969) also refers to the fact that “technology in agriculture, industry or transport remained subjected to the interruptions of nature”2. There was an attempt to integrate technology into agriculture but however “frost, flood, gale, or calm the wheels did not turn”3. This led to an inefficient system and low productivity rates and therefore “not much shipping put out of port between October and March”4. The weather also meant that there was “not much work available on the land in bad weather in some of the winter months”5 and “building activity declined in the winter”6.\n\nThis all changed with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The exact timeframe of the Industrial Revolution is not known but T.S. Ashton, a historian, author, and former professor of economic history at University of London7 held the term “Industrial Revolution” refers to the period between 1760-18308.  The term “Industrial Revolution” was however not coined until the second half of the 19th century by Friedrich Engels and Louis-Auguste Blanqui9. \n\nThe exact catalyst for the beginning of the Industrial Revolution is contentious and a topic of great debate. The Industrial Revolution was a result of  “many fundamental, interrelated changes that transformed agricultural economies into industrial ones” mainly the nature of production10. It was a period during which England gradually moved from muscle and water power to more efficient mechanised power i.e. steam powered engines.\n\nHowever, the long lasting effects of the Industrial Revolution aren’t just isolated to the industry as its name suggests. The Industrial Revolution also had socioeconomic, cultural and environmental impacts which helped form the world we live in. In fact the Industrial Revolution is considered to be so important in forming the modern world that it is comparable to the Agricultural Revolution in the Fertile Crescent in around 3000 B.C.E11.\n\nSocioeconomic impacts of the Industrial Revolution were far reaching from population growth to social class structure from social control to working and living conditions.  \n\n- That's part of an essay I did for uni That's the industrial revolution. Sorry if it has nbothing to do with the question. I hope it gives a backgound. I was just trying to help. :)
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it is a day which is celebrated by nation \non this day some historic event had happened\nmight be country got independence,might be country'e constistution is made on this day, or anyother thing that changed the fate of the country.
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Time to get a history book!\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786712198/sr=1-5/qid=1138847595/ref=pd_bbs_5/103-2970594-0486206?%5Fencoding=UTF8
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What a silly solution.Accept your countries great achievements.This made america proud.Better to direct your thoughts to todayThen america was the envy of the world. Not so today
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The Great American Civil War.  It not only tore our country in two but we also had many political issues of the time (Civil Rights,  Internal Revenue Act of 1862, Legal Tender Act, Land Grant colleges and even the creation of the draft).  Also, it was as much as a home front war as it was abroad in a political sense.  England, France, Germany, and Ireland all contributed to the war efforts.  Either by sending troops, weapons, or ships- they all contributed.  \n\nGranted The revolution and the world wars shaped our country, but I feel the Civil War played the most important role.\n\nThe blacks could still be slaves, our country could be split in two which inevitably could create more wars here.  Our lives could be forever changed... France would of re-taken parts they lost in the Louisiana purchase. (After the civil war France was fought off from re-taking parts of Texas, they were in camped in Mexico)\n\nIt could be scary.  What about you?  What do you think was the most important thing in our nations history, that changed the course?
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History. It does repeat itself, and we have to learn from history or relive it. Do you not that Lincoln was extremely unpopular during the American Civil War? Democrats wanted him out so they could stop the killing. Death tolls that surpassed the amount of killed in Iraq in both wars, sometimes on a daily basis. Now he is called the greatest President in American history. If he had listened to the polls of the day, which stated that he was not only going to beaten in re-election but he was the most unpopular President ever at that time, America would be split into two countries now!