Why did the U.S. want the Mexican Cession? Why did the Aztecs move to Mexico? Why did Mexico offer Americans land in Texas? Why did the United States make the Gadsden Purchase? Why was Agustin de Iturbide overthrown in Mexico? Why was the Gadsden Purchase necessary?
Why did Britain give India independence? Why would some claim the Haitian Revolution was two revolutions? Why did John Adams want independence? Why did the Gens de Couleur support the Haitian Revolution? Why did France no longer need the Louisiana territory? Why did loyalists want to remain part...
“The Fourteenth] Amendment, in clear words and in manifest intent, includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color, domiciled within the United States,” wrote associate justice Horace Gray in the majority opinion. Not ...
They saw the New Mexican people as possible allies in the game of transcontinental empire, to be courted rather than conquered” (Countryman 1). After the Pueblo victory in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the Spanish quickly sought to regain the territory. It took twelve years but eventually the...
For our Canadian and Mexican business partners, time zones don’t present too big of a problem. They operate mostly within the same array of time zones that the United States does. But for countries with a significantly different time zone than the US, such as Australia and China, this bec...
National Parks. Relationships with the outdoors were stifled into almost non-existence, with the idea of leisure time away from the protection of your community a life threatening risk. With generations of families subjected to inhuman cruelty in the fields, did they really want to go back there...
Because of the current currency situation etc. etc. But the article also stated it did update it’s system so that it can handle foreign currency. So what I’m getting at Southwest just didn’t want to add the extra expense or Competition???Just my opinion I’m not saying that’s ...
And the weekend tribe did treat many of the residents with disdain and looked down on them. We just didn’t fit in. Many of the “transplant” students in my son’s class couldn’t wait to get out of the Catskills. They had not grown up there, and many had traveled and had life ...
With 2014 now behind us, I want to focus this week's letter on what may prove to be the most important global macro pressure points in the coming year(s): The growing divergence among the world’s most important central banks The ongoing collapse in oil and other commodity prices as a ...
Why I Want To Do Something Good? Is being forced todosomething good‚ or is it bad? Most people that I know have been forced todosomething during their life that they did notwanttodo. This can sometimes be good for the person; however‚ it usually does not turn out well. In most ...