Denver South High School - Johnny Reb Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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A 200 Year Experiment :,,,:L-1.. ,,.,..,. . .te , George Waslungton was extremely important in maintaining the infant republic. With the establishment of a republic by the Constitution, the people of Europe felt that the United States would never endure. As years went by, however, it became evident that the United States was going to be powerful. Within seventy years, the entire area of land that is now the con- tiguous forty-eight states had been acquired. This expansion caused much of the death and destruction in the United States from 1830 to 1890. The most obvious abuses were those of the massacres of Indians as well as white settlers. The other important event caused by Manifest Destiny was the Civil War. Since the South was worried about retaining their right to hold slaves, they sought new slave states. It was the conflict between the South and the Abolitionists that caused the War Between the Statesf' N... . Q.. 'Mfg NMA ...ws wi .. These are the entrenchments at the Battle of Petersburg june 1864-March 1865

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Philadelphia was one of the centers for the American Revolution. It is anyone's guess when man first came to North America. There are estimates ranging from 12,000 to as early as 38,000 B.C. The most probable explanation for the appearance of Native Americansw on this continent is that they crossed the Bering Strait from Asia. It was the descendants of these Indians', that Colum- bus met when he landed on the Caribbean Islands in 1942. Although there probably were earlier landings on our continent-Norwegian around 1000 A.D. and possibly an Irish landing as early as the ninth or tenth century-Columbus' discovery is the one most important to history. Although the Spanish, Portuguese and French had large sec- tions of colonized land, it was the English who were most successful in establishing a lasting society on the North American continent. Eng- lish principles of justice and freedom encouraged the colonists to declare their independence in 1776. England's institutions of democracy and religious freedom allowed the united statesv to establish the Articles of Confederation and, in 1787, the Constitution. The gold-boom era from 1848-1870 caused wide and rapid expansion. BOOIH TOWNS like this one spread throughout the Rocky MOUHIZIUS C0 the P3C1f1C- In this room in Independence hall, the Declaration of Independence was signed. 18 The Nation Embarks

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The massacres and mistreatment of the Amer- ican Indians in the West were even cmeler than what was happening in the South during the Reconstruction Era, The battle of Wounded Knee left ISO Sioux Indians dead. The reason for such cruelty was to prevent the Indians from inhibiting the white man's progress. The progress was continued as the United States became a colonial power, With the annex- ation of the Phillipines in 1898, the United States also acquired the difficulties of governing a colony.