Comparative History Paper: US History I

Comparative History Project: US History I

Topics

Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears – Genocide in Darfur

African Slavery – Human Trafficking

John Adams's Presidency – George H.W. Bush's Presidency

Temperance Movement – War on Drugs (Since 1988)

American Suppression of Ghost Dance – Chinese Suppression of Falun Gong

History of Standard Oil – History of Microsoft

New York Draft Riots (1863) – Los Angeles Riots (1992)

African Slavery - Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery
http://www.gvnet.com/humantrafficking

Criminal Justice Resources : Human Trafficking
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/human.htm

HumanTrafficking.org: A Web Resource for Combating Human Trafficking in the East Asia Pacific Region
http://www.humantrafficking.org

Trafficking in Human Beings
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/trafficking_human_beings.html

Trafficking in Persons: Human Trafficking Factors
http://www.traffickinginpersons.com/trafficking_factors.htm

The African American : A Journey from Slavery to Freedom
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/CWP/library/aaslavry.htm

Africans in America | Part 1 | The African Slave Trade and the Middle Passage
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html

BBC News | Africa| Focus on the Slave Trade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1523100.stm

John Adams's Presidency - George H.W. Bush's Presidency

Bush vs. Adams
http://wokv.com/features/hj_060605.html

John Adams: Obnoxious and Disliked
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/32898

Temperance Movement - War on Drugs (Since 1988)

A Society Of Suspects: The War on Drugs and Civil Liberties
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-180.html

The Successes and Failures of George Bush's War on Drugs
http://www.tfy.drugsense.org/tfy/bushwar.htm

The Duplicity of the War on Drugs
http://www.serendipity.li/wod/dupl.html

iLiberty.Org - The War on Drugs
http://www.iliberty.org/debates/id.3278/debates_detail.asp

Drug Policy Alliance: Should We Legalize Drugs? History Answers Yes
http://www.drugpolicy.org/library/tlcameri.cfm

History of Standard Oil - History of Microsoft

A Brief History of Microsoft on the Web: Reflections on microsoft.com from Birth to 'Middle Age'
http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk.htm

The Unusual History of Microsoft Windows
http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/Windows.htm

Bill Gates: Before Microsoft
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html

A History of the Standard Oil Company
http://www.us-highways.com/sohist.htm

The History of the Standard Oil Company
http://www.history.rochester.edu/fuels/tarbell/UPTO52.HTM

Standard Oil Company
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=988

New York Draft Riots (1863) - Los Angeles Riots (1992)

The New York Draft Riots
http://www.civilwarhome.com/draftriots.htm

The New York City Draft Riots of 1863
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html

The Causes and Effects of the New York Draft Riots of 1863
http://www.mapsites.net/gotham/es/_alexblankfein_es.htm

Labor Competition and the New York Draft Riots of 1863
http://lachlan.bluehaze.com.au/books/albon_man/labor_ny_draft_riots_1863/index.html

Los Angeles Riots-Series of Reports
http://www.emergency.com/la-riots.htm