Perhaps of the greatest mythic tool or practice used in the telling of American history, often used to evade the reality of American conquest and exploitation, and oft reflected in how we
present those who died at the Alamo, Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, or
even in films like Birth of a Nation is known as the "Conqueror as
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a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”

john maynard keynes developed new economic theories in response to the : b) great depression of the 1930s. his theories are so important that they are known as "keynesianism". in his works he supports the idea of a government with deeper involvement and intervention to end the great depression.