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The History Of The Pony Express
Number of Words: 1165 / Number of Pages: 5
... to Washington. The message was from the states Chief Justice to President Lincoln.
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The telegraph line only went as far west as St. Joseph, Missouri in 1860. It was 2,000 miles from St. Joseph to the west coast as Sacramento, California. It took over months for messages to be carried by ships, wagon trains, or stage coaches to reach California. They needed a faster way for mail and messages to get to the west coast.
A system of horse riders, called the Pony Express was started. The riders would bring the mail quicker. The first rider ...
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A Slave's Life
Number of Words: 1148 / Number of Pages: 5
... to serve as slaves, about forty percent of southern population was made up of slaves. When all of these Africans arrived the legal status of them was poorly defined, and some managed to become free after a period of time, much like the indentured servants. But in the late 1600’s the colonies decided to enact laws that regulated the slaves. The most important regulation at the time was the introduction of lifetime servitude; even the children of a slave would be enslaved for life.
Slaves were forced to perform numerous tasks, from serving as guides, trappers, craftworkers, nurses, and house serv ...
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Proclamation Act Of 1763
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... and remain intact.
Some of the terms of the Proclamation Act were as follows: settlement in
the Ohio and Mississippi was forbidden, and trappers, traders and settlers were
allowed in only with a license given from the crown, stating there reasons for
being in those two areas. The French language was also allowed to continue.
This may seem very strange, but I will explain it in a minute. Also the French
religion (Roman Catholicism) was allowed to continue. Britain also made it very
discouraging to have this culture, disallowing anyone who had anything to do
with these political and official ...
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Comparing Medieval And Rennais
Number of Words: 506 / Number of Pages: 2
... there he shall find a silver coin to pay his taxes with. He did so and paid his taxes. On the left of the painting you can see the barrel of fish, one of the fish is where he got the silver coin. In the middle Jesus is explaining the situation to the people. Masaccio always painted the most important things in the middle. On the right the man is paying his taxes.
There are many things that the two paintings had in common some of the reasons are: It is similar in the layout, A good example would be the objects in the middle. Jesus and the king are in the middle and obviously they are the main charact ...
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The Cause Of The Great Depression
Number of Words: 209 / Number of Pages: 1
... homes, and cashed in safer investments such as treasury bonds and bank accounts. As the prices continued to rise, some economic analysts began to warn of an impending correction, but they were largely ignored by the leading pundits. Many banks, eager to increase their profits, began speculating dangerously with their investments as well. Finally, in October 1929, the buying craze began to dwindle, and was followed by an even wilder selling craze.
On Thursday, October 24, 1929, the bottom began to fall out. Prices dropped precipitously as more and more investors tried to sell their holdings. By the end ...
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Romanticism
Number of Words: 1751 / Number of Pages: 7
... Period. Love has a somewhat difficult definition, due to the fact that it is a feeling. Love had an immense role in . Love in art was mainly shown in ballet. It gave great importance to women not only as artists but mythical figures as well. The ballet showed men and women in an equality of roles, but also gave men a chance to show that they too could accomplish extravagant dance steps. Ballet also stressed exoticism, fantasy, nature and most importantly love. An example of
a common love theme in ballet would be the unrealizable love for an fleeting lady or fatal love for a temptress. Paris ...
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The Assassination Of John F Kennedy
Number of Words: 3411 / Number of Pages: 13
... and any additional evidence that may hereafter come to light ... to make such further investigation, as the Commission finds desirable. In less than one week they found that a 'lone nut' killed JKF.
At no time did the Warren Commission seem to consider the basic legal rights of Oswald - innocence until proven guilty, the right to legal representation, or the right to cross-examine witnesses and evidence against him. There is no way that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Firstly the paraffin test of Oswald's hands and his right cheek conducted on November 23, 1963, has been positive for his ...
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Life In The 1900s
Number of Words: 1455 / Number of Pages: 6
... life. A horse
drawn carriage would bring a docter to the house of where a baby would be born.
A hearse was pulled by horses to the cemetery when somebody died. Farmers used
them to pull their ploughs while town dwellers kept them for transportation
around town. Horses puled delivery wagons for businesses such as bakery, dairy,
and coal company. Horses pulled fire engines through the streets in a fire
emergency.
The bicycle was widely accepted by canadians because of its easy maintence
compared to a horse. The bike allowed an option of transportation. The bicycle
also gave a sense of freedom to virtua ...
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High Noon
Number of Words: 1052 / Number of Pages: 4
... is counting on getting special deputies sworn in to assist him.
Everything hinges on midday. The suspense builds and the tension mounts as the clock ticks ever closer to the inevitable fate of . The passing of the time symbolizes the idea of mortality, which is a form of expressionism. Even the judge who sentenced Miller and who is a mirror of society's morals is not willing to take a risk at all by remaining in town. The judge is rationalizing his departure by recalling what Miller had done in the past to those who wronged him. Furthermore, the young deputy Pell provides no support because K ...
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Mesopotamian Art And Arquitecture
Number of Words: 2411 / Number of Pages: 9
... and Assyrians.
The earliest architectural and artistic remains known
to date come from northern Mesopotamia from the
proto-Neolithic site of Qermez Dere in the foothills of the
Jebel Sinjar. Levels dating to the 9th millennium BC have
revealed round sunken huts outfitted with one or two
plastered pillars with stone cores. When the buildings were
abandoned, human skulls were placed on the floors,
indicating some sort of ritual.
Artifacts from the late Uruk and Jamdat Nasr periods,
also (about 3500-2900 BC), have been found at several
sites, but the major site was the city of Uruk. Th ...
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