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Oregon Trail
Number of Words: 532 / Number of Pages: 2
... Pass to the Colorado River. The travelers then went to Fort Bridger, from which the Mormon Trail continued to the Great Salt Lake, while the went northwest across a divide to Fort Hall, on the Snake River. The California Trail branched off to the southwest, but the continued to Fort Boise. From that point the travelers had to make the hard climb over the Blue Mountains. Once those were crossed, paths diverged somewhat; many went to Fort Walla Walla before proceeding down the south bank of the Columbia River, traversing the Columbia's gorge where it passes through the Cascade Mountains to the Willam ...
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African Diaspora
Number of Words: 1633 / Number of Pages: 6
... this study. The evidence from South Carolina, Louisiana and Surinam supports the second and third arguments much more than the first. The third argument, that of cultural transformation, is the argument I find to be most valid. John Thornton's analysis of this issue is extremely helpful. He addresses the "no connections" arguments in chapters 6, 7 and 8. He outlines the claims made by scholars Franklin Frazier, Stanley Elkins, Sidney Mintz and Richard Price. Frazier and Mintz believe that the extreme trauma and disruption experienced by Africans during the process of enslavement and the middle passag ...
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Orwell And Marx
Number of Words: 3758 / Number of Pages: 14
... parody of Stalinist Russia, intends to show that Russia was not a true democratic Socialist country. Looked at carefully, Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions of democratic Socialism; these are other inherent less discussed qualities in Animal Farm besides the more commonly read harsh criticism of totalitarianism. differed in their views on Socialism and its effects on religion and nationalism as well as Socialism's effects on society and its leaders. Orwell shared many of Marx's viewpoints, but he did not share with Marx the same vision of a utopian ...
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The French Revolution
Number of Words: 2249 / Number of Pages: 9
... of government. The writings of the philosophes such as Voltaire and Diderot, were critical of the government. They said that not one official in power was corrupt, but that the whole system of government needed some change. Eventually, when the royal finances were expended in the 1780's, there began a time of greater criticism. This sparked the peasants notion of wanting change. Under the Old Regime in France, the king was the absolute monarch. Louis XIV had centralized power in the royal bureaucracy, the government departments which administered his policies. Together, Louis XIV and the bureaucra ...
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American History 2
Number of Words: 1861 / Number of Pages: 7
... to admit them as free or slave states was where the split occurred. The compromise of 1850 stated that California enters free, and New Mexico and Utah decided on their own which is giving them more state rights in which the South heavily supported. This compromise did not satisfy each side fully. The issue of State rights intensified by the issue of slavery because the Southern states felt they had the right to decide on their own about Slavery without Federal intervention. It seems the Southern states felt that the "American dream" was out of their reach because they felt powerless and inferior ...
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Dying And Surviving In Virgini
Number of Words: 738 / Number of Pages: 3
... after experiencing this disaster, lost their faith and hope. However, they managed to get to Roanoke some time much later than expected. They arrived too late. The land was deserted. It was guessed that the colonists who stayed behind probably died of hunger before the supplies ships arrived. Also, those colonists were left behind alone with no protection from the attack of the native Indians. When the new group of colonists arrived and found the land deserted, they came to a realization that settling in Roanoke was full of difficulties and not worthwhile, they gave up and abandoned the colonization o ...
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Canada In WWI
Number of Words: 2420 / Number of Pages: 9
... Canada's
marketplace began to grow.
During the war, demands for Canadian goods went up in Europe and in
Canada. Increased demand caused inflation on products in Canada to
skyrocket, as prices on most products nearly doubled. The workers wages
went up as well, but they didn't keep up with the inflationary prices.
Workers therefore had to do with less. During this time the government
expenditures on the war were enormous. The war was costing Canadians a
million dollars per day. For a country of only eight million this was an
extremely large burden. In order to raise funds, the government introduce ...
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Ancient Egypt
Number of Words: 1990 / Number of Pages: 8
... the grain grown with the precious silt and water from the Nile River.
Barges and boats made with papyrus reeds or wooden planks(used after 3,000BC)
were filled with different thing such as grains were floated downstream and
carried by the current, or if they needed to be floated upstream, you would
simply just raise the sails up and the ship would sail upstream, the Egyptians
invented sails at approximately 3,200BC. Although the Nile is such an abundant
source of life, it fertilize just a narrow strip of land, eventually the
Egyptians built large irrigation systems which would carry water into the ...
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Kkk 3
Number of Words: 1104 / Number of Pages: 5
... Some of them had simpler professions such as blacksmithing and farming, however some of them were Confederate army officers. The group needed a name, which was then based on the Greek word "kuklos" meaning circle. The circle was chosen for it symbolizes unity, perfection and the progress of humans. Being an organization, they added "clan"; with a "K" for show. To avoid being recognized and to induce fear, they wore sheets as cloaks and made hats out of white sheets as well.
Clearly, from the beginning of its creation, the Klan was not an organization centered on defending justice, but rather a radic ...
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A Gold Rush Leads To War
Number of Words: 2581 / Number of Pages: 10
... The Compromise contained the following provisions:
California would enter the union as free state.
New Mexico territory would be divided into New Mexico and Utah, and offered popular sovereignty.
Texas must yield disputed territory to New Mexico in return for federal assumption of its state debt.
Trading, but not possession, of slaves would be banned from the District of Columbia.
Fugitive slave laws would be enhanced.
Zachary Taylor, who was president at the time, was prepared to veto the bills, but died suddenly. His successor, Millard Fillmore, allowed the provisions to pass one at a t ...
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