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Crazyhorse
Number of Words: 2730 / Number of Pages: 10
... Oglala’s, Brule’, Minneconjou, Hunkpapa, No Bow, Two Kettle,
and the Blackfoot. Of these tribes they had different band. The
Hunkpatila was one band of the Oglala’s (Guttmacher 12). One of the
greatest war chiefs of all times came from this band. His name was
Crazy Horse.
Crazy Horse was not given this name, on his birth date in the
fall of 1841. He was born of his father, Crazy Horse an Oglala holy
man, and his mother a sister of a Brule’ warrior, Spotted Tail. As
the boy grew older his hair was wavy so his people gave him the
nickname of Curly (Guttmacher 23). He was to go by Curly u ...
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Civil War: Northern Attitudes
Number of Words: 3302 / Number of Pages: 13
... South; by 1860 fewer than 2000 of the almost 22,000 blacks in the state were slaves, and most Delawareans opposed the extension of slavery. There was never any movement in Delaware to secede from the Union, and it remained loyal during the American Civil War (1861-1865) that followed the secessions. More than 13,000 Delawareans, nearly one-tenth of the state’s population, served in the Union Army, and several hundred fought for the Confederacy. Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, was garrisoned by Union Army soldiers and served as a prison for Confederate prisoners of war. In 1861 ...
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Egyptian And Mexican Pyramids
Number of Words: 2205 / Number of Pages: 9
... full with the golden jewelry, precious stones and art objects. Most of the time art objects were not considered a treasury but they played their particular role in religious rituals. Jars were holding food and drinks for pharaoh’s journey, so he would not get hungry and would have
food and drinks to offer to the Gods. The figurative sculptures were suppose to accompany Ka ( spiritual entity) in its lonely stay or serve as a twin for the mummy. If something happens to the mummy the ka could use the sculpture of the pharaoh for the revelation.
As well as for Egyptians religion was an everyd ...
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Hitler And The Nazi Party
Number of Words: 795 / Number of Pages: 3
... is the punishment enforced on them as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. Such as redistribution of territory, reduction of Germany's fighting power and imposition of harsh conditions, which meant Germany had to pay 6600 million-pound to the Allies in 1921. Germany thought that the punishment was too harsh.
The masses in Germany were crushed by the problems that they had, especially the Treaty of Versailles, which left Germany in debt. The hyperinflation left a lot of people unemployed. People were looking for answers and someone to blame. The Nazi party had the policies that the German p ...
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China In The 20th Century
Number of Words: 2852 / Number of Pages: 11
... a result, Chinese socialism was born.
The pre-communist history of modern China has been essentially one of
weakness, humiliation and failure. This is the atmosphere in which the Communist Party
developed its leadership and early growth. This resulted in strong determination by
chairman Mao to eliminate foreign influence within China, to modernize the country and
envision a strong economy under Communist control. Therefore, a series of radical
reforms were introduced and the social organize was transformed under Communist
control.
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Economic growth during the first ten y ...
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The Marshall Plan
Number of Words: 1707 / Number of Pages: 7
... waiting like a vulture. Only the United States, they believed, could save Europe from chaos and communism.
With sureness of purpose, some luck and a little convincing, these men persuaded Congress to help rescue Europe with $13.3 billion in economic assistance over three years. That sum--more than $100 billion in today's dollars, or about six times what America now spends annually on foreign aid--seems unthinkable today. The European Recovery Program, better known as , was an extraordinary act of strategic generosity. How a few policymakers persuaded their countrymen to pony up for the sake of othe ...
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British Chartism
Number of Words: 585 / Number of Pages: 3
... for its “Six Points”, which proposed the following: universal manhood sufferage, equal electoral districts, vote by ballot, payment of members of Parliament, removal of the property qualification for the Members of Parliament, and annual general elections. The first five of these demands were granted (even though it took until 1918 to finalize the decision), but the sixth was refused because it stressed the radical infuence on the program. The Whig belief of the sovreignty of the parliament clashed with that of the radicals, who felt that the parliament should be entirely subject to the ...
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Atomic Bomb
Number of Words: 826 / Number of Pages: 4
... then ever.
President Truman had decided to go ahead and test the bomb in New Mexico. After the test went well, Truman Had decided to drop the Bomb on Hiroshima. It was a good idea for dropping the because, that decision saved thousand of military lives. After the bomb was dropped, people did not have to worry about the Japan bombing us any more because we stopped the war. The decision that President Truman made was a good decision because Japan never had a chance to bomb the United States of America. There was one important man that agreed with Truman, Henry Stimson quotes " In the light of the a ...
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Combarison Between Us Bill Of
Number of Words: 1377 / Number of Pages: 6
... generally. The Civil war had indeed been fought over a question of states’ rights, among other things, and the states’ rights interpretation had actually lost and was, to a degree, a casualty of the wartime period. Further, that casualty was swiftly hammered into its coffin by three amendments which were enacted in 1865, 1868 and 1870 – the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Fourteenth Amendment ultimately became the heart and soul of the modern American Constitution. Most of the legal battle’s surrounding the United States Bill of Rights have been to make it a truly national d ...
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Causes Of The Great Depression
Number of Words: 393 / Number of Pages: 2
... caused the government to cut back spending in order to balance the budget, resulting in a severe recession. The value of farmland falls 30-40 percent. Severe Declines in organized labor. Many workers lose their jobs as more advanced machinery makes them unnecessary.
The acute phase of the Great Depression began in October 1929, with the Wall Street Crash and continued through the early 1930s. After share prices plunged on Wall Street, US banks were forced to call in their foreign and domestic loans. However most people were already suffering from the various economic problems and few were able to ...
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