congressmen saw this as a opportunity the south to increase farmland and for slavery and the northern congressmen saw these states to create a bigger country and taxable land to put in place a strong representation of government and military. The situation came to stalemate with a compromise they choose to allow the newly won or bought territory to make the difficult
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President Lincon is also well known for his stance and opinion on slavery. We know that Lincoln was a member of the Whig party in the mid-1800’s in this he was influenced in many ways by a mass amount of people‚ because of this he was able to form a solid opinion of slavery by a young age. Lincoln was not one to force his views on others‚ so with this he would "pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ which repealed the Missouri Compromise‚ allowing individual states and territories to decide for themselves
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"Explain how freedoms for African Americans were socially‚ politically‚ and economically limited from 1865 to 1900?" Posterior to the Civil War‚ African Americans weren’t respected equally within society. Black codes were established‚ which meant cheap labor and an organized economy. African Americans weren’t allowed to vote‚ carry weapons‚ or travel without permits which angered some citizens. Literacy tests‚ the grandfather clause‚ and poll taxes were used to prevent African Americans from voting
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Germany’s violence early on in the war caused the United States to enter the war on the Allies side. President Wilson had tried to mediate between the two alliances but Germany did not accept this proposal. The Treaty of Versailles was fair to Germany because they ignored Wilson’s Call for Peace and Germany’s violent tactics called a need for the treaty to be made in order to end World War I. President Wilson did not want the United States to enter World War I when it initially started because it
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lavishly just for being born into the right family while poor farmers had to work hard and long hours for low pay. If they failed to produce these farmers and their family could be sold into slavery. It’s no surprise that the lower classes of classical Greek society wanted to bring about change to their government. This dissatisfaction with the current political system is what eventually encouraged Cleisthenes to implement his reforms and by extension‚ what caused Democracy to emerge. While Cleisthenes
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How did the U.S. reacts when the USSR launched Sputnik 1? During World War II‚ the United states and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic were allies and fought against Nazi Germany. However‚ even before the war has ended‚ both countries identify each other as devil-incarnate. This “friendship” had and only could exist because of a mutual enemy‚ the Nazi Germany. After World War 2 had ended‚ there was no reason for the U.S. and the USSR to maintain their “friendship”‚ therefore the Cold War soon
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1. What happened? The holocaust was the systematic extermination of over six million Jews‚ along with many black‚ gypsy‚ homosexual‚ and disabled people. It is considered one of the largest cases of genocide from modern history. Even though it started as simple discrimination‚ before long it had escalated to full blown organized murder. From 1933 all the way through 1945‚ anyone that Hitler deemed as ‘undesirable’ was annihilated. In 1933‚ there were roughly nine million Jews in Europe‚ with the
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now equality and that there has been equality for the last 50 years. Many of these people say that the civil war brought equality to the nation even if it took almost a century‚ and even if the civil war did not directly bring equality in the USA‚ it did bring equality indirectly. We shall examine 4 different time periods and examples from those time periods that show that the civil war did not bring freedom to blacks in the USA. The first-time
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Why did the US lose the war in Vietnam? When the year 1973 came around‚ the most powerful economic and military force America‚ were being forced to come to terms with the fact that they had suffered defeat in their war in Vietnam. Despite the vast gulf in financial and military prowess which swung in favour of the Americans‚ 57‚000 of their troops1 had lost their lives or were missing in action2‚ in a defeat so unanimous that the American armed forces today‚ use Vietnam as their key example on how
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Kimberly M. Donovan History – From Beginning to Civil War Professor McConn Final Essay WHY THE SOUTH LOST THE CIVIL WAR The loss of the South in the Civil War was the result of various contributions. First of all‚ they were underequipped in artillery and production factories. The South’s population was about one fourth of the North’s excluding slaves. They were not united and lost because their own philosophical beliefs that destroyed them. Further‚ the South was underequipped and outclassed
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