During the 18th century‚ intellectual changes began to dismantle traditional values and institutions. Liberal ideas from France and Britain spread rapidly‚ and from 1789 the French Revolution became the genesis of "liberal Italians". A series of political and military events resulted in a unified kingdom of Italy in 1861. The settlements reached in 1815 at the Vienna Congress had restored Austrian domination over the Italian peninsula but had left Italy completely fragmented . The Congress had divided
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Atlantic Slave Trade in Africa The Atlantic Slave Trade in Africa was during the 15th century and consisted of parts of Europe‚ Portugal‚ and Africa. The trade itself was the process of people‚ most specifically the Europeans and the Portuguese‚ who expanded their land into Africa. These two countries moved into parts of Africa not only to gain control of that part and conquer more land but to also increase the slave population. The Atlantic Slave Trade was important because it took the lives of
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Italians‚ particularly from the southern region of Italy‚ started immigrating to New York‚ in large amounts‚ in the late 1800s to early 1900s mostly because of the poor economic state Southern Italy was in because the Italian government didn’t cater to the needs of the working poor. “The economic crisis in the South [of Italy] was perceptibly the consequence of national policies hostile to the interests of the people from the [Southern Italy]” (Richards 98). The majority of the Italian immigrants
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Columbian Exchange After Christopher Columbus’s voyage in the 15th and 16th century The Columbian Exchange started which was the trade of food‚ animals‚ and different resources between the new world and old world. The new world was affected more by the Columbian Exchange because of the introduction of tobacco‚ diseases‚ and horses. One of the reasons the new world was affected more by the Columbian Exchange was because of tobacco. Many people were and are still being affected and or ruined because
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Kari Mathes Art 101 Professor Plourde Pablo Picasso Born October‚ 25th 1881 in Malaga Spain‚ Pablo Picasso became one of the most well-known and influential artists of the 20th century. His father‚ Don Jose Ruiz Blasco‚ was an art teacher and a painter. From an early age he showed interest in art and loved to doodle. According to biography.com by the time Pablo was “13 years old his paintings were already better executed than his father ’s.” In his lifetime Picasso was known for being a womanizer
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------------------------------------------------- Cesar Torrente Legaspi Cesar Legaspi on April 2‚ 1917 in Tondo‚ Manila (1917–1994) is a Filipino National Artist awardee in painting. He was also an art director prior to going full-time in his visual art practice in the 1960s. His early (1940s-1960s) works‚ alongside those of peer‚ Hernando Ocampo are described as depictions of anguish and dehumanization of beggars and laborers in the city. These include Man and Woman (alternatively known as Beggars)
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equal citizens. This amendment took many years to be ratified. Many states hated the idea of African Americans having the right to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified on February 3‚ 1870. The amendment wasn’t fully realized for almost a century. Some states resisted ratification. During one point ratification count was at 11 Republican States approving and four Democratic states rejecting‚ which means Congress needed 11 more states to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment before it could become
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March 30‚ 1870.United States Supreme Court decisions in the late nineteenth century interpreted the amendment narrowly‚ and by 1910‚ most black voters in the South faced obstacles such as poll taxes and literacy tests‚ from which white voters were exempted by grandfather clauses. A system of whites-only primaries and violent reprisals by groups such as the Ku Klux Klan alsosuppressed black participation.In the twentieth century‚ the Court interpreted the amendment more broadly‚ striking down grandfather
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ArtistsReflection on 4 Artists 1 Tree: What important concept does 4 Artists Paint 1 Tree convey concerning the perception and expression of objective‚ observable things? (The tree) The important concept that I picked up on was that though all of these varied views are put onto a tree that the artist’s perspectives and individualistic views are what are important. By the creativity behind how the artists pushed the bounds of how a tree is normally perceived and instead viewed the tree in a
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In that time‚ the Sanders had lived through vast changes in their own lives and fortunes and seen an entirely new England come to life. By the mid-fifteenth century‚ the restrictive feudal order was on the wane. Family members now owned their own land and built wealth and gained social prominence through fortuitous marriage. They had lived through famines and relentless outbreak of plague and seen times of good
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