William IV‚ in 1837‚ at the age of 18‚ and her reign spanned the rest of the century. In 1840‚ she married her first cousin‚ Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. For the next 20 years they lived in close harmony and had a family of nine children‚ many of whom eventually married into the European monarchy. On her accession‚ Victoria adopted the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne as her political mentor. In 1840‚ his influence was replaced by that of Prince Albert. The German prince never really won
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people are depicted as if that they may as well be part of the landscape‚ and this reflects subconscious attitudes of the white Americans who see themselves as destined to safeguard this land. The Slave Ship is an oil on canvas painting‚ painted in 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner. It depicts a slave ship in a storm tossed sea fleeing from the approaching typhoon‚ and the turbulent waters in the foreground are filled with struggling black slaves inhumanely tossed from the ship to lighten the
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thirty people lived in cities by 1840 one in twelve did. B. Immigration and urban growth 1. Major city’s population growth: - New York: rose from 312‚000 to 805‚000. - Philadelphia: from 220‚000 to 565‚000. - Boston: from 93‚000 to 177‚000 2. Western cities also grew due to the booming agricultural economy; Cincinnati‚ Pittsburg‚ St. Louis‚ Louisville all benefited from trading posts along the Mississippi river. 3. European immigration: -1840- 84‚000 -1840 to 1850- 1.5 million -By 1850
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economic success‚ and festive traditions of the Christmas season. It is the first work in Dickens’s series of Christmas stories known collectively as the Christmas Books‚ as well as the most popular and enduring. Plot and Major Characters Set in the 1840s on Christmas Eve‚ A Christmas Carol chronicles the personal transformation of the protagonist‚ Ebenezer Scrooge‚ the proprietor of a London counting house. A wealthy‚ elderly man‚ Scrooge is considered miserly and misanthropic: he has no wife or children;
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GENERAL COMMENTS This year 13‚546 candidates were entered for the CSEC Geography examination. For the Alternative to the School-Based Assessment (SBA) (Paper 03/2)‚ 290 candidates were entered. The most popular questions were 2 and 5 and the least popular were 4‚ 6 and 7. Map reading‚ the compulsory question and a critical aspect of Geography‚ continues to be unsatisfactory. Most candidates were able to earn some of the Profile marks but had great difficulty with questions that required descriptions
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British also developed around Russophobia around 1815 because the Russia’s appearance in Central Asia and Persia threatened their control in India. As a result‚ Britain felt the need to combat Russia’s presence in Persia to protect their commercial interest‚ while engaging in an interesting war of the mind. For over a hundred years‚
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refusal to pay them tribute to protect American ships sparked an undeclared naval war with North African nations Battle of New Orleans Jackson led a battle that occurred when British troops attacked U.S. soldiers in New Orleans on January 8‚ 1815; the War of 1812 had officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in December‚ 1814‚ but word had not yet reached the U.S. Battle of Tippecanoe 1811 Tecumseh and the Prophet attack‚
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There was evidence of progress in the role of white middle class women‚ between 1815 and 1860‚ due to the commercial economy and the religious revival brought on by the antebellum market revolution and Second Great Awakening. For these white women‚ the positive affects can be seen in their dominance within their families‚ their influential movements for societal reform‚ and their independence gained form an industrial workplace while the roles of female black slaves were neither improved nor affected
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history. Napoleon was to face death by the tens of thousands of the french army week by week during this campaign. This Napoleonic Campaign was just the beginning of defeat that Napoleon was to encounter and would end later at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Even though Napoleon was one of the best military leaders in history‚ his key blunder was the Russian Campaign‚ which drastically changed his plans for the future of France and led to further downfalls in his time in power.
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Waterloo‚ fought on June 18‚ 1815‚ was Napoleon Bonaparte’s last battle. His defeat led swiftly to his final overthrow as ruler of France. After his exile to Elba‚ he had reinstalled himself on the throne of France for a Hundred Days. During this time‚ the forces of the rest of Europe‚ the United Kingdom‚ Prussia and the Russian Empire converged on him‚ commanded by the United Kingdom’s Duke of Wellington‚ and Prussia’s Gebhard von Blücher. As far back as 13 March 1815‚ six days before Napoleon
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