Exploration and Colonization (14921763) 1. Compare and contrast the impact that political‚ economic‚ and social factors had on the development of TWO of the following regions: The Spanish Colonies‚ New England‚ The Chesapeake‚ The Middle Colonies‚ The Southern Colonies. New England Colonies Most migrants were Puritans who believed in the “purification” of the Church of England The Great Awakening first began here and spread Lacked religious toleration and often banished dissenters
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social reformer. She was mostly famous for caring for soldiers during the Crimean War. She is now still known as the most famous nurse in the world because of her hard work in establishing nursing education. Nightingale was born on the 12th of May 1820 in Florence‚ Italy. She grew up in a wealthy family with her father‚ William‚ her mother‚ Frances‚ and her older sister Frances Parthenope. William was a big influence in Florence’s education. Through him‚ she learned the basics of all subjects from
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Civil War HIS/115 July 24‚ 2011 Civil War 1787 – Northwest Ordinance * Included provisions that outlawed slavery throughout the territory by congress * Created social and economic tension between the North and the South Aug 1846 – Wilmot Proviso * Proviso to prevent the introduction of slavery and all African Americans in any territory acquired from Mexico * Considered to be one of the first actions/events to lead to secession and the Civil War 1846 – The Mexican War
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Leland Pinkham Period Apush Articles of confederation era: * Each state functioned as its own little country * No national currency‚ many state currencies * Paper money issued as a promise for hard specie such as gold and silver * High inflation * Newburgh conspiracy 1783: plan by unpaid continental army officers to force congress to assume powers of taxation over states * Northwest territory: * Ohio‚ Indiana‚ Illinois‚ Wisconsin‚ and Michigan area given
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accept CA as a free state b/c it would upset the delicate balance between free and slave states – so they tried to make CA a slave state or at least extend the Missouri line. - Sensing another compromise was necessary‚ Henry Clay [veteran of the 1820 and 1833 deals] stepped back up and‚ with the help of Stephen A. Douglas‚ came up with the Compromise of 1850. Obviously‚ the big issue was when territories could prohibit
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17th century St. Louise de Merillac Sisters of Charity • 1633 - The founding of the Sisters (or Daughters) of Charity‚ Servants of the Sick Poor by Sts. Vincent de Paul and Louise de Merillac. The community would not remain in a convent‚ but would nurse the poor in their homes‚ "having no monastery but the homes of the sick‚ their cell a hired room‚ their chapel the parish church‚ their enclosure the streets of the city or wards of the hospital." [1] • 1640 - The Sisters assume charge
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slave trade or international slave trade illegal in 1808‚ but it did not hold back the practice of domestic slavery that was becoming even larger in the United States. The act of trading between the colonies in the United States flourished‚ and by 1860‚ the amount of slaves in the United States unfortunately tripled‚ and reached to four million. The expansion of pro-slavery beliefs in the western parts of the United States in addition to the increase in abolitionists in the northern parts of the
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In the context of the period 1763-1865‚ how far was the American Civil War caused by long term divisions over the issue of slavery? In his second inaugural address in March 1865‚ Abraham Lincoln looked back at the beginning of the Civil War four years earlier "all knew‚" he said‚ that slavery "was somehow the cause of the war." This essay will endeavour to discuss the role of long term divisions caused by the slavery debate in the eventual outbreak of the Civil War. In doing so this analysis
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Preservation of slavery in the South was what prompted the Confederacy to secede. While slaves labored over cotton during the 1860s‚ they were supposedly being paid $10 per month to work as a servant. While this was originally created so that the northern states weren’t overrun with black refugees‚ this made the freed men and women want to stay to earn money for the first time
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passion to reach for the stars to change the world”. Harriet Tubman is a pioneer of freedom and inspiration for all around the world today‚ without her determination our society would be a dramatically different place. Around the early 1820’s‚ Araminta Ross‚ known more commonly as Harriet Tubman was born to Harriet Green Ross and Benjamin Ross who were held as slaves in Dorchester County‚ Maryland. She was the fifth born of her nine siblings she had 4 brothers and 4 sisters. Tubman’s
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