Gadsden purchase - is a 29‚670-square-mile (76‚800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden‚ the American ambassador to Mexico at the time‚ on December 30‚ 1853. It was then ratified‚ with changes‚ by the U.S. Senate on April 25‚ 1854 and signed by President Franklin Pierce‚ with final approval action taken by Mexico on June 8‚ 1854. The purchase was the last major territorial acquisition in
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the founder of the Naturalist movement in literature. Zola redefined Naturalism as "Nature seen through a temperament." Among Zola ’s most important works is his famous Rougon-Macquart cycle (1871-1893)‚ which included such novels as L ’ASSOMMOIR (1877)‚ about the suffering of the Parisian working-class‚ NANA (1880)‚ dealing with prostitution‚ and GERMINAL (1885)‚ depicting the mining industry. Zola ’s open letter J ’ACCUSE on January 13‚ 1898‚ reopened the case of the Jewish Captain‚ Alfred Dreyfus
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Laura Johnson Oliver O. Howard - the Union general who in 1865 became the first head of the Freedmen’s Bureau Andrew Johnson - the man from Tennessee who was added as Lincoln’s running mate in 1864 to sew up the election by attracting War Democrats and the Border States Alexander Stephens - ex confederacy president‚ was indicted for treason but let out as Christmas present. Served in congress. Thaddeus Stevens - the crusty Pennsylvania congressman who led the radical Republicans during Reconstruction
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raging over sixteen provinces (out of eighteen in total) and more than 600 cities from 1850 to 1864; the Nien Rebellion devastated eight provinces from 1851 to 1868; the Moslem Rebellion spread in the Yunnan province from 1855-1873; the Tungan Rebellion in the northwest spread over Kansu‚ Shensi‚ Ningsia and Sinkiang provinces from 1862-1873;1 and another Moslem insurgence occurred in Sinkiang between 1864-1877. All these brought major disasters and not a little humiliation to China‚ including its ruler
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coffee‚ and sugar. He soon developed an interest in the new technologies of the day and began experimenting with building four-stroke engines. After meeting Eugen Langen‚ who was a technician and owner of a sugar factory‚ Otto quit his job‚ and in 1864‚ the duo started the world’s first engine manufacturing company N.A. Otto & Cie. In 1867‚ the pair was awarded a Gold Medal at the Paris World Exhibition for their atmospheric gas engine built a year earlier. In 1861‚ Otto patented a two-stroke
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Reconstruction was a period of time where many challenges were faced‚ during the years 1865-1877. On the one hand‚ some argue that African Americans deserved to have freedom in America. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that Southerners didn’t agree with giving African Americans their freedom. Reconstruction changed america because the KKK‚ expansion of railroad‚ and the thirteenth Amendment ended slavery. The KKK is well known for the amount of hate that they had for African Americans during
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the country in ruin. Abraham Lincoln‚ the president of the U.S at the time came up with the plan to re-build the country after the war. He called it Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan was put to use right after the war in 1865 and ended in 1877. Within the Reconstruction Plan‚ Lincoln offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the 10 percent Reconstruction plan. And also‚ during reconstruction period‚ we witnessed the emerged of Black Code which created the Fourteen and Fifteen
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Written Assignment 2 THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING AND SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS HIST101‚ American History to 1877 August 12‚ 2012 2 At the conclusion of the Revolutionary War‚ there was a sharp decline of religion within America. America economy was starting to grow stronger and Americans were trying to capitalize‚ focusing more on personal gain rather than spiritual gain. However in the early 19th century Americans began to experience a renewed spiritual interest. This interest developed
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representatives from the seceded states‚ were able to pass legislation favorable to northern business interests. How do each of the following favor the northern/western economic system: Morrill Tariff (1861)‚ Homestead Act (1862)‚ and Contract Labor Law (1864) 9. How did judges interpret the law in favor of those businessmen who wished to expand at the expense of others? 10. After the Civil War‚ were the conditions of the urban poor the same‚ worse‚ or better than they had been before the Civil
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Assess the moral arguments and political actions of those opposed to the spread of slavery in the context of two of the following: With the upset in balance of the Mexican War‚ antislavery activists were upset about any potential compromise while with the Kansas-Nebraska act‚ they settled with the idea of them being in a state of popular sovereignty. The acquisitions of the Mexican War triggered an upset in the balance of free and slave states. The solution of extending the Missouri Compromise
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