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    In 1874‚ George Armstrong Custer discovered gold in the Black Hills of Dakota where is Sioux’s reservation. Before the gold rich‚ in 1875‚ the U.S. Government made a negotiation with the Sioux for buying the Black Hills; however‚ the offer was refused because the Sioux considered this land as the sacred region. Ignoring the treaty agreements between the Sioux people and the Americans‚ the U.S. Army decided to invade this lands led to the battle of the Little Bighorn in June 1876. To the Sioux tribe

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    Social Changes In Chicago

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    The Changes of Chicago Today‚ there are many large and prodigious cities located in the United States. The city of Chicago‚ also known as the windy city‚ is one of the bigger cities in the states.. In the years 1857-1874‚ The city of Chicago developed in its transportation‚ construction of buildings‚ and in methods of transportation. Within the map of 1857‚ Chicago was beginning to show signs of growth in the population and also in the methods of transportation. At the time‚ transportation

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    Expansion of British colonization • Motive : economy. • Facilitated by internal problems of the states. 1841 – James Brooke took over Sarawak 1874 – British intervention in Perak 1874 – Selangor received British advisor 1875 – Sultan of Brunei gave up his territory in Sabah to the British 1888 – British intervention in Pahang 1909 – Bangkok Treaty : Siam gave up Kedah‚ Perlish‚ Kelantan‚ Terengganu to the British 1914 – Johor received British advisor Major factors of British colonisation

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    invents the telephone By 1874‚ Bell ’s work on the harmonic telegraph had entered a formative stage with progress it made both at his new Boston "laboratory" as well as at his family home in Canada a big success. While working in Brantford‚ Bell experimented with a "phonautograph". Bell thought it might be possible to generate undulating electrical currents that corresponded to sound waves. But he had no working model to demonstrate the feasibility of these ideas. In 1874‚ Orton had contracted with

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    Herbert Hoover in his early life went through many trials and tribulations. The man that became president was once a boy with a dark childhood. Herbert Clark Hoover was born on August 10‚ 1874 in the state of Iowa. At the early age of nine Herbert was left as an orphan. These early experiences of his childhood left him scared with a dark past; because of these experiences from his early life “his boyhood experiences left Hoover permanently reclusive and wary to a degree that not even decades of success

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    Ads by Google Robert Frost’s Personal Life Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) was one of the most famous poets during the Post WWII and Modernism literary eras. His poetry is characterized by sad and pessimistic tones‚ as his personal life was full of grief. Robert Frost is widely known for his associations with rural life and rural motifs are common in his works. Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco‚ California‚ on March 26‚ 1874. When his father died‚ in 1885‚ the family moved to Lawrence‚ Massachusetts

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    lessons in Santa Isabel College during the noon break. Rizal’s Second Year in Ateneo (1873-1874) * Jose Rizal repented having neglected his studies the previous year. * He studied harder this year and regained his leadership composure and became an emperor again. * At the end of the school year‚ he received excellent grades in all subjects and a gold medal Rizal’s Third Year in Ateneo (1874-1875) * Rizal did not make an excellent showing in his studies although‚ his grades remained

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    of earlier styles. Paintings were often of street scenes‚ and of ordinary people in every day pursuits. “Impressionists rejected the system of state-controlled academies and salons in favor of independent exhibitions‚ the first of which was held in 1874. They painted contemporary landscapes and scenes of modern life‚ especially of bourgeois leisure and recreation‚ instead of drawing on past art or historical and mythological narrative for their inspiration” (oxfordartonline.com) Perhaps most famously

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    Credit Mobilier (1867)- Credit Mobilier of America was a construction company working on building the Transcontinental Railroad but inflated their prices by as much as 348%. The scandal they soon became associated with arose when they bribed congressmen with stock to make them look the other way. This was common behind closed doors of the Gilded Age but what made it so known is that politicians got caught in the mess. Credit Mobilier is scored as the least bad because it wasn’t particularly exceptional

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    Nature vs Nurture

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    person displays what they are given depends on a variety of things. One aspect of human development that has been long debated in the history of psychology is the concept of “nature vs. nurture.” This phrase‚ first initiated by Sir Francis Galton in 1874 (S. Wood‚ 2011; E. Wood‚ 2011; Boyd 2011‚ p.223)‚ refers to the elements of heredity (nature)‚ and the effects of the environment (nurture). I will briefly discus the various arguments for the primacy of nature or nurture in personality development

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