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    Over the course of two centuries‚ the ways that wars and battles are fought have changed drastically‚ and yet the end goal has always remained the same‚ to win and not be defeated no matter at what cost. As the progression of the Industrial Revolution escalated‚ it paved the way for what could be produced to help military forces win in battle. Industrialization during the 18th & 19th centuries caused the battles of Waterloo and the Somme to be a great example of how industrialization helped evolve

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    is a place where individuals gather around together to freely discuss and identify social problems in the society‚ and the conversation influences political action to take place. In colonial towns and cities‚ there was an expansion of the public sphere in the eighteenth century. This relates to the reception of the Stamp Act in British North America because in 1765 this act was imposed on the American colonies by the British government. The cause of the riot was the Stamp Act because it was a British

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    European rivalry in the Caribbean in the eighteenth century Relative positions of the European powers in the Caribbean On the eighteenth century Spain‚France‚British‚Denmark and Holland had possession of many island in the Caribbean In 1700 The British colonies were more valuable that the French because of more land and higher population rate ‚but actually the French were more valuable for the amount of land and the rich soil Naval power British had an advantage over the

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    west‚ and to track water routes to help western expansion. The route that Lewis and Clark traveled west became an important route for pioneers‚ known as the Oregon Trail. Pioneers went west for many reasons‚ including economic opportunities and new ways of life. An abundance of land for farming and grazing‚ mining‚ forestry and for some‚ like the Mormons‚ an escape from religious persecution all led them west. In the beginning of westward expansion‚ the issue of slavery in the newly settles territory

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    Assess the impact of westward expansion of Native Americans between 1803 and 1890 Westward expansion was a predominant objective during the 19th century in the USA; the desire to discover the frontier proved detrimental to the Native Americans. The Native Americans found few benefits from Westward expansion. Not all tribes were as badly affected by westward expansion however the general consensus was that the Native Americans were persecuted due to Westward expansion. Before the Louisiana Purchase

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    Name: The American Revolution: The Upset of the Eighteenth Century Part A “How did it happen that thirteen colonies on the fringe of civilization‚ as it were with perhaps half a million males of fighting age‚ without military resources without leaders‚ without even a national government‚ a national army‚ a national treasure‚ brought the mightiest of European powers to its knees‚ and wrung from it concessions beyond the greed of conquerors?” This summary explains the attitude of

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    1.) There were many issues in the 14th-19th centuries because of injustice and unhappiness in the world. Three of these things were: unhappy marriages‚ women not being taken seriously as writers‚ and religion being restricted. Katherine Phillips‚ Margaret Cavendish and Anne Askew tried to fight back against these injustices. Katherine Phillips saw women all around her in unhappy marriages. Women gave up so much in order to please their husbands. In Phillips’s poem‚ A Married State she wrote about

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    Humanity is‚ as a species‚ inherently curious. This curiosity‚ together with an increasingly developed brain‚ has allowed us to create and use tools‚ control fire and organise ourselves into societies. Humanity’s mastery of these techniques meant that individuals in these societies could dedicate some of their time to longer term planning‚ rather than being forced to spend most of it in activities directly related to their immediate survival‚ such as hunting. The emergence of societies was only possible

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    In the early 19th century the United States faced a time of internal expansion. This internal expansion was mainly due to the Louisiana Purchase when the United States acquired the Louisiana Territory to become part of the United States. This event marked the beginning of expansion within the United States‚ which sparked other events that helped increase the acquisition of the Western lands of the United States. In the 1840s Manifest Destiny was a popular idea that the United States was destined

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    Isabella Noble-Hartzler Mr. Young SOCS 51A 23 January 2015 Lesson 2 During the seventeenth and eighteenth century in North America‚ toleration for religious differences did increase. North America was an area of the world that was considered much more tolerating of different religious groups than in other parts of the world. There were many reasons for this‚ and just some of them had to do with Jonathon Edwards‚ a radical preacher during this time period‚ the Maryland Toleration Act‚ a law that

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