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    important events in American history. There are few reasons for this division such as slavery compromise‚ pursuit of ideal government‚ and also the western expansion. It will make members of the society to be curious why the territorial expansion influenced to the sections between the North and the South‚ but‚ actually‚ the westward expansion played a critical role that augmented sectional tension between North and South during 1800 to 1850. ​The life style of North and South differed from the beginning

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    The “Great Leap Westward” refers to the settlement of Tennessee‚ but it was more like the great journey over mountains‚ surviving Indian territory and an expedition down the river in hopes of building a new life. As the first settlers moved west from Virginia and North Carolina‚ they faced more struggles than just a leap westward. The men‚ women and children that survived definitely had a reason to make Tennessee the best place to live. Once they faced and overcame these obstacles the state of Tennessee

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    Furthermore‚ new territories gained during western expansion added to this conflict between different sections of America. Southern states wanted new slave territories‚ while the North wanted to contain the spread of slavery. While Western expansion contributed to growing sectional tensions between the North and South from 1800-1820‚ sectionalism intensified significantly from 1820-1850. Since the turn of the nineteenth century‚ Western territorial expansion started to increase a sense of sectionalism

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    Great Awakening reveal about 18th century social and economic trend? Does America today a Great Awakening? According to dictionary.com Awakening is the act of waking from sleep‚ revival or interest of attention‚ a recognition‚ a realization‚ or coming into awareness of something or renewal of interest of religion‚ especially in a community; a revival. The continuous spread of different denominations‚ religious indifference as well as rivalry that existed in the 18th century church or religion became

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    Group Publishing Limited 2005). By 1990‚ however‚ Zara realised that the Spanish market was far too saturated; they had to change their growth strategy. For that reason‚ they started its global expansion by entering Spanish natural export exit: Portugal. Shortly after‚ Inditex started its outer expansion in France‚ the US and the rest of the world. But let’s focus on which entry strategies Inditex had to pursue to become global. Inditex choose a localization strategy which meant: 1) increasing

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    ORIGIN AND EXPANSION OF THE BANTU Bantu is used as a general label for the 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak the Bantu languages‚ distributed from Cameroon east across central Africa and eastern Africa to Southern Africa. The bantu family is fragmented into hundreds of individual groups‚ none of them larger than a few million people (the largest being the Zulu with some 10 million).The bantu language-Swahili with its 5-10 million speakers is of super-regional importance as tens of millions

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    1 Communism Map Interactive Transcript Worldwide Expansion and Contraction of Communism Question: Which parts of the world were enveloped by the expansion of Communism in the 20th Century? See below for a list of communist countries by year. You can see how the number of communist countries seemed to grow almost exponentially in only a few years. 1900: None 1917: Russia 1921: Russia‚ Mongolia 1925: Russia‚ Mongolia 1930: Russia‚ Mongolia 1935: Russia‚ Mongolia

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    Western Expansion DBQ Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century‚ many Americans considered the lands west of the Mississippi as the "Great American Desert" and unfit for civilization. However‚ by the mid-1840s‚ migrants from the eastern United States transformed this vast desert into a fruitful land awaiting settlement and civilization known as the frontier. The development of the frontier was the result of the mass population of the many different regions of the far West. These regions

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    The Europeans were motivated to embark on voyages for discovery had many motives. One motivation was to find the fantastic lands described in works such as the Travels of Mandeville and the legends of the magical kingdom of Prester John. Columbus even took a copy of Marco Polos Travels with him on his voyages. The most important motive was economic. The conquests of the Ottoman Turks had cut the Europeans off from trade with Asia. The overland trade routes were controlled by the Arab Muslims

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    The rise and expansion of Islam has had a significant impact on the role and rights of women throughout history. Since its origin in the seventh century until modern times‚ the Muslim faith has somewhat broadened‚ but has mostly restricted women’s rights in numerous Islamic communities. The history of Muslim women is complex‚ as it involves many advances and declines in numerous locations‚ such as Egypt‚ Afghanistan‚ and Iran‚ concerning several subjects‚ including both civil and social rights. Thus

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