Assignment 3 1 May 2012 1. Neoclassicism was the enlightenment age of peason. They engaged in experiments‚ promoting scientific questioning of all assertions. Emphasized rationalism. Rejected unfounded beliefs about the nature of humankind. First use of the iron-bridge (new materials started to come about in architectural destruction). Paintings were narratives; they displayed less emphasis on atmospheric perspective and more on linear contours‚ classical themes‚ had a realistic approach to
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the provincial governors while certain provinces were allotted to the princeps who then assigned deputies (legates) to govern them. As his prestige grew‚ Augustus became powerful enough to overrule the senatorial governors and establish a uniform imperial policy. After stabilizing the Roman frontiers‚ Augustus conquered the central and maritime Alps and further expanded to the
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Caligula’s brief reign as princeps stripped away the illusion of the Augustan restoration of the republic and exposed the truth of the principate being nothing less than autocratic rule. His reign saw some significant historical changes in the imperial system. He ensured that upon his immediate accession his reign would not model that of his predecessor‚ a step that secured his popularity. His dutiful display of recovering his mother and brother’s ashes not only served out the purpose of securing
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depleted‚ but the South was persistent that their racial order would not be disrupted. To most‚ the goals of the Reconstruction era were to fully restore the Union‚ and to some‚ grant emancipation and liberty to former slaves. Although the newly freedmen gained various rights and liberties‚ their naïve dreams of complete equality and liberation collapsed due to the immense resistance of the South. Once freed‚ African Americans believed that the rights of a citizen were granted to them. They truthfully
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persistent disagreements among women in Congress and among women’s rights activists after the passage of the 19th Amendment. The first gathering devoted to women’s rights in the United States was held July 19–20‚ 1848‚ in Seneca Falls‚ New York. The principal organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention were Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ a mother of four from upstate New York‚ and the Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott.1 About 100 people attended the convention; two-thirds were women. Stanton drafted a “Declaration
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Several freedmen in South Carolina stand in line to vote for the first time. They wait‚ but when they reach the front‚ they are given a literacy test which they have to pass in order to vote. Voting was just one of the many rights the south denied freedmen during reconstruction. Many laws and amendments were created to make life fair for African Americans. However very few of these changes were respected in the south. Based on most of the documents and additional information from outside sources
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condition and rights women at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York began to express their rights and wants. Headed by Elizabeth C. Stanton and Lucretia Mott‚ it marked a new era for women in the United States. While the right for equality continued and the creation of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) by Stanton and Susan B. Anthony‚ it brought opposition of the 14th and 15th Amendments (extending citizenship rights and granting voting rights to freedmen) due to its exclusion of women
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The social and political situations of freedmen during reconstruction has not improved for African Americans today. During reconstruction‚ a vicious and radical group known as the ku-klux-klan as well as the Black Codes were both present and deteriorated the freedmen’s social and political situation. Voting restrictions since the election of 2010 along with the discrimination against and because of their race are both present today. Because of this African Americans still have a negative involvements
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The Building of a New Nation Following the Civil War‚ the United States was a country that had experienced great loss and had gone to great lengths to either maintain or abolish slavery. As a nation‚ they were given the difficult task of repairing the damaged country as a whole‚ but especially the south and its economy. Their job was to not only to restore the country‚ but to modernize it and make it stronger compared to other nations. The task presented to the United States‚ its president‚ and
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You have a question that requires a book size answer something we do not have so let me do it this way. Lincoln was reluctant to issue an Emancipation Proclamation but you would have thought from what one is taught in class these days this was his primary concern. He issued the proclamation to save the Union making impossible for foreign Governments to intervene on behalf of the Confederacy. Even though the English supported (indirectly) slavery‚ they like other countries were officially against
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