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    back‚ since it had lost its great martial power‚ which the country took pride in. Alexander II learned that the system that the country had been following all this time was not good enough and needed to change. Alexander II decided to do the emancipation of the serfs‚ which would benefit the country in both politics and economics as well as raise the industry level in the country since landowners would not be able to dictate what the serfs could and could not do. Russia had many problems

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    In "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin‚ the author depicts how someone can be trapped in an unproductive and unsatisfying reality because of other’s thoughtlessness‚ exploitation‚ and domination. When combined with the contemporary society’s belief‚ presumably the later half of the 19th century‚ a further understanding of Chopin’s thoughts and feelings can be realized. Mrs. Louise Mallard‚ the victim and messenger of this story‚ is the image of such a person. Her relationship with her husband

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    article “A Gallant Rush for Glory”‚ the author William C. Kashatus explain the big part African Americans played in the Civil War. In 1792 a law was made to exclude African from serving in the war. On July 17‚ 1862 congress passed the confiscation act allowing all slaves of rebel masters free as soon as they came into union lines . Congress also repealed the 1792 law. Because this law was no longer in action hundreds even thousands of African Americans joined the war. Shaw‚ Montgomery

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    The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It was issued during the time of the Civil War‚ which was a war between the North and South in a disagreement over slavery. Lincoln used the War to his advantage by issuing the emancipation as a war aim to preserve the union. In the document Lincoln declares “ including the military and naval authority thereof‚ will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons‚ and will do no act or acts to repress such persons

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    The Emancipation Proclamation‚ when it was issued on January 1‚ 1863‚ by President Abraham Lincoln‚ was this moment to finally stake the whole future of the United States and turn around the tide of the Civil War. This executive order declared all enslaved people within the Confederate states henceforth and forever free and changed the character of the war while expanding its moral and political objectives. The Emancipation Proclamation contributed much to the slavery issue by redesigning the aims

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    The Emancipation Proclamation effected many groups and changed the character of the war. The Emancipation Proclamation changed the direction of the union war effort. Lincoln did not want slavery to expand into the western territories. Lincoln’s proclamation declared forever free the slaves in those confederate

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    Calling for military emancipation makes it difficult to declare who actually freed the slaves before the ratification of the thirteenth amendment. The slaves who ran to Union lines were freed with the document‚ but they ran to the military on their own will. Lincoln did not have anything to do with their running away because it has happened for centuries. It is this fact that makes the efficiency of the Emancipation Proclamation questionable. If the document did not remove the slaves from their

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    Relevant Facts  The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1‚ 1863‚ as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are‚ and henceforward shall be free. “  Slaves were free and able to own and/or rent their own property but wasn’t able to transform as individual contributors and owners to produce and establish a solid foundation for their families. Slaves

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    Lincoln’s Emancipation working with the abolitionist movement Most people say there are two sides to every story‚ but there can only be one side to the story of people‚ being denied as to having equal rights‚ no matter their color or creed. It ’s only reasonable to believe that to be true to this principle‚ slavery had to be abolished. The fact that many slave owners were prestigious people in history such as George Washington‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and other founding father acknowledges the consequences

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