Chapter 18 Section 1 By the mid-1850s the California Gold Rush had ended. Disappointed miners‚ still hoping to strike it rich‚ began prospecting in other parts of the West. In 1858 a mining expedition found gold on the slopes of Pikes Peak in the Colorado Rockies. In 1859 several prospectors found a rich lode of silver-bearing ore on the banks of the Carson River in Nevada. The discovery was called the Comstock Lode after Henry Comstock‚ who owned a share of the claim. The gold strikes created
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Confederation 1. manifest destiny 2. the north south pull 3. legislative grid lock 4. rep by pop 5. the great coalition Why did Canada become a country? • Pressure from American and Britain • Political issues Manifest Destiny • 1830’s divine destiny • 1830’s manifest destiny • Fear that while pushing with detour North South Pull • Strong trading routes ran north-south‚ not east-west • Happened organically
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Michael Garner Assess the view that the First World War was the main cause of the collapse of Romanov rule There were many reasons why the Romanov rule fell in the year 1917. I personally believe that the war was a major reason which led to the Tsar to abdicate but I also believe there are many other reasons which led to the Tsar to abdicate. I believe that one of the main reasons for the Tsar’s abdication and the collapse of the Romanov rule was the poor state which Russia was in. Russia’s
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200 dances by Mozart are still preserved. The modern edition of the dances as published by the Neue Mozart Ausgabe (see External Links below) runs to about 300 total pages in score. For a complete listing of Mozart ’s dances‚ see this list. [edit]History Mozart began writing dances when he was five years old; see Nannerl Notenbuch. In 1768‚ when Mozart was 12‚ his father Leopold reported that Wolfgang had composed "many minuets for all types of instrument".[1] Mozart continued to write dance music
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spices and "Indian" captives. He crossed the Atlantic several more times before his death in 1506; by his third journey‚ he realized that he hadn’t reached Asia but instead had stumbled upon a continent previously unknown to Europeans.The geological history of Earth follows the major events in Earth’s past based on the geologic time scale‚ a system of chronological measurement based on the study of the planet’s rock layers (stratigraphy). Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago by accretion from the
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and coherent social programs. The seven most essential ideas of the Enlightenment entailed the following: Progress It was essential for humans to progress and attain maturity from slavery‚ superstition and immaturity. It was thus a focus on human history as a story of progress from immaturity to freedom and reason attainment. Centrality of economics to politics Ideally the well being of any society is immensely dependent on the structure of its economy‚ and it was thus essential that the social
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Shannon Kelley History 102 10/19/12 World System theory While a world-system is described as a "world economy"‚ integrated through the market rather than a political center‚ in which two or more regions are interdependent with respect to necessities like food‚ fuel‚ and protection‚ and two or more polities compete for domination without the emergence of one single center forever. The founder of the system Immanuel Wallerstein‚ he describes the world system theory as a "multicultural territorial
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Daniel Boone: Frontiersman who blazed the Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap and led settlers into Kentucky and Tennessee William Bradford: Second governor of Plymouth‚ served 30 years; wrote History of Plymouth Plantation Henry Clay: Leading War Hawk representing Kentucky Ralph Waldo Emerson: Served as a Unitarian minister for 6 years and developed his own religion called transcendentalism Patrick Henry: Famous patriot known for the declaration “Give me liberty or give me death”
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Hobsbawm‚ E.J. (EricJ.)‚ 1917The Age of Revolution‚ 1789-1898 / Eric Hobsbawm.—1st Vintage Books ed. p. cm. Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson‚ 1962. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-679-77253-7 1. Europe—History—1789-1900. 2. Industrial revolution. I. Title. D299.H6 1996 940.2’7—dc20 96-7765 CIP Random House Web address: http://www.randomhouse.com/ Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART I. I 2 3 4 5 6
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During the 19th century‚ women in America were considered second class citizens. They were looked down upon by men‚ both physically and intellectually. Although they lived in a free country‚ women often were confined within their own homes. Women were stereotyped as being weak‚ delicate and frail and any type of “unconventional work” was deemed hazardous for them. A woman’s main responsibility in life was to be subordinate to her husband and maintain the duties of the home. Women’s rights‚ as
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