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    The Ideological Choice History. Simply explained‚ history can be resumed as “the study of past events”. Crammed into every education system‚ history is required in every single school (ranging from elementary‚ middle‚ or high schools; even including universities). Unfortunately‚ what they teach in history might not always be exactly what happened. Sometimes inaccurate accounts of past history are due to bias in historiography. Most often this can be due to a historian’s bias of favoring one side

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    HIST17A Chapter 5 “Shingas asked General Braddock‚ whether the Indians that were friends to the English might not be permitted to Live and Trade among the English and have Hunting Ground sufficient to Support themselves and Familys....” As I was reading this quote‚ I think this quote represents how racist people in the old days were. Indians that were friends to the English might not be permitted to Live and Trade. It was because of the war with the British. Racism is generally understood

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    Study Questions for Mann‚ 1491 1. Until quite recently‚ most American history textbooks taught that before Europeans invaded the Americas Indians were savages who lived in isolated groups and had so little impact on their environment that it remained a pristine wilderness. We now know from scientific discoveries that this account was wrong. What is the effect of learning that most of what we have assumed about the past is "wrong in almost every aspect‚" as Mann puts it on page 4? - What

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    error of this significance be overlooked by experienced programmers who thoroughly reviewed and tested the new system? 2. 3. Is this an inadvertent error‚ or could it be a fraud? What-qpn be done to find the error in the program? lntroduction This chapter focuses on auditing an accounting information system (AIS). Audiring is the systematic process of obtaining and evaluating evidence regarding assertions about economic actions and events in order to determine how well they correspond

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    Chapter 11 Notes The English Reformation to 1553 England had a reputation for maintaining the power of the king over the pope. Edward I rejected efforts of the pope to not tax the clergy. Parliament passed the Statutes of Province and the Praemunire in the mid-14th century to lessen payments to Rome. Lollardy‚ humanism and anticlerical feelings paved the road for Protestant ideas in the early 16th century. Preconditions of Reform William Tyndale translated the New Testament into English in 1524-1525

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    allegiance to the Union. However‚ on July 2‚ 1864‚ Radical Republicans from the House and Senate considered Lincoln’s Ten-Percent plan to be too lenient on the South‚ passing down the Wade-Davis Bill that required 50 percent of white males in rebel states to swear a loyalty oath to the constitution. Instead‚ Lincoln pocket-vetoed the bill‚ and as a result the Wade-Davis Bill was never

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    A) 90‚000 B) 45‚000 C) 120‚000 D) 50‚000 3.When President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862‚ all he did was free the slaves in all of the states that "were in rebellion" (the Southern states that had left the Union to form the Confederacy). Even though he was the President‚ Lincoln could not end slavery in the United States on his own because it was actually protected by the Constitution and was the legal law of the land. After the Civil War ended‚ which amendment to the constitution

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    Chapter 11 Practice Test Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Why were changes to manufacturing needed in the mid-1700s? a. Factory owners were not satisfied with the size of their profits. b. Demand was greater than the available supply of goods. c. Workers were not satisfied with the level of their daily wages. d. Traders faced higher shipping prices for smaller amounts of goods. ____ 2. Which small‚ inexpensive

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    Chapter 4 In Howard Zinn’s book‚ Passionate Declaration: Essays on War and Justice‚ I read chapter four titled “The Use and Abuse of History.” Zinn in this chapter discusses how history is used and abused. Many in society today only tell “impartial history‚” meaning we leave parts of history out to make a certain group or event stick out. History in the United States of America is swayed always to make us look like the good ones. We are a biased country and the government will do anything to censor

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    Chapter 11 Mongol armies besieged the Genoese trading on Black Sea in 1346 Damaged trading links between East Asia and Mediterranean bubonic plague Geneose merchants and soldiers withdrew‚ taking germs with them reached Messina‚ Sicily‚ half were dead and rest dying went port to port‚ spreading the germs killed one third of European population land and sea trailes of human voyagers became accidental conduits for deadly microbes devastated societies more than Mongol warfare “murderous

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