Second Great Awakening to improve society and to participate in various reform movements for education‚ health‚ women’s rights‚ etc.; more women in the work force; * Mexican War- after Mexican refusal to sell California-new Mexico region‚ Polk sent troops(1846) and it ended w/ treat of Guadalupe-hidalgo; 15 million; war increased nation’s territory by one-third and brought to surface political issues that threatened to divide the country( slavery in the new
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The Cold War was a period of hostility‚ fear‚ and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of the 1940s to late 1980s. Like what Winston Churchill said‚ the world has been divided by the “Iron Curtain” during the Cold War between the Communists and the capitalists. It was called the Cold War because it was only a psychological warfare with no active wars between the two nations‚ which were due to the fear of nuclear arms. The result of the Cold War affected the world
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The cold war I chose to write about the cold war. This is because I think that it is a very interesting theme‚ and I wanted to learn more about it. I will talk about when the cold war happened‚ who was involved‚ about nuclear weapons and why it was never real fighting and about the Cuban missile crisis. My problem statement: What would have happened if the cold war became hot? A hot war is actual warfare. All talks have failed and the armies are fighting. The cold war lasted from 1945
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but it was truly necessary 5. There was Japanese resentment through the Open Door policy in China 6. There were many limitations of the Japanese immigrants‚ and the main issue was the language in schools 7. Russo-Japanese War: Imperialist rivalry between Russia and Japan led to war‚ Roosevelt had arranged for a diplomatic conference b/w the nations – agree to Treaty of Portsmouth (even though Japan was blamed for the US for not giving the country all they wanted from Russia) 8. Gentlemen’s agreement:
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The word “Reconstruction” is recognized in an American historical context as the reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states after the civil war. However‚ this extend of time suffered a fluctuation of freedoms for African Americans in the southern region of the country. While slavery did not exist anymore‚ reconstruction ended up being fruitful just temporarily‚ and was basically nullified by the regressive pattern that took after the finish of Reconstruction in 1877. On this piece
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them after serving their time in the war. The government couldn’t pay these people the money they were promised because the government wasn’t earning any money either. Yes‚ he sent troops to “evict the squatters” because after a background check on some of the people‚ they found that a lot of them hadn’t even served in the war and that most of them were ex-convicts. This makes it hard for the people to actually earn the bonuses they deserve for fighting the war. Claim: What you are claiming: Herbert
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For many years before the actual Revolutionary War‚ the Americans and the British already had built up grievances and hate between each other. Some may argue with such tension‚ war was inevitable. In the famous Declaration of Independence‚ the Americans not only declared their freedom but also included a list of their grievances addressed to King George III. The events leading to these accusations explain the complaints leveled against the King and prove their validity. One of the charges against
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The Cold War The cold war was a tense relationship between the Soviet Union and the Americans. The reason why they were fighting was because of the way their countries ran. The Soviet Union communism is a political way of thinking and an idea of how society should work and be organized. Communism is a kind of extreme socialism that says that there should not be social classes or states. Communism says that the people of any and every place in the world should all own the tools‚ factories‚ and
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published in 1754‚ in the Pennsylvania Gazette‚ was the work of Ben Franklin and was created during the French and Indian War (Document A). It was used to show the importance of colonial unity when the colonies were allied with the British. An American and British victory in the French and Indian War was absolutely imperative. If the French‚ who were allied with the Indians for this war‚ had won‚ then the British would have lost much of their superiority. When victory was won by the British and American
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Cold War My first inclination would be to answer the first question with a clear "YES". But come to think of it‚ the causes of war really have not changed at all‚ or at least very little. Rather than changes‚ there has been a shift in the causes. The cause of war which has dominated the last 50 years was the cause of ideology. However‚ due to the recent end of the Cold War‚ this cause of war‚ has significantly declined and is almost trivial. The causes of war have shifted from mainly ideological
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