This is a CHANGE question!!!!!! How far is it accurate to describe black Americans as second class citizens the years 1945-55? Plan: The BAD part: After WW2‚ even though black soldiers were recognized by European countries as “Black Heroes”‚ segregation in the Armed Forces still existed. Jim Crow Laws were very strict‚ it promoted segregation in Southern states between 1876 and 1965‚ and this was a very long period of time with very‚ very little de facto change. Black people were segregated
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respect for the christian church. Now that there is two great reasons that medieval europe should be called the Dark Ages. The third reason why medieval europe should be called the Dark Ages was disease. “Some historians estimate that 24 million Europeans died of the plague - about a third of the population” (pg.57) This was obviously a major ding to the population and the economy because people wanted more money to do stuff. “Rats and fleas were common. it’s no wonder people were often ill.”(pg.48)
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19th century Europe had colonized Africa. The Europeans had many reason for why they wanted to colonize Africa. They were generally all political and economic reasons. It was easy for Europeans to colonize and take over Africa because slave trade had made the Europeans believe that Africans were inferior to them. This was in fact the justification for the Europeans to have such an imperialistic way of thinking. Between the 1870s and 1900‚ Africa faced European imperialist aggression‚ diplomatic
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exert to make other countries recognize its influence on World Affairs‚ the United States used other creative ways to prop up its interests in World Affairs. Three ways through which the US sought to enhance its interests in World Affairs was through The Treaty of San Lorenzo(TSL)‚ The War of 1812 and the Monroe Doctrine(MD). The TLS negotiated by Thomas Pinckney was a key way in which the US attempted to enhance its interest in the world. After the American Revolution the US had adopted a foreign
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The social and economic transformations varied between Western Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Americas in the Atlantic Ocean between 1492 and 1750. When Spain sent Columbus to get spices from India‚ he landed in the Americas and mistakenly called the people there Indians. New Worlds were being discovered between those three masses and the population was escalating due to the slave trade and booming economy‚ and the industrial production advanced from man-made to machine-made. Western Europe is the sum
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of events and conditions existed in the Old World at the dawn of the fifteenth century that made New World exploration not only possible but also desirable. Identify these events and conditions‚ and explain how each helped set the stage for exploration. During the fifteenth century different factors contributed to the discovery of the New World. Commerce‚ technological-factors‚ rise of Nation-States and exchanges were key factors that made New World exploration desirable. Europe under went major
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Ch 20 Packet Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade Part 1 1. Describe the characteristics of the “Atlantic System”. The Atlantic System was a major catalyst in the growth and development of the Atlantic slave trade‚ which boosted the world economy significantly. The Atlantic system a link between Africa and the rest of the world. It simply was the destiny that Africans were going to face‚ being shipped to the Middle East‚ Europe‚ and especially across the Atlantic
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after the European front was conquered. A message containing Zimmerman’s intent was decoded by the British and sent to the US‚ further swaying Americans to action. Due primarily to submarine warfare and the Zimmerman note‚ President Wilson asked Congress for permission to go to war‚ and on April 6‚ 1917‚ congress officially declared it. President Wilson‚ along with many Americans‚ justified their involvement as "an act of high principle and idealism...[and]...as a crusade to make the world safe for
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priest to receive forgiveness from God. Martin Luther states that this is absurd. People should have a personal relationship with God‚ and did not have to go to church to talk with God. Each Christian has a relationship with God‚ and this liberated Europeans and Christians: everyone could now ask for forgiveness on their own. Martin Luther also believed that each Christian was a priest. Luther also introduced the 5 basic theological principles of the new reformed religion: Sola Fide‚ (by faith alone)
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pioneering of trade routes‚ the trade in tropical spices‚ the cultivation of southern crops such as sugar and cotton‚ and the invention of various technologies. Indians also invented the concept of zero‚ which the Arabs eventually conveyed to the Europeans. What the West called Arabic numerals‚ the Arabs called Hindi numerals. The term southernization is said to be correspondent to westernization. Westernization is associated with certain developments that first occurred in Western Europe. Those advances
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