What were the causes and effects of slavery in the US? African Americans were sent over to the U.S and were forced to become slaves. Soon enough slavery reached its lowest point in America. There are many causes that lead to the nadir of slavery in the U.S. To begin with‚there are a of causes of slavery in America. The first one is the cotton machine. This caused cotton to reach its height. Also‚ Nat Turner was told by god to “slay his enemies”. Furthermore Frederick Douglass joined a black church
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Income/wealth inequality in the U.S has grown rapidly over the last few decades. “Today the richest 1% own 34% of the wealth and top 10% own 74%” (Hodges). The main causes of this discrepancy are attributed to the technology boom‚ the need for companies to outsource production and inherence of wealth as well as company differences. Though the growing gap is alarming to Americans‚ it is important to remember that income and wealth inequality is an accepted result of a capitalistic economy. The
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their war related jobs. There was a numerous of people left; many veterans were returning home unemployed and on top of that a stalled economy. Many people were moving north to escape the rural poverty. These issues that were occurring was going to cause great conflict in the coming days. Americans started to fight back and began demanding that the government start making some changes and bring back the economy there once was. Everything that had been achieved during the war vanished. After inflation
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In the book Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen‚ the authority and power of the church compared to the common man is greatly demonstrated. Throughout the book‚ Richard Wunderli talks of the evilness of the common man and the importance of the church. The church gained their power from the people because there were thought to be the only way that one could get out of “purgatory” and into heaven. The preachers would sell indulgences to the common folk in order for man to be saved from their
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Americans daily? trillion gallons Identify three causes of water pollution. sewage‚ chemical waste‚ pesticide runoff Smog is composed of which chemicals? carbon dioxide‚ nitrogen‚ and sulfur dioxide Smog‚ combined with precipitation‚ results in what harmful effect? acid rain How is burying and burning waste harmful to the environment? Burying waste causes toxic chemicals to leech into the ground water. Burning waste causes toxic ash‚ which pollutes the air and falls back to Earth
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Annotated DBQ Rubric: Buddhism in China Sample DBQ Question: Based on the following documents‚ analyze the responses to the spread of Buddhism in China. What additional kind of document(s) would you need to evaluate the extent of Buddhism’s appeal in China? Point # Generic Description Explanation/ Commentary Examples and Commentary 1 Has acceptable thesis. Thesis addresses the specific focus of the question. The thesis should reflect a sophisticated understanding of the complexities
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group‚ including Black‚ White‚ Hispanic‚ Asian‚ Pacific Islander and American Indian living in poverty in the United States. "Newsweek" also illustrates the number of people living in poverty by race. Statistically more than half of the people living in poverty represent people of color. The high poverty rate for people of color can be linked to what Leonce Gaiter‚ author of "The revolt of the black bourgeoisie‚" refers to as white liberalism or white superiority. Gaiter believes "It was hammered into
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B2 September 25‚ 2011 Reformation DBQ During the Protestant Reformation in Germany around the 16th century chaos ensued. This was lead by Martin Luther‚ who brought the churches lie out in the open for all to see. He told the people of the corruption within the Vatican‚ and how they shouldn’t have to pay indulgences. Secularism spread throughout the lands‚ people began turning on the church. This all went on while the Renaissance was still affecting the European nations. The Roman
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ground specifically in the religious arena. The influence of magnates during this time is significant and their opposition to Philip II was obvious and justified due to the repression of Protestantism by Philip II and the Catholic Church. “The Dutch Revolt did not just happen at one moment; it evolved over a period of time and underwent numerous changes before eventually coalescing into a conscious desire among some provinces to achieve independence from Spanish rule” (Darby 1). Ultimately William the
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mass unemployment. At the same time‚ the United States also encountered a much larger influx of people migrating from Asia; the biggest group being Chinese‚ Japanese‚ and Filipino. The second wave of this migration was in part due to the liberation of the Philippines from Spanish colonization and the start of a period when the Philippines became a part of U.S. territory. This then allowed Filipinos to be unrestricted from immigrating to the United States‚ unlike other Asians who were restricted by
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