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    Civil Rights Analysis

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    Compare the activities of two civil rights activists‚ one from Australia and one from the US? The two civil rights activists‚ Martin Luther King from America and Pearl Gibbs from Australia‚ both hoped to achieve the same thing; racial equality. Martin Luther King and Pearl Gibbs both had similar experiences that motivated them to fight for what is right. They each took action to achieve their goals. Both Martin Luther King and Pearl Gibbs were recognised for how well they changed society and stopped

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    Women in the Civil War

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    Of the 3‚211‚067 people involved in the Civil War‚ about 23‚000 of them were women paid to be nurses or spies. These numbers don’t even include the women who stayed back and were the support on the home front. Women such as Elizabeth Van Lew‚ Clara Barton‚ Elizabeth Blackwell and so many more are the kind of women that changed the events of this war. Without spies that gave crucial information like Elizabeth Van Lew‚ nurses who gave live saving care like Clara Barton and supporters that gave necessary

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    invention of the cotton gin and would have ended in a whisper through lack of use caused by the release of slaves out of moral and economic reasons tied to the loss of a cash crop‚ while other historians believe that slavery would have inevitably ended in war due to the southern dependence on agriculture and the need for a new cash crop. Personally‚ I believe that slavery would have ended with little to no conflict had Eli Whitney not created a better working cotton gin. It is through the cotton gin that

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    Causes of the Civil War

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    Causes of the Civil War Essay Social long term: ● North was opposed to slavery while the South was pro slavery ● The primary conflict of the civil war was whether the states had the right to decide what they wanted to do with slavery. (radical abolition vs pro slavery) ● One of the arising conflicts that led to the American Civil war was the growing abolition movement in the North ● which was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men are created equal

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    Causes of the Civil War

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    CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR In 1860‚ the world ’s greatest nation was locked in Civil War. The war divided the country between the North and South. There were many factors that caused this war‚ but the main ones were the different interpretations of the Constitution by the North and South‚ the Kansas-Nebraska Act‚ and the arrival of Lincoln in office. These factors were very crucial in the bringing upon of the destruction of the Union. They caused immediate war. In 1791‚ the tenth amendment was

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    Civil War in Congo

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    The recent Civil War in Congo has been a bloody flight‚ causing more then 3.3 million deaths in just 4 short years.1 Various rebel and ethnic groups have have been involved in the violence‚ fighting over Congo ’s rich natural resources or engaged in a bitter ethnic war. With so many opposing factions‚ it has made reaching a solution difficult. While a rough peace treaty has been established‚ sporadic fighting pops up in the country everyday. The people of Congo are being pushed farther into

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    Civil War Causes

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    What do you think was the cause of the Civil War? The main cause is not slavery‚ but SLAVERY is the main source of the causes! The Civil War • Started 1861 – 1865‚ very bloody‚ deadly‚ 160 thousand people died • War between the Confederacy and the Federal Government • Confederacy: the southern states (not all)‚ based on slavery --- separation • Federal Government: no separation allowed (Lincoln)‚ keep unity! Causes linked with slavery Why South want to separate from North? Culture

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    Civil Rights Movement

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    we as a nation have participated in one of these tragic events. The Civil Rights Movement and the Holocaust were tragedies that took place in two different countries and targeted two different races‚ yet they still both took many lives‚ and made many people feel as if they had no voice. Though these horrific events seem very different there are some similarities between the two to discuss as well. The similarities between the Holocaust

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    claim that the Civil Service is the ‘real government’ in this country. Bethan Boyes Her Majesty’s Civil Service is a hierarchical‚ unelected organisation that plays an integral part in decision-making within the British political system. Operating discreetly as a highly functioning component of the core executive‚ the civil service is a permanent bureaucracy whose role is to serve and assist the incumbent government. Operating within Whitehall‚ historically it’s been the work of the civil service to

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    Civil War Consequences

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    Before the Civil War Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States of America In 1960. In 1661 the Civil War began because Fort Sumter is attacked. The people there surrender. Then that’s when it all started. Most people thought that the war would be over by Christmas. The Northerns were quick to join the Union Army. Pro-Union people were generally opposed to slavery and like stronged federal government. From there the War last until 1965.Civil War soldiers went on foot most of the

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