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    There were many events that triggered the Civil war. The Civil War was fought between the southern states and the northern states. The war started in April of 1861 and ended in May of 1865. The Northerners had about 22 million soldiers‚ while the Southerners only had about 9 million soldiers. That having been said‚ The Northerners had over twice as many soldiers as the Southerners. The location of the war was all over the Unites states‚ but majority of the fighting occurred in Virginia and Tennessee

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    Politics had the biggest impact of all the PEGS on the road to Civil War. To start off‚ In Trigger Events of the Civil War it states‚”The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court‚ where the justices found that‚ as a slave‚ Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights to recognitions afforded to a human being.”This means that‚ Dred Scott couldn’t get freedom even though he was in free land where slavery was illegal but he was still a slave. In addition‚ in Lincoln

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    Event that led to the Cold War There were many events that took place after World War 2 that set in motion the Cold War and continued creating tension. Many of these events involved many countries and/ or their support either financially or with military personal. The main focus of the Yalta conference was to plan the post war world. In other words‚ Roosevelt‚ Churchill‚ and Stalin met and planned what they would like to happen after the war was over. Germany invaded Poland‚ their government

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    War and Conflict P1- Describe the causes of war and conflict. In this essay I will be giving the definition of war and conflict and I will be describing the causes of war and giving examples of wars that have happened because of the conflicts that I will be mentioning in my essay. The causes of war I will be looking at will be; Politics‚ Nationalism‚ Ideology‚ Land‚ resources‚ historical rivalry‚ ethnic conflict and religion. These are the main causes of war. War is a conflict

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    During World War II‚ the United States and the Soviet Union were allies. After the war the two countries emerged as the two most powerful countries in the world. Although the world war ended‚ it was not a clean ending. Iron-willed Stalin wanted a postwar settlement that would guarantee the Soviet Union’s security and future. He wanted parts of Poland and Finland and the Baltic states. With Eastern Europe‚ the Soviet Union would have a buffer against future aggression from the West‚ colonies for rebuilding

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    The 1812 Overture is a sixteen minute‚ thirty nine second long classical composition by Tchaikovsky written in 1880 to commemorate Russia’s defeat of Napoleons Grand Armenia was scored for an orchestra that consists of the following: • brass band • woodwinds (a piccolo‚ 2 flutes‚ clarinets‚ bassoons and oboes‚ and one English horn) • Brass(four horns in F‚ two trumpets‚ two cornets‚ three trombones and a tuba).The trombones have to be two tenor and one bass • Strings: first and second violins‚ violas

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    Position Paper: Did the U.S. win the War of 1812 The United States of America did in fact win the War of 1812. One reason the U.S.‚ was the country victorious‚ was that the U.S. navy caused a lot of damage to the British. Another reason was that the U.S. did get some land from the war. The final cause to prove that the U.S. did indeed win was that America gained International recognition and respect. Here is a more thorough look at these reasons. There were reasons to support the theory stating

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    relation to slavery. These tensions accumulated to finally result on the start of the Civil War on April 12‚ 1861 when the Confederacy attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina. The light will be shed on the importance of the cotton economy in the outbreak of this bloody war. The discrepancy of culture and policy between the Northern and Southern states in addition to the cotton economy led to the outbreak of the Civil War. The cultural differences of the northern and southern states of America

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    major factors that led up to the end of reconstruction. The first major factor was the Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow was used as another word for African Americans back then. The Jim Crow laws made segregation. Because of these laws‚ the US Supreme Court declared that segregation was lawful as long as facilities for black and whites were equal‚ a policy known as "supreme but equal". The second major factor was Ku Klux Klan Violence. The K.K.K. was a secret group formed after the civil war. The Klan aimed to

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    cool or rebellious but because I actually have no idea what I’m doing‚ I’m sort of just winging it really. Leading up to year twelve‚ you get told by every single person who has experienced it‚ that is is one of the most challenging years of your schooling life. All of a sudden you are thrust into the deep end‚ there is so much to learn. Its almost impossible‚ but not only must you keep up academically but socially it is a very‚ I guess you could say trying year. Everyone is trying to find themselves

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