Alexander II at the end of the Crimean war: “It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it abolishes itself from below”. The Tsar had hoped that landlords would take the initiative in the matter of the abolition of serfdom‚ but by 1857 when they had shown no inclination to do so‚ a committee was formed to consider the matter. The committee consisted of the Tsar‚ high-ranking government officials and a very limited amount of private landowners. The resolutions formed within the
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Harriet Beecher Stowe May 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act- practice popular soverieghty 1855 Bleeding Kansas- fight for slave or free state‚ 200 died May 1856 Charles Sumner was beat by Southerner Preston Brooks for talking bad about slavery March 6‚ 1857 Dred Scott Decision- went north with owner then back south. Claimed to be free‚ sued but was told he was not a citizen and therefor a slave 1859 John Brown Raid- tried to arm slaves‚ Harpers farry 1860 Election of 1860- Lincoln was elected‚ south
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2009 by the USGS shows that a magnitude 7.8 earthquake from the San Andreas can cause about 1‚800 deaths and about 213 billion dollars in damage to California’s west coast. Large earthquakes that have been caused by the San Andreas are: The 1857 Fort Tejon Earthquake which was a magnitude 7.9‚ the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake which was a magnitude 7.8‚ the 1957 San Francisco Earthquake which was a magnitude 5.7‚ the 2004 Parkfield Earthquake that was a magnitude 6.0 and the 1989 Loma Prieta
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George Ohr (1857-1918)‚ the self-proclaimed “Mad Potter of Biloxi” created a collection of ceramic art that defied the traditional aesthetic of nineteenth-century America. Ohr’s entry into the field of pottery was not an instantaneous one; as the son of German immigrants‚ Ohr initially followed in his father’s footsteps‚ learning the blacksmith trade in his early adolescent years (Black‚ 1978). After working alongside his father‚ Ohr abandoned the blacksmith trade and immersed himself in over a dozen
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Have you heard of Bull Nelson? He was an important Civil War general for the Union. He helped to keep the states together. He was involved in many important events and an important part of them. Bull Nelson was born in Maysville‚ KY. On September 27‚ 1824. He Was the third child and youngest son of Dr. Thomas W. Nelson. His family was seen as an important one‚ by its friends and neighbors. Nelson was enrolled in the Collegiate Department of Captain Partridge’s military school at the age of 13.
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idea should be allowed to patent it. It should not matter whether that person was free or a slave. Others said that‚ because he‚ a slave‚ was his or her master’s property‚ anything that a slave produced‚ including ideas‚ belonged to the master. In 1857‚ however‚ a slave owner named Oscar Stewart applied for a patent on something one of his slaves had invented. Stewart argued that he owned all the results of his slave’s labor‚ whether that work had been manual. Despite the laws‚ the Patent Office
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Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929) was born in Cato‚ Wisconsin. He attended Carleton College‚ as well as the universities of John Hopkins‚ Yale‚ and Cornell. He taught political economy and economics from 1892 to 1918 at the University of Chicago‚ Stanford University‚ and the University of Misssouri. He retired in 1926 after working for seven years at New York City’s New School for Social Research. He was noted for his significant analysis of our economic system and‚ by Mark Blaug‚ for his mastery
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of society and human behavior. * Scientific Method. The use of objectives‚ systematic observations to test theories * By applying the scientific method to questions about social life resulted in the birth of sociology. Auguste Comte (1798-1857) * Credited as the founder of sociology * Stressed to apply Scientific Method to the study of society(s) * (Mental Mentality) Hands on Social Reformist but never personally applied his ideals Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) * Called
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proportions Studied heredity and human ability and was also in the centre of nature vs nurture on intelligence Made contributions to statistics used in the field today e.g. normal curve: mean and standard deviation‚ scatter plot. Alfred binet (1857-1911) 1904 – French govt. appoints to committee to identify‚ study and provide special ed. programs for children struggling in school First to develop a test to assess human intelligence. purpose of the original assessment was to determine whether
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BICOL STATE COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY NAGA CITY HISTORY OF STATISTICS Group 3 Members: Tricia Mae Berja Michelle Lee Desiree Basmayor Mica Rubio Gian Perucho Ivan Ricafort Ms. Donnalyn Matamorosa Dominic Bobis Teacher Alex Obligado Ancient Times (3000 BC – 27 BC) * Pictorial representation and other symbols were used for Statistics back in the days. (To record numbers of people‚ animals‚ etc.) * In Babylonia and China‚ population is
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