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    Why did the United States Withdraw From the Vietnam War? The United States withdrew from the Vietnam War for several reasons. The Army had to fight in unfamiliar territory‚ was lacking in moral‚ were not prepared for the conditions‚ could not shut down the Ho Chi Minh Trail‚ and were untrained to respond to guerilla warfare. This combination of disadvantages and the loss of public support led to the United States withdrawing from Vietnam. The United States Army was forced to fight in a new land that

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    Between the years of 1790 and 1860 and eventually leading up to the Civil War in 1861‚ sectionalism was a growing issue in the United States. In the early nineteenth century‚ westward expansion was starting and taking place‚ which ultimately started sectionalism. The Federal Government was very encouraging towards settlers moving and expanding west‚ angering the northern states. They believed that if they expanded west‚ all their best laborers would be taken away from them. The North was fighting

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    Alberto Alonso December 1‚ 2012 A.P. American History Essay #21 2. How were the reform movements of 1820-1860 in the United States related to the growth of industry and urban life? During the years 1820-1860‚ America has received a wave of social reformation movements that were in correlation with the growth of industry and urban life. This time period‚ also known as the antebellum era (time period before the Civil War) brought movements such as: the temperance movement (1826-1840’s)‚ the movement

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    United States saw that the URSS was expanding all over Europe and Asia‚ because the soviet forces toke the entire island of Sakhalin and the Kuriles islands in the war against Japan and signed with the communist new government of Poland the political Oder line as the frontier with Germany. With those changes the URSS gained Konigsberg and Lvov for Poland‚ meanwhile Poland toke the principal port of Berlin‚ Stettin‚ and the rest of Prussia‚ part of Brandenburg‚ Pomerania and Silesia. A lot of German

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    could not travel to the West. That was until railroads started getting built on both sides. Building railroads did have downfalls though‚ as the building process was very hard on their bodies. It was also very hard to get supplies to the building. Then people invented different types of track to help evolve the building of the railroad systems. Railroads helped evolve the United States into what it is today‚ despite all the rough patches the Americans faced to make it happen. Beginning in the nineteenth

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    There have been significant political‚ economic and international changes that have taken place in America in the year 1900 through 1930. Changes are inevitable‚ and they must just happen‚ ether prepared to handle or not (Coolidge et al. 2). The most significant matter is only but bearing with and moving on with current situation. Typically‚ this essay will see through the definition of terms‚ processes under which the changes occurred‚ challenges and the impacts of this revolution. Political

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    Slavery had always had its critics in America‚ so as the slave trade grew‚ so did the opposition. The slave labor enabled the colonies to become so profitable‚ that in 1660 England’s King Charles the second established the royal African company to transport humans from Africa to America. When England finally outlawed its slave trade in 1807‚ America relied on its own internal slave trade. By 1860‚ millions of slaves were still moved and sold in the colonies‚ but no new slaves were imported into the

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    investors to serve as the catalyst for technological advancement and societal development. Why did Spain become a world power from 1492-1763? Money. The same could be said of the United States in the 20th century. Money enables the discovery‚ invention‚ and innovation that serves as the foundation for population growth‚ technological advancement‚ and‚ ultimately‚ globalization. The cornerstone of what brought the world from many villages to one village is the ever-expanding access to capital and liquidity

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    foreign policy‚ we must first understand the American outlook; what America thinks of itself. Americans have believed that the United states was different from nation states. Different in a sense that‚ they have always thought that they have (a) a special destiny and (b) A sense of mission. Now‚ since they have always thought of themselves as different from other nation states‚ that most important factors which influenced Americas self-image were: Isolationism‚ Moralism and Pragmatism.  Isolationism:

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    The urban population boom from 1860-1900‚ it marked a dramatic shift in the United States from its traditional rural‚ to the new city lifestyle. The accepted fourteen million immigrants flooded in‚ ranging in all variations of ethnic backgrounds. From the English to the Russians‚ and all those in between‚ the many immigrants sought to escape problems ranging from poverty‚ warfare‚ political and religious persecution and natural disasters that plagued their homeland. With the arrival of the newcomers

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