seventeen years old‚ he was sent in aid by the French military to the U.S. on the side of the colonists. Even though he did not directly participate in the French Revolution directly‚ it gave him a better outside perspective‚ which soon became his motivation of industrialism ("Henri De Saint-Simon | French Social Reformer." Encyclopedia Britannica Online). Even though Henri did create the idea of industrialism‚ his major work was Noveau Christianisme (1825). In this work he declared that the world
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You have all heard about the American Revolution‚ but have you ever wondered why it was called “revolutionary?” In the 1760s‚ Parliament started taxing the colonies to pay off the huge debts they made during the Seven Years’ War. As more and more taxes and laws were passed to take the colonists’ money‚ they became more and more angry. Finally‚ the colonies revolted against their motherland. They created the Continental Congress to make their own laws. The Continental Army‚ led by George Washington
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The Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution are both majorly influential events in history. Both being so influential makes it difficult to choose between the two on‚ which is more responsible for the world we live in today. In my opinion‚ I would have to say that the Industrial revolution would have to be more responsible. The Industrial Revolution influences outweigh the influences of the French Revolution. Although‚ it is hard to say when exactly the Industrial Revolution began‚ most historians
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the American Revolution war in 1776. During the war women served in a participated in the war. Some even fought on the battlefield. Not just whites fought as well. Enslaved blacks weren’t ones who fought but free blacks along with them. Even some Europeans weren’t all on the British side. Europeans helped us fight this war. Without the French we couldn’t have won this war. During the American Revolution war 1776 women had numerous responsibilities. (I.e.) Europeans and African Americans took
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American Revolution The American Revolution was the result of increasing colonial unhappiness with British rule. British policies had Americans outraged with the injustices that they believed they were receiving. While the British believed they were treating the Americans fairly considering they were a colony‚ the American colonists felt they were still being misrepresented. The American colonists wanted freedoms to the point where the decided they wanted to completely break away from Britain
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Cotton Gin’s Contribution Eli Whitney was born in Westboro‚ Massachusetts on December 8‚ 1765. As a young boy he enjoyed taking things apart and then putting them back together. When he was young‚ he worked in a plantation in Georgia‚ tutoring children. He noticed slaves had trouble taking the seeds out of the cotton boll. He then had an idea for a device that could help out both slaves and plantation owners. The invention of the cotton gin‚ by Eli‚ had many big impacts in the south‚ on slavery
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Andrew Jackson’s presidency had a massive impact on the development of democracy and he did advance democracy. Democracy is a government system in which the people of the state run. Democracy has been alive for a little over the beginning of time. It has had its ups and downs‚ but when it went down‚ Jackson made it better because of his actions. He was elected in 1829 and was very known for being the hero of the war of 1812. He was president from 1829-1837 and held advanced democracy.Democracy was
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one else who has spent this much money” (qtd. in J. Mayer 5) Charles and David Koch‚ referred to as the Koch brothers‚ have been operating the American government since the 1970s‚ funding lobbyists and investing in a “private political bank” supporting a carefully constructed group of wealthy conservatives in order to boost their ideologies into the American political system (Mayer 5). They amassed immense control over government officials and whole branches‚ bending them to their immediate will without
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They had a bunch of faulty theories about it. Nowadays we know what happens when certain things react with oxygen at high temperatures. However Lavoisier did not know any of this. He discovered that when phosphorus‚ or sulfur‚ was burned in the air the products were acidic. This then led to the suggestion that elements combines with something in the air could produce acids. In 1779 he named oxygen and found
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the north sea coast. When fighting for the right to finally be unified this brought fighting which was fueled by the rise in German nationalism in the early half of the 1800’s. Germany’s unification began with the uproar of 1848‚ when a series of revolutions came through Western Europe. There were many movements in Prussia‚ Bavaria‚ Baden and Saxony that all demanded modification and political transformation. One of the major wants is the unification of Germany. As the nationalist movement continued
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