Prohibition was put in place in the United States of America in the early years of the twentieth century to help protect society from the evils of alcohol. However‚ it is well demonstrated by multiple sources that the introduction of Prohibition acted as a double-edged sword. Although the government had good intentions in banning the sale and consumption of alcohol‚ Prohibition had a massive negative impact‚ with increased organised crime‚ detrimental effects on public health‚ and a diminishment
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The stock market crash of 1929 negatively affected millions of Americans by decreasing the economy‚ turning millions of money into nothing‚ hurting our agriculture‚ and doubling the unemployment rate. It was an austere time for Americans as they tried to find jobs to sustain their families‚ and it lasted for about a decade. The stock market crash became known to everyone as the Great Depression‚ which started in October of 1929. The stock market prices were gradually dropping‚ and economic uncertainty
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distributed around the country‚ as well as the rest of the world. That led to the invention of canals. In the early days of the Industrial Revolution (around 1750)‚ roads simply could not handle heavy goods and the vehicles needed to move these produces did not exist.5 The first canal was completed in 1761 by an engineer called James Brindley who was commissioned by Duke Bridgewater. The big advantages to using canals were that manufacturers could ship more products and heavy goods (such as coal iron and
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The experiments that Tesla did at Colorado prepared him for Wardenclyffe‚ which is a trans-Atlantic wireless telecommunications facility near Shoreham‚ Long Island. Tesla began to plan the Wardenclyffe Tower facility with a budget of 150‚000 dollars‚ in 1900. Later‚ Tesla asked for
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The Great Depression was a long-wide spread global economic decline that affected millions of lives. Former president‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)‚ made it his mission to do everything he could to mend what the Great Depression damaged. FDR created the New Deal in hopes that it would have a great effect on America‚ the New Deal was a series of programs that were government regulated in order to boost the economy. I believe that the New Deal was a positive thing to come out of the depression. There
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wanted to make art attainable to the average person. He wanted the average person to connect to his pieces and the only real way to do that‚ is to show the truth. Caravaggio wanted to tell the true story of his subjects. He did not want to idealize the truth like the classical works did. Bellori was known to have preferred the classical style. Caravaggio had some form of imagination in order to place the models as well as ingrain that drama that he and the baroque time period is oh so famous for into his
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On November 1‚ 1955 a war began in the country of Vietnam that cost many unnecessary lives and changed many global powers “Digital History” The war of Vietnam was almost unsolvable either situation was wrong. The war changed not only the country of Vietnam but all of the global powers. Under French rule the Vietnamese were receiving no benefits and barely enough to live on‚ it only took a small revolt to change that. Vietnam had many natural resources such as spices‚ metals‚ sugar‚ rubber‚ coal
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World War II had a significant impact on the right of minorities in the United States from 1939 to 1945. It greatly affected the lives of women‚ African Americans‚ Hispanics‚ Japanese‚ Hispanics‚ as well as other minority groups. Although there were mostly white male Americans fighting in the war‚ there were other ethnicities also. White men made up 87% of the force‚ while African Americans made up 11%‚ and the other two percent was made up of other groups of Americans. Only men fought during the
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instances of expansionism was in the occupation of Eastern Europe and North Korea‚ where a long process of implementing the communist system was beginning. Hardly the aggressive expansion feared by the West before the conclusion of World War II. Nor did the extension of Soviet political power warrant Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech‚ which propagandized and overemphasised communist expansionism‚ which the work of Vadney looks to
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During the Industrial Revolution‚ England experienced many technological changes that paved the way for the highly mechanized and modern society that exists today. Out of the many changes‚ the most important is the creation of the factory that created many jobs for the unemployed‚ shifted society to become a workhouse of inventions‚ and changed British society for the better. Before the factory‚ many families were farmers that produced food for their own use‚ and their children would learn to churn
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