Common sense would dictate that the USSR and China would support each other and become great allies because they are the strongest Communist states in the world‚ especially in the context of the Cold War where it’s Capitalism vs Communism. This was not the case in practice because the truth is that Sino-Soviet relations were cold and bitter. Joseph Stalin‚ the leader of the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong‚ the leader of China were distant despite having the same ideology. The same can be said with Stalin’s
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“Many Americans also dreamed of finding a Northwest Passage and opening the Pacific to American commerce and influence‚ including President Thomas Jefferson. In April 1803‚ Jefferson achieved his goal of purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France‚ effectively doubling the size of the United States. The purchase was made possible due to events
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What would you do if you were had to move away from you home? In the early 1830’s the Native Americans and the settlers lived in peace. Native Americans lived on their own land‚ as well as the settlers. They only had a few years left before they would be forced to leave their homes. Forced to leave by new settlers who hadn’t even been there for 400 years. The homes that were owned by their ancestors. That their ancestors had worked on for years. The route to their new “home” would be long‚ dangerous
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The British enlightenment was one of the most important enlightenments that paved the foundation of the modern world we live in today. Often overlooked‚ the British enlightenment set the stage for others and brought new ideas to a new age that were revolutionary to say the least. Some of these reasons as to why the British enlightenment paved the way for the modern world are the fact that British enlightenment thinkers brought in new ideas that changed the way we view the world and how it affects
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from Great Britain due to an underlying tyrannical theme. The colonists were upset about many things‚ but taxation without representation was the biggest. King George III taking over also worried the colonists. Colonists had a proclamation line that stopped them from expanding west which was not a major reason for leaving Great Britain but still helped the cause of the colonists. The proclamation line was a reason for the colonists to declare independence by proving the tyranny narrative. This
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The relationship between Native Americans and early Euro-Americans on the Eastern North American Atlantic coast were gradually changing for several decades. Support: When Europeans settled in the “New Land”‚ they had hard time adapting living with the Indians. However‚ the Indians feared what Europeans brought such as weapons. There was a huge difference between the tribes’ weaponry and the European because of their powerful advances with the most progressive rifles. The flintlock rifle was
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onset of the areas existence; the Native Americans played a major role in the culture of Appalachia. The area that we know now as Appalachia received its name from the coastal Indians of northwest Florida‚ who were called the Apalachee. Then in the 1500’s the Europeans began to move from the coastal areas inland and encountered many different tribes of Native Americans. They fought at almost every turn‚ the Europeans attempting to gain ground and the Native Americans trying to keep it. These Europeans
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Jonathan Edwards & Anne Bradstreet Jonathan Edwards and Anne Bradstreet were both famous Puritan writers of their time. Each of their works‚ "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" and " Upon the Burning of Our House" convey to their audiences the strong religious beliefs prevalent during that time period. Edwards writes to persuade his audience. On the other hand‚ Bradstreet writes to inform her audience. Edwards mainly talks about hell and damnation in his writings‚ however Bradstreet talks
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American colonists were going through daily struggles and government oppression‚ and we‚ as modern Americans‚ can sympathize with them. They strived for justice and freedom in a time where they were not respected by their own higher government. Although by eighteenth century the colonies were already off the ground‚ so to speak‚ they still struggled deeply with wars‚ trade restrictions‚ nutritional issues and hunger‚ taxation‚ and crime which ... The Seven Years War strained the American colonists
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same time‚ American settlers asked for more land. Thomas Jefferson proposed the creation of a neutral zone between the United States and the European holding‚ to be given by the eastern American Indians.This plan would let the territory from westward expansion.The Trail of Tears was a journey of the Native Americans forced to leave their homes in the Southeast and move to the new Indian Territory defined as west of Arkansas in present-day Oklahoma. In the year 1839‚ 16‚001 Native Americans were marched
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