prohibition. Many organizations such as the Crusaders‚ Association Against the Prohibition Amendment‚ and Women’s Moderation were leaders in the repealing of the amendment‚ the Women’s Moderation group was a game changer for the public eye since all-women organizations were the leaders in amending prohibition in the early 20th
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Bill Gates: One of America’s Greatest. Bill Gates was one of the most creative and smartest people in the world. His vision of the future and ideas about changing the technology and making the world better changed the world. Bill Gates achieved the American Dream because his ideas about software changed the world‚ he worked hard to make his ideas become reality despite that he was already wealthy‚ and he founded Microsoft which is one of the biggest tech companies in our world today. William Henry
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The American Revolution or also known as the American Revolutionary War is a topic that many historians had argued over as the perspectives of many sides were ignored and over shadowed by the colonists’ point of view. This is because the colonists’ point of view was considered the most important by most people as the colonists were the main force that directly fought with the British in the revolutionary war. But in fact‚ most of the other groups’ perspectives were important as well because most
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Why did so many die? Have you ever imagined turning to cannibalism‚ drinking water with waste in it‚ or even eating your family’s pet to survive? The colonist of Jamestown were forced to these inhumane methods of survival to stay alive during the hard times that occurred during the existence of Jamestown. A large percent of Jamestown’s population died because of the constant lack of fresh water‚ food shortages‚ diseases brought by mosquitoes ‚ and the Powhatan Native Americans that neighbord the
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Why did the First Crusade erupt? The First Crusade was a monumental event of the 11th century‚ where thousands of ordinary people took up the cross to make the extremely long and perilous journey to Jerusalem to fight the ‘other’; the Muslim threat. Inspired by extreme devotion to God and His church‚ people made this decision based on a single speech. Jonathan Philips argues that Pope Urban II’s speech in 1095 had managed to draw together a number of key concerns and trends‚ synthesising them
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were African Americans‚ Native Americans and Women. During the economic deterioration the African Americans were the first employees to be fired or replaced by the White employees. Also the women and Native Americans had the same fate. Agriculture collapse in the South also led many African Americans without a job. The discrimination gave minorities even less educational and economic opportunities than before. The New Deal both hurt and helped minorities: The New Deal hurt African Americans‚ because
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How much impact can one character have on a group of people? When it comes to Baldwin‚ he had so much impact on the slaves from Amistad that he was able to give them their freedom without initially knowing where they were from. The slaves had so much trust in Baldwin when it came to the end of the movie that he was able to give them their freedom. But how much impact did he have on the slaves and why would they trust him if they didn’t know him? Baldwin put so much on the line in support of these
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How Jesse Owens Motivated other athletes When discovering my topic on what would interest me related to African American athletes; I came to realize that athlete have major transformations through different ways of motivating one another. Though many athletes are motivated through materialistic items‚ a number are also motivated through outside sources and personal influence. Jesse Owens was a talented individual that was noticed by his gym coach‚ just a hard worker‚ due to that he was asked to
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equality and opportunity of African-Americans. “ Some Americans were struck by the obvious contradiction between America’s egalitarian Declaration of Independence and its support of slavery” (James O. Horton). Most northern delegates loathed the idea of slavery‚ therefore it created an issue between northern and southern delegates. The northern delegates were confused on why the Declaration of Independence states that every man is created equal‚ but African-American man aren’t even considered people
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the crops grown had been sent to England where it was sold. The money used to go to England‚ but now that America was free‚ who would the money go to? The years after America first became independent were called the Industrial Revolution which was a period of major industrialization. The Industrial Revolution changed the American economy by bringing most of the wealth to plantation and factory owners. The South’s economy became more dependent on cotton and slave labor. This was because there was a
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