Americans worked hard to promote the idea of democracy and human rights. Reform movements had a major impact in expanding democratic ideals. It promoted democracy effectively throughout the nation. Between the years 1825-1850‚ reform movements sought to expand and emphasize democratic ideals in order to maintain a more equal society for all. The Second Great Awakening‚ led by Charles G. Finney‚ played an important role in the reform movements that expanded the idea of democracy. The period of religious
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Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible Did you know‚ Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible both became the leaders of Russia at under the of 16? While Peter the Great and Ivan the Terrible strengthened the central government and took power from the nobles‚ Ivan the Terrible gained loyalty through death threats‚ whereas Peter the Great gave land to the poor to make them loyal. Peter the Great was born in Moscow‚ Russia in 1672. Peter took over as ruler in 1682‚ after Ivan V’s death. When he became ruler at the age of ten
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crashed and the house of cards fell. The Great Depression began‚ marking the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States of America. The economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed. Henry Ford had to close several factories in Detroit in 1931‚ putting 75‚000 people of their jobs. By 1933‚ 25% of the American public was unemployed. Tariffs‚ war debt‚ crisis in farmland‚ accessible credit and an unequal distribution of income promoted the Great Depression. Tariffs and extreme war
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Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was a Macedonian king born in July of 356 BC. He was the son of King Philip and Queen Olympia‚ and was tutored by Aristotle throughout his teenage years. He later went on to become King of Macedonia after his father’s death at eighteen. He led military campaigns across the middle east and south Asia‚ but why was Alexander so important? How did he change the world? Alexander was born into the royal family of Macedonia in 356 BC to King Philip
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The Reformation – Harry Russell The great reformation was a time when the Presbyterian and other religious churches split off from the Catholic Church because they did not believe in the Catholic Churches teachings. This happened in the sixteenth century‚ mostly because of one very important person martin Luther. Martin Luther started out wanting to be a lawyer‚ but one day was caught in a lightning storm and thought he was going to die. He then swore that if he lived he would swear his life to
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THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION 1.- Population and Economic Growth One of the most important changes was the continuous expansion of the population and the economy. Most observers in the eighteenth century did not believe that expansion of the population and the economy could be sustained indefinitely. The population had consistently expanded as the greater agricultural productivity permitted maintaining an adequate food supply. The industrial economy had been able to employ large numbers
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During the post Civil War period‚ the United States entered a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. The United States transitioned from being a rural country to becoming an urban country. Citizens moved from the countryside and crowded cities. Cities like New York City‚ Chicago‚ Cleveland‚ Pittsburgh… gained an influx of citizens and immigrants. From this rapid industrialization and urbanization many positive and negative effects arose affecting the sociological‚ economical‚ and political
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Historians have concluded‚ that the economic impact of the first World War caused the Great Depression in the1930s. Yet they disagree as to whether exogenous shocks or economic stagnation following the war lead to the depression. Peter Temin‚ Christina Romer and Michael Calamaris believe that a series of monetary shocks during the late 1920s‚ that had their origins during and after the great war‚ turned an economic downturn of 1929 into the depression of the 30s. Temin argues that the “collapse of
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dramatic‚ yet selective‚ internal changes. Peter the Great led the first westernization of Russia in history‚ permanently changing Russia and providing a model from which westernization attempts elsewhere were based on. Westernization was used by Peter and his successors to promote Russia’s expansionist empire without intending to transform Russia into a truly Western society. By the end of the 17th century‚ Russia had become one of the great land empires while maintaining a highly agriculturally
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centralized‚ bureaucratized and clericalized‚ was finally established‚ and continued to exist until the middle of the 20th century. Then something unexpected happened. Pope John XXIII (1958-63)‚ the son of an Italian peasant farmer‚ called the Second Vatican Council in 1959 with a view to pastoral renewal and the promotion of Christian unity. The pope attributed the calling of the historic council to a sudden inspiration of the Holy Spirit. He proclaimed the principle of “aggiornamento‚” that
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