conditions of Russia. She began with a plan to significantly improve the education in Russia. While the whole plan didn’t follow through‚ she did add lots of schools to Russia. Another major impact she had was on Russia’s economy at the time. Catherine was concerned about the current state of the countries economy‚ so she removed some rules that were blocking trade. She also expanded onto land that they were not using to create more settlements‚ which also helped bring more traders into the
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Times in the 1920`s were not always the easiest‚ there were times when people had to walk to places‚ farmers used horses to transport goods‚ which could take hours or even days to get to the destination. All this was the life of people in the 1920`s until a man by the name of Henry Ford made an affordable option an automobile. This helped everyone in the world from farmers to the workers in industries‚ everyone benefited from this and the world became a different place with this invention. Automobiles
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TOPIC: In what ways did the ideas and values held by the Puritans influence the political‚ economic and social development in the New England colonies from 1630-1660? 6) Puritans had a strong influence of their ideas and values during 1630-1660 in the New England colonies. They had political‚ economical‚ and social influence throughout their religious values. 7) Documents A-J a. Document A. b. John Winthrop wrote that they should work together and help each other out so that god will help
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in a good way‚ or have done things for the citizens. Lester B. Pearson’s efforts and accomplishments as Prime Minister helped improve Canada. He helped create Canada’s reputation as peacekeepers. When he felt Canadians needed it‚ he brought Universal Health Care into Canada. Lester B. Pearson also decided to get American car dealerships in Canada. “Canadians are the world ’s best-known peacekeepers.”1 When a country is in need of support‚ Canada is there to save them. Canada has had a leading role
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change. No longer was the main type of production up to the family and professional crafters‚ but instead up to factory owners and cheap labour. The needs of the family‚ the lord or the king were no longer the main reason to research or invent new technologies or weapons. Due to the rapid increase in production and science‚ technological changes brought to the militaries of Europe were greatly effected by the Industrial Revolution. Factory owners‚ scientists and military thinking entrepreneurs now had
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He felt that the poor laws increased dependency and poverty and they would increase the numbers of the poor than decrease them. Benjamin Franklin had four standpoints of criticism of the poor laws. His first stance was that everyone did not work for pleasure but for necessity and the poor laws created a security for "idleness" (Williams‚ 1994‚ p 83). His second standpoint was that everyone was responsible for their own economic welfare and providing aid would destroy initiative. His
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on the Voyage of Christopher Columbus Columbus’s voyage is a subject that has been taught to every student since kindergarten and earlier. Technology is one of the basis of modern society that we cannot even dream of living without. We rely completely on our smartphones‚ laptops‚ and global positioning system‚ GPS. However‚ the idea of combining our technology‚ that we find common and essential‚ and the first voyage of Christopher Columbus‚ an event that occurred hundreds of years ago‚ is not something
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Soviet Union. During the Nixon administration the Cold War diplomacy continued through the Vietnam war. During the earlier years as president he continued to fight the Vietnam war‚ which was a fight between the US backed South Vietnamese and the Chinese and Soviet backed North Vietnamese. Through the war many issues between communism and democracy arose‚ and the former HUAC member‚ Richard Nixon‚ was definitely not going to put them aside. Nixon continued to annoy different communist power‚ for
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women‚ and members of the Nazi Party because of how happy and proud they all were towards the greater Nazi cause. Throughout the years the Nazi Party caused a lot of chaos around‚ especially from 1939-1947. At the beginning of everything it was a good start for everyone‚ the only problem at the time was that there was hardly any jobs. When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came around he brought hope to mostly everyone in Nazi‚ Germany. Having so much power over time changes the life of everyone around
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By the time Lincoln gave his first inaugural address‚ conflict between the North and South was inevitable. Conflict between the North and South was inevitable by the time Lincoln gave his first inaugural address because several Southern states had seceded from the union and because Lincoln would not have maintained the status quo for long. For a good two decades‚ the United States had been experiencing more and more turmoil over slavery. The Republican North was emphatically against slavery
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