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    North Coast Evangelical Free Church of America Natalia Price REL/134 February 12‚ 2013 North Coast Evangelical Free Church of America I attended a service at North Coast Church. This church is at 2405 North Santa Fe Avenue in Vista‚ California. North Coast church is an Evangelical Free church with 10000 regular attenders. The history of this community is very interesting. It started in 1976‚ in the house of Ron and Alice Treibel who started doing weekly Bible studies in their Carlsbad home

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    The British Empire Structure introduction British Empire Introduction to British imperialism Timeline explanations from Empire to Commonwealth Questions to class Sources 1. The British Empire The phrase‚ "the Empire on which the sun never sets"‚ has been used with variations to describe certain global empires that were so extensive that there was always at least one part of their territory in daylight. The British Empire was the largest colonial empire in history

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    did Britain want to keep America as a colony: Britain needed the colony for two reasons? They needed income for the army and land. Britain wanted to keep the America colonies safe and not a threat and manage to secretly tax them without them knowing. As the taxes and population increased‚ the colonists started to riot due to the heavy tax and limited freedom. This then caused the American revolution which is exactly what Britain did not want. ACTIONS TAKEN: How America fought back from taxation

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    Factors that led to Industrialization in America There were several factors that led to the industrialization of colonial America such as new technologies. These new technologies which were developed in rapid succession‚ were crucial to the formation of factories that led to industrialization. Several other large reasons that led to the industrialization in America were plentiful natural resources‚ immigration and population increase‚ improved transportation and investment capital. All of these

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    believe the British were to blame for igniting the flames of revolution due to their overtaxing of the colonists and practice of mercantilism. The war itself though was completely unnecessary and should never have taken place. One of the main reasons the war started was because of Britain’s adopted policy of mercantilism. When the British colonists first settled in the New World‚ they were allowed to grow and thrive with minimal interference from Britain‚ until Britain began using the colonies as their

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    projects such as fortresses‚ palaces‚ and entire cities. Additionally‚ Herod also was responsible for the hiring of several laborers and‚ of course‚ the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Some of these architectural buildings still stand to this day such as the fortress at Masada. This stronghold had been fortified so well that‚ after the death of Herod the Great‚ rebels took over the fortress and was able to withstand

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    There were 4 major factors that led up to the end of reconstruction. The first major factor was the Jim Crow Laws. Jim Crow was used as another word for African Americans back then. The Jim Crow laws made segregation. Because of these laws‚ the US Supreme Court declared that segregation was lawful as long as facilities for black and whites were equal‚ a policy known as "supreme but equal". The second major factor was Ku Klux Klan Violence. The K.K.K. was a secret group formed after the civil war

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    Geography Assignment: Earthquake Part A: 1. Earthquakes are the sudden and rapid shaking of the earth. The collision of tectonic plates and volcanic eruptions are what cause earthquakes. 2. Earthquakes are caused by the movement of tectonic plates and by volcanoes. The Earth’s crust is made up of plates which can freely slide across the mantle. When these plates collide or slide past with other plates‚ earthquakes occur. After the main earthquake‚ an aftershock may occur as the rock masses

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    until the last of the thirteen colonies was established; geography was a substantial factor in the development of colonial America. The crops that essentially saved the colonists lives‚ such as tobacco‚ rice‚ and indigo‚ wouldn’t have grown without a certain type and amount of soil to grow properly. Also‚ the Appalachian Mountains and the dense forests provided a barrier for the colonists‚ preventing them from going too far west right away‚ and causing the colonies to form in the arrangement they

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    The Challenges to Spanish Colonization in the Borderlands How did the Spanish establish colonies on the borderlands? While France and England were building colonies in North America‚ Spain’s colonies in the Americas were already hundreds of years old. The Spanish established colonies on the borderlands by building missions‚ presidios‚ and pueblos. Early in the 1500s‚ Spanish explorers reached Florida‚ but at first they did not build permanent settlements. Fearing that France might take over the

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