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    country for starting a war. Although there is never one country entirely responsible for starting warfare there is commonly one country that is more at fault than the other. In the case of the Revolutionary War‚ I 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

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    There were many events that took place in the 1760’s and 1770’s that led to the Revolutionary war. During these years the British did many things that upset the colonists. These upset colonists would eventually get sick of all the British ways and fight for their freedom. Many events crucial the Revolutionary War took place in the 1760’s‚ such as the Sugar Act‚ Stamp Act‚ and Declaratory Act. The Sugar Act of 1764 set an import tax on foreign sugar‚ molasses‚ and rum entering Britain’s American

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    Why were the Bolsheviks able to take power in October 1917? There are many factors that allowed to Bolsheviks to take power in October 1917 such as the growing unpopularity of the Provisional Government at the time. Moreover‚ events such as the July days and the return of Lenin and Trotsky. The Bolshevik slogans "Bread‚ Land and Peace" and "All Power to the Soviets" also sum up the other major factors to their rise. The Provisional Government was becoming increasingly unpopular. They had failed

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    lrgr+closer to one another than rice & indigo plants a. Size+proxim. of plants. permitted slaves freq. contact with friends & relatives 2. 1720 – pop. of females in Chesapeake slave pop. began to rise a. Slave family life possible 3. Captive black pop. grew through import and own fertility C. African influence on Amer. culture 1. Native-born Afr. Americans contributed to growth of slave culture a. mix of Afr. and Amer. elements of speech‚ religion‚ and folkways

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    The 13 Colonies Economic Troubles By: E’Maurai G‚ Seth G‚ and Jonathan L (students) Since Great Britain needed to pay for their war debts the king and parliament thought that they had the right to tax the American colonies. “The Sugar Act was an extension of the Molasses Act (1733)‚ which was set to expire in 1763”. In 1756-1763 Great Britain had a 7 year war with France and after the war ended Great Britain had high war debts so they started taxing the colonies. The American colonies got upset

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    this war against al-Shabab‚ so that Somalia can return to its peacefulness. This article reminds of the Revolutionary war in some aspect. While the thirteen Colonies were fighting the British in order to gain freedom‚ they begged the French to help them win the war.However the incentives for the war are different both the African Union Mission and the Colonies asked for financial aid‚ more troops‚ and more weapons to win the war. The United States have a connection with Al-Queda; they were behind

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    one of the original thirteen colonies on the basis of their religious beliefs.  Although the plan was to escape persecution‚ there was some amount of persecution happening in the colonies as they brought the circle of hatred back round – one gets hurt so they hurt another. In this paper I will discuss the religions that came out of the three main sects: Judaism‚ Roman Catholic and Protestants; and how act as individual entities‚ how they influenced each other and how they influenced the creation

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    These settlements include the colonial empires in both North and South America and in colonial possessions in Africa and Asia. Like most colonies‚ these three had a few similarities in addition to many contrasting differences. A main similarity between the early American‚ African‚ and Asian colonies was their administration system. The early American colonies were formed by small bands of adventurers loosely controlled by European administration‚ which compares to African and Asian territories in

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    economies of the northern and southern colonies were affected due to many different factors. Because of the different climates and geography of their land‚ the northern colonies and southern colonies had different resources available to them‚ which shaped their societies into what they are today. The resources available to the northern colonies were completely different from the resources that were available to the southern colonies. In the northern colonies‚ due to the climate and geography of

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