the Roman civil wars of the 1st century BC. The term civilis here had the very specific meaning of "Roman citizen". The English term civil war was first used in 1651 to refer to the English Civil War. Since the 17th century‚ the term has also been applied retroactively to other historical conflicts where at least one side claims to represent the country’s civil society . The terms internecine war and domestic war are often used interchangeably with "civil war"‚ but "internecine war" can be used
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Chapter 4 Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle For Independence‚ 1763- 1783 The Rising Expectation of the African Americans and the struggle for Independence was a great thing for blacks they started rise up over slavery‚ they made a big impact in the wars‚ and they got the Declaration of Independence from Thomas Jefferson. I. The Crisis of the British Empire 1) The Great struggle. 2) The two empires Great Britain and France. 3) The independence movement and the
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throughout the course of history‚ there has been an abundance of various large scale events that have had a direct effect on shaping societies all over the world. From the 15th century to the 18th there have been many such events dealing with economic struggles‚ colonization‚ mass sickness‚ etc. All these events were very important but none were as important as a war. In the 1700’s the Europeans entered a series of conflicts and one of these conflicts was the Seven Year War. The war was fought for
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The Civil War is a dark mark on America’s History‚ that helped define who we are today. Brothers fighting brothers‚ fathers fighting sons‚ and families devastated over a fear of change and compromise. Change‚ compromise‚ and leadership are all needed for a nation to succeed‚ but is bloodshed necessary to achieve success. Our land is stained with fathers and sons who believed that bloodshed was necessary to achieve greatness. The Civil War is a blemish on the history of the United States of America
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The 1960s and early 1970s were the times of the Vietnam War‚ the African American Civil Rights Movement‚ the Latino movement‚ Feminism‚ and all sorts social unrest and turmoil (Johnson and Nagel 14). Inspired by this wave of activism‚ American Indians decided to take action and start their own fight for equality and basic civl rights (14). One of the most significant events during this Native American "civil rights movement‚" doubtlessly‚ was the occupation of an abandoned state penitentiary‚ commonly
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The American Civil War lasted from the year 1860 to 1865 and was the bloodiest conflict in American history‚ yet in several ways helped to form the United States as it is today. As the events in the mid 19th century unfolded it was becoming more obvious of a great divide the country created on the basis of culture and industry that encouraged southern states out of the United States‚ and into forming The Confederate States of America. The Southern States of America Seceded from the union because
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Moreover‚ as the Stuart monarchy became less useful to the bourgeoisie‚ it became more important to the aristocracy and courtiers‚ becoming their only means of economic survival – hence becoming the main reason to fight for it in the Civil War‚ since the monarchy was bound by the feudal order‚ the king himself was the greatest feudal lord. In the early sixteenth century the alliance between the crown and the parliament had been genuine. The monarchy had used the bourgeoisie as an ally against the
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World War II In the 1930s‚ Japan‚ Germany and Italy wanted to extend their powers and began invading other countries. Even though the U.S. was in the “Isolationist” mode‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt still extended his helping hands to Germany’s opponents. For example‚ he signed the Lend-Lease Act of 1941 which ended oil sales to Japan. America announced war on the Axis powers by declaring war on Japan first and then on Germany. The U.S. declared war because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December
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an African American man who was a slave‚ little did he know he was right. Soon after slavery was ban the South would force some blacks into even worse type of labor. After the Civil War slaves were freed from tretourachs amounts of work with harsh punishments‚ slavery. Soon after slaves were freed Southerners found a way to put them back into a slave like position. The United States relied so much on slavery that when the slaves were freed they were so desperate for help that they found a way to
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The American Civil War and also known as the War Between the States was a war fought from 1861 up to 1865 between the Northern and Southern United States. The war has led to over 618‚000 casualties. There were several reasons to why the Civil War has occurred in the United States. Firstly‚ the Northern and the Southern have different economies. With the invention of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin in 1793‚ cotton became very profitable. This machine reduces the time taken to separate the seeds from the
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