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    I am going to tell the story about the Role of Transportation in the Industrial Revolution and what I learned from my research about it. Also I am going to give you some information about the past‚ present‚ and even the future role of transportation in the Industrial Revolution. I will be informing you about what I have learned about the Industrial Revolution and give you a little history about how it begin. Far as how it begin I am also going to tell where it all came from and who started it as

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    Questions 1. In what ways did the ideas of the Enlightenment contribute to Atlantic Revolutions? Human political and social arrangements could be engineered and improved by human action. Liberty‚ equality‚ free trade‚ religious tolerance‚ republicanism‚ rationality‚ popular sovereignty‚ natural rights‚ consent of the goverened and social contracts provided the underpinnings of the revolutions. 2. What was revolutionary about the American Revolution? Marked a decisive political change Sought to

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    Transportation Revolution The First Industrial Revolution that began in England with the textile industry around the 1780s was a major turning point in history. Some years later‚ it spread primarily throughout the western world‚ including America‚ having replaced the labor of men to the more organized and easier work in factories for less time and better pay. The Transportation Revolution was a beneficial part in creating the real America of today as it made the US a large and independent economy

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    The Industrial Revolution took place in the late 1700s and ended in the early 1900s. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain because of the labor‚ natural resources‚ and capital. They had enough people with the right skill‚ they had natural materials with economic value‚ and they had the money necessary to start a business. The Industrial Revolution were rapid changes in how products were being made and sold‚ using machines. An effect is a result of a cause. The economic effects of the Industrial

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    Reconstruction Era The Reconstruction Era of the 1860s began before and continued well after the Civil War. The plans were designed to bring the union back together. Today some historians argue that reconstruction failed. Lincoln‚ Johnson‚ and the Radical Republicans‚ all had ideas and plans of how they wanted to bring the union back together. They all worked diligently to get their plans‚ laws‚ and proclamations into action. President Abraham Lincoln’s plans consisted of a Proclamation of Amnesty

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    To what extent did Russia make socialeconomic and political progress in the period 1855-1906? Until the Industrial Revolution in Russia between the years 1890-1903‚ Russia was an extremely backwards country economically and socially. It was autocratic and very under-developed. Although there was no significant progress until the Industrial Revolution‚ after the Crimean War when Alexander II came to power in 1855 as the new Tsar‚ he brought in his own socialeconomic and political reforms which

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    the seventeenth century‚ a period of major economic and social recession‚ crisis and secular readjustment‚ which contrasts strikingly with the periods of economic expansion which preceded and followed it. Its effects were not confined to any single country‚ but‚ with a few marginal exceptions‚ can be traced throughout the entire range of the economic area dominated by and from‚ Western Europe‚ from the Americas to the China Seas; nor were they confined to the economic field. The simultaneous occurrence

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    Constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 had a huge impact on American politics and life‚ resulting in a massive cultural‚ political‚ and social revolution. Added to these developments were continually changing goals and revolutionary ideas which helped furthered the revolutionary process. Such changes dramatically altered American lifestyles and trains of thought. As Senator Morrill said‚ "every substantial change in the fundamental constitution of a country is a revolution." Politics

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    What were the economic and social results of the agricultural revolution? Agricultural revolution often called as Neolithic revolution is period when people started to produce food. Before agricultural revolution people obtained food through hunting and gathering. However during the agricultural revolution‚ people learned how to produce food by farming or ranching. Thus Neolithic people could end their nomadic life. People started to settle in one place. Also thanks to the agricultural revolution

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    The Effects of Social and Political Changes on Literary Periods: Literature of the Romanticism Period Compared to the Realism Period Melissa DeShon Western Governor’s University IWT1Abstract To understand the effects of social and political changes on literature‚ one could analyze the relationship between Romanticism and Realism. Romanticism began in the early 1800’s as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution as society began to reject the social and political norms of the Aristocrats during

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