The Dawes Act was also known as the General Allotment Act of 1887. The purpose of the act was to treat the Native Americans as individuals rather than members of their tribes. The Dawes act was created to encourage the Native American tribes to split up. The Native Americans would be given the land and tools they needed if they became farmers. The Act would teach the Native Americans to be equal like the rest of the American population. For example‚ children of the Native American ethnicity were
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UNITED STATES TITTLE: A Model of Christian Charity AUTHOR: John Winthrop BIOGRAPHY: John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ and the chief figure among the Puritan founders of New England. EPOQUE: Is a 1630 sermon by Puritan layman and leader John Winthrop‚ who delivered on board the ship Arbella while en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. TITTLE: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts AUTHOR: Maxime Hong Kingston BIOGRAPHY: Maxine Hong Kingston
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Being held accountable for your actions you did in a life-or-death situation is as mindless as somebody going to jail for something they didn’t do. So people when in a life-or-death situation should not be held responsible for what they do for survival because in order to survive‚ people must do what they need in order to survive. To start‚ if people were to be held accountable‚ people in a life-or-death situation would just end up dead because they wouldn’t want to do anything because it would
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Did you know that world leaders do not exactly agree on what a democracy means. A democracy’s most salient and universally agreed upon component is a voting system. Athens was not truly democratic because they had slaves‚ no woman rights‚ and no equal rights. The first reason Athens wasn’t truly democratic is that they had slaves. Slaves were viewed as insignificant‚ vapid people‚ for this reason they did not get to vote. Since they were classified as slaves‚ they didn’t have the privilege
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Reconstruction was the time period after the Civil War when the United States was trying to rebuild. This took place 1865-1877. This was taking place in the newly freed South. The key issues the United States now faced were the fact that there were now all these former slaves who had no jobs‚ no place to live‚ no rights. There was now this mass amount of people who had no clue how to live life and even if they did know how they could not because they had no rights. Reconstruction was a success because
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urged unity. In the Pennsylvania Gazette‚ he drew his famous cartoon of a broken snake with the caption "Join or Die." A meeting was held in Albany in the spring of 1754 to address this issue. Colonial leaders‚ officials and representatives from seven of the British colonies attended the conference. Benjamin Franklin and Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson together drafted a proposal of colonial unity to combat the war against the French. It was called the Albany Plan of Union. The plan
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leaving their own family to find truth in what they wanted to do. In the book Siddhartha‚ Siddhartha leaves home and becomes a student‚ learning about many different religions‚ in the end‚ he eventually finds the place where he is most happy. During Siddhartha’s life‚ he visits the river three times; each time Siddhartha visits the river a new chapter in his life begins; Siddhartha drops his former bad habits and becomes closer to his true self ‚ more united with Atman‚ the higher place. The first
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Jin-Ho Lee IB History – Mr. Wade 28/01/14 How successful was Lenin (1917-1924) in solving the problems he faced? With the October revolution in 1917‚ Lenin managed to execute a successful coup d’état against the provisional government of Russia and with the death of the constituent assembly early 1918; Lenin and his Bolsheviks had finally control over Russia. However this was just the beginning of various problems he would be facing. This raised the debate on whether Lenin could deal with
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“To what extent was the U.S. justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?” The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dropped or not‚ were ones of the man-made disasters that occurred on August 6 1945‚ and August 9 1945 respectively. The launching of the atomic bomb has numerous opinions and aspects on whether United States of America should be justified for launching atomic bombs on those cities or not. The essay question for our class is‚ “To what extent was the United States
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People always say that Thomas Alva Edison was a genius. He answered‚ ‘genius is hard work‚ stick-to-it-iveness and common sense’. Thomas Edison was an inventor that created such innovation as the electric light bulb and phonograph. He was born on 11 February 1874 in Milan‚ Ohio and the youngest in his family. Thomas’s father was an exiled political activist from Canada and mother wan an accomplished school teacher. His mother was the major influence in Thomas’s life as well. Thomas had hearing difficulties
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