through his many wars. I. Foreign policy goals and achievements of Metternich A. Congress of Vienna 1. Metternich was one of the main leaders in the establishment of the Congress of Vienna. 2. The Congress created the German Confederation‚ replacing the dissolved Holy Roman Empire. It also was composed of thirty-nine states under the leadership of Austria. Austria sought to prevent any step towards a constitution in as many of the independent states as possible. 3. The four
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signed agreements to work for a set number of years and to be free individuals afterwards called indentured servitude. Things went smoothly at first. However‚ after a while‚ rulers of Africa began capturing and trading slaves with white colonists of Newfoundland. From 1654 to 1865 it was legal to own slaves permanently in North America‚ the majority of slaves being African Americans. Thousands of captured slaves came by large ships where they were traded in the southern colonies for agricultural farming
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As America slowly entered the age of innovation and technology‚ the need for rapid communication was in high demand. Many people began experimenting with water and electricity to create the telegraph but failed until Samuel Morse joined the race. Pencils cracked and trash bins were filled with crumpled heaps of paper. Finally‚ the first electric telegraph was created. As of today‚ Samuel F.B. Morse remains as one of the most influential figures of American history because
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1. Beringia was a land bridge roughly 1‚000 at its greatest‚ which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia during the Pleistocene ice ages. It is believed that approximately 25‚000 years ago‚ Beringia enabled the population of the Americas from an emigration from Asia (founder effect). 2. Clovis a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture that appeared at the end of the last glacial period‚ and are characterized by their namesake “Clovis points” and bone/ivory tools. They appeared roughly 13‚500
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and law-degree. He was an alcoholic womanizer who never enjoyed his one-year of military service‚ finding it difficult to take orders from someone else. This idea shapes Bismarck’s greatest goal of collapsing the Bund and forming a new German confederation with Prussia‚ not Austria at the helm so that he could devise the terms of European operation and not have to comply with Austria. He entered politics in 1847 and believed that executive autocracy was the only manner of ruling‚ believing that might
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Middle East Transfer of German colonies and regions of the former Ottoman Empire to other powers Establishment of the League of Nations. (more...) Belligerents Allied (Entente) Powers France British Empire Australia Canada India Newfoundland New Zealand South Africa United Kingdom Russia (1914–17) Italy (1915–18) United States (1917–18) Serbia Romania (1916–18) Japan Belgium Greece (1917–18) Portugal (1916–18) ...and others Central Powers German Empire
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Newfoundland and Labrador is a well-known location for having the highest number of Irish people. It was a perfect place because there were a thriving economy and small population making it able to absorb the large amounts of immigrants. As a result‚ there were 74‚ 791 of Irish people in Newfoundland alone which allowed for them to feel welcome and make the process of adjusting much easier. The growth
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Tisquantum: An American Legend History is said to be written by the winners—revealing the perspective and bias of the victorious party. This becomes particularly problematic when the losing party doesn’t posses a written language‚ which is exactly what occurred pertaining to European encounters with Native Americans. Because Native Americans developed no written language and customarily passed down an oral history‚ much of the history is lost; what is known comes predominately from European accounts
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AP U.S. History: Unit 1.1 HistorySage.com CONTACT: Europeans & Amerindians I. Overview—big ideas By 1600 Europeans had created the world’s first truly global economy. Meanwhile‚ the "age of discovery" resulted in the greatest human catastrophe the world has ever known: 90% of Amerindians died by 1600; slavery of tens of millions of Africans. Cultural differences between European and Amerindians were so immense that major conflict occurred in the 15th‚ 16th and 17th centuries. Summary
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1. General characteristics and conditions of the Native Americans: Where they came from and their cultures. a. Where: 35‚000 (33‚000?) B.C.: First ‘immigrant’ ancestors of the Native Americans traveled down the Bering land bridge from Eurasia to North America during the Ice Age i. Trekked across Bering isthmus and peopled the Americas for 250 centuries‚ eventually reaching the southern tip of South America ii. Isolated by the melting of glaciers at the end of the Ice Age
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