Kate Sheppard Kate Sheppard is recognised as the leader of the fight to win the right for New Zealand women to vote. She and other pioneering women campaigned so effectively that in 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world to grant the vote to all women over 21. http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Society/People/S/Sheppard-Kate/ Kate was also involved in the Women’s Christian Temperance Union‚ founded the National Council of Women‚ established the first women
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The Rise and Fall of Populism The Farmer’s Alliance In the 1880s‚ as drought hit the wheat-growing areas of the Great Plains and prices for Southern cotton sunk to new lows‚ many tenant farmers fell into deep debt. Lenders‚ grain-elevator owners‚ and others with whom farmers did business were angered. Depression worsened in the early 1890s‚ and some industrial workers shared different views on labor‚ trust‚ and monopolies. If the various alliances between the North
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Jewish Perceptions of Jesus Christ Christianity and Judaism are major world religions which‚ though they worship the same God‚ have marked differences which have caused two thousand years of strife and animosity between the two religions. In his book We Jews and Jesus‚ Samuel Sandmel likens the link between Judaism and Christianity to a type of parent-child relationship‚ saying‚ "Early Christianity was a Judaism; within a century after the death of Jesus it was a separate religion. It was critical
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organize unions‚ leading to mass conflict‚ eventually causing the middle class to become fed up with the situation. In response events such as the railroad strike of 1877‚ Haymarket Riot of 1886‚ Homestead strike of 1892‚ and the Pullman Strike of 1893. Workers quickly learned that they would have to come together and form organizations in order to over power the industrial owners. The Knights of Labor (KOL) was the first large labor union to be established. Founded in 1869‚ the Knights sought
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important alliances and organizes anumber of different political groups. In December he isarrested. Lenin is expelled from Kazan University because of hisopen rebellion and finishes his law studies in St.Petersburg. 1893-Passes law examination at St. Petersburg. 1893-Lenin becomes active in Marxist study group. 1896-Lenin is arrested and is exiled to Serbia after spending a year in St.Petersburg jail. While in exile he marries Nadezhda Krupskaya and writes hisfirst book.
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Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) Grover Cleveland was elected the 22nd (1885-1889) and the 24th (1893-1897) President of the United States. He really never tried to do anything as far as falling into politics. “As a lawyer in Buffalo‚ he became notable for his single-minded concentration upon whatever task faced him.” Before his election in 1855 he moved to Buffalo to start training for the practice of law. Cleveland then was elected sheriff of Erie County in western New York in 1870. Later he was
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Discovery and settlementMain article: Ancient Hawaiʻi The earliest settlements in the Hawaiian Islands were made by Polynesians who traveled to Hawaii using large double-hulled canoes. They brought with them pigs‚ dogs‚ chickens‚ taro‚ sweet potatoes‚ coconut‚ banana‚ and sugarcane. There are several theories regarding migration to Hawaii. The "one-migration" theory suggests a single settlement. A variation on the one-migration theory instead suggests a single‚ continuous settlement period. A
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northwest‚ China on the northeast‚ India on the east‚ and the Arabian Sea on the south. The total land area is estimated at 803‚940 square kilometers. The boundary with Iran‚ some 800 kilometers in length‚ was first delimited by a British commission in 1893‚ separating Iran from what was then British Indian Balochistan. In 1957 Pakistan signed a frontier agreement with Iran‚ and since then the border between the two countries has not been a subject of serious dispute. Pakistan’s boundary with Afghanistan
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withstand repeated naval assaults by Union forces. Beauregard later returned to the field and led a crucial defense of Petersburg in 1864.” After the war Beauregard worked as a railroad director and as a supervisor for the Louisiana Lottery. He died in 1893 at the age of 74.” from
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Review for the AP U.S. History Exam © 2003 James L. Smith TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. The Advanced Placement U.S. History Exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Information about the AP exam and helpful hints for obtaining the highest grade possible. 2. Important Dates in U.S. History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Memorize these dates! 3. 250 Things Every
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