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    the war began. In the beginning most American Indians stuck with the French. The French gave the Natives land with more respect than the English did. This advantage was very useful to the French. In 1758‚ William Pitt took over the process of the war‚ and more troops were added. Pitt encouraged fighters to invade Canada. The British at the time blocked the Atlantic coast. This prevented French ships getting supplies or soldiers. The British also made an alliance with the Iroquois. The Iroquois

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    “Gentlemen may cry‚ ‘Peace! Peace!’ -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! (...) I know not what course others may take; but as for me‚ give me liberty‚ or give me death!” (Henry‚ 1775). Great Britain passed many laws that brewed trouble between the colonists and the British. But there were two laws that stood out the most. The Stamp Act was a law passed by Parliament and was established on March 22‚ 1765. The Quartering Act was 2 British laws passed by the Parliament of Great Britain

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    Alexander Hamilton | American Revolution (Major battles‚ turning points) | American System of Manufacturing | Articles of Confederation (successes‚ failures/weaknesses) | Bacon’s Rebellion | Boston Massacre | Boundaries of America (1783‚ 1803) | Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge | Common Sense - Thomas Paine | Commonwealth v. Hunt | Constitutional Convention/Debate (major issues‚ compromises‚ Federalists and Anti-Federalists‚ Bill of Rights‚ etc.) | Cotton

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    1. The Reveillon Riot was an event that happened 28 April 1789‚ in the district of St. Antoine of Paris where a factory owned by Jean-Baptiste Reveillon who produced luxury wallpapers was attacked. The workers of the factory heard a rumor that the owner was going to pay the highly skilled workers a lower wage than what they were getting paid now. The workers were concerned because with food shortages‚ high unemployment‚ and low wages after the difficult winter in 1789 they had. (worldhistoryproject

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    William Pitt backed him up with becoming the leader of the Society for the abolition of slavery and stayed friends with him forever. Isaac Miller‚ a young teacher at Hull Grammar School‚ was one of his mentors. He was the one who told him to read an essay called

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    born in Abdera‚ Thrace‚ Greece. He was an influential philosopher who formulated an atomic theory for the universe. Antoine Lavoisier (1778 & 1783) - A French nobleman and chemist central to the 18th-century Chemical Revolution and a large influence on both the histories of chemistry and biology. He recognized and named oxygen in 1778 and hydrogen in 1783 Joseph Louis Proust (1799) - a French chemist which discovered each pure compound has its own characteristic elemental composition John Dalton

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    was so weak that they choose not to even act upon this incident. (Document F)The Spanish refused to let the Americans use the Mississippi River for trade‚ even though they had agreed on it in the Treaty of Paris of 1783. This showed lack of enforcement because in the Treaty of Paris‚ 1783 it clearly stated that the Mississippi River would be open to everyone’s use. This caused the people to worry about rebellion‚ as a reaction to the weak government (Document G). Not only were there many political

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    When released in the atmosphere‚ the dichlorotoluenes should degrade by reaction with hydroxyl radicals with a half-life of about 12 days (Howard‚ 1997)‚ which is significantly longer than the estimated lifetime for toluene of 2 days (Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts‚ 2000). Their estimated half-lives

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    among the Third Estate. Following the king’s demand for funding by the Estates General‚ the people engaged in a series of both political and social revolts and reforms‚ which turned into a revolution from 1789-1794‚ reaching its peak as The Terror (1793-1794)‚ a totalitarian regime intended to enforce republicanism through radical and violent measures. The Oxford English dictionary defines a perversion as “the action of turning aside from what is true or right; the diversion of something from its

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    The American Revolution was an upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783. The thirteen colonies wanted to be separated from the British Empire‚ but the King was not to keen on this idea. There were many causes for this: French and Indian War‚ Stamp Act‚ Townshend Act‚ and more. These things brought about effects: Declaration of Independence‚ Articles of Confederation‚ Bill of Rights‚ and eventually‚ FREEDOM! The French and Indian War‚ also known as the Seven Year War in Europe‚ was fought because

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