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    DagohoyBiography of Francisco Dagohoy Francisco Dagohoy was a Filipino revolutionary leader in Bohol who holds the distinction of spearheading the longest armed revolution in the history of the Philippines‚ the Dagohoy rebellion which lasted roughly 85 years‚ from 1744-1829. The famed leader of the Bohol revolt‚ Dagohoy was born Francisco Sendrijas in Inabanga‚ Bohol. Hence‚ apart from the fact that Dagohoy was a cabeza de barangay‚ little accounts of his life were recorded. According to Visayan

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    Nat Turners Rebellion

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    during their raids who could sound an alarm or provide knowledge to the slave owners army. They planned to gather more arms‚ more supplies and especially new recruits along the way. They expected the slaves of Virginia to help accompany them in this rebellion. Nat’s forces grew as he had planned. first a dozen‚ and then 30 and then 60‚ and perhaps 806. He divided his fighters into two units. A group of 10 or 15‚ including Will‚ were given the horses‚ to ride up rapidly on the farm houses and kill the

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    British Indian Rebellions

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    technology and infrastructure ‚ the Indians still felt like they were disrespected in a sense that they were treated unfairly. The British began to increase their unreasonable laws that contradicted Indian culture. This spiked many uprisings and rebellions. As a result‚ the British Raj ended up having a negative impact on the Indians because they had begun to lose political‚ economic‚ and social control. The British had extremely unlawful policies that made the Indians despise them. For example‚ any

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    Bacon's Rebellion Causes

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    Nathaniel Bacon‚ a colonist‚ initiated a massive rebellion against Governor Berkeley‚ an infamous slaveholder and corrupt colonial governor of Virginia. The four causes of this rebellion are in Robert Beverley on Bacon’s Rebellion where it states “First‚ The extreme low price of tobacco‚ and the ill usage of the planters in the exchange of goods for it… The splitting the colony into proprieties…

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    The Whiskey Rebellion showed that federal government would use force to implement and enforce policy. The Fries Rebellion was a semi-organized resistance to taxes. Eventually‚ several men were arrested and found guilty of treason; however‚ President John Adams pardoned the men. The federal government struggled with escalated reactions and defining the limits of democracy in addressing these “rebellions‚” and how to assert control over states‚ and “The People

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    first Opium War in 1839 until the 1940’s and the rise of the Communist Party‚ forced Western ideas into China and caused doubts of and the eventual fall of the Middle Kingdom. Many factors of the Century of Humiliation‚ ranging between the Taiping Rebellion‚ the ‘rice bowl’ mentality of the Chinese in the face of reform‚ and World War 1 influenced the cultural shifts and the humiliation of China‚ but the most significant of the contributing events of the Century of Humiliation was the Opium Wars and

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    Huxley In the early part of the 19th century the town of Alicia‚ formerly known as Batuanan‚ was one of the three (3) biggest and oldest towns of Bohol along with Catigbian and Balilihan. It was a thriving trading center shortly after the Dagohoy Rebellion (1744 – 1829). The town of Batuanan‚ however‚ was formally established in June 1860 by virtue of a decree signed by the Spanish Governor General Livarez. There are two versions as to how the place came to be called Batuanan. One version stated that

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    Econ paper

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    Americans have always had a strong disapproval of taxes‚ especially when they are the ones getting taxed. This was precisely the case during the Whiskey Rebellion occurring from 1791-1794. Farmers outraged by a new excise tax on whiskey protested and refused to pay. However the goal of the taxes was to help pay off a $54‚000‚000 national debt acquired during the Revolutionary War (Historical Spotlight). “Whiskey was a popular drink at the time‚ so such a tax could raise a lot of revenue”(Paul Krugamn

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    Wahhabi Movement leaders was the Najdian House of Saud of The Arabian Peninsula. Feedback/Reference: See p. 604 4. Which of the following did Shaka not use in his command of the Zulus? Mercy Feedback/Reference: See p. 605 5. The Taiping Rebellion of China gained momentum from all except which of the following? Government reforms aimed at relieving economic pressures by lowering taxes Feedback/Reference: See p. 608 6. Hong Xiuquan’s Taiping society demonstrated all but which of the following

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    Famines in India and China

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    79-104 -- INTRODUCTION TO WORLD HISTORY – S10 SECOND LONG PAPER The 1876-1879 and 1896-1902 famines in India and China were some of the worst famines the world had ever seen up until that point in time (Rouse Lecture). In China and India from 1876-1882‚ the estimated mortality was between 31 and 61 million (Davis 2001: 7). If the British and the Chinese governments had made simple changes in their policies regarding India and China‚ the results of the famine would not have been so catastrophic

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