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    Why did Britain want to keep America as a colony: Britain needed the colony for two reasons? They needed income for the army and land. Britain wanted to keep the America colonies safe and not a threat and manage to secretly tax them without them knowing. As the taxes and population increased‚ the colonists started to riot due to the heavy tax and limited freedom. This then caused the American revolution which is exactly what Britain did not want. ACTIONS TAKEN: How America fought back from taxation

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    Caitlin White Mr.Moore APUSH P3 11 January 2016 Prohibition: the Unintended Consequences January 1920: the United States has just gone dry. Years of drunken husbands beating their wives‚ crimes committed under alcohol’s influence‚ and other social problems created by the drink led Prohibitionists to believe they needed to get rid of the horrible substance. Different prohibition and reform groups got together to encourage businesses to stop selling alcohol and for the people to stop drinking it

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    The Prohibition; A Lead to the Chocolate Industry: It is post World War I and a new sense of joy filled the atmosphere. The war was finally over and a feeling of change was around everyone. The citizens have a new feeling of ravishment and society has changed. People are tapping their feet and humming to the tune of Jazz music‚ women find pride in the confidence they wear with their short hair and skirts‚ while other activist women are finding more pride in their right to vote . Men go to speakeasies

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    Reform movements from 1815 to 1850 tried to change America. Women’s rights movements‚ education movements‚ and thoughts of abolition were main inspirations. Women’s rights movements were becoming more common. More women than ever were coming together to protest. The Seneca Falls Convention was the first organized women’s rights movement. When women went to other conventions they were excluded‚ this convention was about women and for women. These conventions would eventually persuade congress to

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    Question: Why did so many people move to colonial America? In the 1600s‚ immigration began. Throughout the 1600 and 1700s‚ the population in colonial America increased rapidly. This was caused by a variety of reasons: enslavement‚ economy‚ exportation‚ religious purification‚ and freedom from the English government. One of the main reasons Africans immigrated to America was because they were either coerced or forced to come to the colonies from Africa as slaves. In Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting

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    Bernie Sanders: Make America Great Again Bernie Sanders started off his career as the mayor of Burlington‚ Vermont. Mr. Sanders served four terms of acting mayor. Adding to his government occupation list‚ Bernie distinguished himself as one of the country’s few independent legislators. Bernie Sanders‚ one of America’s recent presidential candidates‚ is simply the best option for the occupation of the United States 2016 President based on the fact that he has experience in government‚ and he has great

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    come can be presumed based on the outcome of the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920’s? By being able to determine or predict outcomes based on the closely related prohibition in the 1920’s we could possibly save lives from the war that is raging in many of our backyards. In my research I was looking for articles from the 1920’s and present day that were closely related to try to draw ties between the modern day prohibition of drugs and the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920’s. My primary search methods

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    The Prohibition: Success or Failure? Despite the polarizing effects of alcohol‚ many people are very reliant on alcoholic beverages in today’s society. With this dependency‚ it is unclear how today’s society would react if the law prohibited alcohol sales today; however‚ this would not be the first time this has occurred in history. As early as 1826‚ when Reverend Lyman Beecher preached against the evils of alcohol in Sermon 1: Nature of Occasions of Intemperance‚ harmonious prohibitionists began

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    In the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth‚ women became very active in political and social movements. Women played roles that shaped the future of the laws that prohibited women in many ways. Women’s suffrage and women’s role in prohibition are two ways in which women have shaped political and social moments in United States history. Women have never given up on fighting for rights‚ many times with monetary and social consequences for trying to gain rights they felt belonged to them

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    In case you change your mind‚ I cherish you and you can have the room to yourself. I just feel like I will hurt myself‚ mentally‚ not because you are not here but because I have nothing to look forward to. I can’t convince myself that you are coming back. I believe you with all my heart‚ I trust that you will‚ but people are starting to raise questions and wonder why you aren’t here and it is making me feel very depressed. I told them that you are visiting family but that doesn’t help because my

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