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    United States. Although Nationalism seemed to unify the nation‚ there was more of an underlying indication of a much larger problem‚ Sectionalism. Sectionalism is a relation to a geographic area. So whereas people could have felt patriotic towards the United States‚ they related more towards the region they lived in and not the country they were a part of. This sectionalism also indicates a difference in the economic‚ social and political stances of regions such as the North and the South‚ and the “era

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    Historical overview of the Australian food science and technology industry. When the Europeans arrived in 1788‚ they were confronted with an arid land and food supplies far removed from what they had left behind. They encountered the Aboriginal people‚ a civilisation not expected‚ and in addition they discovered many new and varied techniques for hunting‚ processing and storing foods. Techniques included: leaching poison from nuts that could take days or even weeks; catching fish with nets made

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    Civil War inevitable

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    an end. Senator Stephen Douglas passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act which created two new territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The status of slavery in the area was decided to be by popular sovereignty. This act wrecked two compromises The Compromise of 1820‚ and 1850‚ and the democratic party. While the act formed a new party: the Republicans. Throughout many compromises‚ and conflicts one of the large decisions was the Dred Scott decision. Dred Scott‚ who had lived in Illinois for 5 years with his master

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    Lincoln Douglas Debates

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    time Lincoln was not very well known in the political arena in contrast to Douglas who was a lifelong political player. However‚ after the debates Lincoln vaulted into the national spotlight continuing on to eventually win the Presidential election of 1860. Lincoln had originally proposed that he and Douglas engage in these debates‚ and discuss in depth the issues of the day including the issue of slavery as it related to the new territories of Kansas‚ Nebraska‚ Utah‚ Texas‚ California and New Mexico

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    Unit 5 2011

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    nonpartisan solution impossible? Was a policy of moderation doomed to fail? Would it have made much difference whether the nation was led by moderates or fanatics? 2. Repeated sectional compromises‚ in 1820‚ 1833‚ and 1850‚ held the Union together and averted civil war. Why did compromise fail in 1860(1861? Civil War (30 points) 3. How did the Civil War affect each of the following: northern factory

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    regions fueled distrust and exacerbated pre-existing tensions‚ making compromise increasingly difficult. Efforts to reach an agreement between the North and South were futile in the face of profoundly ingrained disagreements. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 were only temporary solutions intended to maintain the fragile balance between free and slave states. They simply served to postpone the inevitable struggle over the extension of

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    In her article “True Womanhood Revisited”‚ published in 2002‚ Mary Louise Roberts describes her reading experience with Barbara Welter’s paper “The Cult of True Womanhood‚ 18201860”‚ published in 1970s. At the first glance‚ Roberts seems to devalue Welter’s article by identifying its flaws and praising the advancement of the contemporary research. At the second glance‚ however‚ it becomes evident that Roberts is not as critically disposed to the paper: she re-reads it‚ explains some seeming flaws

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    Amedeo Avogadro

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    became a lawyer in 1796. Soon after he got his doctorate of law‚ he became interested in natural philosophy and mathematics. He left his successful legal career to teach mathematics and physics at the high school level in Vercelli‚ Italy in 1809. In 1820 he was appointed professor of mathematical physics at the University of Turin. Unfortunately‚ Avogadro lost his job in July‚ 1822. The job was reestablished in 1832‚ and Avogadro took his position back in 1834. He remained there until1859 when he

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    Austrian Immigrants to the United States Of America was not very popular that’s for sure. Austrian Immigrants to the United States was not considered a very big deal to the Austrians. Austrian immigrants to the United States were considered rare because it was an inconvenience to get all the way over here. Therefore‚ Austrian Immigrants to the United States were low in numbers‚ especially compared to the other groups like the Irish‚ or Italian. This is what words from the government had said. This

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    Causes Of American Civil War

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    South saw slavery’s expansion as crucial while the North became more convinced of the need to curtail it. Slavery is linked to the outbreak of war in the following ways: a) Southern support for slavery versus Northern opposition to slavery By 1820 both Britain and the U.S. had declared the slave trade illegal and slavery was ended in virtually all the Northern U.S. states. As the North’s industrial development outstripped that of the South‚ the differences between Southern and Northern society

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