The English Bill of Rights was a British law that was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689. It told and declared the rights of the people and settled the argument of the succession of William and Mary. It was created right after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 after England overthrew King James II. It contained the misdeeds of James the II and said that he would be replaced by William and Mary. “The Glorious Revolution abolished absolutism and established a constitutional monarchy in
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UNIT 1 CHANGE: AN OVERVIEW Structure 1.1 1.2 1.3 Introduction Change - Meaning and Characteristics Types of Change 1.4 Theories of Change 1.5’ Approaches to Change 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Social Change and Cultural change Steps in Social Change Dimensions of Social Change Factors of Social Change 1.10 Let Us Sum Up 1.11 References and Selected Readings 1.12 Check Your Progress - Possible Answers 1.1 INTRODUCTION If you look around‚ you will find that ten years ago the face of India was
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Through six days of armed conflict in an all-encompassing citizen uprising‚ Irishmen and Irishwomen alike led their own people to freedom from an outside power. This came to a compromise in the form of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic‚ which gave the Irish freedom‚ while stopping the assault of innocent British. While the Irish followed in the revolutionary footsteps of the Americans‚ they blazed their own trail for other nations such as India to follow and learn from. The Removal of Home
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Social Changes The biggest social changes are Urbanization‚ Americanization‚ New beliefs‚ acceptances‚ behaviors‚ and mass production. These ideas changed the way society thinks‚ acts‚ and relate to one another. The changes in society called Urbanization means that the people who normally lives spreading out through the country now move to live in the city more to find a job. They stop doing agriculture because it is long and difficult task and turn to work in the industry in the city. That
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During the 16th and 18th centuries America became the land to settle for better opportunities. A lot of powerful European countries came to settle in order to expand their territories for economic gain. While the people of those countries were trying to find an easier way of life. These choices were mainly provoked by their motivations and problems in their country such as‚ seeking religious freedom‚ economic profits or a gateway from rulers’ tyranny. Spanish explorers first came to the Americas
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Augustan to Gothic period 1713-1789 Introduction The 18th century in English literature can be divided into two periods: THE AUGUSTAN AGE (The Age of Pope) - 1700-1745 and THE AGE OF SENSIBILITY (The Age of Johnson) - 1745-1785. This was the period of heavy colonizations of the new world and the time when cities rise. Various inventions‚ as well as the Industrial and Agricultural Revolution‚ influenced manufacturing and the British trade with the rest of the world; both of which grew tremendously
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Throughout the Seventeenth and Eighteenth century‚ the development of the New World colonies in British North America and Barbados by Britain and its colonists made use of the option of slavery to benefit the new colonies economy. The reason that slavery was appealing towards the settlers was due to the strenuous labour and long hours necessary to grow cash crops on plantations. It takes time and effort to grow these crops‚ and the main crops we will be focusing on are sugar‚ tobacco‚ and rice. Since
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was widely witnessed mostly in the 18th century. This consisted of many social and economical changes which have created the London we see today. I will be using the famous and well known “Somerset House” as an example showing these changes. Phil Pauley- Somerset House Sir William Chambers was a well known architect during the 18th century. In 1749 he studied architecture‚ first in Paris with the influential architectural theorist Jacques-François Blondel and then in Rome. Returning to England in
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Triangle Trade: a trading system between the Americas‚ the gold coast of Africa‚ and the West Indies. For example‚ liquor would be traded for slaves‚ which would be brought over the West Indies. There‚ he would trade the slaves for molasses‚ which he would bring to New England to be turned into rum. Great Awakening: A religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s. First started in Massachusetts by pastor Jonathan Edwards. He proclaimed that believing in salvation through good works and affirming the
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The War of the Spanish Succession was a war over the succession of the Spanish kingdom. Conflict started when Charles II had died on November 1st‚ 1700 but had no obvious male heirs to the throne. However there were candidates within the Austrian and French kingdoms. The countries battled over who is going to take the kingdom. During the war‚ countries had used privateers who are privately own armed ships who are commissioned by the government to fight or harass other countries on the sea (Privateer
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