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    What motivated Americans to move west and what was their motive? Different Americans were motivated by different reasons to move west. Ranchers would move to more land in the west to raise cattle‚ particularly Texas and Kansas. These cattle ranchers would then ship their cattle back to the Eastern states to sell. They sold for much higher prices back east. The expansion of the railroad made it possible to easily transport the cattle east. Farmers were motivated because they could get free land

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    The More Factor

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    “The More Factor”: The Final Frontier – Fact or Fiction In the essay “The More Factor‚” author Laurence Shames honestly presents the backstory of America in desperate need of more. Shames begins with an illustration from the 1880s‚ in which large amounts of land in Texas would be developed into towns with unnecessary accessories. After building the towns‚ most residents would move on‚ but some would stay to appear as current residents for a census to determine the variety of a city. Afterwards

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    European Exploration

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    European Exploration The things I tend to prove in this essay of European Exploration are major people you need to know‚ and what they did. I also plan to tell about why Europeans were interested in the land. Lastly I plan to tell you about the motivating factors. Overall the Europeans went on an exploration for a reason which is what they encountered. There are a lot of reasons why Europeans were interested in discovering new lands and markets. I am going to list some examples of why Europeans

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    During the early 1900’s the Belgians had been colonizing Rwanda. The Belgians used the Hutu people who at the time were a majority‚ as slaves. The Belgian’s favored the Tutsi because they looked more “white”. The belgians would look at the skin tone‚ the size of their lips and the width of the bridge of their noses to determine this. The Belgians put the Tutsi people in charge of the Hutu’s but when the Belgians decided to leave the area they left the Hutu people in charge. The Hutu were furious

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    European Expansion

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    13 The European expansion resulted in the death of millions to better the lives of the few in Europe at the time. In 1492 there was beyond an enormous amount of genocide than ever before. The Europeans invaded the land of the Native Americans and Africans took them ‚ crowded them on ships and decided that it was ok and civil. During the triangle trade though many goods were transferred so was disease ad slaves. European expansion was definitely a force for evil hands down. European expansion

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    European Cuisine

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    European cuisine | | | | | About 2 pages (640 words) | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form An English Sunday roast. Croissant‚ of unknown origin‚ associated with France. Hungarian goulash. Smørbrød from Norway. European cuisine‚ or alternatively Western cuisine is a generalized nomenclature for people especially from East and Southeast Asian countries referring collectively to the cuisines of theWestern countries including Europe

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    European colonialism

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    European colonialism Colonialism is the control by one power over a dependent area or group of people. The purposes of colonialism include economic exploitation of the colony’s natural resources‚ creation of new markets for the colonizer‚ and extension of the colonizer’s way of life beyond its national borders. The most active practitioners were European countries; in the years 1500-1900‚ Europe colonized all of North and South America and Australia‚ most of Africa‚ and much of Asia by sending settlers

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    Colonization of the western world *********************** Phoenix University UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION II Com156 ***************** Fall 2013 British colonization‚ how it has made our world what it is today. Have you ever wondered how we ended up as free as we are today? Even though the British occupied other peoples lands‚ Colonization is a good thing because the spread of democracy and freedom and

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    The European Exploration

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    The European Exploration HIS111 Lecture 190 August 27‚ 2014 “European overseas expansion after 1600 entered a second phase‚ comparable to developments at home. As Spain declined‚ so did the Spanish empire and that of Portugal‚ which was tied to Spain by a Habsburg king after 1580 and plagued with its own developing imperial problems. These new conditions afforded opportunities for northern European states. The Dutch‚ between 1630 and 1650‚ almost cleared the Atlantic of

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    1. The Cassis Case was a landmark in the European history of law. Explain Why Germany impeded the liquor to be sold because of non-conformity to German products (not the same alcohol level as German liquors: could be misunderstood and misused by consumers). * The ECF said it was a restricting measure in the frame of the Common Market and draw the following rule from this case for the free movement of goods * Any product legally manufactured and sold in one member state must be allowed to

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