APWH Ch 17 Big Picture and Margins Questions 1. In what ways did the ideas of the Enlightenment contribute to Atlantic Revolutions? Human political and social arrangements could be engineered and improved by human action. Liberty‚ equality‚ free trade‚ religious tolerance‚ republicanism‚ rationality‚ popular sovereignty‚ natural rights‚ consent of the goverened and social contracts provided the underpinnings of the revolutions. 2. What was revolutionary about the American Revolution? Marked
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The North and The South After 4 grueling years‚ The Civil War finally came to an end on May 9th‚ 1865. Most believed the Civil War was started was because of the “Free states” (The North) and the “Slave states” (The South) couldn’t come to a compromise over the power of national government to stop slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and vowed to keep slavery out of territories. The Civil war is an incredibly crucial part of history
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Why did civil war break out in 1642? Why did civil war break out? Well for about 17 years parliament and king Charles 1 hadn’t been getting on well and it didn’t help that parliament hadn’t really got on with Charles’ dad James 1 or Charles’ close advisors. They mainly got on each other’s nerves about money‚ religion and power‚ as well as the short term causes and all the extra things! Soon it got too much and Charles declared war on the 22nd August 1642. Charles sort of started the civil
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Most slaves in the lower South labored on large plantations possessing twenty or more slaves working on tobacco and cotton (Tindall‚ pg. 496). Europe had a high demand for cotton production so this made the land owners in the south in need of more slaves to help with the production in goods for the Europeans. The development of the cotton gin saw Southern planters grow a variety of cotton practically short staple cotton that was well suited for the heat in the Deep South. Much of the slave trade
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learned nothing from the Civil War. One would think that after hiding away‚ awaiting the day that England would decide to restore its monarchy‚ they would have realized the faults in their fathers beliefs that had caused the disastrous civil war. Once they had reclaimed the throne from 11 years of Commonwealth‚ they followed the ways of their father‚ CharlesⅠ‚ into the belief of the Divine Right of Kings. This made Parliament wonder‚ did the Stuarts learn any thing from the Civil War?CharlesⅡ was the first
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more important to the aristocracy and courtiers‚ becoming their only means of economic survival – hence becoming the main reason to fight for it in the Civil War‚ since the monarchy was bound by the feudal order‚ the king himself was the greatest feudal lord. In the early sixteenth century the alliance between the crown and the parliament had been genuine. The monarchy had used the bourgeoisie as an ally against the other great feudal houses. The Parliamentary franchise was very restricted and the
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South Korea has achieved great economic growth within the last half century despite having been devastated by the korean war and having a GDP per capita in 1960 comparable to the current Republic of Congo[1]. Todays South Korea has a total GDP similar to that of Italy and Canada[1] but how did it get there? The following essay will examine how South Korea achieved this growth and will focus on how foreign aid‚ education‚ import substitution‚ exports and the chaebol helped South Korea’s economic development
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The Causes of the Civil War Through the antebellum period‚ The United States was not at war‚ but tensions continued to dominate the country. The north and the south relentlessly pressured each other over the issue of slavery. In 1860‚ South Carolina succeeded from the United states and the Civil War had begun. Although states right indirectly led to the succession of the Confederate States of America‚ slavery was the largest cause of the war as it was the greatest contributor to sectionalism‚ followed
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The North and the South grew different way in Civil war. In the South‚ there were mostly farmers. There weren’t many skilled workers that why manufacturing was not much. But in the North there were a lot of manufacturing and wealthy people‚ they had a lot of skilled workers. During the Civil War‚ there were some advantages and disadvantages between South and North. Few advantages in the South were able to fight on it large homeland‚ they had best military leaders‚ they encouraged young males to
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home or abroad‚ time and time again fundamentally conflicting ideas have resulted in physical confrontation. The United States has a love affair with war‚ dating back to its creation in 1775 and the revolutionary war. No war however has had such a dramatic effect on American society as the Civil War. It has been said that “the although the north won the war‚ the south won the peace”. This observation although valid in some respects‚ is also a very broad generalization and is by no means without
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