Why did the Spanish Armada fail? Charlotte Wong 7B (20) The Spanish Armada failed because of many things‚ most of them were because of they did not done a proper preparation for the battle. The Spanish was very weak and unorganized‚ they know that they were‚ but they still don’t do any preparation‚ as if they knew that they will lose. They did not done well in the tactics‚ ship design and choosing their leader. If they can’t do these basic things
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President Raul Alfonsin and it has not deviated since. The longest democratic period Argentina has experienced is the present. Before 1983 Argentina could not practice democracy for more than nine years before becoming susceptible to a military coup. Why did Argentina democratize in 1983? Argentina became a democracy through the exogenous theory of democratization. The military lost its legitimacy in the face of the public because of the Falklands War and the Dirty War and was no longer able to bring
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communism to Afghanistan. They believed they were leaders. They decided in December 1979 to invade Afghanistan to spread the communist-style government to them. The Soviets wanted to take over Afghanistan also because of there rich oil supply. The Soviets did not really have any support from any country. The United States helped Afghanistan because they wanted oil and they wanted to defeat communism and the Soviets.
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Rebekkah George Mrs. Lopez English 1H January 23‚ 2015 The Reckless Decade The 1890’s were a prominent time period teeming with racism‚ segregation‚ and many notable authors‚ such as: Emily Dickinson and Ida B. Wells. The fact that the economic systems of the African Americans continued to improve in the 1890’s infuriated the whites‚ leading them to create preposterous voting regulations. In order to vote‚ African Americans were required to pay an annual poll tax two years before the election actually
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those he brought along‚ to arm rebellious slaves with the aim of striking terror to the slaveholders in Virginia. In Document A from the New York Tribune (December 3‚ 1859)‚ Horace Greeley states that slavery was a bad thing and that John Brown did a good thing
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They also did not have the supplies to support so many people being sick. The settlers started with 5‚000 people and by the end only had 500 (Gordon). The contractor Lincoln had hired to watch over the settlers started to become power hungry. He stole money from
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One of the biggest reason why Jamestown really sufferd was when john smith had to go back to england and they had no good substainable water source nor did they have any idea of how to farm with this new land. John smith got injured in a gunpowder explosion and had to go back to england. Also most of their water supply was not good and would give them diseases like disentary. When they came over they had no idea of how to farm in the new soil. The soil was alot different than the soil in england
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Why did Britain establish an empire? The British established an empire for many different reasons‚ most of which were to benefit England itself and few to help other countries. The five main reasons that will be discussed in this essay are: power‚ economy‚ trade‚ religion and development of other countries. One of the first reasons that Britain established an empire was because of religion. Matthew 28:19 states: ‘Go ye therefore and teach all nations’. Some christians took this literally and took
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money is to invest it to shares. Although the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was devastating to the United States of America‚ it opened the eyes of the civilians to what money can really do the nation. The stock market had become very popular in the 1920’s. It was organized in 1792 by a group of stockbrokers‚ people who arrange the sale of stocks‚ looking for a more efficient way to buy and sell stocks. The stock market was a way for businesses to get financial support to expand their facilities and workforce
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Since the 1660’s‚ the British government had been ridding Britain of rebels and criminals they no longer wanted in the country. This method of punishment was typically known as transportation. This involved sending the convicts to another country to commit hard labour and to live in deserved difficult conditions. Since the 1660s‚ the main transportation location from Britain was to the American colonies. However‚ when the American colonies had won their independence‚ transportation to there stopped
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