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    Events Leading Up to the American Revolutionary War Great Awakening (1730s-1740s) The Great Awakening was a sort of religious revival that swept through the English colonies and was a reaction against the Enlightenment which had started due to the mass of wealth and greed of the church and upper class‚ leading to up to the American Revolution by inspiring an idea of democracy and independence in the colonists. It connected the colonies by a religious bond and made many colonists feel they were equal

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    History 109 October 3‚ 2012 Contact or Conquest? Development of America During the 15th Through 18th Centuries While European explorers throughout history had made many contacts throughout their expeditions‚ the discovery‚ colonization‚ and development of territories and culture during the 1400s to 1700s would best be described as conquest. Spanish‚ Portuguese‚ English‚ French‚ Dutch and Germans came to the New World in search of many different interests‚ but ultimately the “conquering” of civilizations

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    Throughout the nineteenth century three political ideals began influencing states and their  citizens like no other ideals had done before. These ideals were liberalism‚ socialism and‚ the  most important‚ nationalism. Each one possessed its own uniqueness which inspired mass  followings of people that would last thoroughly into the twentieth century. Each one also proved  to form a catalyst for the modernisation of many European countries. However‚ in comparison‚  none of these ideals had the impact that the nationalistic approach had

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    caught a lot of attention and inspired lots of films‚ novels and book throughout modern times. The 13 century in the history of psychopathology it’s known by the time when asylums began to emerge. (Roberts‚ A. 1981/Birth of the City London Bedlam) In the above developments there weren’t specific places for the mentally ill‚ because in most cases they were pursued and punished. That’s why in this century another paradigm comes in and changes the way people saw the mentally disable. By this time people

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    nobility as much it did the kings‚ and this was particular in the two countries‚ such as France and England. This time period was the age of nobles‚ the nobility‚ the kings of these two states often had a kind of relationship that could be seen as social welfare for the rich and that the nobles got stuff such as jobs and money from the kings‚ what the kings got from them was support. However‚ the relationship they had with each been at sometimes was strained between them. One of the states that were

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    Changing trends in Tax and non-tax revenues Trends in tax revenue Some of the other features of trends in tax revenue are as follows: • Tax revenue‚ on an average‚ could finance about 60 per cent of thecenter’s revenue expenditure during the eighties. The proportionduring nineties‚ however‚ was about 55 per cent only. • Continuing reforms and rationalization of the tax structure‚ haveresulted in a structural shift in composition of tax revenue • A fall in the share of indirect tax

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    Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries‚ a variety of laws were passed to remove the rights of slaves. What little rights slaves had were quickly taken away when African slavery became prominent in America. These were known as the Fugitive Slave Acts. History.com states‚ “Enacted by Congress in 1793‚ the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. Widespread resistance to the 1793

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    The eighteenth century is often referred to as the century of Enlightenment. The ideas of main enlightenment thinkers‚ the philosophes‚ made mark on the century. In Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie‚ the philosophe is described as a man who ‘trampling on prejudice‚ tradition‚ universal consent‚ authority‚ in a word‚ all that enslaves most minds‚ dares to think for himself’ . If the movement’s mother country was France‚ there were philosophes all across Europe. Some of the most famous were Diderot

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    the New World in long journeys shackel to one another. The captains started taking around 300-400 slaves in each ship‚ and they ended up taking around 800-900. The fisrt journeys during the 17th century‚ took from 35 to 50 days‚ and a lot of the slaves died all along the trip. Although‚ during the 18th century‚ the ships were bigger and the journeys took around 30 days. The captains tried to make the trips as short as possible because they knew that more days at the sea‚ implicated more deaths among

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    Much led Londoners to inhabit the asylum. The mad‚ drunk‚ homeless‚ and reluctant were outcasts o the rest of Englands inhabits. People that were thought threats to society had punishments ranging from being restrained‚ to being murdered and “left to rot in a gibbet at the crossroads” (Arnold 43) . Th ough most veiwers of the events of Bedlam see the punishments as brutal at the time it was actually seen as treatment. This was‚ afterall‚ the 1400’s – 1500’s‚ they lacked a lot of medical advancement

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