Canada 4. Natural Regions of Western Canada 5. Cultural Landscape Oct./Nov. Unit II/Chapter 1: Colonies in the Wilderness‚ 1814—1840 1. Introduction: Canada the Land and The Land of Yesterday 3. Upper Canada 4. The Immigrant Experience 5. Colonial Government and the Need for Reform Nov. Mid- Term Review and Exam Dec./Jan. Unit III/Chapter 2: Building a Nation‚ 1840—1867 1. Chapter Introduction 2. The Victorian Era 3. Building a Nation 4. The Advantages of Confederation 5. Confederation
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the Opium Wars (1839-42‚ 1856-60)‚ popular rebellions and the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)‚ China had fought to resist the foreigners‚ but it lacked a modernized military and suffered millions of casualties. Boxer Rebellion‚ officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists”). The group practiced certain boxing and calisthenic rituals
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The Pilgrimage of Grace is regarded as the most serious rebellion in Tudor dynasty. It is a rising against reforms of Henrician government took place in Yorkshire on October 1536. The rebels were discontent about the government’s new policies accompanied by Reformation. In this popular rising they expressed their grievances in December Petition (Bush‚ 1996). Its participants did not constrained to commons; evidence showed that gentlemen and clergy also protested against the government since their
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The Three Most Influential Colonies of Colonial America By the end of the exploration period in America‚ there were 13 colonies that had been established. All of these gave large contributions to the budding country‚ but in my eyes there were three that stood out among the rest‚ and for obvious reasons. These three colonies collectively showed development for self government‚ educational opportunity‚ and religious tolerance. They also provided proof of ethnic diversity and economic opportunity
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INTRODUCTION Louis Wirth defined a minority as “any group of people who because of their physical or cultural characteristics‚ are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment‚ and who there-fore regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination” (Wirth 1945:347). More modern definitions of a minority group describe them as numerically smaller racial or ethnic population who suffer discrimination and subordination (Feagin 1984). According
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WHYWHY DID THE GERMANS SUPPORT THE NAZI PARTY There were many problems in post- World War One Germany. Among them were the political problems which included the three uprisings‚ The Spartacist Rebellion in 1919 which revolted across Germany eventually establishing a brief communist state in the province of Bavaria. There was The Kapp Putsch in 1920 who tried to overthrow the new republic and there was The Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 that was led by Adolf Hitler and attempted to overthrow the
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Between 1676 and 1739 there were a lot of rebellions‚ uprisings‚ wars‚ and revolts in colonial America. Two specific rebellions are Bacon’s Rebellion‚ which occurred in 1676‚ and the Stono Rebellion‚ which occurred in 1739. These two rebellions were caused by pent up anger and tension between slaves and indentured servants and white people. Both Bacon’s Rebellion and the Stono Rebellion were the cause of Native American and Slave tensions. Bacon’s Rebellion started when the Susquehannock people of
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A STUDENTS REBELLION (http://socialistworker.org/2009/02/24/student-rebellion-catches-on) A student rebellion catches on Before anyone writes off today’s students as apathetic‚ they should consider what the new wave of student occupations has begun to accomplish. February 24‚ 2009 ONE OF the many upsetting aspects to being in your forties‚ is hearing people your own age grumbling about "young people" the way we were grumbled about ourselves. Old friends will complain‚ "Youngsters today have
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Bacon’s Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by young Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. The colony’s lightly organized frontier political culture combined with accumulating grievances‚ especially regarding Indian attacks‚ to motivate a popular uprising against Berkeley. He had failed to address the demands of the colonists regarding their safety. The rebellion was first suppressed by a few armed merchant ships from London whose captains sided
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Q. Critically analyze the nature of Taiping Movement. Is it correct to say that Taiping Movement was a revolution and not a rebellion? The Taiping Movement (1851-1864) is the biggest peasant uprising in Chinese history and one of the greatest peasant rebellions in world history. It was directed primarily against the feudal rule of the Manchu dynasty. Its impact was so great that it shook the Manchu Dynasty to its roots and the threats faced by Western Powers‚ seemed like a minor problem in comparison
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