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    ------------------------------------------------- Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du jeu de paume) was a pivotal event during the first days of the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 of the 577 members from the Third Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789. The only person who did not sign was Joseph Martin-Dauch‚ a politician who would not execute decisions not sanctioned by the king. They made a makeshift conference room inside a tennis court

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    Hispanic Americans in the United States: Taking a Deeper Look Diversity in America Term Paper November 26‚ 2013 Abstract Over the past several decades‚ the United States has become a much more diverse country. Immigration from most if not all countries throughout the world are the reason for this. A large portion of the immigrants that make up our country are Hispanics. Hispanics aren’t just made up of one group of people‚ but rather several groups from different countries of the world

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    called the Yankees and people from the South were called the Rebels .During the war more than 620‚000 lives were lost 375‚000 were injured. One of the questions I looked up is why was the civil war considered the deadliest war in American History? When I looked it up to find my answer my answer was that the civil war is considered the deadliest war because during the war soldiers used muskets‚ repeating rifles‚ knives and more. One of the reasons the civil war was caused is because there was a lot of

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    came in and starting attacking all of the Jewish people. There was a particular little girl‚ Genia Dresner‚ who stood out to Schindler. She was wearing all red and witnessed a mother and daughter get shot by the S.S. men. This was an important turning point for Schindler‚ now he realized how brutal and immoral everything was during the war. He knew that something had to be done‚ and he could no longer support what Nazi Germany was doing without feeling guilty. He traveled all the way to Budapest in

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    Both the French and Russian revolutions occurred because of two main reasons. Both of these revolutions were the direct results of bad leadership and a bad economy. These two reasons along with other factors caused both of these revolutions. Although they were both similar‚ they also had differences. A difference between the two is that the Russians had an unsuccessful "pre-revolution" in 1905. Another difference between these two revolutions is the fact that the French turned towards a democracy

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    History Coursework – B Question To what extent do you consider that the October 1917 Revolution was a key turning point in the development of modern Russia in the years 1856-1964? The October 1917 Revolution is undoubtedly a momentous and extremely important event in Russia’s history‚ one that ousted the centuries-old Tsardom that ruled over the empire‚ in favour of the radical communist movement in the form of the Bolsheviks‚ headed by one Vladimir Iliych Lenin. However‚ did this sudden move

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    The Bill of Rights is one of the turning points in the legislative system of the USA. There have been a lot of discussions about how important and influential it is‚ and which of the rights proposed is the most important. The initial ten alterations‚ which make up the purported Bill of Rights‚ were intended to cool the reasons for alarm of the gentle adversaries of the Constitution in its unique structure. The corrections were proposed to the state assemblies by the first Congress that collected

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    The French Revolution was indeed a fairly quick revolution spanning roughly around a decade in length‚ nevertheless the revolution did change a great deal of ideas in how the government did things in France‚ it even had an influence on some of the bordering countries ideals and how they would handle a revolution. Some of the problems that the people who supported the revolution during pre revolutionary France were‚ the flawed tax system that was highly unfair to the middle and peasant class and certainly

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    against the Revolution and did not support the constitutional monarchy. Source 2 implies how the King and Queen were seen as enemies to the Revolution and how they caused the public to gain the incentive to go against the monarchy. Historical evidence suggests that Marie Antoinette betrayed France in the soul aim to bring back absolute monarchy. Apparently‚ she sent details of French military plans to the Austrians. This claim is supported by Source 2‚ where Marie Antoinette “had discussed French military

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    Wold History 10th Grade The French revolution’s influence Who would’ve thought that such a small man like napoleon Bonaparte would bring such a big change on the political and economic structure of France? By the 1780s France once prosperous economy was seriously in decline. People were very desperate those times and their government was very unstable. By then‚ people weren’t concerned about their rights and equality anymore‚ they were desperate for someone to come in and establish order in

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