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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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    In the 1960s‚ after the abolishment of slavery with the 13th amendment‚ slaves were free to live their lives as they so chose. Freed slaves and others in the south after the civil war needed to find a new way of living. Slaves were not paid for their labor‚ however‚ they were given food and shelter by their owner. Freed slaves had to figure out how to get those necessities on their own. Since slaves were used to working with crops‚ they looked to sharecropping as their means of work. Sharecropping

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    African Americans after the Civil War During the years 1861 and 1870‚ both‚ the Civil War and the Reconstruction‚ took place. However‚ during this time period‚ many problems occurred: for example‚ slaves were being debated about between the North and South‚ and many freed Africans were not accepted as citizens. But‚ although African Americans went through a lot of issues and obstacles regarding their race and freedom‚ they managed to shape the course and consequences of the civil war through social

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    following the Civil War included many similar circumstances to the industrial boom between 1815 and 1900. In that time period‚ Eli Whitney’s cotton gin and the McCormick Reaper incited a new and more efficient way of living. The revolutionary changes made to the entire society allowed the country to modernize every aspect of life. Changes were seen as beneficial because of the lack of mass corruption to the integrity of the political and economic areas of America. Unlike the boom during this era‚ the

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    The Civil War’s outcome could have gone either way‚ on one hand you have the North‚ which had the industrial advantage‚ and the South on the other who had a home field advantage and better generals too. The war pitted brother against brother and father against son‚ and lost many wives their sons and or husbands. The victory of the North was due to many economical factors that hindered‚ and ultimately defeated the South. The North was the industrial part of the country. It depended on its’ factories

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    WORLD WAR 1 1914 – 1918 WW1 SUMMARY World War I‚ was the First ‘World War’‚ it was a global military conflict which took place primarily in Europe from 1914 to 1918. Over 40 million casualties resulted‚ including approximately 20 million military and civilian deaths. The Entente Powers‚ led by France‚ Russia‚ the British Empire‚ and later Italy (from 1915)‚ and the United States (from 1917)‚ defeated the Central Powers‚ led by the Austro-Hungarian‚ German‚ and Ottoman Empires. Russia withdrew

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    Why Did Prohibition Last So Long? Prohibition of Alcohol in America was introduced in 1920 with the 18th amendment of the constitution and was finally revoked in 1933. Prohibition was always considered a failure‚ due to the way it was policed‚ the fact the American people at the time liked to drink and the fact that alcohol was very easily accessible. Therefore the fact it lasted thirteen years‚ despite it being obvious within the first five that things were not working‚ seems incomprehensible

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    After the victory of the union after the Civil War‚ many things had changed. The fact that the War was over was good news but it left the United States with a new set of problems that were no less challenging than the Civil War itself. The four most important challenges were how the south would rebuild its shattered society and economy after the damage inflicted by the four years of war?‚ What would be the place in that society of 4 million freed blacks and to what extent was the federal government

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    Cold War was a conflict between the west lead United States of America and the communist block lead by the former Soviet Union. It lasted almost 4 decades and a half from 1945-1991- the collapse of USSR. It was fought in neutral areas‚ space‚ Africa and Asia. It was fought in all manners including: an economic war‚ media and propaganda‚ diplomatic struggles and military conflicts. Prior to the Second World there were economic‚ political‚ and ideological differences that were put aside so that

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    takes a great deal of bravery to influence an entire era‚ and one man succeeded to do so. Some of the greatest businessmen of all time‚ Andrew Carnegie‚ Cornelius Vanderbilt‚ John D. Rockefeller‚ and Henry Ford‚ fiercely competed for the top spot in the business word. They were ruthless businessmen and did everything they could to help their businesses succeed. All this fierce competition allowed for the great economic growth known as the Second Industrial Revolution. The Second Industrial Revolution

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