slavery in New Mexico and southern California. The issue was further aggravated by the acceptance of Texas as a slave state and it claming the eastern half of New Mexico‚ where slavery had since been outlawed. The Kansas-Nebraska Act reflected the actions of those opposed to slavery by declaring the territories as a state of popular sovereignty‚ or slavery by the discretion of the territory. The issue that lay within the proposed bill was that Nebraska lay within the Louisiana Purchase and north
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Women generally did not fight in the revolution‚ and the traditional status of Eighteenth Century women meant that they were not publicly able to participate fully in the debates over the revolution. However‚ in their own sphere‚ and sometimes out of it‚ woman participated fully in the revolution in all the ways that their status and custom allowed. As the public debate over the Townshend Acts grew more virulent‚ women showed their support for the cause of freedom by engaging in certain "feminine"
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economy was greatly dependent on physical manpower to perform the grueling task of harvesting cash crops such as Indigo‚ rice and cotton. Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin increased the cotton output and profits for plantation slave owners‚ creating an even bigger economic dependency on slavery for the south. Such a strong focus on manual slave labor for farming prevented the south from keeping up with the industrial and financial growth of the north. Leading up to the American Revolution
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Was the American Revolution really a revolution? A revolution‚ as defined by the Oxford English dictionary‚ is the overthrow of an established government or social order by those previously subject to it. Although‚ the colonists did overthrow the British monarch‚ there was not enough change in American society for it to be a revolution. After the colonists won the war with Britain‚ they created their own form of government. A foundation and basis for the newly formed government was the Articles
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For us to see the significance of the religious revivals known as the “Great Awakening‚” we need to take a brief glance as to what caused it to happen. Going back into the 17th century‚ we will notice that fighting has ceased between political and religious leaders. This is due to the fact that the Church of England has come to establish a State religion. As a result of an establishment of a State religion‚ other religions such as Catholicism‚ Judaism and Puritanism were repressed. While having
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The Great Awakening The Great Awakening was a watershed event in the life of the American people. Before it was over‚ it had swept the colonies of the Eastern seaboard‚ transforming the social and religious life of land. Although the name is slightly misleading--the Great Awakening was not one continuous revival‚ rather it was several revivals in a variety of locations--it says a great deal about the state of religion in the colonies. For the simple reality is that one cannot be awakened unless
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Have you ever wondered why the roaring 20s turned into the depressing 30s? The Great Depression was major plot twist in the economic world. It affected society‚ it also made many scratch their heads and caused different nation to reshape themselves. This whole thing started after shattering of Stock Market. Before the Stock Market‚ the 1920s was expecting a high graph for economic growth but‚ when this show happened so many people began to struggle to create money to survive also people began to
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Once the Americans were free from British control after the American Revolution‚ they started to reevaluate their politics‚ the economy‚ and society. After America broke away from what they saw as a corrupt and damaging government‚ they altered how they wanted to govern their society‚ even though they returned to a more centralized government similar to the British. Those who weren’t educated‚ as viewed by the elite‚ didn’t experience a lot of change however the concept from the revolution still guided
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1775‚ the American Revolution began as an open dispute between Great Britain and the thirteen original colonies. The focal issue that contributed to the revolution was that the colonists did not feel that they were being treated the way Great Britain ought to treat them. Indeed‚ the colonists expressed many social‚ political‚ and economical grievances that the British unlawfully thrust upon them. Specifically‚ there are several prominent causal factors that led to the American Revolution‚ such as
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lead up to the Revolution such as the Quarter Act(1775)‚ the sugar act(1776)‚ the stamp act(1775) etc. The colonies felt like they were being treated unfair and so they rebelled against Great Britain. The revolutionary war had begun between the thirteen colonies and England on April 19‚ 1775 where the first shots were in Lexington and concord‚ Massachusetts. The treaty of Paris ended the war on 1783 and finally the colonies had won their independence. On July 4th 1776 where Great Britain had officially
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