many complications. Unemployment was one of the complications during the Depression. Unemployment skyrocketed from 1929 to 1936 from almost 4% to 23%. There were twice as many African- Americans unemployed. Many couldn’t even pay rent or buy food (Doc 3). People were often thrown into the streets. New Deals like the TVA and the CCC were applied.The TVA stopped floods by building dams. The CCC Built parks and planted trees. There were Mental and Physical responses
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Ansley Walker DBQ Byrd The period of the Civil War and Reconstruction‚ lasting from 1860-1877‚ the nation underwent a multitude of powerful changes‚ physically and emotionally. A school of thought today exists that‚ “The North won the war‚ bur the South won reconstruction.” What does this mean exactly? When the Union defeated the Confederacy‚ Northerners‚ freemen‚ and existing slaves imagined a political and social revolution in which their dreams of abolition and government power would manifest
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World War I was a major event of deaths‚ disasters‚ causes and effects on the European countries. World War I was a war against three European countries England‚ France‚ and Russian versus Germany‚ Italy and Austria-Hungary. Friedrich Engels explains in The Origins of the First World War (Doc A) the aftermath of the Thirty Years War caused many devastating effects like famine‚ sickness‚ want and brutalizing the population and this is being compared to World War I saying that the same outcome happened
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One of the numerous transformations that happened circa the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was called The Revolutionary War known as the American Revolution. The American Revolution occurred in 1775 thru 1783. The American Revolution emerged from growing conflict between the 13 colonies of Great Britain and the colonial government. What prompted the American Revolution was that the British government needed to raise revenue by taxing the settlements which made the Stamp Act of 1765‚ the Townshend
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30 January 2014 Thirty Years’ War Essay The Thirty Years’ Year War was a war between the Protestants and the Catholics that lasted from 1618‚ and after impacting countless numbers of people‚ ended in 1648. This war had a huge effect on the religious landscape of Europe and the rule of the Holy Roman Emperor was ended. The two individuals in this first hand account of the Thirty Years’ War‚ Peter Hagendorf and Hans Heberle‚ lived in the same time period but led very different lives. One was a mercenary
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200 shirts for soldiers‚ served as a political hostess for her father‚ and was involved in the Ladies Association of Philadelphia. She also donated money to the Continental Congress when they needed it. Without her‚ America could have lost the Revolutionary War. Sarah Bache was born September 11‚ 1743 in Philadelphia. Her father was Benjamin Franklin and her mother was Deborah Reed and Sarah was nicknamed “Sally” her entire life. Her father educated her thoroughly in politics. Sarah was the only child
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The French and Indian War culminated in the Treaty of Paris in 1763‚ which would end French power in North America and British power would reign over North America east of the Mississippi River (Tindall). The French and Indian War‚ also called The Seven Years ’ War‚ nearly doubled Britain ’s national debt and post-war expenses were expected to remain high because the government decided in early 1763 to keep ten thousand British regular soldiers in the American colonies (Stamp Act). The primary
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If the British had won the Revolutionary War‚ I would not be sitting here writing this paper and you would not be reading this right now. Americans would not be Americans‚ but British. America would not even be around now and there would be no 50 states. Most of our ancestors would not have came if the British beat the Americans. Our ancestors came for independence‚ land‚ and economic gain‚ they came for a better life then they had where they were. Based on Britain back then‚ it was not like America
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World War III (abbreviated as WWIII‚ also known as the Third World War) is the hypothetical future successor to World War II (1939–1945). In fiction‚ the war is often suggested to be nuclear and extremely devastating in nature. This war is anticipated and planned for by military and civil authorities‚ and explored in fiction by many authors all around the world. Concepts range from purely conventional scenarios or a limited use of nuclear weapons to the destruction of the planet. With the development
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Americans were not completely united. As always‚ there were the dissenters‚ in this case the Tories‚ and many people just didn’t want to get involved. Even so‚ there were evidently enough people that the Americans could win the war (with the help of the French‚ of course). Before the war‚ practical people like Ben Franklin saw that the American people needed to come together as one in order to triumph over the evil British Empire. Ben Franklin’s drawing of the snake chopped into pieces fairly adequately
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