formally ended the American Revolution‚ had made no mention of the country¡¦s indigenous peoples‚ reflecting Great Britain¡¦s ambiguous jurisdiction over them. h The United States would have to chart its own course‚ which it did in Article I‚ Section 8‚ of its Constitution: ¡§The Congress shall have Power ¡K To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations‚ and among the several States‚ and with the Indian Tribes.¡¨ This was the law from which more than 200 years of federal legislation and programs would derive
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The American and French RevolutionsThe French Revolution had many causes. The main causes were due to political‚ social‚ and economic conditions in France that contributed to the discontent felt by many French people-especially those in the third estate. The ideas of the intellectuals of the Enlightenment brought new views to government and society. The American Revolution also influenced the coming of the French Revolution. The philosophies planted the seeds for the French Revolution. Their goals
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Eden Harris Harris‚ 1 British Literature Mrs. Schmidt Choice and Consequence John Milton’s Paradise Lost and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress are both books that share the relationship of choices and consequences. Milton’s Paradise Lost is about the beginning of the world (Genesis)‚ the creation of man‚ and the fall. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is about the spiritual journey of a man named Christian‚ who is scared of being condemned to death and leaves his city to try and find a place where
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The social and political system of Sparta was framed around physical superiority‚ duty to the state and conquest in war. The excepted concept of Eunomia further enforced this patriotism by placing the needs of the state above individual interest. While the Spartans lived within a rigid social structure based on a three-tiered hierarchy‚ they also participated in a cradle to grave obedience to the law. It was the determination of public officials who decided if a child was strong enough to survive
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History of the United States from 1800 to 1900 MW 1:30pm-3:20pm Instructor：Knittel YuChuan Zhou This this personal introduction. The most important thing in life is a course to know yourself. After entering university‚ entered into a new environment -- totally different from my hometown of an environment. Whenever I encounter problems in interpersonal‚ my mind emerge out of such a question: what the hell am I how? After repeatedly the feeling of frustration‚ I found that I own a lot of changes
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1800: In 1800 European map was nothing like it is today. On the North of the Europe most possessions had Britain‚ Denmark and Netherlands. Britain had a control over the whole Great Britain and Ireland‚ Denmark had a control over Iceland and Netherlands had Norway and Batavian Republic under itself. On the North was Sweden‚ too‚ but it was almost the same like it is today‚ just that it had a part of today’s Finland that didn’t exist at that time. East and South East were mostly under Ottoman Empire
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In the 1800’s‚ women’s rights‚ dress reform and suffrage had begun to really become a global issue. Mary Edwards Walker was a women’s right activist and several other things including‚ a nurse and later a surgeon in the Civil War‚ a writer‚ an abolitionist and a feminist. During her lifetime‚ she accomplished many extraordinary achievements‚ including being awarded The Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the war. She was the first and only woman as of 2015 to have been awarded this
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Life in the 1800’s and 1900’s changed. The industrial revolution happened. Mass production became popular and the owners became rich. The way of life for the poor was horrible while the rich were living happily. Many new patents came out changing the way people did things. Workers suffered they wanted to change the working conditions especially for kids. People did not trust the government or have faith in it. Andrew Carnegie was the first to introduce mass production. He mass-produce steal
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the 1630’s and the 1640’s‚ the Puritans traveled to the colonies to detach from their opinion of a convoluted Church of England. They set up towns and started new lives that were all based on their idea of a pure religion. The Puritan’s definition of a pure religion did not include many of the ideas of the Church of England. They built the colonies and made a system based upon the idea that God was the most important aspect of life. Puritan ideas and values influenced the political‚ economic‚ and social
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seventeenth century‚ a period of major economic and social recession‚ crisis and secular readjustment‚ which contrasts strikingly with the periods of economic expansion which preceded and followed it. Its effects were not confined to any single country‚ but‚ with a few marginal exceptions‚ can be traced throughout the entire range of the economic area dominated by and from‚ Western Europe‚ from the Americas to the China Seas; nor were they confined to the economic field. The simultaneous occurrence of
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