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The Salem Witch Trials
Words: 1736 / Pages: 7 .... and that no only the Wigwams of Indians, where the pagan Powaws often raise their masters, in the shapes of Bears and Snakes and Fires, but the House of Christians, where our God has had his constant Worship, have undergone the Annoyance of Evil spirits. Go tell the world, What Prays can do beyond all Devils and Witches, and What it is that these Monsters love to do; and through the Demons in the Audience of several standers-by threatned much disgrace to thy Author, if he let thee come abroad, yet venture That, and in this way seek a just Revenge on Them for the Disturbance they have given to such as have called on the Name of God.
Rebecca Nurse .....
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The Aborigines
Words: 515 / Pages: 2 .... The line of camels was not to good. They were either very old or very young and would not last a really long trip.
have a legend about Mount Conner. They say that in creation times a camp of Ice Men made a camp here and when they left it the Mountain rose from the ground to mark the spot. Mount Conner is a mesa like formation that rises 800 feet above the surrounding desert. After that the next destination was Ayers Rock which is a large boulder. Then the last destination was Mount Olga. This is a grouping of large round-toped pillars. Most of these pillars were more than five hundred feet high. Some were over 1000 feet high. One morning .....
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The French Revolution
Words: 1077 / Pages: 4 .... economy was not growing as fast as it should have been. Then needs of an increasing population were not being met. Governmet was inefficient and unrepresentative. Economic problems made the heavy tax exempt but neary so, while the peasents and middle classes were subjected to greater and greater burdens. Crops falied, and trade was stagnant. The people could no longer be taxed, but the government faced bank- ruptcy unless new revenues were found. The only soulution was to tax the privileged classes. But they were jealoous of their privileged posistion. Altought they were not completely unwilling to contribute some additional taxes, they .....
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The Song Dynasty
Words: 813 / Pages: 3 .... loss of prestige, the civil
service rose in dignity. This was an examination system that had been restored
in Sui and T'ang and was further elaborated and regularized. Selection
examinations were help every three years at the district, provincial, and
metropolitan levels.
Only 200 out of thousands of applicants were granted the jinshi degree.
This was the highest degree and appointed on government posts. From this time on,
civil servants became China's most envied elite, replacing the hereditary nobles
and landlords.
The Song dynasty only extended over to the parts of earlier Chinese
empires. The Khitans controlled the northeastern territories .....
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Custer
Words: 656 / Pages: 3 .... didn’t get his visions. Would they be prepared? Would they have lost more men then they already did? It was a big concern to go to battle because of the loss of his people, but he knew that they were going to be successful with the challenge.
The Europeans didn’t care about the Indians. “Everywhere that Indians live the whites speak of them as lazy, living off the Federal Government, drinking up their dole. It is essentially the same view of the Indian that prevailed in the seventeenth century.” This means that the whites felt strongly about the Indians not caring or being willing to pay for the natural resources that they were using .....
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Freedom In America
Words: 2280 / Pages: 9 .... peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Since the early history of our country, the protection of basic freedoms has been of the utmost importance to Americans. In Langston Hughes' poem, "Freedom," he emphasizes the struggle to enjoy the freedoms that he knows are rightfully his. He reflects the American desire for freedom now when he says, "I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread." He recognizes the need for freedom in its entirety without compromise or fear. I think Langston Hughes captures the essence of the American immigrants' quest for freedom in his poem, "Freedom .....
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Isaac Newton
Words: 2690 / Pages: 10 .... other human before or after him.
His father, who had died an illiterate shortly before Newton was born, was a yeoman farmer. His mother re-married about three years later to Barnabas Smith, an elderly widower, and Isaac was left in the care of his maternal grandmother. According to Christianson, this devastated the young Newton “…who had never set eyes on his father, was suddenly parted from his mother….but he nursed grudges and would wait years, if need be, to gain revenge on those he believed had wronged him” (12). Newton’s ability to hold a grudge and need for revenge appear throughout his life. He was by no means a normal person; .....
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Black Panther Party
Words: 2905 / Pages: 11 .... information regarding the Panther's programs and accomplishments. In recent years, historians have devoted much attention of the early 1960's, to Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and have ignored the Black Panthers. The Panthers and Huey P. Newton's leadership of the Party are as significant to the Black freedom struggle as more widely known leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. A typical American history high school textbook not only neglects to mention Huey Newton but also disregards the existence of the Black Panthers altogether. Therefore, we must open this missed chapter in American history and discover the legacy and story of Huey P. Newton .....
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Articles Of Confederation DBQ
Words: 605 / Pages: 3 .... piece of legislation where the states and government cooperated. Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts all ceded land to the government, where the government was then allowed to decide how the land would be divided up. It also created laws outlawing slavery in these states and providing public education.
One major problem with the Confederacy was its inability to create a national tariff. A tariff required a two-thirds majority to be enacted, and there was very little chance of ever getting a two-thirds vote. A letter from Rhode Island rejecting a tariff in 1782 indicates that states did not want to give up any powers to Congress. .....
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Russian Revolution
Words: 2246 / Pages: 9 .... process broadly, one must also include the Bolsheviks' fight to keep the world's first "proletarian dictatorship" in power after November, first against the Germans, and then in the civil war against dissident socialists, anti-Bolshevik "White Guards," foreign intervention, and anarchist peasant bands. Finally, one must see the psychological aspects of revolutionary change: elation and hope, fear and discouragement, and ultimately the prolonged agony of bloodshed and privation, both from war and repression, and the "bony hand of Tsar Hunger," who strangled tens of thousands and, in the end, brought the revolutionary period to a close after the civ .....
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