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Ethnic Groups Tropical Rain
992 wordsAfrica, until the middle to late nineteenth century was known as The Dark Continent. The reason for this reputation was that at the time no outsider was able to go in land of the big continent and see the diversity and the complexity of it... The first impression the European got was what they saw that the coastal areas of Africa and took this impression back to their countries and labeled the continent as being dark, not only because the encounter they had with dark skinned people also because ...
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League Of Nations Submarine Warfare
1,987 wordsTHOMAS WOODROW WILSON was the 28 th president of the United States. Born on the 28 th of December 1856, he was an American scholar and statesman who was best remembered for his high-minded and leading the United States into World War I. Wilson was born to religious and well-educated people, mainly of Scottish background. Wilson's father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, studied for the clergy at the Presbyterian directed Princeton University. He married Janet Woodrow, and early in the 1850 s the Wilsons m...
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Library Of Congress East Africa
2,167 words... , which meant establishing a colonial government and a river fleet, so in 1886, the National African Company was chartered as the Royal Niger Company, and charged with administering, in the name of the Queen, an area one-hundred times larger than Great Britain itself (Chamberlain 58). In West Africa, Britain had really been trying to keep France, and later Germany, out. The simplest explanation for the rampant European interest in West Africa was trade. In East Africa, which was considerably...
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Steam Boat Political Machines
1,987 wordsImmigration to the U. S July 5, 1885 Hi my name is Said Barnum. I live in Italy in the city of Bormio in the European country. My life in the Bormio is a life of poverty, despair, pain, and hunger. The city of Bormio is a big city and it is scarce of jobs, but I am fortunate to have one, but not a well paying one. I work at a cotton mill and I get paid 50 cents an hour, so life is really tough. But the toughest thing of all about my life is that I have a family, a wife Domino and a son Eric who ...
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30 A M Political Machines
2,003 words... bring in immigrants to urbanize the cities and towns. So I told my wife that we should go to a settlement house to see what we should do in this alien city. So we asked an Italian were to find a settlement house and he guided us to this pretty nice looking white building labeled settlement of peace. So we walked in and we met this girl in a chair at a desk and she told us to sit down. Since we didnt know much English she had to get her assistant to translate what we were saying and vise vers...
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Early Nineteenth Century Eligible To Vote
1,471 wordsBritain aimed to become a democratic country throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By 1928, a democracy was very close to being achieved. For a democracy in Britain, there had to be universal suffrage, where every man and women have the right to vote regardless of class. Also a secret ballot must be in place to prevent corruption. Equal sizes of constitutions need to be enforced, with regular elections and elected members of government. In a democracy, the voters must have civil rig...
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Vincent Van Gogh 20 Th Century
1,488 wordsBy: Phil In present time, Vincent van Gogh is probably the most widely known and highly appreciated person of postimpressionism. During his brief lifetime, Vincent's work went almost unknown to this world. His work now hangs in countless museums throughout the world and is considered priceless. His work became an important bridge between the 19 th and 20 th centuries. The art-historical term, Postimpressionism was coined by Roger Fry a British art critic, who described the various styles of pain...
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Indian Removal Native Americans
1,885 words... essentially trading-based, and not currency-based (King, 1885). Another event that was catastrophic for these tribesmen was the loss of one of their sources of food, the buffalo. After exposing the land to white settlers, the buffalo was excessively hunted by them for its meat and hide. In the beginning of the 18 th century, it was thought that there was approximately 40 million heads of buffalo roaming the country. After uncontrolled hunting and gaming, the population of these animals decre...
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League Of Nations Declaration Of War
1,603 wordsThomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va. , on Dec. 28, 1856. He was profoundly influenced by a devoutly religious household headed by his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister, and his mother, Janet Woodrow Wilson, the daughter of a minister. Woodrow attended (1873 - 74) Davidson College and in 1875 entered the College of New Jersey graduating in 1879. Wilson studied (1879 - 80) at the University of Virginia Law School, briefly practiced law in Atlanta, and in 1883 entere...
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Pre Civil War Noted How Twain
1,849 wordsAdventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Guide to Online Resources By Jim Zwick Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twain's most loved, most influential, and most controversial books. It was banned from the Concord Public Library in 1885, the year of its publication, and Huckleberry Finn ranks number five in the American Library Associations list of the most frequently challenged books of the 1990 s. But in 1935, Ernest Hemingway wrote that all modern American literature comes from one book b...
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League Of Nations Submarine Warfare
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Prime Minister Nineteenth Century
1,597 wordsDuring the last quarter of the nineteenth century Tory governments held office for seventeen years (1874? 80, 1886 - 92, 95 - 1900). During this time Salisbury was Prime Minister for the last eleven years, and was also a member of the cabinet for the first six. To add to this, he enjoyed the position of leader of the opposition during the Gladstonian ministries that interrupted this spell of Tory leadership. What were the reasons for this Conservative political ascendancy, and what was Salisbury...
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