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The Boston Massacre
<view this essay>.... salaries to pay British soldiers, they only upset the colonists even more. Their actions based on their anger led to what is know as .
By 1770, the British had stationed near four thousand soldiers in Boston.4 When the soldiers were off duty they took side jobs in the town to earn some more money. This meant that they were taking away jobs from the people living in Boston, which only upset them more.
Some of the Patriots would taunt the soldiers and throw stuff at them, like eggs and rocks. When the king made Thomas Hutchinson governor of the colony, the colonists were even more angered, because they did not agree with the governor’s thinking. Th .....
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Parthenon
<view this essay>.... that with their own contributions, extorted from them by force for the war against the Persian, we are gilding and beautifying our city, as if it were some vain women decking herself out with costly stones and thousand talent temples." "Pericles' answer to the people was that the Athenians were not obliged to give the allies an account if how their money was spent, provided that they carried in the war and kept the Persians away. " All they supply is money," he told the Athenians, " and this belongs not to the people who give but to those who receive it, so long as they provide he services paid for." This is a good example of how the Greeks felt about themselve .....
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American Two Party System
<view this essay>.... parties. The founders feared parties because they thought of them as factions. They were self centered and driven by ambition to forward their own self-interests.
Thomas Jefferson organized his Anti-Federalist followers and they became known as the Jeffersonian Republicans. This organization of the Federalist opposition in the election of 1800 is what is known as the Revolution of 1800. The Federalists feared the Jeffersonians were out to undermine the government, while Jefferson’s party felt the same about the Federalists. By the time Jefferson was elected to the presidency in 1800 his party was called Democratic Republican. The Federalist Part .....
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German Immigration To The Midwest
<view this essay>.... how did they adapt. I'll also tell some of the more gritty stuff by using intimate and detailed quotes used by many real immigrants who came to America anywhere from 1880 to 1930. As you read this, be prepared to learn what really happened to these immigrants and why the streets were paved with anything but gold.
Today, many Germans live throughout the U.S.; especially in the mid-west. More likely then not, they came here in the late 1800's- 1900's. This would be because of the many revolutions in the 1860's and the poverty that almost always follows war. In one 20 year span in the late 1800's Germany went to war at least 7 times taking on neighboring coun .....
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The Art Of Theater
<view this essay>.... most noteworthy art of life.
Theater “ is neither a book nor a work, but an energy “. Theater is considered to be an energy because it is a calculated act from beginning to end. A piece of theater only lasts for a specific period of time. It has a beginning, middle, and an end. Furthermore, every theatrical piece has a predestined conclusion. Implying that the audience is most often aware of what will happen at the end of the play, yet the art of it is to keep them focused and interested until the very end. Furthermore, unlike other modes of communication, in theater one cannot go back and see a certain scene. A theatrical act takes place in the presen .....
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The Slave Trade
<view this essay>.... Africans by Europeans began in the early 16th century. Africans were rounded up by other Africans as objects of trade with the Europeans. Eventually, slave ships became a regular sight in what came to be known as "the Middle Passage." These ships provided a constant flow of African slaves to Brazil and the Caribbean Islands, where the human cargo was auctioned off and brought to Europe or the New World.. Many of the ships wee not cleaned. The "cargo" was not feed or cleansed properly. Many captives died from the inhuman conditions on these voyages. Who had control? England gained control of under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and managed the shipment of slav .....
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Indians 3
<view this essay>.... the government came from the people. The two tribes had their differences, however they both managed to get by with what they had.
From the Southeast corner of Connecticut, the three clans that made up the Mohegan tribe had to hunt, fish, and farm to stay alive. The Mohegans came from the upper Hudson River Valley in New York near Lake Champlain. Around the year 1500, the Mohegans moved to the Thames River Valley in southeastern Connecticut. They named their homeland the Moheganeak. It occupied the upper and western portions of the Thames River. All the Mohegan people lived within three different clans. The three clans made up the Mohegan tribe. Ever .....
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Underground Railroad
<view this essay>.... railroad is quite varied according to whom you are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to grow because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on plantations could be supervised while slaves used simple routines to harvest them, the low price at which slaves could be bought, and earning profits as a bonus for not having to pay hired work.
Slaves turned to freedom for more than one reason. Some were obsessed with being free and living a life where they were not told how to live. Others ran due to fear of being separted or sold from friends and family. Then there were some who were treated so cruely, that it forced them to run just to .....
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