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    The Salt March was a form of protest led by Gandhi against the British government in India after World War I around the year 1930. This protest focused on resisting the British tax on salt production. Gandhi marched 24 days to India’s west coast and taking salt from this area. This action was considered illegal because India was currently under British control. The Salt March left a message for India’s economic standing that they [India] should declare independence from Britain. 2. The…

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    King George's War was the third in a series of Anglo-French colonial conflicts in North America. Although nominally at peace, Britain and France had been in conflict over colonial boundaries in Acadia, northern New England, and the Ohio Valley. King George’s War had been preceded by an outbreak of fighting in Europe. The death of Charles VI, the Holy Roman Emperor, had touched off a succession crisis that pitted France, Prussia and Spain against the British. Warfare developed in the American…

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    There have been many historical figures that are admirable or detestable representations of the expression to lead by example; such as, Julius Caesar, Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Martin Luther King, and others. All of theses leaders were instruments of change and renewal. They unify voices from people to achieve a solution to the situations that segregates the people thus creating conflicts. These leaders have been promoters of change and have been soldiers of improving humanity. They shaped nations,…

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    Cherokee Trail Of Tears

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    trail of tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American Nations.The nations that were relocated were Cherokee, Muscogee,seminole,Chicksaw, and Choctaw. The reason that they were relocated was because president Thomas Jefferson believed Indians should’ve been civilized. Jefferson also wanted to convert them to Christianity. In 1791 a series of treaties between the United States and the Cherokees, the treaties gave recognition to the Cherokees as a nation with their own laws and…

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    The French Indian war mostly was about the British and the french. The Indians came after the war started.  In 1749 the French and British both claimed parts of the Ohio Valley. Both of them were building forts. The french had been building forts they built their forts to connect their lands in new France and Louisiana. They also were competing for food because they hunted. They also wanted the land for the trading specifically the fur trade industry. But as time went on the French gained…

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    The French and Indian War Introduction Have you ever wondered how America won its independence from England? When people came from England to find more land and to have their own religion, they were still under the control of England. Since they arrived, the colonists had to follow everything the king of England said, like taxes and laws that were being passed for these explorers. Then, the colonists got tired of the king of England made a stand for their independence. There was one particular…

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    In 1755, The Acadians of Nova Scotia were faced with an unsettling feeling of losing everything they own. It was between 1755 and 1763 that the government had decided that they would be expelling approximately ten thousand Acadians from Nova Scotia. From here, The Acadian exiles would be sent by the government to thirteen colonies along what now makes up the eastern coast of the United States . After concluding a great amount of research, the ultimate decision for this essay's thesis is that the…

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    In 1740, he moved to Pomfret in northeastern Connecticut, where cheaper land was available, and quickly became prosperous Putnam put domestic affairs aside during the French and Indian War, serving early with Rogers’ Rangers. He later was captured by Indians, but was spared from being burned at the stake by the last-minute intervention of a French officer. In 1759, he participated in the attack on Fort Ticonderoga and later at Montreal. In 1762, he survived a shipwreck…

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    Document 17-4 Analysis

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    this document is the westward expansion. Chief Joseph tribe is known as the Wal-lam-wat-kin band of Chute-pa-lu, or the Nez Percés and they lived peacefully in Oregon until the 1870’s without disturbance, then however they were forced to move to a reservation. In the…

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    the Indians. When white settlers began to move westward, they ran into the Native Americans which were known as the Five Civilized Tribes. The Five Civilized Tribes were Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminoles. These tribes and civilizations had very much impressed missionaries in New England. President Monroe and President Adams had formed many treaties with the idea of the voluntary movement of these Indian tribes and wanted to move them west of the Mississippi River. Some Indians…

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