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    Civil War Economy

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    various forms of tension between the northern colonies and the southern colonies divided the two into an immense war costing over 600,000 lives. No single issue could have caused a war of this scale. Thus, the outbreak of the American Civil War was caused by the combination of many demographic pressures in the forms of economic, racial, social, and political stresses. One of the major demographic pressures that lead to the Civil War was a difference in ethnicity between the citizens of the…

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    These countries are described as two different worlds because of the vast lifestyle and ecosystem differences between the European countries and the New World. It is described as them colliding because when the European colonists came to the New World, they came in contact with the Natives, who differed from them in numerous ways. In this essay, I will be discussing how the Spanish, French, and English colonists interacted with the Natives in the Americas and how it affected their relationships…

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    sometimes we take those freedoms for granted. This countries foundations were built on different cultures but they shared a similar background of Protestant beliefs. The Spanish brought Catholicism in forms of missions to the western coast early on and settled down to help teach and guide future generations the right way of life. The Spanish forced the Natives hands and punished anyone who would not depend on them wholeheartedly. They, like many other powerful…

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    EXPLAIN THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND THOSE OF CIVIL LAW COUNTRIES AND EXPLAIN THE MERITS AND PROBLEMS OF THESE LEGAL SYSTEMS A HISTORY OF TWO TYPES OF LAW The two main systems of law in the world today are common law and civil law. The system used in England and Wales is common law which has an evolving history dating from the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and the local customs of the Anglo-Saxons. English common law spread throughout the world…

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    action is limited by the distance between Carthage and Milan (Act…

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    not the case. The United States was not always so united. America used to almost be looked at as three different parts; those parts being the North, the South, and the West. While the first thing that pops into most people’s minds is the huge difference between the North and South, what most people do not realize is that compared to the North and the South, the Western region of America is actually vastly different. The West was not even a part of America when the North and South were already…

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    running their empires in America and Texas. There were many similar and different reasons why Texas and the 13 Colonies were lost by their former rulers. Both Americans and Texans were each independent from their running governments because they were both isolated geographically. Unlike Texas, America had little interaction with the British before the revolution. In Texas, many cultural differences…

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    no matter what land is being colonized. History proves that finding new land may cause war. Wars between countries and against natives, have been caused by new colonies in unclaimed lands. Abbass Hassan Obbaiss, a historian from Iraq discovered that, “At the beginning of the 17th century the English and the French entered the arena of colonial conflict, sending trade missions and establishing colonies in different parts of the world. They engaged into an intense competition with the Dutch…

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    The taxation on tea was one of the most pivotal protest in The American Revolution. Tea being sold by The East India Company to the colonies, arrived by ships to harbors up and down the coast. The tea had been heavily taxed and this angered the colonist who decided not to buy the tea and to send these ships back to England. In Boston, this peaceful resistance wasn’t successful, so a…

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    The American colonies were becoming more separated from Britain every day. By 1763, their relationship was weak and the next thirteen years would do nothing but make it worse. Colonists were not initially resistant to British rule, but after years of being stripped of their freedoms they shifted toward the idea of separating from Britain and creating their own government that would incorporate Republican values. After the Seven Years’ War, British troops remained in America. The cost of…

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