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He was the first President to go to China. Nixon met with then leader Mao Zedong where Nixon acknowledged the Chinese form of Government then forming peace with the Chinese and opening trade with China, who today is one of the U.S top trading partners. He created a plan called Detente which helped ease tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S during the time of the cold war. After meeting with the Soviet's Leader, Nixon and Brezhnev were able to come to an agreement where they signed…

A Silver Refinery at Potosi, Bolivia, 1700: The silver refineries was a system which used aqueducts, the water wheel, an iron-shod stamp, and the amalgam, to created nearly pure ingot of silver. But later, the silver would be assayed and taxed at the mint. To produce silver, forests were cut, soil was poisoned from the base metals, and horse, mules, and oxen were used to move the materials to different locations. Race and Ethnicity in the Spanish Colonies: Negotiating Hierarchy: European…

unnecessary legislation imposed upon them. Therefore the Boston Tea Party was, to a great extent, the turning point in the lead up to the revolutionary war. The Tea Act was a direct tax on the colonies to raise money for the war debt. This act followed The Stamp Act of 1765, which required Americans to buy special watermarked paper and stationary. These acts provoked the colonists to react with movement, in which they made pamphlets that condemned the act on the ground of…

On the frontier, the only practical way to transport and sell surplus corn was to distill it into whiskey. Frontier farmers regarded a tax on whiskey in the same way as American colonists had regarded Britain's stamp tax. By 1794, western Pennsylvanian farmers were overwhelmed by the tax. Some 7,000 frontiersmen marched on Pittsburgh to stop collection of the tax. Determined to set a precedent for the federal government's authority, Washington gathered an army…

“I still remember the day they took him. I watched as the Gestapo dragged him away. Nobody did anything. They all stood there, paralyzed by fear, hoping they were not next.” For my project, I decided to interview my grandmother, Marion Heidi Buechner Fratzscher. Marion was born on June 21st, 1938, the second daughter of Hedwig “Heidi” and Paul Buechner, in Berlin, Germany. Her father worked at the Dresdner Bank building in downtown Zehlendorf. The four-story tall building reflected the Nazi’s…

Oxfam is a non-governmental organisation that was et up in Oxford in 1942. The original reason for starting was to send supplies for the famine in Greece brought about by the Nazi naval blockade. The charity’s main aim is to end global poverty, and in doing so enable people to fulfil their potential and beliefs. They aim to achieve a world where everyone has equal rights and they believe that by eradicating poverty, everybody will have an equal platform to do so. Equality for all is also a major…

place. Jewish individual properties and riches experienced confiscation, leaving them minimal means by which to sustain themselves. Vladek’s business gets taken away, forcing him to engage in illegal trading: “Jewish businesses have [gotten] taken over by ‘Aryan managers’” (Spiegelman I.4.78). Each stamp and ID paper assisted every Nazi with identifying and managing the Jewish part of the populace: “The note told that I worked with him. [Maybe such] a paper could be useful to have” (Spiegelman…

Bostonians planned out the “Tea Party.” The Boston Tea party was an event where Bostonian’s against the Tea Act would dress up as Native Americans, to represent liberty, despite everyone knowing who the actually were, and then dumping East India Trading Company’s tea over board, the total loss of tea would be 4 million…

Europeans where it was to remain. The cultural preservation of indigenous communities throughout New Spain was challenged by Spain’s military forces, who wanted to appropriate themselves of their natural resources, including silver and gold, land for trading ports, agriculture, enslaving the indigenous, the enforcing of tributary payments toward Spanish crown and ultimately establish the Spanish monarchy. These among many other social and political inhibitors contribute to a movement of…

When the Europeans first came to, what is now known as North Carolina, they struggled to make it and eventually ended up settling in Virginia because of numerous reasons, political, geography, and culture. The Virginia colony finally figured out a way to turn profit and the settlers began settling in North Carolina again. Because North Carolina lacked a deep port they relied heavily on their surrounding colonies to get food and supplies, as well as more immigrants to work. America began to…