...the secession of the South from the North as the money obtained from cotton export would support the Confederacy. It would also support countries such as Britain and France to support the Confederacy as opposed to the North as the economies of these countries heavily depended on the textile industry. It was a failure as other countries did not want to get into the conflict. In foreign affairs, the South had been initially confident of the power and influence of “King Cotton,” the crop that accounted for more than half the value of U.S. exports before the war. Confederates felt that the importance of cotton would force diplomatic recognition from the Federal government and European countries. Neither the commissioners sent abroad in 1861 nor the permanent envoys who replaced them were able to secure recognition from Great Britain, France, or any other European power. The South was able, however, to buy considerable war matériel and several fast ships that destroyed much Federal shipping on the high seas. South = one crop economy By 1840 - 50% of US exports was cotton / was providing 50% of the world supply / providing 75% of England’s supply 1/5 of workers tied to the textile industry but cotton also drives northern economy - needs cotton for textiles (supporting abolition and making $ off slavery). Different economies of the North and South between 1815-1861 North: Industrial Abolition slavery No need for slaves They didn’t need cheap labors like slaves because...
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...and Contrast Matrix HIS 115 Week 2-DQ 1 HIS 115 Week 2-DQ 2 HIS 115 Week 3-Assignment Seven Years' War Paper HIS 115 Week 3-CheckPoint - Great Britain and the Colonies HIS 115 Week 4-Appendix C - The Confederation Government Table HIS 115 Week 4-DQ 1 HIS 115 Week 4-DQ 2 HIS 115 Week 5-Assignment - Western Expansion Presentation HIS 115 Week 5-Checkpoint - Hamilton's Financial Program HIS 115 Week 5-Checkpoint - War of 1812 HIS 115 Week 6-CheckPoint - The Bank War HIS 115 Week 6-DQ 1 HIS 115 Week 6-DQ 2 HIS 115 Week 7-Assignment - Perfection Era Paper HIS 115 Week 7-CheckPoint - Class Structure and Slave Culture HIS 115 Week 8-Appendix D - Civil War Matrix HIS 115 Week 8-DQ 1 HIS 115 Week 8-DQ 2 HIS 115 Week 9-Capstone Checkpoint HIS 115 Week 9-Final Project - Historical Timeline and Essay Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of HIS 115 COMPLETE CLASS in order to ace their studies. HIS 115 COMPLETE CLASS To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/his-115-complete-class/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM HIS 115 COMPLETE CLASS HIS 115 Week 1-Assignment - North American Civilization Paper HIS 115 Week 1-CheckPoint - European Societal Changes HIS 115 Week 2-Appendix B - Compare and Contrast Matrix HIS 115 Week 2-DQ 1 HIS 115 Week 2-DQ 2 HIS 115 Week 3-Assignment Seven Years' War Paper HIS 115 Week 3-CheckPoint - Great Britain and the Colonies HIS 115 Week 4-Appendix C - The Confederation...
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...Evaluating the role of ethnic identity in explaining the occurrence of contemporary civil conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. High hopes for many newly independent states of Africa became diminished as the 1990s saw over a quarter of the continent's states facing armed insurgencies within their borders (Young, 2002: 534). Commentators often point to pathological, deep-seated hatreds in an African tribal mosaic as the bases of such conflict. The fact is, however, that the continent is awash with political grudges, ethnically-framed and otherwise, but civil wars rarely break out. Thus this essay seeks to take a more nuanced approach to understand the analytical challenge posed by such disorder. Starting out by countering the centrality of ethnic identity, it firstly seeks to demonstrate that ethnic identities do not exist primordially, but that they are constructed on weak foundations. Secondly it endeavours to show that where cleavages do exist along lines of cultural difference, simple heterogeneity is insufficient to account for the outbreak of conflict. Next, it moves to underline the fact that more important in explaining civil conflict is whether such conflict is feasible. This is understood both in terms of the perceived capacity of the state and in terms of the viability of insurgency for would-be rebels. A final conclusion will then be expounded that ethnicity is not a central factor, but that it is simply one of a number of strategies under which conflict may be framed...
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...In the Civil War, there were several battles such as the Battle of Bull Run. The passage, “The Battle of Bull Run,” and the novel, Soldier’s Heart, have several similarities which include the fact that Abraham Lincoln wanted to attack the Rebels, and that there were spectators watching the gruesome and horrifying battle. In both the passage and the novel, they mentioned how President Abraham Lincoln wanted to attack the rebels to win the Civil War. Charley states in Soldier’s Heart that a rumor was going around about Lincoln wanting to attack the rebels harder and with more grit. Charley states, “But the rumors said that Lincoln...was very dissatisfied with McClellan’s ‘lack of bite’ and wanted some attack made on the Rebels, somewhere, at some time soon,” (59). This shows how Lincoln wanted to attack the Rebels sometime soon....
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...HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 3 Appendix C Outcomes of the Revolution HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 3 Discussion Question HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 4 Constitution Paper HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 4 DQs HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 5 Appendix D Two Party Politics HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 5 War of 1812 HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 5 DQs HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 6 19th-Century Ideas HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 6 DQs HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 6 Andrew Jackson’s Presidency HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 7 The Western Experience HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 7 Discussion Question HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 8 Lincoln and Slavery HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 8 Territorial Expansion and Slavery HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 8 Discussion Question HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 9 Civil War Paper HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 9 Discussion Question HIS115 / HIS 115 / (VERSION 3) / Week 9 Civil War Presentation Powerpoint Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of HIS 115 v3 COMPLETE CLASS in order to ace their studies. HIS 115 V3 COMPLETE CLASS To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/his-115-v3-complete-class/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM HIS 115 V3 COMPLETE CLASS HIS115 /...
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...| Course SyllabusCollege of HumanitiesHIS/115 Version 3U.S. History to 1865 | Copyright © 2011, 2009, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and global events that have shaped the American scene from colonial times through the Civil War period. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Schultz, K. M. (2012). HIST2, Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. All electronic materials are available on the student website. Week One: Contact, Settlement, Slavery | | Details | Due | Points | Objectives | 1.1 Describe the clash of cultures that took place in North America between the Native Americans, colonists, and Black slaves. 1.2 Describe the establishment of early colonies. 1.3 Describe the development of regional differences among the...
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...“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War” (Twain). Prior to the Civil War, literature usually consisted of Romanticism, an idealistic style of writing. The aftermath of the war brought a wide-range of changes to the way of life, as people knew it in the late 1800s to early 1900s. America transitioned from a rural society depending mainly upon agriculture, to an urban society that was becoming industrialized. Ultimately, this led to a major economic and social divide between the wealthy and the poor, creating a great strife between them. Taking witness to all the inequalities surrounding them, writers saw their opportunity to tell stories with realistic characters and descriptions to connect the reader on a more relatable level. This movement became known as the Realist Era. Driven by their conviction that literature could bring about genuine social change, Mark...
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...the high seas, but never over territorial sea of another state -Art.1 1944 Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation: “every state has complete and exclusive sovereignty over the space above its territory” -It is a serious breach of international law for a state to order to violate the air space of another state (for e.g. USA military aircraft attacked, forced to land or shot down by Hungary, USSR, Czechoslovakia-a number of incidents) -Does the states have an unlimited right to attack intruding aircraft in all circumstances? -Lissitzyn principle (from 1953)-important (book!) -Some states support Lissitzyn principle and that flexible approach to civil aircraft as well as military craft, but other states including ICAO-International Civil Aviation Organization, believe that civil aircraft must never be attacked in such circumstances -The rule that (it is not indeed a rule) trespassing civil aircraft must never be attacked does not mean that they have a legal right to trespass -Assembly of ICAO in 1984 adopted an amendment to 1944 Chicago Conv. On the Int. Civil Aviation which confirms that “every state, in the exercise of its sovereignty is entitled to require the landing at some designated airport of a civil aircraft flying above its territory without authority.” and that “every state must refrain from resorting to use of weapons against civil aircraft in flight and that, in case of interception, the lives of persons on board and the safety of aircraft must...
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...predecssors. “The Arab Spring” as it was called began in Tunisia and spread across the region (Al Jazeera). The protestors in this revolt wanted a myriad of things. Some wanted democracy, respect for civil rights, and some want Islamization of government and a movement to theocracy. Syria, once a province of the Ottoman Empire, is a small middle-eastern nation between Lebanon and Turkey. In March 2011, pro-Democracy Arab Spring protestors who were marching to decry the arrest and torture of teen graffiti artists were fired upon by police. After the shootings, many more protestors joined the public displays of defiance (BBC ). After nationwide unrest and a refusal by President Assad to abdicate, the protestors began to arm themselves (Semple). The violence in the country escalated so quickly that by June of 2013, 90,000 people had been killed in the fighting and that number moved to 250,000 by August of 2015 (BBC ). Into the fray came the self-stylized Islamic State. This terrorist group which is opposed to Assad is fighting to create a Muslim caliphate throughout Iraq and Syria. In June of 2014, the group claimed that it’s caliphate had been established, which lead to US airstrikes to destroy the group, thus entering another belligerent into the fight (BBC). The Syrian Civil War was killed more than 250,000 people and approximately 11-12 million of the nation’s 22 million people are displaced. Approximately 6.5 million people are displaced inside of the country, with ~4.5...
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...Monrovia Civil War Massina Ballah Strayer University English 090 Professor Delicia Battle August 10, 2012 Monrovia Civil war Many years of war that suffered thousands of people, and many dead. As a result of this, there were no food or medication. Moreover, a war that many thought will never come to an end. Monrovia war, a war that started early Monday morning april 6, 1990. A bright sunny day. Women and children running to save their lives. From a distance, I heard a very big sound of machine guns, bullet flying all over the place. We all ran for safety. As a got dark, it was a terrible night I didn’t know what to do. I felt stomach sick, because of the heavy guns sound. After many hours sitting in the house, I felt that this is the end of our lives. The next day the rebels told us to get out of the house. While working out there, there were many dead bodies in the street. I was afraid, especially my first time looking, and working over dead bodies. We walked for many hours. When it was night time, we slept in a school building. Women were taken from their husband by rebels. I knew that it was not safe for us. No one to protect us. We didn’t have safe drinking water. We drank from the creek, or the riverside. After many day of struggles, we had no food to eat, or medication. My elder brother got ill. We needed medicine. There were no medicine. My brother sickness got worst and he died. I felt so bad. My brother and I were so closed . He was everything...
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...from the 21st century, my first and quick answer will be war Wars have been going on for centuries. War unavoidably.Brings death, destruction and suffering, which both ruin lives and nations. The most unjustifiable consequence of war is the loss of innocent civilians' lives. Civilians, who could have lived to make a huge impact on the world, pose no direct threat to the 'enemy' and might not even share the motives of the side they have been presumed to support. War eradicates hopes and dreams of millions, destroys homelands, frightens and oppresses people. Nothing that, in the end, brings more bad than it does good can be justified. Any kind of war is unjustifiable because it involves only killing. And what kind of victory does one get? Victory over millions of dead human flesh.Victory over the broken hearts of the family and relatives. We must not forget the horrors of the two world wars. In these wars, there was mass-killing and destruction of property. Thousands were made widows and orphans. War brings hatred and spreads falsehood. People become selfish and brutal. Finally I believe Wars are not the solution of the problems. Instead they generate problems and create hatred among nations. War can decide one issue but gives birth too many. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the greatest horrible faces of the consequence of wars. Even after 60 years people are suffering from the miseries of war. Whatever be the cause of war, it always results in destruction of life and property at...
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...War Has No Boundaries The short story “The Sniper” was written by Liam O’Flaherty. The Sniper was published on January 12, 1923. Liam O’Flaherty was born on August 28, 1898. Liam grew up in a poverty-stricken village on Irishmore Island in County Galway on the western coast of Ireland (Cummings,2007). O’Flaherty joined the British Army during the First World War in 1915. He wrote the sniper on his findings during the Irish Civil War. The main ideas that Liam was trying to represent are war has no boundaries, that war reduces humans into mere objects, and individualism. The Irish Civil War began on June 28, 1922 and ended May 24, 1923. The war claimed more lives than the war of independence did. The conflict broke out between two opposing sides: The Free State, and Republican Opposition. The Anglo-Irish Treaty arose from the Irish War of Independence. The treaty provided for a self-governing Irish state in twenty-six of Ireland’s thirty-two counties. The Free State supported the treaty while the treaty represented the republican side. The split between the two opposing sides was very personal. The leaders on the opposing side were very close friends, and were comrades during the Irish War of Independence. The leader of the republican was...
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...John Adams once said, “Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.” This means that killing in war is most felt when it could have been avoided. Justification for killing in war is a very debated topic. Some deem it as necessary for freedom, but what is necessary about killing another human being? Liam O’Flaherty was a short story writer from the early to mid-1900s. The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015) disclose that his various novels and short stories guided the course for other authors in the literary Irish Renaissance. In his story, “The Sniper,” O’Flaherty stresses the importance of the human feeling soldiers obtain when amidts battle. “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland in the middle of a heated Irish civil war between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Free Staters. An IRA sniper has been...
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...War is the one situation that has no room for mistakes. The slightest mistake can cost a person his life when in the line of war. War can change people who may have never wanted to harm a person into someone who is willing to live at all cost, even if it means killing. The short story “The Sniper” written by Liam O’Flaherty incorporates the realities of war all the way down to its finest details. It also shows its extremities and how an option of simply whether to light a cigarette or not can be the decision whether someone lives or dies. People are fighting in these wars and may not know what they are fighting for or why they are fighting. Cummings (2007) found, “Liam O’Flaherty was born on August 28, 1896, in Inishmore, Ireland.”...
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...“Conflict is often indiscriminate”. I think that the statement means that sometimes wars and other various types of conflict occur regardless of who you are and just at random. My gut reaction regarding the statement is that conflict can be very indiscriminate equally to how conflict can be discriminative. For example, 9/11 was indiscriminate as the attack targeted multiple groups of people and was an attack just to psychologically damage the confidence of US Homeland Security and the US government; as well as other countries around the globe which saw the news broadcasts and thought that their country was going to be attacked next. However, conflicts like the Stonewall Riots, were discriminative, violent conflicts that attacked innocent people...
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