...of how Americans built their society. In this reading the reader will understand a historic timeline from 1780-1850. Learning the important information during certain years and how they overcome each event. The Agricultural Revolution of Europe started in the 1700’s; it was widely spread throughout Europe and America by the 1800’s. The results of the revolution, was the farming processes became more efficient, and productive due to several inventions, and discoveries. The Agricultural processes became faster, and less manpower is required in the field, as a result the population from the countryside had no means of supporting themselves. They were forced to move into the urban cities in search of factory jobs. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain during the 1700s. The term Industrial Revolution refers both to the changes that occurred and to the period itself. During the 1700s and early 1800s, great changes took place in the lives and labor of people in several parts of the world. These changes resulted from the development of industrialization and it started spreading to other parts of Europe and to North America in the early 1800s. By the mid-1800s, industrialization had become widespread in Western Europe and the northeastern United States. America Transformed In 1781 Peace Commission occurred and what it meant was Congress appoints a Peace Commission comprised of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, and Henry Laurens. The commission supplements...
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...Expansionism Stephanie Parris Everest University November 4, 2011 The United States was the top production economy in the 1890’s. It far outweighed the production of Britain which was the second highest production economy. While the US had the lead in production it lacked in military force. Britain, the competitor, had a much larger military. In fact, Britain’s military was more than five times larger than the United States military. This made the United States leaders look around and realize that they had to do something to be the world leader. In the late 1800’s the European Empire was making great strides to expand. As this progressed, the United States began to take notice. Many Americans changed their views on expansionism. As time progressed, the United States became very dependent on foreign products, like petroleum. They realized they must stay competitive with Europe. Not only that, but they must also be able to stand on their own to prevent a take-over by Europe. The change in American attitudes, helped promote a new foreign policy. As the Americans became more assertive on a global role, the rest of the world began to take notice. When the US got involved with Hawaii, it later became a state. The United States saw it as a smart move to secure that port for the Navy. Many Hawaiians believed their island would be taken over with Western Rule. The United States intervention helped eliminate that worry. The United States later got involved in the Cuban conflict...
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...In the late 1800’s, Western Imperialism expanded aggressively. Imperialism is the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region. Although the Europeans had established colonies earlier, they previously had little direct influence over people in China, Africa, or India. Expansion takes place when one territory is deemed more powerful than other territories or people. Geographical, physical, and or technological obstacles may assist or impede in the expansion process. At the end of the 19th century the United States became a colonial power after moving across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean. American colonies in the Philippines, Caribbean, and Hawaiian Islands were...
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...Adam Dees Dr. Herman WOH1030 2 April 2015 Impact of British Imperialism In the late 1800’s, European nations only controlled about 10 percent of the continent of Africa, France to the north and Britain to the south (Edgar, 2008). As time goes by, other countries gain conquests, mostly in western areas of Africa. This essay will go over a few key points in history that led to the Age of Imperialism and the British colonization of Southern Africa. The essay will also identify key players in this age. Southern Africa was known for its gold and other valuable items that made it so appealing to Europeans. This and many other reasons led to wars over the areas that had high gold content. In the mid-1800’s European nations begin seizing power over countries in Africa. “By World War I Ethiopia and Liberia were the only countries not under European control.” (Edgar, 2008). In Belgium, King Leopold II had aspirations of conquest in African nations (Edgar, 2008). In 1876, he started the IAA or the International African Association in which he hires Henry Stanley to lead up exploration of this uncharted area (Edgar, 2008). Stanley was also dispatched to ascertain the whereabouts of David Livingstone, another famed explorer that was lost in the Congo (“Sir Henry…). When Stanley found Livingstone they became friends until his death in 1872 at Lake Bangweulu. Stanley continued where Livingstone left off, however and helped in the development of the Congo (“Sir Henry…). In a journal...
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...across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to North and South America. The numbers were so great that Africans who came by way of the slave trade became the most numerous Old World immigrants in both North and South America before the late eighteenth century. The South Atlantic economic system centered on making goods and clothing to sell in Europe and increasing the numbers of African slaves brought to the New World. This was crucial to those European countries which, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were vying with each other to create overseas empires. The evolution of slavery is crucial to understanding the importance of currently standing issues. Slavery began in 1440 when Portugal started to trade slaves with West Africa. The first Africans imported to the English colonies were also called “indentured servants” or “apprentices for life”. By the middle of the sixteenth century, they and their offspring were legally the property of their owners. As property, they were merchandise or units of labor, and were sold at markets with other goods and services. By the 17th century, Western Europeans developed an organized system of trading slaves. However, the slave trade did not run as smoothly as expected. Slaves were revolting and tried to flee...
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...Tribal Homelands of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Monica N. Griffis Southeastern Oklahoma State University Tribal Homelands of the Chickasaw and Choctaw This paper describes the primary geographic characteristics of the ancestral homelands of the indigenous Chickasaw and Choctaw people in North America, prior to first contact with European nations and continuing into the settlement timeframe of early colonists. These homelands originally included a significant portion of Louisiana and Mississippi, although the most closely held region was near the ancestral Nanih Waiya mound, which according to oral traditions held the origins of these tribal people. Prior to the surge of Western settlement, Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes were similar to other Native American nations in occupying the expanse of their territory not by personal land ownership, but instead through a series of communal villages governed by cultural leaders. Their occupation of the land was driven by natural resources and trade routes, and the prime positioning of these homelands proved to be too valuable to escape aggressive dispossession by colonial settlement. Early Chickasaw and Choctaw homelands occupied a large territory east of the Mississippi River in an extremely favorable location, especially related to waterways, trade routes, fertile land, and climate conditions. According to the research of St. Jean (2003), the centralized location of these tribes was advantageous...
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...This week’s readings really shows the social, economic, and cultural changes Hawaii went though from the mid 1800s all the way into the late 1900s. By looking into our reading in the Hawaiian journey book, we see a change in Hawaii’s economy from plantation based to tourism. In the 1800’s, Hawaii’s economy was mainly based on the farming of pineapple, sugarcane, and coffee. Evidence of an economic change: 1967, approximately 1,000,000 tourists visited the islands; a few decades later today it’s at about 6-7 million (Muliins 128). Through those numbers we can see how much the tourist industry grew. This industry was allowed to grow largely because of technological advancements. First, rather than sailing over by boat, which took a long time, tourists for the first time could fly to Hawaii with invention of the jumbo jet. I can’t imagine how amazed people must have been at the time at the thought of cutting travel time from days to hours! Hawaii became a desirable place for people to vacation, and naturally, Hawaii conformed to the western ideas of industrializing. People like Walter Dillingham dredged the Alawai which turned Waikiki from a marshland to what it is today, along with constructing Ala Moana Shopping center, which is still a main attraction today. Henry Kaiser built a series of large hotels and building which were on the Waikiki coastline. Besides tourists, there were also many people just moving to Hawaii, so many new houses were built. All of this was...
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...greater part of the multitude seemed engaged in the most solemn manner. No person seemed to wish to go home—hunger and sleep seemed to affect nobody—eternal things were the vast concern. Here awakening and converting work was to be found in every part of the multitude; and even some things strangely and wonderfully new to me” (Christian History Institute). These meetings took place in western Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Ohio frontiers and were invented by Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist. They experienced a series of intense religious exercises and sermons. Another form was the Protestant meeting which was most prominent in the western regions in the United States. They...
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...He spent his early life at war against neighboring tribes. In 1841 he killed a neighboring clans chief which divided that tribe for 50 years. By doing this he obtained enormous respect within the Lakota nation for his leadership in territorial wars against neighboring tribes. In 1866, Red Cloud orchestrated the most successful war against the US ever fought by an Indian nation. The army was station along Bozeman Trail, which ran through the heart of Lakota territory. This area was filled with gold caravans of miners and settlers began to cross the Lakota's land, Red Cloud was haunted by the vision of Minnesota's expulsion of the Eastern Lakota in 1862 and 1863. For this he launched a series of assaults on the forts. On December of 1866, he won his most noticeable battle which was the crushing defeat of Lieutenant Colonel William Fetterman's column of eighty men just outside Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming. The garrisons feared further attacks through the winter. Red Cloud's strategies were so successful that by the end of 1868 the United States government had agreed to the Fort Laramie Treaty. The treaty stated that provisions were to be mandated from the United States, also to abandon its fort along the Bozeman Trail and guarantee the Lakota their possession of what is now the Western half of South Dakota, including the Black Hills, The peace, of course, did not last. Custer's 1874 Black Hills expedition again brought war to...
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...under a greater power of greater nations, was popular during the nineteenth century. China and India were two independent nations, so similar, but yet also so different. Their imperialists had motives over raw material, resources, and power. Their thoughts of imperialism were fixed more on controlling and taking, then making relations and building up the country. This inequality led for a struggle of freedom and independence. From the struggles, the culture and the people had been impacted greatly from the foreign influences. Industrialism was halted for India and thrived in China. From the coasts China to the riches of India, imperialism changed the countries vastly. Across India and China, imperialistic motives of the Europeans ranged from rare materials to the immense voltage of power, however how they forced upon these motives was different. These nations were both imperialized by great European powers. Furthermore, they both had Britain as a strong imperialist. In China, Britain wanted luxury goods, like silk and porcelain. Britain also looked at India for luxury goods. Gems, gold, indigo, and spices were just several of the lustful items. Different Europeans nations, ruled different parts of these nations. For India, Britain was the only critical imperialized. Unlike India, China had Britain, Germany, France, and Japan. Russia also had taken the chance to imperialize China at their weak point. After China’s Opium War in the 1800’s, western influence was crowded all around...
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...landscapes. Many ethically driven environmental doctrines came into effect, to be where we are today, as a nation of conservation. Within this compendious paper, I will go into the history of some of the founding fathers of the utilitarianism concept. And how historically, this concept has shaped our nations conservation system today, and in particular shape the U.S. Forest Service. “Where conflicting interest must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.” Gifford Pinchot North America metamorphosed into a leading influence on the fortitude of its natural resources. As the nation broadened from sea to sea, these resources seemed boundless. For the European settlers to North America, the “greater good” meant clearing the land. The trees were an encumbrance, and the timber was treasured. Before the times of the Napoleonic Wars (1800s), our nation’s economy thrived upon timber. Horses drew wooden carriages over wooden planked roads. The southern pines produced millions of barrels of tar and pitch for sealing our wooden ships (Anderson, 2000). Timber fueled train engines echoed through the landscapes of our nation on railroad ties made from timber, and replaced at a rapid rate. As our forests of the North, East, South, and West all had fell to the perpetual axe, a cry rain out to our nation, and by...
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...Egypt’s complex history and culture begin around 6,000 B.C.E. and is one of the oldest nations in the world. Egypt was one of the first true ‘melting pots’ of culture. The populace of the country gained much and forgot much during the centuries of conquest, submission, and intermingling of societies. That notwithstanding, the richness of the culture never waned and was continuously built upon progressively. The early foundation of governance in Egypt was accomplished by the Pharaohs at some point circa 3100 B.C.E. Around 1100 B.C.E., late in the Pharaoh’s rule, civil wars and dynastic clashes disturbed Egypt. These combative confrontations led to the swarming population influx by the Kingdom of Kush, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines,...
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...jesse perez 1.1 Converging Cultures Area 1 investigates how social orders in North America have changed over the long run and how European provinces created. A huge number of years before Christopher Columbus and other European wayfarers set foot in America, Native Americans started planting and raising products. When of Columbus started his voyages in the late fifteenth century, an extensive variety of developments and dialects existed in North America. When wayfarers discovered that Columbus had come to new grounds, other European investigations started to scan for new domain. New pioneers hoped to subjugated Africans to help ranch. The brutal treatment of the Africans was a sharp difference to the lives of the advantaged. While subjugated...
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...of violence being ‘justified’, a fine line is often crossed over legality of the violence that ensues. “Uncivil disobedients” is a term coined by scholar Jennet Kirkpatrick in her book Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics, describing these ‘disobedients’ as citizens that break the law because of their belief that their violence is truly done because they believe their efforts are honorable and justified, despite issues of legality or immorality as perceived by others (13). Thus a complex relationship arises between these uncivil disobedients and the law and the treading of the fine line between what is legal and illegal with their actions. Kirkpatrick provides numerous examples of these disobedients, namely western frontier vigilantes and southern lynch mobs. What these unique groups had, despite having varying agendas, was a similar mindset in accomplishing their goals, using violence to meet their demands, often times going above and beyond the grasp of the law to satisfy their goals. Therefore there are circumstances in which these civil disobedients feel justified in committing such violence as a means to accomplish their goals because of their lack of faith in the legal system as well as the preservation of the virtues that they truly feel are being violated. Frontier vigilantism describes the way individuals often took liberties with...
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...So far, the United States have been focusing on building itself up and have not looked past the western hemisphere. The influx of people moving west and immigrants have put the U.S on the fast track of growth in its cities and global power. The Monroe Doctrine was a catalyst for the rise of the next global power. This document pushed the United States to start asserting itself to the other countries around the world. During the late 1800’s, Great Britain started their campaign of global control and one of the first disputes that caused the Spanish-American War involved the number one world power and the rising nation. There were three incidents that acted as a gateway in America’s role in Latin America; one major incident, out of three,...
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