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Columbus's Voyage

... new position. Each day's ending position would be the starting point for the next day's course-and-distance measurement. In order for this method to work, the navigator needs a way to measure his course, and a way to measure the distance sailed. Course was measured by a magnetic compass, which had been known in Europe since at least 1183. Distance was determined by a time and speed calculation: the navigator multiplied the speed of the vessel (in miles per hour) by the time traveled to get the distance. In Columbus's day, the ship's speed wa ...

Number of words: 1046 | Number of pages: 4

The Writing Of The Constitutio

... forty of the delegates held high offices in state governments , including three who were governors. The founders believed in the idea that the purpose of government was the protection of individual life, liberty and property. Following the election of George Washington as president of the convention, Governor Edmund Randolph of Virginia presented a draft of a new constitution .The Virginia Plan proposed a two house legislature. A lower house directly elected by the people of the states based on the population , and an upper house elected by ...

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Battle Of Chattanooga

... troops away from Chattanooga. The victory set the stage for General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. http://americancivilwar.com/tl/tl1863.html The Battles of Chattanooga, in the U.S. Civil War, were a series of engagements fought around Chattanooga, Tenn., in September and November 1863. The Confederates were commanded by Braxton Bragg, and the Union forces were first under William S. Rosecrans, then George H. Thomas, and finally Ulysses S. Grant. Rosecrans maneuvered Bragg from Chattanooga in early September, but his Army of the Cumberland ...

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Constantine And Christianity

... (chi) and R (rho), the first two letters of the word Christ in Greek, and was the symbol that Constantine put on the shields of his soldiers. After the battle had ended, he attributed his victory to God and announced his conversion to Christianity. Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, recorded this account of the Constantine's conversion. His conversion helped Christianity in many ways. Followers were safe from persecution, and the Emperor gave Christian leaders many gifts. Constantine's adherence to Christianity ensured exposure of all his subjects ...

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The South's Finest Hour: The Battle Of Chancellorsville

... on Lee's communication and supply lines to screen his movements and also sent 40,000 men to keep Lee's attention in his front. The very attentive Lee, knew exactly what Hooker was doing. Lee had pulled this trick before. Lee remained on standby and waited for he plan to develop more fully. Hooker's cavalry moved and was reported to Lee. He decided it was time to react. Lee had two choices. One, he could turn tail in retreat toward Richmond or face the threat behind him. Here, Lee made one of the boldest, most brilliant moves of the wa ...

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Declaration Of Independence

... Edward Rutledge, Thos Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Samuel Chase, Thos. Stone , George Wythe, Charles Carrol of Carrollton, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thos Nelson Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Tho M. Kean, Wm. Floyd, Phil. Livingston, Frans. Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, Jno.WItherspoon, Fras. Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham ...

Number of words: 523 | Number of pages: 2

Annexation Of The Phillipians

... of the Philippines which brought on a bloody two year struggle. In my opinion the United States was the cause of all of this because of three different reasons, for one our government would not listen any other people besides them self’s on the situation and secondly because of some of Mckinley’s decisions, and the third reason is the United States always has to be the big bad nation that everybody should be scared of! First of all I think that the if we would have maybe let some of the well respected citizens in our great na ...

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Attica

... the direct uprising of New York’s State Correctional facility which was approximately two weeks after George Jackson’s death. The uprising of New York’s State Correctional Facility is known as the most notorious prison riot in American History. During this time New York’s Governor Nelson Rockefeller ran the State prison as forced labor camps as well as other state prisons. State Prison during this time also had an all white correctional staff and eighty-five percent of ’s prisoners were Black and Latino. Wo ...

Number of words: 2487 | Number of pages: 10

Immigration To Canada

... were arriving in large numbers to build the railway, were a special target of fear and suspicion. An act passed in 1885 to "restrict and regulate" Chinese immigration, was later complemented by head taxes designed to discourage Chinese immigration. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that regulations and restriction to Chinese immigration were completely lifted. The 19th century closed with a world wide depression and a slow down of immigration to the West. But all that changed in 1895, when Clifford Sifton was appointed as Minister of the Inte ...

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Civil War 7

... that should be imposed on the ones responsible for the rebellion; the status of the freed slaves and how to restore the South’s economy. President Lincoln, President Johnson and the Radical Republicans each had their own plans. Lincoln started thinking about reconstruction as early as 1863. He wanted for 10 percent of the voters in each southern state to take an oath of loyalty to the United States. After this the state could form its own government. The government had to abolish slavery. After this was done the governm ...

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Unions

... caused the retardation of their radical, left wing ideas. The American Federation of Labor was founded with the intention of building the class conscioussness and economic power of workers by organizing them on occupational lines. It pursued policies to win short term, concrete, economic gains (Cashman,206.) The AFL was first established as the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor of the United States and Canada from several independent national trade in 1881 and it took its definitive form and new name in 1886.The AFL was decen ...

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Hofstadter Chapter 1

... of a “a good political constitution to control him.” Being a largely propertied body, with the exception of William Few, who was the only one who could honestly be said to represent the majority yeoman farmer class, the highly privileged classes were fearful of granting man his due rights, as the belief that “man was an unregenerate rebel who has to be controlled” reverberated. However, the Fathers were indeed “intellectual heirs” of the seventeenth-century England republicanism with its opposition to arbitrary rule and faith in po ...

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