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  • How did Early Empires facilitate the Rise of Investment Banking
    ...ething given or that can be accepted without much questioning with regards to its origin or how it came about. One area that is so vital for the modern w ...Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press.</ref> This ancient city was known to have been a major trading hub for the region that had a group of Assyrian s
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  • What are the "Six Flags" that have Flown over Texas
    ...million people queue up at Six Flags amusement parks across North America to test their nerve against death-defying roller coasters and scream at the sp ...became convinced that his Lone Star State needed a "Disneyland-like Great Southwest Land." <ref>Cashion, Ty, The New Frontier, Historical Publishing Network,
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  • What was George Washington's military experience before the American Revolution
    The Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to put George Washington in charge of the Continental Army in 1775. Washington ...ion of varied responsibilities, mostly teaching the rowdy underclasses how to be soldiers.
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  • Which Guns Won the American West
    ...e, staked their claim as "The Gun That Won the West." Both were introduced to the market in 1873. Neither was every replaced in the hearts of Westerners ...Massachusetts ended prematurely after he illustrated the proper technique to blow up a raft with an underwater mine with a demonstration on school groun
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  • Why Was Vicksburg “The Gibraltar of the Confederacy”
    ...had become "The Most Famous Small Town in America," as boosters would come to call it. ..., Mel, <i>The Brief American Pageant: A History of the Republic, Volume I: To 1877</i>, Wadsworth Publishing, 2005, page 322</ref> Over the next three da
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  • What was the evolution of water technologies like
    ...pg|thumbnail|left|Figure 1. Example of terraces in Arabia, perhaps similar to those developed already by the Neolithic]] The history of water use and technologies to bring water to human societies is long, particularly in some of the world's most arid regi
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  • What Was the Significance of the Southwest in the Outcome of the Civil War
    ...of possessing New Mexico and Arizona territories as they were the gateway to the ports of California. ...s of California, and openness to slavery were factors that had the ability to drastically change the outcome of the Civil War.
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  • Did the Battle of Fredericksburg Change the Identities of Irish Soldiers
    ...new perspectives on their identities amidst the chaos of war. The ability to consider themselves Irish immigrants vanished when they donned a blue or gr ...over ethnicity.<ref>This article draws from research previously submitted to Arizona State University by this author. See Carol Costello, “Ethnicity a
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  • What is the significance of the 1968 East L.A. Walkouts
    ...an American/Black civil rights movements are the obvious events leading up to the political revolutions that ensued. Segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the ...t their indigenous ancestry and culture were important to them, as well as to the land they had lost from Spanish and American imperialism.
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  • Engineering Victory during the Civil War: Interview with Thomas F. Army, Jr.
    ...n armies had individuals who could use scientific ingenuity and innovation to rapidly build and repair roads, bridges, railways. Unlike the Confederacy, ...I visited a World War II museum near Boston, MA, and I had the opportunity to send a message using German engineer Arthur Scherbius's famous Enigma ciphe
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  • The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline
    ...l man who had his thunderous temper, and a commanding leader who was prone to binges of sloppy drunkenness. He was determined in his actions and proceede ...usion that by indirect association or direct action, Jim Bowie contributed to his demise.
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  • Was the Destruction Perpetrated by Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Necessary to End the Civil War
    ...and William T. Sherman innately understood what needed to be done in order to end the war and they courageously performed these duties. ...slavery altered him to a degree but more practical implications caused him to act. By eliminating slaves from the South's war machine, Rebel forces would
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  • How Did God Influence the Wounded in the American Civil War
    ...er praying he “felt more composed in [his] mind and perfectly reconciled to [his] fate”<ref>McCarter, 180.</ref> How can a few words to an unproven entity ease a man’s mind and perhaps heal his body? Was the r
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  • Were Members of the Underground Railroad Criminals
    “But I do earnestly desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of women at the South, s ...level of degradation suffered by a slave and that the right Americans had to trade in human beings was a bad law.
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  • Nature's Path: Interview with Susan E. Cayleff
    ...many of the 19th Century medical sects created, naturopathy has persevered to this day. Naturopathic healing was founded and based on number of influence ...t and survival into 21st century. Cayleff's book is an intriguing addition to the medical and social history of the United States.
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  • How Did the Battle of South Mountain Alter the Course of the American Civil War
    ...southwest from Pennsylvania down to the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry. To the east of the mountain was the town of Frederick, Maryland, less than 50 ...bloodiest single day in U.S. military history, Antietam, which in turn led to a new war aim for President Abraham Lincoln. The Battle of South Mountain,
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  • How Did Hospitals Emerge
    ...n the Medieval and Modern periods, new practices emerged that allowed them to be integrated within educational, government, and private institutions. ...g duties, may have used part of the temple compounds as areas for patients to be healed for a variety of diseases and sicknesses. <ref>For more on early
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  • The Red River War, 1874-1875: What Were the Events that Led to the Uprising
    ...d the rate of the transportation of goods to the East and migrant settlers to the West. ...region over several decades; however, the outbreak of war in 1874 was due to the encroachment of white buffalo hunters onto Native American soil, the la
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  • Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States
    [[File:Confederate_monument_Elmira_NY.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|Monument to Confederate dead in Elmira, NY]] ...southern United States, it is not unusual to find monuments and memorials to the Confederate dead in many small towns. In fact, these sculptural pieces,
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  • What was the impact of the German Peasant War (1524-1527) on the Reformation
    ...ommoners to establish faith and church that met their needs and gave birth to the Radical or Popular Reformation. ...the outbreak. The German Peasants, especially the wealthier groups, wanted to safeguard hard-earned prosperity that they believed was under threat from t
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  • Southwest to Whom - An Analysis of the Historiography of the American West
    ...hed to the region by inhabitants and observers. The “Southwest” is not southwest of Mexico City, so the geographic nature of its designation implies its con ...e of human experience have changed over the last few decades. The American Southwest was once defined by American historians as part of the rewards of Manifest
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  • What if the Battle of Qadisiyyah Had a Different Result
    ...px|Figure 1. Image of a Zoroastrian temple. The Zoroastrian religion began to decline after the battle's results.]] ...he new Islamic Empire to emerge in the Middle East and, eventually, expand to other areas.
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  • How did the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) change England
    ...saw the defeat of the Armada as an act of divine providence. It confirmed to them that England was a kingdom destined for greatness. == Why did Spain send the Spanish Armada to invade England? ==
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  • How Did Globalism Begin during the Bronze Age
    ...n era of globalism, trade, ideas, and people flow more freely from country to country and the period is usually marked by a prolonged time of relative pe ...es of globalism that comes to mind for most people as the Romans were able to meld a number of disparate tribes, kingdoms, and even the remnants of Near
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  • How have immigration and citizenship changed in the U.S.
    ...sn’t until after America became its own independent nation that it began to grapple with issues of citizenship and immigration. ...y. The earliest immigration and naturalization laws would reflect a desire to protect the relationship between whiteness and American identity.
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  • How Did the Ancient City of Nineveh Fall
    ...the Assyrian Empire, which at its height stretched from Egypt in the west to Persia in the east and included most of Anatolia, the Levant, and the Arabi ...emies grew tired of the malevolent regime and so came together temporarily to cast off the Assyrian yoke. The great city of Nineveh was destroyed in the
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  • How have Historians' perceptions of Native Americans changed
    ...survival of Native Americans undermined this argument, scholars were slow to reject it. The Native American rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s emph ...perhaps overblown, it demonstrated that it was clear that scholars needed to explain the perseverance of Native Americans.
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  • United States History Study Guide
    *[[The Mysterious Illness of Jim Bowie: How Did He Contribute to His Own Decline?]] *[[Was the Destruction Perpetrated by Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Necessary to End the Civil War?]]
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  • American Civil War Study Guide
    *[[Was the Destruction Perpetrated by Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Necessary to End the Civil War?]] *[[What Was the Significance of the Southwest in the Outcome of the Civil War]]
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  • What was the Second Wave Feminist Movement
    Today, feminism is an ideology/theory that most people fail to understand fully. Feminism has been described as having three separate wave ...lintered after criticism grew that the movement had focused on white women to the exclusion of everyone else.
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  • Why was the Turner Thesis abandoned by historians
    ...n lines.” (Turner, p. 4.) The conquest of the frontier forced Americans to become smart, resourceful, and democratic. By focusing his analysis on peop ...these Americans’ concerns, but it also represented how Americans wanted to see themselves. Unfortunately, the history of the American West became the
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  • How did smallpox and tuberculous force the Medial Corps Office of Indian Affairs to reform
    ...Alene Indians mandated that the government furnish a competent physician to the Reservation. P. 421, Kappler, Charles Joseph, <i>Indian Affairs: Laws ...employees; other times. They were contracted, workers. The OIA struggled to hire competent employees, and some of these problems were magnified in thei
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  • Was Camelot based on a real place
    ...at king and hero are from Welsh poems and chronicles. However, they appear to have been widely known throughout England and even in Brittany (France). In ...the earlier Welsh sources had mentioned this place, and they had referred to Arthur holding his court at Caerleon. They had stated that the monarch had
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  • Top Ten Books on the History of Reconstruction
    ...fter the Civil War when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, <i>Black Reconstruction i ...onal state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans.
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  • How did the United States open Japan to trade in 1853
    ...s in 1639. For the two centuries that followed, Japan limited trade access to Dutch and Chinese ships with special charters. ====Why did the United States want to trade with Japan?====
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  • How Did St. Clair’s Defeat Happen
    ...32bf55a75a34753ac battle than at Little Bighorn], it is typically referred to as [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0190614455/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp= ...Northwest Territory was more of a politician than a general. Others point to the apparent anonymity of the Indian leaders – modern scholars believe th
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  • How did the United States resolve its dispute with Great Britain over the Oregon Territory
    Along with territorial disputes with Spain and Mexico over the Southwest, the fate of the Oregon Territory was one of the major diplomatic issues of ...American continent. The Oregon Territory stretched from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains, encompassing the area including present-day Oregon, Wa
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  • What Was the Purpose of the Mesoamerican Ballgame
    ...here different versions of the ballgame were played are a visual testament to the ubiquitous nature of the ballgame in Pre-Columbian North America. For m ...and watched with trepidation because sometimes the losers were sacrificed to the gods.
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  • Magical Urbanism - Book Reivew
    ...mers. Technology, transformation, and the mobility of labor all contribute to the creation of new transnational communities and identities that both conf ====Mexico and the American Southwest radically changed in 1980s and 1990s====
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  • My Blue Heaven - Book Review
    ...eir own homesteads while utilizing backyard gardens or domestic industries to make ends meet. This frugal approach also emphasized lower taxes and reduce ...o send their children to interracial schools rather than increase taxation to ensure racial purity in education.
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  • Southwest to Whom? An Analysis of the Historiography of the American West
    #REDIRECT [[Southwest to Whom - An Analysis of the Historiography of the American West]]
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