Colonists established shipyards to build fishing fleets and trading vessels . they also built small iron forges . by the 18th century , regional patterns of development in America had become clear. 2.How did the civil war affect the American economy? After the civil war , the large southern...
How did the Dutch East India Company conduct business? Absolute Power or Incorporation? The power of the Dutch came from their being a constitutional republic. Rather than centralize all power in one person with absolute authority, the Dutch decided to form an oligarchy, splitting up power among...
Many of those Puritans’ descendants still see the world much as their ancestors did, though their great enemy is no longer godless papists and savages but depraved liberalism, or at the conspiracy theorist extreme, some differently titled ism that in practice looks and sounds an awful ...
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America has one of the most complicated tax systems in the world, and it grows more complex every year. How did it get this way? See more tax pictures. iStock/Thinkstock There's nothing quite like the excitement and pride of receiving your very first paycheck. You worked hard for a...
A blankness may imply that no thoughts have already filled the space, thoughts that may lead you to believe that you have to die. And if you have to work really hard within that blankness, as Helen Keller did, you may forget that you have to die. If Helen Keller had known that she ...
Westerners who saw the Kuomintang during their days as rulers of Mainland China almost always ended up despising them and seeing them as hopeless. They never actually unified China, though they did get the various warlords and other local rulers to show them the outward signs of being part of...
But while that broader question is interesting (i.e. why did primitive peoples in Eurasia develop technology and not those crossing the Bering Strait), I was struck by a partial explanation for this given in Part 4: ...we make better use of our natural resources. For over 12,000 years...
took possession of this continent. By now there can be few who still believe the continent was empty when the Pilgrims and other colonists landed here, or that, for whatever reason, the original inhabitants – the Indians – held no prior claim to the land. To this day, the federal govern...
Urged by moderates in the Continental Congress and adopted on July 5, 1775, the petition pledged loyalty to King George III while restating the colonists' complaints against the crown.4 What Does Freedom of Petition Mean? The freedom of petition is enshrined in the First Amendment, which ...