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Stamp Act Riot (1765)
Burdened by crushing debts from the French and Indian War (1754-63), the government of British Prime Minister George Grenville passed a series of measures aimed at raising revenue in the thirteen colonies that included the Sugar Act, Quartering Act, Currency Act, and Duties in American Colonies Act ...
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Native Americans
Introduction
The term Native Americans refers specifically to the descendants of people living in what is now the contiguous United States prior to the mass arrival of settlers from other continents. The United States Census combines Native Americans and Alaskan Natives for statistical purposes, although each tribal nation is culturally, ...
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Food Inspection and Food Safety Regulations
Food Inspection and Food Safety Regulations
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The government plays a key role in ensuring the safety of the food people consume. Despite the efforts of food industry personnel, federal regulators and watchful consumers, virulent disease-causing bacteria continue to penetrate the food supply and to threaten Americans with debilitating and sometimes fatal ...
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MRS. MARY ROWLANDSON
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
[Name of the InstitutionMrs. Mary Rowlandson
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Mary Rowlandson_ "a pioneering American" was born in the year 1637. During King Philip's war, the Native Americans apprehend her and her three children. After getting free from imprisonment of 11 weeks, she wrote a book sharing her experience ...
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End of Cold War
End of Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of permanent tension, but never came to a general war. There were the cases of extreme tension that were always resolved through localized conflicts that were distant from the nerve centers of the two powers. They developed ...
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Evolution of Federalism in the Modern Era
Evolution of Federalism in the Modern Era
Federalism
Federalism is essentially an autonomous system of government and shared voluntarily chosen. We can say that federalism is both a structure and governance process to unite on the basis of consent, and while maintaining diversity. To achieve this, it ...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The New Deal
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New Deal is the name given to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policy interventions to combat the effects of the Great Depression in the United States. This program was developed between 1933 and 1938, with the aim of supporting the ...
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African Slavery and the European Plantation System
African Slavery and the European Plantation System
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In each of the three books, Rediker, Zinn and Jordon talk of the African nation and the practice of slavery and and racial discrimination endured, and the slow evolution of the rights that they acquired with the ...
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The United State's Declaration of Independence
United State's Declaration of Independence
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The Declaration of Independence is a political document through which the Thirteen Colonies British to North America did secede from the United Kingdom, on 4 July 1776. This text is marked by the influence of the philosophy of the Enlightenment and ...
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Part 1 of History Test
Part 1 of History Test
Question 1
The Reform movement was the first to ordain women as rabbis and cantors. Advocacy for women's ordination began in 1922, when the Central Conference of American Rabbis issued an official statement in favor of ordaining women. Despite its egalitarian philosophy, ...