On the morning of August 14, 1765 - to protest the Stamp Act, a law obligating Americans to purchase special stamped paper for newspapers and many legal forms - a Boston crowd hanged an effigy of the city's stamp collector, Andrew Oliver, from a tree. When the official failed to resign his position immediately, the mob demolished the stamp collector's warehouse at the city dock, tearing it apart board by board. The crowd then beheaded the effigy and "stamped" it to pieces. After giving the stamp
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China has had lots of inventions and contributions to the world and just about all of them are still used today. The compass was one of the inventions created by the Chinese to help build their buildings in the right direction. Also Chinese Medicine was introduced in the ancient times and it shed some light on acupuncture and massage therapy. Printing and the umbrella were also other inventions developed by the Chinese. There are several more inventions and contributions that the Ancient Chinese
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What the south had to do was stay home, avoid the battles and just let the north fight. (Word Count: 102) 4. The Battle of Antietam is also known as the battle of Sharpsburg. This was also known as the bloodiest day in American history. This was a single day battle taken on September 17,
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Treaty 3 On October 3rd 1873, the Saulteaux tribe of the Ojibwa people and the Government of Canada signed Treaty 3, also known as the North-West Angle Treaty. This agreement provided the federal government access to Saulteaux lands in present-day northwestern Ontario and eastern Manitoba in exchange for various goods and Indigenous rights to hunting, fishing and natural resources on reserve lands. The terms and text of Treaty 3 set precedents for the nine Numbered Treaties that followed. Preferred
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Heihachrio was born January 1848 during the Meiji Period in Japan (Lloyd). He was born into a well-off family, and his father was a local samurai. Togo trained to become a samurai for his young adult life until he went to the United Kingdom to study naval warfare (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Learning much in England, he travelled the world and learned much about British naval tactics, who at the time had some of the best naval forces in the world (Lloyd). After his training in England, Togo Heihachrio
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Thutmose III was bold and brilliant on the battlefield as well in life. Because of Thutmose III Egypt prospers, without him we would be lost. Egypt has been restored to the proper prestige and achievement it has been known to have in the past. On the verge of extinction, Egypt was slowly slipping out of existence but that is no longer. Revered as being kind to the places he captured Thutmose III displayed humility and compassion to everyone and understood what it meant to truly rule an empire
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CATAPULTS: HISTORY Catapults 1 The US Navy is now moving to use Electro-Magnetic Catapult System (EMCS) on their aircraft carriers. The EMCS is replacing the Steam Compulsion System (SCS) that aircraft carriers have used for over 9 decades. These catapult siege engines are a dying breed, but let us find out the history of the catapult. Where did the word catapult come from? A catapult comes from two Greek words “kata” and “pultos”. “Kata” means downward and “pultos” refers
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enduring freedom. I spent 12 months there gaining first hand knowledge of the country. For the next few minutes I am going to help you think of Afghanistan as more than just a current event. You will learn that Afghanistan is a place with a rich history, diverse population and unique geography. Geography Physical location: Contrary to popular belief among Americans, Afghanistan is not a Middle Eastern nation. Don’t feel bad if you were one of them. I didn’t know either until I was preparing
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Introduction “American Imperialism has been a part of United States history ever since the American Revolution. Imperialism is practice by which powerful nations or people seek to expand and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or people.” (Casahistoria, 2010) The 19th century bought about a lot of commotion for this country as well as other countries because of different things that we needed and the other countries had but did not want to share. For example, the countries were
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the bottom of the list to the top of men to be drafted. The anti-war movement was college students protesting for the war to be over before they were to be drafted. The Vietnam War has been recorded as one of the longest wars in United States history. The war spanning over fifteen years from 1960 to 1975, it unfortunately started before then during President Truman and President Eisenhower time in office. President Truman set forth a modest attempt to aid the French in the 1950s in trying to
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