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…Beginning in the late 1700's Americans colonists began to want more freedom. This led to the American Revolution and to many changes in the government. Although, not all of the Americans were happy with the way things turned out. This created a period…

…The American Civil War The Civil War was a brutal war between the North and South of America over the issue of slavery, which was spurred on by the secession of the southern states from the Union of a America. At the time slavery was one of the main…

…The Tsar abdicated following the revolution of 1917 but he did not abdicate after the 1905 revolution there were a number of key factors which made this happen. The two revolutions did have similarities like the fact that in both revolutions the people…

…The industrial revolution was the widespread replacement of manual labor by machines that began in Britain in the 18th century and is still continuing in some parts of the world today. The industrial revolution was the result of many fundamental…

…The Scientific Revolution shifted focus from Church authority to the authority of science and reason. Fresh concepts in science added to our understanding of the world around us: a new view of the solar system (Kepler and Galileo), a closer look…

…. Clearly the Russian Revolution or something equally extreme had already been conceived in the politcally charged environment of the time. Within the years preceding the Revolution, many events shaped the future of the Russian government, including the first…

…Since the early seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution, colonists developed a strong sense of unity and identity as Americans, as they came together to revolt against British oppression, ultimately affecting the development…

…In the 1890's the United States became more aggressive and expansionistic than it had been for the past few decades. There was apparently a hunger for foreign conquest. The conflict with Spain derived mainly from the American desire to help…

…It has been a ‘splendid little war’ wrote John Hay to Theodore Roosevelt after the fall of Santiago. Little, the Spanish-American War was; it was over in barely four months. Splendid? Maybe for those at home, reading the headline about its lucky…

…I would have to disagree that American liberalism broke down and could not solve the problems of the country effectively. "Before the New Deal gave the term liberalism its modern American meaning, it was a little-used word that referred to a belief…