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    Statesmen and the Confederacy The American Civil War was a bloody battle fought between the Confederacy (CSA) and the Union. Many men died, especially those who fought for the south. The Missouri Compromise is what separated the North from the South, leaving slavery in the north outlawed and vice versa. When the Missouri Compromise was repealed and the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, northerners were outraged. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president, he wasn’t an outright abolitionist, but he

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    stems from a macabre realization that all people, including himself, are bestial and selfish, and from a position of total destitution. Ignatius believed himself to be a beacon of morality in an otherwise dismal society. For instance, throughout A Confederacy of Dunces, he would write about the evils of the hedonistic, “bourgeois” society in which he lived, and about how the world would be in a much better position if based on the medieval principles (such as divine-right and cruel forms of torture)

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    The Confederacy fought the Civil War because they wanted to preserve slavery in the south. The Confederacy had advantages in this conflict. One advantage for the Confederacy was their leaders. Many believed that the Confederacy had better leaders, such as Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, whom were some of the best officers before the war. Another advantage for the Confederacy was that they were fighting in their homeland. The Confederate soldiers knew the terrain better than the Union soldiers

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    After Abraham Lincolns election, most of the slave states decided to leave the union to form their own country. The states that started to secede from the Union in the early 1860’s to form the Confederacy had the chance to build something great. They built it for all the wrong reasons. Since the Republican platform prohibited the expansion of slavery in future western states, all future Confederate states started to plan to keep their ways of life protected. It went against their plans for expansion

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    The Iroquois Confederacy to Six Nations Thesis: Examine how the Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, and Cayuga, and the 1722 addition of the Tuscarora, resulted in the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations and their influence on the creation of the Constitution. Nicole Cushingberry Cultural Anthropology Michael Striker December 16, 2011 Nicole Cushingberry Instructor: Michael Striker Anthropology 100 The Iroquois: Confederacy to Six Nations The Iroquois Confederacy, also known

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    expansionists interests, had raised concerns of the Hawaiian King Kalakaua who wanted to maintain and nurture the independence of his Kingdom through the proposition of a Pan-Polynesian Confederacy. This vision was built upon the need strengthen Pacific islander nations against foreign encroachment, were this proposed confederacy was based upon their shared cultural and ethnic heritage. Leading this alliance was to be Hawaii because of its self-suggested status of superiority over the other islands, such

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    history forever. It tore the nation apart causing Americans to fight against each other, pitting brothers and friends alike against one another. The war was the bloodiest every to happen in American history. There are many possible reasons on why the Confederacy lost the Civil War to the Union. There were the differences of the economies between the North and the South, the Union’s blockade of Confederate ports, their military man power and leadership, and the government and its leadership. During the

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    Switzerland count three political levels: - The Confederacy, - Cantons, - Municipalities. Switzerland has a particular system of taxation. The Confederacy (central state); 26 cantons (member states); and their municipalities collect taxes in function of each legislation. Accordingly, the major principles of the Swiss federalism at the fiscal level are defined in the federal Constitution. The Constitution fixes the taxes which the Confederacy can take, while cantons are free in the choice of

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    Iroquois history, culture, & beliefs vs. The Bible The Iroquois, otherwise known as the Haudenosaunee, were also known to the French as the “Iroquois League” and then later as the “Iroquois Confederacy”, and to the English as the "Five Nations”. The Iroquois Confederacy started in the 15th century or earlier by bringing together five distinct nations in the southern Great Lakes area into "The Great League of Peace". Each nation had a distinct language, a territory and a function. The Iroquois extended

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    The roots of the Mohawk tribe, to begin with, date back to the 1600s Iroquois Confederacy/Iroquois League/Five Nations/Haudenosaunee that comprised a confederation of five Indian tribes (and later six) that occupied upper New York during the 17th and 18th centuries and that played a critical role in the struggle between the British and the French for the control of North America. The five nations characterized themselves as the “members of the longhouse” and included the Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, Mohawk

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