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    large supply of black labor. These codes limited former slaves’ freedoms by outlawing interracial marriage, disallowing them to serve on juries, and stripping their right to bear arms. There remained very little opportunities for blacks after the war and plantation owners still needed help, so they devised a plan called sharecropping. One sharecropping agreement states, “And whatever may be due by us, or our hands to our employer for provisions or anything else, during the year, is to be a lien

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    During World War II, there were many posters to persuade individuals to help the workforce, some specifically targeting women. In one of the posters, “we can do it,” a woman named Rosie the Riveter is exhibited showing her muscles to display her strength. The main attention is the woman’s strong arm and caption to exemplify the strength of a female and how underestimated they are in the real world. The poster has very glaring colors and the bandana on the woman’s head makes her seem somewhat rebellious

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    Causes and Outcomes of the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812. The wars prior to the Civil War may have taken place at different times throughout our history, they all feed into to one another like a river feeds a lake and a lake feeds into a river. It may have not seemed like it in the beginning but each one had a lasting effect and direct connection to the events of the future wars. All the wars prior to the Civil War had a direct purpose to building one of the

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    War changes people thoroughly both mentally and physically, for both those in battle and those not. For a man who has been in the recovering stage of war and seen its horror, Whitman definitely has his opinions on life. Whitman has developed a desire for wide-spread individualism, as well as new thoughts on democracy, while expressing his feelings about the Civil War as well as the saddening death of his father figure and role model, Abraham Lincoln. Whitman conveys his thoughts and opinions in complex

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    On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, starting the American Civil War. The Civil War would last for four years and result in massive American casualties. It would eventually end with slavery abolished and the South under the military occupation of the North. The conflict between the Southern and Northern states did not start suddenly, and did not only appear in the 1860s. Slavery was prevalent in the South and eventually made illegal in the North, which caused Northerners

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    Starting on April 6, 1994, Hutus started butchering the Tutsis in the African nation of Rwanda. Lasting 100 days, the Rwandan Genocide left approximately 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu sympathizers dead. To understand this act horrible against the Tutsi population, one most be aware of key historical factors that lead to increase in tension between the Tutsi and Hutu. At the point when Rwanda was initially settled, the general population who lived there raised cows. The general population who claimed the

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    of 1918, racial conflicts in Chester and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, led to ten deaths and sixty injured. That was only a prelude to 1919, when twenty-five race riots erupted across the United States, leaving about one hundred people dead. During these years, membership in the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist hate group, also grew rapidly and continued following the war. The KKK was founded only a few years earlier in 1915 in the Southern state of Georgia. It continued to grow in the 1920s

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    Irony, Symbolism, and Imagery Reveal the Emptiness of War in One Hundred Years of Solitude While most scholars have agreed that war is a real and significant part of human history, these same scholars have yet not reached a consensus on the characteristics of war. History books often lean toward glorifying war with stories of soldiers dying for their honor and homeland; novels, on the other hand, tend to point out the emptiness of war with stories of soldiers losing their youth and contact with

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    Revolution, it allowed the world to recognize the power behind the working class. The French Revolution collapsed the “old order”; by spreading democratic ideals, political changes took place and opened the door for a new sovereign authority in Europe. Prelude to Revolution/The Third Estate Led by a weak monarch and the economy in shambles, peasantry became weary of the old, autocratic regime. The Revolution took a radical turn in when Parisian rebels broke into the Bastille, in hopes of obtaining weaponry

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    hardships and inspiring poems. ). In 1638, Milton would leave England to tour Italy until 1639. This was a critical part in Milton’s life because this is when his most known poetry came from and also where he found his country in the middle of a Civil War (Linda Alchin). Even during rough times, Milton would continue to write, for the most part he wrote about topics such as: freedom of press, populism, divorce, and sanction regicide. Other things Milton did during this time period were serving as

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