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- 1621: The Cajun-Creole Conflict
- ... women. Neglected by their husbands, some Creole women formed liaisons with young Cajun bachelors. The husbands usually found out about these affairs, which often resulted in violence. One such incident occurred when Sieur Bertonville, a French-born surgeon, returned home to find his wife and young Jean-Baptiste Braud in bed. According to Judice, “when Sieur Bertonville entered his home and witnessed this ugly spectacle, he became enraged. He got his ... to take matters into their own hands, and slaughtered a great number of the offending livestock. The Flamand incident caused Cajun-Creole relations to deteriorate even more. “Exasperated by the constant petty harassment from the French elite, many Cajuns migrated to the more isolated unoccupied prairies before the end of the eighteenth century” (Boutte 172). The Cajuns were country people and the Creoles were city people. The Creoles did not particularly ...
- 1622: Luther And The Reformation
- ... the Renaissance was the religious movement of the Sixteenth Century. This milestone, known as the Protestant Reformation, was the most serious upheaval in the Christian Church since the introduction of Christianity into Europe. Primarily, this revolution was neither political, philosophical, nor literary. It was a revolt that was centrally religious and idealistically moral in its motivation. It did, however, achieve revolution in politics, philosophy, literature, art, and music in the end, although it was not begun for the sake of these aims. The German Reformation was directed by a man of genius and energy, Martin Luther ...
- 1623: Love Canal
- ... to serve with Livingston. Congress granted the envoys $2 million to secure their object. The international situation favored the American diplomats. Louisiana was of diminishing importance to France. The costly revolt in Haiti forced the French emperor Napoleon I to reconsider his plan to make Hispaniolia the keystone of his colonial empire, and impending war with Great Britain made him question the hardness of holding Louisiana against that great naval power. He decided to sell Louisiana to the United States. On April 11, 1803, the French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand opened negotiations by asking the surprised Livingston what the United States would give for all of Louisiana. Bargaining began in earnest the next day, on Monroe’s arrival in ...
- 1624: The Battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele)
- ... disregarded the effects of barbed wire, machine guns, shells and fire from aircraft on the very vulnerable horses. An attack in Flanders would also hold down the German reserves and relieve the pressure on the French, who needed time to recover from the bloody shambles of Verdun that had caused the French army to mutiny. Three main factors that should have been addressed prevented Haig's plans from being successful: these were the battlefield itself, the weather and the German defences. The Battlefield The Ypres salient occupied ...
- 1625: Acid Rain
- ... to 4.6. They believed that such a high jump could not be attributed to natural causes. They believed that it was due to air pollution. They were right. Since the beginning of the Industrial revolution in England pollution had been affecting all the trees,soil and rivers in Europe and North America. However until recently the loses of fish was contained to the southern parts of Europe. Because of the ... then a substance is acid. It is this sulphate ion that we are interested in. When the rain causes rivers to overboard onto the banks the river water passes through the soil. Since the industrial revolution in britain there has been an increasing amount of sulphur in the soil. In the river there is not enough sulphur for the acid to react in great quantities. However in the soil there is ...
- 1626: Lincoln At Gettysburg-the Mani
- ... cultural frame, breathes new life into words we thought we knew and reveals much about a President so mythologized, but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world, to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns. The Civil War is, to most Americans, what Lincoln wanted it to mean. In this book Garry Wills brilliantly explains how Lincoln ... battleground, but ensured forever that Americans would interpret the Constitution and the Civil War fought to preserve the principles of advocating equal rights for all human beings of the Declaration of Independence. He revolutionized the Revolution, giving people the insight and motivation that would change their future indefinitely. Wills's brilliance is proven with his insights in to how Lincoln's speech reflected the Unionist empty words of Daniel Webster, transcendentalism ...
- 1627: Civil War 2
- ... substantial enough to win the war. Jefferson Davis’ strategy was to take a defensive position rather then an offensive one. “The basic war aim of the confederacy, like that of the United States in the revolution was to defend a new nation from conquest. .” Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson, (p. 314). Davis reasoned just as Washington did during the revolution, that retreating against a stronger enemy is not bad all the time. It gave time to regroup your forces and build a counterattack against the enemy. Although the south did try this tactic at the ...
- 1628: Acid Rain
- ... to 4.6. They believed that such a high jump could not be attributed to natural causes. They believed that it was due to air pollution. They were right. Since the beginning of the Industrial revolution in England pollution had been affecting all the trees,soil and rivers in Europe and North America. However until recently the loses of fish was contained to the southern parts of Europe. Because of the ... then a substance is acid. It is this sulphate ion that we are interested in. When the rain causes rivers to overboard onto the banks the river water passes through the soil. Since the industrial revolution in britain there has been an increasing amount of sulphur in the soil. In the river there is not enough sulphur for the acid to react in great quantities. However in the soil there is ...
- 1629: Law And The American Revolutio
- ... of what form of government would best represent all people not just the few. Which in turn slowly transcend into what we call the Constitution of United States. Arriving at one reason for the American Revolution would be nearly impossible. Although, most reasons such as: taxation without representation, Stamp Act of 1765, and The Proclamation of 1763 all stem from the notion of governing rights of England over the colonies. Most ... Parliament from substituting its laws for those of the Colonial assemblies.” Some believe that if England and the colonies agreed on the rights of Parliament to pass laws governing the colonies that possibly the American Revolution may not have happened.
- 1630: Acid Rain
- ... to 4.6. They believed that such a high jump could not be attributed to natural causes. They believed that it was due to air pollution. They were right. Since the beginning of the Industrial revolution in England pollution had been affecting all the trees,soil and rivers in Europe and North America. However until recently the loses of fish was contained to the southern parts of Europe. Because of the ... then a substance is acid. It is this sulphate ion that we are interested in. When the rain causes rivers to overboard onto the banks the river water passes through the soil. Since the industrial revolution in britain there has been an increasing amount of sulphur in the soil. In the river there is not enough sulphur for the acid to react in great quantities. However in the soil there is ...
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