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- 4881: Canadian Confederation
- ... was the only reference in the act to Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. These lands were “usually in less desirable locations and discouraged any successful transition to agriculture”.24 The British North America Act went into effect July 1st, 1867 creating a union known as the Dominion of Canada, but this did not complete the debate on the Confederation issue. Many Nova Scotians continued their opposition to the idea and it would ...
- 4882: Causes Of The Great Depression
- ... pay off their debts. If they paid back the loans, they would ruin their currency. To make matters worse, U.S. placed tariffs on imports from foreign countries in order to protect American business. The effect of these tariffs was that Europeans were unable to sell their own goods in the U.S. in reasonable quantities. If the U.S would not buy from European markets, then there was no way ...
- 4883: Causes Of The American Revolut
- ... of their rights. The colonists also believed the Stamp Act was a violation of the right of English subjects not to be taxed without representation. One month before the Stamp Act was to go into effect, riots organized by the Sons of Liberty broke out and prevented British-appointed stamp vendors from assuming their posts. The Stamp act continued without success for one year, proving to do nothing but encourage illegal ...
- 4884: Caribbean
- ... speak only underground and not to be spoken in public. Then came the immigrants from the East Asia as well as their cultures and languages. But main influence in Caribbean was the cultural and economical effect of the U.S. In recent years, the underground language, which was once forbidden to be spoken in public, is rapidly spreading throughout the Caribbean. The remaining of Amerindian languages still remains as well as ...
- 4885: Courtly And Uncourtly Views Of
- ... and they are in language that finds its music in a harmony of rhyme and alliteration. The above-mentioned conventions do not make the poetry dull and repetative though, in fact they have the opposite effect. Because the poets play with the conventions, every poem seems new and fresh. An example of variation on the common conventions can be found in the fourth lyric in Luria and Hoffman’s compilation, “Wormes ...
- 4886: Centralization Of Control In M
- ... way of life to the core of its values and practices. As you performed your everyday tasks as a student, you were constantly reminded of the religious influence present all around you. A more subtle effect of the Christian influence was the inclusion of religious moral and ethical principles in the university philosophy. Many of the rules involving room use, clothing, and women paralleled monastery life. These people, although not directly ...
- 4887: Causes Of The Revolutionary Wa
- ... people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying it's foundations on such principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.". What the declaration is really saying, is that a society who has no or little rights, such as the colonies, should be destroyed, thus separation from England. A new society would ...
- 4888: Causes Of The Pelopenesian War
- ... grow. The large navy was still maintained after the war and Athens, already a naval power in the region tightened its grip on the neighboring waters including those that surrounded the peloponnese. This had the effect of enclosing Sparta’s peninsula in a blanket of Athenian naval power. To the Spartans this development was one of considerable worry. The historian Thucydides wrote; “The growth of the power of Athens, and the ...
- 4889: Chinese Kinship Systems
- ... that there should be no squabble over inheritance and more importantly no division of kinship power. Yet, if Lim Hue-lieng had still been living with the Lim family when he became terminally ill, his effect on the power situation might have been altered. What I am referring to, is Lim Hue-lieng’s past ventures into Taiwanese society, which caused a gap in the family, whereby patrilineal power shifted to ...
- 4890: Civil War: Northern Attitudes
- ... for men who could pay $300 or hire substitutes. This provision, called the "Rich Man’s Exemption," caused widespread anger among the poor workingmen of New York City, especially Irish immigrants. When the law took effect in July 1863, a mob burned the draft headquarters, then rampaged through the city, lynching blacks, burning neighborhoods, and looting. Federal troops had to be pulled off the battlefield to end the Draft Riots, in ...
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