Women saw the beginning of their journey to equality at the turn of the Revolutionary War. Many women fought in the war (though they also had to disguise themselves), but their legal status was still not equal to white men. ... In the North, free African Americans and a few choice servants were allowed to learn, something that never took place before the Revolutionary War. ... After the Revolutionary War, groups of women, Native Americans, and African Americans all fought for their God-given rights, and though they were overall not successful, they began the journey to equality. ...

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Throughout the Revolutionary War American Colonist was fighting for many different causes, probably the most obvious was freedom form Great Britain. ... During the move Patriot people gathered to vote on weather to go to war or not. ... Prince Hall also voices his opinion about the war but he was fighting for freedom in a different way. ... In the Patriot an owner gives a slave to the army so the owner doesn't feel guiltily about not joining the war. ...

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Nicholas Kristof, journalist, claims that during the Civil War, rape was okay in Sierra Leone. Yet when the war ended and it was no longer allowed to shoot people, rape was still occurring. ... Sexual violence really had a jumpstart in Sierra Leone during the Civil War (March 1991 " July 2001). The main offenders were the rebel forces of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and the West Side Boys (a group of the AFRC). ... Under this law, the civil war was "an internal armed conflict " ("We'll Kill You If You Cry " p.55). ...

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The Civil War occurred for many reasons. ... Blacks had served in the War of 1812 and the Revolutionary War, but they had been barred from state militias since 1792. ... The Civil War began in 1861 and ended in 1865.By the end of the Civil War 186,000 blacks soldiers had served in the war. ... Reasons Why the Civil War Began. ... The End of the Civil War....

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Freedom According to Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Freedom is defined as the quality or state of being free, the absence of necessity, liberation from slavery or restraint of from the power of another. It is a right we as American can be thankful for. Freedom is the right to make choices ...

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America the land of opportunity, or is it? In the first wave of colonists to arrive in America, populations that started off in the thousands were whittled down to hundreds, by harsh winters, disease, and starvation. The settlers that came afterwards didn't have it much better, lack of land, ...

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With the Revolutionary war going on at the time the was a shortage of basic building materials so in his forge he created nails with scrap metal thus creating a huge profit for him and his family. ... Soon after the Revolutionary war ended he started to sell hatpins and men's walking sticks, which turned an even greater profit. ... In 1792, Eli Whitney visited the plantation of Catherine Greene, the wife of Revolutionary War general, Nathaniel Greene, near Savannah Georgia. ... This continuation of slavery by the South led to a ripple effect that can be seen as a driving force behind t...

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These differences would culminate during the 1850s and would eventually ignite a divided Congress and country to fight a war it had already won- the war for freedom. ... The dividing of people on the issue of slavery turned into the sectionalism that fueled the Civil War. ... These differences were set aside to fight a war for their freedom. The Revolutionary War united the North and South into one for a brief time. ...

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When I first began reading the book "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson I was not very interested, it was slow going and I had a difficult time getting into the story. However I suddenly got a spark of inspiration. This book began to pull me in and I would wake up excited to see what would happen nex...

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#1 One rainy day, I was put up to auction in a small town. There were some people who were trying to make a successful bid of me. I remember that I had very strange feeling on a stand and felt full of anxiety about my future. After hot keen competition I was bought by a master. The master told m...

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During the 1820s and 1830s, individuals and groups came forward with the revolutionary idea of equality for black men and women. ... In 1839 the Amistad case forever changed the history of slavery in the United States serving as a key factor in the escalation to the Civil War. ... The Amistad Case was a key factor in the escalation to the Civil War....

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There was no civil war or Boer war. These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The English employed many natives to fight in the war. ... The change of hands between the to leaders was slow but revolutionary for the region none the less. ...

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Victors and Vanquished, The Interesting Narrative, and The Social Contract gave their readers a glimpse into what the world was like before it became modern. New resources and different cultures were being discovered by explorers that the Old World had never been aware of before. Slaves were a large...

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He was a child when the Second Sudanese Civil War erupted. After the war Emmanuel's mother was killed by soldiers that were soldiers for the government. his father Simon became a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan, Jal was recruited into that army, one of ten thousand child soldiers. Taj fought through two separate wars over the past ten years. ... On his journey through countless miles of desert he saw the remains of adults and children that had become a casualty of war. ... These war weapons were very large and taj could har...

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On the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four; and slave owners probably made up less than a third of southern whites. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. ...

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Around that time Butterfield was honored with the Pulitzer Prize as a member of The New York Times team that published the Pentagon Papers, the Pentagon's secret history of the Vietnam War, in 1971. ... He goes on the record for saying that "The high homicide rates that characterize the United States really have a geographical origin in the white, rural pre-Civil War South" (Booknotes, 1989). ...

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