In all regions of the colonies, merchants attempted to promote economic growth in their region but were stifled by British policies of mercantilism (MultiEducator, 2000). ... It stated, "That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. " The Patriots fought against the British to gain their independence and was assisted by the great nation of France. ... Under the Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, France had been supporting the American Revolution and been part of the Seven Years...

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For example, Europeans considered native men lazy and irresponsible because they allowed women to do all the farming and harvesting, a traditionally male role in European society. The men, however, earned their peaceful days during harvest because they would hunt all winter, living exposed to the harshness of nature from September through February. Europeans again misunderstood the gravity of the men's work because hunting was a sport practiced by the aristocracy. ... Europeans also suffered from imperialistic attitudes of superiority lent them by their respective kings, Puritans even ...

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One of the major political causes of The French revolution was the despotic rule of the Bourbon Kings: "For nearly 200 years government in France had been largely a one-man institution. ... "He maintained that originally all men had lived in a state of nature in which absolute freedom and equality prevailed, and there was no government of any kind. ... Habitants, fences, domesticated animals, men, women, and children and the soil that bore them all won out." ... Although the American Revolution validated the idea that all men were created equal, slavery was legal in all the thirteen colonie...

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This all started when Cortes and his army sailed to the Western Hemisphere where the Native Americans called their home they thought that Cortes was the sun god. ... Just before the first day of the fiesta Cortes states that his interpreter who was told by another woman native of the city, that many of Montezuma's people were intending to kill Cortes and his men. ... Also, he knew by first meeting the Native Americas that they weren't as highly advanced in tactics as he was, so why all the violence? ... In the Native Americans accounts it seems as though Cortes" strike was all ...

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He justifies the colonization and ˜civilization' of the Indians based on an extension of the Artistolean doctrine that some men were slaves by nature to include all the natives of the new world. ... They ˜mourned the death of their kings, their government in peace and war and the laws they ordained so greatly to the advantage of their vassals.' ... They even enforced the study and use of Spanish as the lingua franca of all their captives. ... They men sacrifices practiced sodomy, women sacrifices had bestiality with pumas and whatever else they pleased to do before thei...

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Kerry, Paul Potter, and Martin Luther King all identify the larger social issues that they felt were reflected in the Vietnam War. ... I believe that many of Kings concerns and issues with the war are issues that the United States has as a country, without the war. ... "Men were ordered to charge up hills, because the U.S. could not "lose the war,"" (p.894). ... Years ago Bentley College was primarily a men's school, there were little women, and almost no other races were ever enrolled in institutions. ... In conclusion, all speakers have made remarkable points that cannot be overlooke...

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At this time, the kings of England did not have large standing armies ready to go to battle at a moments notice like we do today. ... If an enemy came from without, all of the men would gather their arms and go and defeat the enemy. ... First of all, Parliament wanted them to pay the expenses of housing the troops in America. ... Originally, juries were a group of twelve local men who were brought in to tell what they knew of the facts of a case. ... At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. ...

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From the Haitian Revolution's beginning in a Voodoo ceremony in Bois Caman, where slaves swore to kill all whites on the island, it was more a rebellion against the white oppressors than for ideals like "liberté, egalité, fraternité."" ... Their authoritarian policies made them worse than kings. ... The governments resulting out of that revolution were hardly radical at all. Indeed, all of them ruled by the oldest method in the book, the coercion by large brigades of armed men. ...

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The French had suffered big defeats and therefore had lost men and supplies. ... These ideas included that it is right to take up arms against tyranny, there should be no taxation without representation, all men should have liberal freedoms, and a Republic is superior to a monarchy. ... They decided to declare themselves the representative body of France (the National Assembly) and to disregard the Kings opinion. ... All judges were to be elected 5. ... The franchise was to be given to all who paid taxes equivalent to 3 days wages or more. ...

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This all changed abruptly in 1763. ... In October 1780 a crowd of frontiersmen defeated a British force at Kings Mt and this set the stage for the Yorktown Campaign. The combination of the French recognition of the United States (1778) and its allegiance with the same which bought much need supplies and money to the colonists, and in a small way Spain's declaration of War against the British in 1779, and the continued persistence of the colonists, all attributed to the British Surrender on October 19th 1781. ... That they felt that as all men are equal under their creator, that they ha...

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