.... of California as a free state and the organization of two new territories—Utah and New Mexico—from the balance of the land acquired in the Mexican War. The principle of popular sovereignty would be applied there, permitting the territorial legislatures to decide the status of slavery when they applied for statehood. Despite the Compromise of 1850, conflict persisted. The South had become a minority section, and its leaders viewed the actions of the U.S. Congress, over which they had lost control, with growing concern. The Northeast demanded for its industrial growth a protective tariff, federal subsidies for shipping .....

.... to the barbaric acts of the nomadic tribes. What Shih did not know was that the construction would cause many deaths and much suffering to the builders of the wall. The wall which Meng and his men created had watchtowers, forty feet tall, every two hundred yards. The purpose of these towers was to alert the defending soldiers of approaching, attacking tribes. The soldiers at the towers signalled to each other by day using smoke signals, ! waving flags, blowing horns, and ringing bells; by night by lighting firework-like objects in the sky. The wall, itself, was approximately fifteen hundred miles long, thirty feet high and, at .....

.... defeated states of the Southern Confederacy would be joined again to the Union, the more than four million black freedmen living within them absorbed politically and economically in a nation reunited by the force of arms, and safeguards provided against any possible renewal of rebellion."(Carter 11) Reconstruction officially began with Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction in 1863.(Tindall 452) Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" ,as it was called, would allow a state to be admitted into the Union if 10 percent of its voting population took an oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the Union.(Tindall 452) Congress did .....

.... increase the prices and would most often simply burn or destroy the food. Also, the government paid those who voluntarily decreased acreage in production. Furthermore, it provided funds for loans to farmers to meet their mortgage payments. Unfortunately, the AAA was struck down by the US Supreme Court in US v. Butler in 1936, however, the program was a great success. The National Recovery Administration, or NRA, also proved to be one of Roosevelt’s greatest New Deal plans. Designed to balance the interests of business, labor, and consumers, it attempted to reduce unemployment and restructure the economy. The NRA was creat .....

.... to joust and had to hold a lance which was three meters of heavy metal. Not all squires became knights. Some just stayed squires who were known has a gentleman who owned land. A rich squire could become a knight at sixteen , but if he was poor he had to wait until he was twenty. When the time came to become a knight , a squire would spend all night in a church praying. Afterwards , he took a bath that was very rare in those days and put on new clothes . When it was time , the lord or Duke who had trained the squire "dubbed ", ( hard on the shoulder with a sword. ) him a knight. After the ceremony there was much fe .....

.... and return control to the Confederates under Pemberton. This would be accomplished by the 12th and an uneasy peace would settle across the Western theatre as Lieutenant-General ( Old Pete) Longstreet entrained to take command of all the South’s western forces. Jackson chafed... aware that the Union forces were a spent force and there for the taking, his spies reported that the defenders had shrunk to 35,000 and if they waited for another couple of weeks Washington would be a ghost town. France had broken with England and recognized the independence of the Confederacy and England was expected to follow suit very soon. In Richmond .....

.... different pieces and every one of them representing a colony. Each part corresponds to the geographical position of the colonies along the East Coast. This cartoon was established to stretch the importance of the need of the uniting of the colonies during this time period. Felling the need to resolve their differences and a restore on the Indians confidence, delegates met in Albany in 1754. They gave the Indians 30 wagons of supplies and came up with a plan for a colonial confederation. This plan included a “Grand Council” representing all the colonies and a president general as its executive officer. This plan f .....

.... to go to war or not. Most of the American people did not go to war, but some of them did. Many Americans had relatives in Germany or in Czechoslovakia. Everyone was extremely worried and stressed out due to war threats and viewed everything that went on around them as a sign that war would break out. Therefore, when the people heard the news of Martians they went absolutely insane. On September 21, 1938, about six weeks before the broadcast, a vicious hurricane hit the New York and Long Island area. Seven hundred people were killed, with over four hundred million dollars of property destroyed. Somewhere around ninet .....

.... had been persecuted and sent to concentration camps could now be punished under the same law. Also, homosexuals were not counted among Hitler's victims. Neither post-war German state had a "relevant" record in this area (Burleigh and Wipperman, 183). In 1935, the Reichstag amended paragraph 175 of the Criminal Code to close what were seen as loopholes in the current law. The new law had three parts. One of them stating "A male who commits a sex offense with another male or allows himself to be used by another male for a sex offense shall be punished with imprisonment." Very little has been written about the tens of thousands o .....

.... 70 mil personas se refugiaron en territorios de los Habsburgo. El Imperio Otomano trasladó a musulmanes albaneses a los territorios abandonados (Kosovo y Metohija). A principios del siglo XX continuaron los conflictos: la resistencia serbia al Imperio austro - húngaro provocó el asesinato del archiduque Francisco Fernando de Austria, hecho que marcó el inicio de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Al final de la conflagración que determinó la caída del imperio austro - húngaro, se fundó el reino de los serbios, croatas y eslovenos, que comprendía a Serbia, Montenegro, Eslovenia, Croacia, Eslavonia, Bosnia y Herzegovina. En 19 .....