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    be held responsible for the thousands of unnecessary deaths he caused, and he has to be portrayed for the man he really was: a corrupt leader that lead America into committing mass genocide against the indigenous people of America. This should not be looked over due to the other “achievements” Andrew Jackson had completed during his life. He committed mass genocide, he was a racist who was driven to kill and enslave other living, breathing humans, and he killed thousands of Native Americans for land

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          The Homestead Act of 1862 made surveyed lands obtainable to homesteaders. The act stated that men and women over the age of 21, unmarried women who were head of households and married men under the age of 21, who did not own over 160 acres of land anywhere, were citizens or intended on becoming citizens of the United States, were eligible to homestead. This paper will show how the Homestead Act came to be enacted, who the homesteaders were and the effects of the Homestead Act on the

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    the world, that humans have been benefiting from for hundreds of years is being deforested without opposition. Notably, this rainforest is the Amazon, and many people neglect the destruction happening in the rainforest and do not realize that thousands of acres of land have been deforested. Although plants in the Amazon have been useful for medical applications, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is detrimental to it’s biotic species because it creates disorder in the habitat. The Amazon rainforest

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    Frederick Barbarossa.These three rulers are the leaders of the Third Crusade against the Muslim religion, their quest is to retake the city of Jerusalem. Each one of them set out on their own ways with a large army behind them. Each one of them had thousands of men ready to fight for them each one of the men sewed on the golden cross made of silk representing the christian belief. While their way to Asia the German Emperor Frederick Barbarossa was in a few battles on their way. His army was going through

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    grasslands of southern Spain Spanish colonizers raised them for food and took horses to use as labor animals and for carriage Why was the Chisholm Trail significant? Was a major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas through Oklahoma to Kansas About 35 thousand head of cattle were shipped out of the yard in Abilene during its first year in operation The next year, the corporate cultivated to about 75,000 head Ranchers employed cowboys to drive their cattle to Abilene McCoy manufactured cattle cages, a

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    Rain Forest Biome

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    forest creates medicine. 100-300 species are in the rain forest mostly in South America. That would be 2 and ½ acre (1 Hectare). Rain forest Plants There are more than 10 different

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    Jonathon L Carver Ms. Murray Lit Comp 9 13 March 2017 The Dust Bowl A Giant cloud of dust go roaring at you making you believe that the end of the world is happening. Luckily it wasn’t it was just a man made disaster of death and destruction. Suffocating any thing not in a house or in a shelter. So what in the world did America have to do to cause such a massive amount of dust to decide to just fly away. Sunday, April 14, 1935, the day that is probably the most related to the dustbowl

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    By the early 1900’s, everybody was on the search for what was considered black gold, and they would do whatever it took to get a taste of it, as it could turn a person into a millionaire in an instance. It wasn’t until 1901 before Oil(black gold) was found in Spindletop, and with it, Texas would would never be the same. With oil being discovered in all sorts of different places, people started going to these towns and creating what is called boomtowns. These boomtowns started popping up everywhere

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    and monroe agreed to buy the whole Louisiana Territory for 15 million dollars about 4 cents an acre. This included an enormous area stretching from the gulf of mexico to canada and from the mississippi river to the rocky mountains. The louisiana purchase proved an amazing bargain for the United states. Its area almost doubled the size of the country. Although largely unexplored, the region clearly had acres of fertile farmland and natural resources. Article 2: Embargo Act The president looked for

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    practice clear-cutting and they had “depleted the availability of timber in many parts of East Texas” (Brown, 2014, p. 13). Many acres in Texas began to disappear because of the need of Timber. This problem led to the decline of this industry's earlier prosperity. Another contender for natural resources did not help the industry in any way. “Hundreds of thousands of acres of woodlands had also been cleared for exploration following the discovery of oil in this region” (Brown, 2014, p. 13). This venture

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