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required that all Chinese immigrants had to pay a "head tax," that is a tax that was imposed simply for entering the country. The ...

548). As this suggests, commentary written by Dutch writers predate the observations penned by Yu. For example, Reverend Georgiu...

early 19th centuries, Spain was perhaps the most powerful nation on earth. It has established colonies in the New World, and treas...

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

forced removal became known as "The Trail of Tears", an event that proved once and for all that no matter what the Cherokee or oth...

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...

the revolutionary era helped shape a new consciousness of women s political worth and capacities; this made their official exclusi...

In five pages this text on early nineteenth century Mexican life is discussed within the context of what it must have been like fo...

Spain up until the time of the Civil War. However, the point that Jones emphasizes the most is that the Amistad case essentially w...

up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...

This research paper presents a brief overview of the history of New York gangs, beginning in the early nineteenth century, discuss...

the similarities will be striking, but the differences are also worth noting. II. The Political Development of New York Between...

In five pages this paper compares these two countries' literature during this time period in a consideration of religious, social,...

The United States was involved in a big way in the production of sugar in Cuba during the early 1900s. This paper looks at the per...

In a paper consisting of ten pages the different perspectives of the texts The City Wilderness by Robert Woods, The Origins of the...

of religion. That is, there was a great deal of discord. As with any controversial move, there are two sides to the story that may...

panacea when it came to womens rights. Liza was caught in this time period where she wanted to strike out on her own but was held ...

matter in interpreting this as a strong governmental act. At the same time, marashall law may be introduced in flourishing democra...

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

resulted in a huge public outcry against the King. Reformers and radicals alike encouraged dialogue regarding gender oppression a...

a storehouse (Lane 9). In contrast to the shrinking forest of Europe where timber was already scarce, North America abounded wit...

10 pages. This paper provides an overview of early 20th century philosophies in China, including those of Ch'en Tu-Huiu and Hu Sh...

(Bisson 639). The goals of this organization included breaking the Portuguese monopoly on the spice trade and expelling the most r...

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...

In five pages this paper examines Jacques Ellul's concept of revolution within the context of European history from the sixteenth ...

In five pages this paper considers the history of homosexuality in ancient Greece, Japan of the seventeenth century, England of th...

is primarily tied to their being a Slavic people. The author indicates that the Slavs settled "beside the Danube, where the Hungar...