One defining characteristic of the Era of Good Feelings was the industry. People began to work in factories as well as produce steamboats, engines, etc.
Answer: One obstacle was dealing with other countries that were trying to push
Explanation:
Great Britain and Spain were interfering with our trade as well as encouraging the Native Americans to attack us.
<u>The Egyptian and Kush civilizations shared simila</u>r religious beliefs and similar styles of art and architecture. Kush civilization is considered a satellite of Egypt civilization because their pyramids and tombs are similar, their art and architecture were much the same, and they had similar religious beliefs and gods. Both were situated in Africa (along the Nile river). The growth of the Kush civilization paralleled that of Egypt.
<em>The Kush civilization is what the Egyptians called Nubia (an age-old connecter between Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa). It was ruled by Egypt before eventually becoming the Kush Empire.</em>
Answer:
(i) First, it is important to remember the context. America was in the midst of a bloody civil war. Union troops had only recently defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Gettysburg. It was a the turning point in the war. The stated purpose of Lincoln’s speech was to dedicate a plot of land that would become Soldier’s National Cemetery. However, Lincoln realized that he also had to inspire the people to continue the fight.
Below is the text of the Gettysburg Address, interspersed with my thoughts on what made it so memorable.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
“Four score and seven” is much more poetic, much more elegant, much more noble than “Eighty-seven”. The United States had won its freedom from Britain 87 years earlier, embarking on the “Great Experiment”.
(ii) The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the Civil War were important milestones in the long process of ending legal slavery in the United States. This essay describes the development of those documents through various drafts by Lincoln and others and shows both the evolution of Abraham Lincoln’s thinking and his efforts to operate within the constitutional boundaries of the presidency.
