For Martin Luther King Jr., it was a dream. Over the course of a decade, King became synonymous with nonviolent direct action as he worked to overturn systemic segregation and racism across the southern United States. The civil rights movement formed the guidebook for a new era of protest
The Shogunate began with the Yoritomo Minamoto. During his time, the samurai manage to thwart
the Mongol invasion. Still the next
shogunates were not strong and the Emperor still exerted influence. Power began to shift from daimyos to the three
unifiers Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Tokugawa.
From these Japan was now starting to unite and the Shogun became the
military ruler of Japan.
1. Hunted for silver and gold
2. searched for the fabled Northwest Passage
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.
The philosophy of Karl Marx was not used to justify European imperialism in the late nineteenth century. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the first option. Karl Marx was a revolutionary socialist and was born on 5th of may in the year 1818 and died on 14th of March in the year 1883.
