Gandhi took the religious principle of ahimsa which means doing no harm, common to Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism and turned it into a non-violent tool for mass action. He used it to fight not only colonial rule but social evils such as racial discrimination and untouchability as well.
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With the ink still fresh on the last of his “Midnight Appointments,” he rode out of town and refused to attend the Republican Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration.
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President Adams’s time in the White House deserves a closer look. It was a time of severe personal and political trial for him. His policies had split his own party the electorate thrust him from the presidency and he was hurt by a family tragedy.
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I'm pretty sure that it's C. :)
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It became one of the great cities of the world.
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Constantinopole (also called Byzantium) was the capital of the Byzantine Empire since the division of the Roman Empire into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. It was considered it had an equal status with Rome. It conserved the Orthodox rituals, the Greek language and culture, and became the seat of the Orthodox Church after the Great Schism of the Church in the 11th century. It fell into the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1453, its end as a Christian metropolis.
The Black Codes were put in place in south Carolina (as well as other places in the southern states) as a way to make whites continue to feel superior and suppressing the rights of African Americans, while technically not breaking the law, as they were not enslaving the Africans.
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