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        <title><![CDATA[What role did the government play during the late 19th century, in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/what-role-did-government-play-during-late-19th-124255</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What role did the government play during the late 19th century, in promoting westward settlement and eastern industrial growth?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Since Rights are considered inalienable and innumerable, the most...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Since Rights are considered inalienable and innumerable, the most important Right is the one that applies Right now!
The Declaration broadly stated that humans by birth have rights, and it wisely did not attempt to enumerate them, but stating that among the innumerable, are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.  To preserve such rights, governments are formed.  One right cannot be more important than another; the exercise of a given right...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:27:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[....how about a few of these?
flak jackets
wristwatches
trenchcoats...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/group/discuss/research-lol-60293#3</link>
        <description><![CDATA[....how about a few of these?
flak jackets
wristwatches
trenchcoats
radar
sonar
proximity fuses
jeeps
seeps
duwks
C rations
night vision
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:07:44 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One of the first contributions of children during World War I was as...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/how-did-children-contribute-wwi-124213</link>
        <description><![CDATA[One of the first contributions of children during World War I was as newspaper distributors.  The war brought a demand for news and newspapers were the media for many people.  Children as young as four and five could be seen on street corners calling for people to buy their papers.  As men entered the service to fight, there was a large gap left in the workforce.  Factories that had once been forced to change child labor laws were suddenly...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:10:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How did children contribute to WWI?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/how-did-children-contribute-wwi-124213</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How did children contribute to WWI?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:35:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a matter of a great deal of debate.  No one really knows for...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/how-significant-were-african-americans-shaping-124205</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is a matter of a great deal of debate.  No one really knows for sure.
The most common answer today is that the freed slaves were very important in shaping life after the war.  They are given credit for reestablishing family structure that had been hurt by slavery.  They are given credit for starting black churches that would become a pillar of the black community.
They are not, however, usually portrayed as having had much to do with...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:18:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Following the Civil War The Emancipation Proclamation set an end to...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/how-significant-were-african-americans-shaping-124205</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Following the Civil War The Emancipation Proclamation set an end to slavery.  One of the most significant contributions by African Americans during the period was the aid they provided to help to educate former slaves.  Many of the slaves had been denied the opportunity to read and write.  Education was the key to enabling them to be able to better understand the white society and to begin to find a place among the hostile environments...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:12:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How significant were African Americans in shaping the progress of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How significant were African Americans in shaping the progress of Reconstruction?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:50:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Victoria came to the throne the British Empire was well...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Victoria came to the throne the British Empire was well established. The American Revolution was the exception. The Empire was based upon trade. Each colony had something to contribute to the economy of the Empire and in exchange the Empire provided security and protection from enemies. The Empire also provided a stable government and some education. People of the Empire had access to goods that they would not otherwise have.
The British...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:05:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Han ethnicity became the dominant ethnic group in China as a result...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/how-did-han-ethnicity-become-dominant-ethnic-group-116487</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Han ethnicity became the dominant ethnic group in China as a result of history, culture, enculturation, and politics.
China has had a rich and varied history going back some five thousand years.  China was not a unified political entity until 221 BC, when Qin Shi Huang Di united six independent kingdoms under his rule.  The succeeding Han Dynasty solidified their hold by implementing everything from the rule of law to a unified writing...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:28:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Battle of Kadesh was one of the largest battles of the Bronze Age,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Battle of Kadesh was one of the largest battles of the Bronze Age, was fought between Egypt and the Hitittes for control of Syria.
The famous battle is documented both in Egyptian and Hititte monuments and documents.
However, it is the subsequent peace treaty between Ramses II and Hattusili III that is on the wall of the United Nations, as this is the earliest known peace treaty between 'superpower' nation states known to history.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:36:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[John Brown was an ardent abolitionist who felt that it was his sacred...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/why-john-brown-significant-civil-war-61519</link>
        <description><![CDATA[John Brown was an ardent abolitionist who felt that it was his sacred duty to end slavery.

John Brown was perhaps the most important individual that contributed to the onset of the American Civil War. He both alarmed and radicalized the South as a result of his failed raid on Harper’s Ferry.   John Brown was essentially “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. 
The country was essentially polarized over the issue of slavery, and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:55:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[There are may advantages and disadvantages. Let me go over some of the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/what-dis-advantage-advantage-being-seafarer-124077</link>
        <description><![CDATA[There are may advantages and disadvantages. Let me go over some of the advantages first. Being a seafarer enables one to see the world and experience new things. This point is an enormous benefit. Second, seafaring is also often connected to wealth, because of trade. Third, there is a sense of adventure with seafaring that is appealing. The downsides of seafaring are many. First,  there is always a risk to be had. People can die very easily....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:31:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the dis-advantage and  THE 
advantage being a seafarer?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/what-dis-advantage-advantage-being-seafarer-124077</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What are the dis-advantage and  THE 
advantage being a seafarer?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/what-dis-advantage-advantage-being-seafarer-124077</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:08:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good question, because it is important to keep in mind that all wars...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/how-did-women-help-out-with-world-war-1-123953</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Good question, because it is important to keep in mind that all wars are collaborative efforts. So, first of all women did all the things that men did, who went off to war. For example, they worked in the fields in the farms and took care of daily life (whatever had to be done). They also helped more directly by driving ambulances, serving as medical persons, and working in other non-combatant positions. They also helped by knitting...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:36:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It would be easier to give you an answer that would be useful to you if...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/need-help-writing-paper-famouse-helen-fairchild-124015</link>
        <description><![CDATA[It would be easier to give you an answer that would be useful to you if you could provide more information about what you need.  I understand that you are writing a paper, but I don't know how much you know or what kind of help you are looking for.
Helen Fairchild was an American who was, as you say, a nurse during WWI.  She was from Pennsylvania and volunteered to go to France one month after the US declared war.  She died in 1918.  Her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:51:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I need help writing a paper on Helen Fairchild that was one of the women...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I need help writing a paper on Helen Fairchild that was one of the women nurses of ww1]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/need-help-writing-paper-famouse-helen-fairchild-124015</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:42:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I believe that the answer to your question would be "C", peasants were...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I believe that the answer to your question would be "C", peasants were freed from all traces of manorialism. I am taking manorialism to mean "putting authority for a piece of land in the hands of a lord, who then owes dues to the higher authority, and who gets those dues by working a group of serfs who owe obligations to that lord."  Does that makes sense?  Manorialism is the old feudal way of "peasants" working for "nobility."
The French...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:27:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Of course, this has to be a very general answer because we are talking...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/history/q-and-a/what-were-polotical-social-characteristics-new-123985</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Of course, this has to be a very general answer because we are talking about three different colonies and a long stretch of time...
Connecticut and Massachusetts were similar politically in that both were Puritan colonies with a close connection between church and state.  All three colonies were pretty democratic, but RI was much more religiously tolerant than the other two.
Socially, the NE colonies are usually distinguished from the others...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:11:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What were the political and social characteristics of the New England...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What were the political and social characteristics of the New England colonies Rhode Island,Connecticut,Massachusetts ?
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