... interests. The hopes of the some republiucs during the time of reconstructing was to help former slaves gain dignity and equality in American life. The voters of the Republicans were prominent blacks of wealth, Puritains of the Pensylavania area and others. The Republicans also didn't want the help of foreign outsiders to be welcomed. In 1882 the Chinese exclusion Act was passed bannding the chinese from becoming natural citzens in the United States. This law was carried on ... for the farmers. The northwestern alliance took a more radical approach; they were thinking about starting a t...

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... of the dangers of terrorism. In the 1980's, Canada was the victim of several terrorist attacks carried out by Armenian and Sikh extremists, including a bombing of an Air India flight originating in Toronto, which exploded off the coast of Ireland, killing 329 people. The Islamic radical movements main success has been their ability to gain legitimacy from the general public. During the past two decades, they ... organization, the patron state avoids the possibility of defeat and does not appear to be the aggressor. Modern technology has now made terrorism an efficient, convenient, and gen...

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... of a thumbnail and has as much computing capability as the earlier ENIAC. 1975 Xerox markets Alto, the first personal computer (a "microcomputer"). Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft. MITS Corporation's Altair 8800 arrives on the scene. It contains the Intel's 8080 microprocessor that Intel developed a year earlier to control traffic lights. 1977 Apple II, Commodore's PET, and Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 go on sale, setting the ... carried telegraph , telephone, and other communications for more than a hundred years, has given way to glass, in the form of fiber optic cables. The digit...

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... -1810 period was one of exhaustive tension between centralists and de-centralists. This had important and lasting effects on the banking system, the most obvious being that, in the following century, state banks proliferated to the point where they were chartered with abandon. As John K. Galbraith noted, "every location large enough to have a church, a tavern, or a blacksmith shop was deemed a suitable place for setting up a bank. These ... to prosper, and gain integrity in the eyes of the international community. The operation of the First Bank of the US directly reflected these objecti...

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