... representative, and was responsible for approving the loan that Gómez Farías had requested from the Church (1847) to finance the war with the United States of America. As Governor of his home state (1847), Juárez sought to establish a balanced economy and carried out numerous public works: roads, the reconstruction of the Government Palace, the foundation of high schools; he commissioned ... legal disposition in Guanajuato. In July 1859, and with the support of the liberals, he issued the Reform Laws which declared the independence of the State from the Church; the law on civil marriag...

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... at slavery. In July 1862, Lincoln instated the Emancipation Proclamation. In the spring of 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. The Civil War was by far the deadliest war in American history. Over 600,000 people died. The result of the Civil War left many in the South bitter toward the integration of African Americans into society. The Jim Crow Laws were created to punish African ... America's military and technological advances was a significant factor in the decline of its state-run economy and helped to weaken its globa...

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... caudillos as well as the presence of General Santa Ana. Santa Ana dominated Mexican politics for about 30 years, and it was under his command that Mexico lost Texas, as well as losing the Mexican-American War. By the 1850's, many foreign interests wanted to control Mexico, including European countries and the United States. France took advantage of the American Civil War to install Emperor Maximillian ... as a puppet on the throne in Mexico City. He was eventually defeated and executed by a group of liberal ... prison on charges of accepting millions of dollars to cover up his brother...

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Introduction Guatemala was freed of Spanish colonial rule in the early 1821. During the second half of the twentieth century, it experiences a variety of military and civilian governments as well as a thirty-six year guerrilla war. In 1996,t he government signed a peace agreement formally ending the conflict, which had led to the death of more than 100,000 people and had created ... who can read and write. *63.7% of the Guatemalan population is "literate." Economics The composition of the Guatemalan economy is in three sections: Agriculture (23%), Industry (20%), and Services (57%). More tha...

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