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Q1452
what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
By the Warring States Period (403–221 BC), they had advanced metallurgic technology, including the blast furnace and cupola furnace , while the finery forge and puddling process were known by the Han Dynasty (202 BC – AD 220).
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
A sophisticated economic system in China gave birth to inventions such as paper money during the Song Dynasty (960–1279).
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
The invention of gunpowder by the 10th century led to an array of inventions such as the fire lance , land mine, naval mine , hand cannon , exploding cannonballs, multistage rocket , and rocket bombs with aerodynamic wings and explosive payloads .
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
With the navigational aid of the 11th-century compass and ability to steer at high sea with the 1st-century sternpost rudder , premodern Chinese sailors sailed as far as East Africa and Egypt .
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
In water-powered clockworks, the premodern Chinese had used the escapement mechanism since the 8th century and the endless power-transmitting chain drive in the 11th century.
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
They also made large mechanical puppet theaters driven by waterwheels and carriage wheels and wine-serving automatons driven by paddle wheel boats .
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
The contemporaneous Peiligang and Pengtoushan cultures represent the oldest Neolithic cultures of China and were formed around 7000 BC.
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
Some of the first inventions of Neolithic, prehistoric China include semilunar and rectangular stone knives, stone hoes and spades, the cultivation of millet , rice and the soybean , the refinement of sericulture , the building of rammed earth structures with lime -plastered house floors, the creation of the potter's wheel , the creation of pottery with cord-mat-basket designs, the creation of pottery tripods and pottery steamers, and the development of ceremonial vessels and scapulimancy for purposes of divination .
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
Francesca Bray argues that the domestication of the ox and buffalo during the Longshan culture (c. 3000–c. 2000 BC) period, the absence of Longshan-era irrigation or high-yield crops, full evidence of Longshan cultivation of dry-land cereal crops which gave high yields "only when the soil was carefully cultivated," suggest that the plow was known at least by the Longshan culture period and explains the high agricultural production yields which allowed the rise of Chinese civilization during the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1050 BC).
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
With later inventions such as the multiple-tube seed drill and heavy moldboard iron plow , China's agricultural output could sustain a much larger population.
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
For the purposes of this list, inventions are regarded as technological firsts developed in China, and as such does not include foreign technologies which the Chinese acquired through contact, such as the windmill from the Middle East or the telescope from Early modern Europe .
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
It also does not include technologies developed elsewhere and later invented separately by the Chinese, such as the odometer and chain pump .
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what are some chinese inventions
List of Chinese inventions
Scientific, mathematic or natural discoveries , changes in minor concepts of design or style and artistic innovations cannot be regarded as inventions and do not appear on the list.
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Q1453
What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
Gross domestic product in 2011 US dollars per capita, adjusted for inflation and purchasing power parity (log scale) from 1860 to 2011, with population (disk area) for the US (yellow), UK (orange), Japan (red), China (red), and India (blue).
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Q1453
What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
Globalization (or globalisation—see spelling differences ) is the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views , products, ideas, and other aspects of culture .
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What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
Put in simple terms, globalization refers to processes that promote world-wide exchanges of national and cultural resources.
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What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
Advances in transportation and telecommunications infrastructure, including the rise of the Internet , are major factors in globalization, generating further interdependence of economic and cultural activities.
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What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
Though several scholars place the origins of globalization in modern times , others trace its history long before the European age of discovery and voyages to the New World .
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What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
Some even trace the origins to the third millennium BCE.
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What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the pace of globalization has intensified at a rapid rate, especially during the Post Cold War era .
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What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
The term globalization has been in increasing use since the mid-1980s and especially since the mid-1990s.
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What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
In 2000, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people and the dissemination of knowledge.
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Q1453
What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
Further, environmental challenges such as climate change , cross-boundary water and air pollution, and over-fishing of the ocean are linked with globalization.
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What are the primary components of globalization that affect how the practice of medicine takes place in the U.S.?
Globalization
Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, socio-cultural resources, and the natural environment.
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Q1454
what team was the movie the replacements based on
The Replacements (film)
The Replacements is a 2000 American sports comedy film directed by Howard Deutch .
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what team was the movie the replacements based on
The Replacements (film)
It stars Keanu Reeves , Gene Hackman , and Brooke Langton .
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Q1455
where does american airlines fly into italy
American Airlines destinations
An American Airlines aircraft takes off from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport .
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where does american airlines fly into italy
American Airlines destinations
This airport is the airline's largest hub.
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where does american airlines fly into italy
American Airlines destinations
American Airlines flies to 79 domestic destinations and 78 international destinations in 48 countries.
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where does american airlines fly into italy
American Airlines destinations
(as of December 2012)
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where does american airlines fly into italy
American Airlines destinations
The list includes the city, country, the codes of the International Air Transport Association (IATA airport code) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO airport code), and the airport's name, with the airline's hubs, focus cities and seasonal destinations marked.
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Q1455
where does american airlines fly into italy
American Airlines destinations
The list also contains destinations no longer served by the airline, which are marked as terminated destinations.
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where does american airlines fly into italy
American Airlines destinations
It does not include destinations served for American Airlines by its regional affiliates American Eagle Airlines , Executive Airlines , and AmericanConnection .
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Q1456
who sung the banana boat song
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
"Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is a traditional Jamaican mento folk song, the best-known version of which was sung by Harry Belafonte and an alternate version interspersed with another Jamaican folksong , Hill and Gully Rider, by Dame Shirley Bassey .
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who sung the banana boat song
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
Despite the song's mento influences, "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" is widely known as an example of calypso music .
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Q1456
who sung the banana boat song
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
It is a work song , from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships.
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Q1456
who sung the banana boat song
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
Daylight has come, the shift is over and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home.
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Q1457
when did wwi begin
World War I
World War I (WWI) was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
It involved all the world's great powers , which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom , France and Russia ) and the Central Powers (originally the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy ; but, as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war).
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when did wwi begin
World War I
These alliances were both reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war: Italy, Japan and the United States joined the Allies, and the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria the Central Powers.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
Ultimately, more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
More than 9 million combatants were killed , largely because of technological advancements that led to enormous increases in the lethality of weapons without corresponding improvements in protection or mobility.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
It was the fifth- deadliest conflict in world history, subsequently paving the way for various political changes, such as revolutions in many of the nations involved.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
One of the long-term causes of the war was the resurgence of imperialism in the foreign policies of the great powers of Europe.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
More immediately, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria , the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, on 28 June 1914 by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo triggered a diplomatic crisis when Austria-Hungary subsequently delivered an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia .
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when did wwi begin
World War I
Several alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
Within weeks, the major powers were at war and, via their colonies, the conflict soon spread around the world.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
On 28 July, the Austro-Hungarians fired the first shots of the war as preparation for the invasion of Serbia .
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when did wwi begin
World War I
While the Russians mobilised, the Germans invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg on the way to France, providing a casus belli for Britain's declaration of war against Germany.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
After the German march on Paris was brought to a halt—the so-called Miracle of the Marne —the Western Front settled into a static battle of attrition with a trench line that changed little until 1917.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
On the Eastern Front , the Russian army was successful against the Austro-Hungarians, but was stopped in its invasion of East Prussia by the Germans.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
In November the Ottoman Empire joined the war, opening up fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
Italy and Bulgaria went to war in 1915 and Romania in 1916.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
In Russia, the tsar's government collapsed in March 1917 and a subsequent revolution in November brought the Russians to terms with the Central Powers.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
After a 1918 German offensive along the western front, the Allies drove back the Germans in a series of successful offensives and American forces began entering the trenches.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
Germany, which had its own trouble with revolutionaries , agreed to an armistice on 11 November 1918.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
The war ended in victory for the Allies.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
Events on the home fronts were as tumultuous as on the battle fronts, as the participants tried to mobilize their manpower and economic resources to fight a total war .
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when did wwi begin
World War I
By the end of the war, four major imperial powers—the German , Russian , Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires—ceased to exist.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
The successor states of the former two lost a great amount of territory, while the latter two were dismantled entirely.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
The map of central Europe was redrawn into several smaller states.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
The League of Nations was formed in the hope of preventing another such conflict.
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when did wwi begin
World War I
The European nationalism spawned by the war and the breakup of empires, the repercussions of Germany's defeat and problems with the Treaty of Versailles are agreed to be factors contributing to World War II .
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Q1458
when does the next season of Nurse Jackie start
Nurse Jackie
Nurse Jackie is an American series that premiered on June 8, 2009, on Showtime , Movie Central and The Movie Network .
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when does the next season of Nurse Jackie start
Nurse Jackie
The series stars Edie Falco as the title character Jackie Peyton, an emergency department nurse at All Saints' Hospital in New York City .
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when does the next season of Nurse Jackie start
Nurse Jackie
For Jackie, "Every day is a high wire act of juggling patients, doctors, fellow nurses and her own indiscretions."
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Q1459
what year did keeping up with the kardashians begin
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
Keeping Up with the Kardashians (often referred to simply as The Kardashians) is an American reality television series that premiered on October 14, 2007, on E! .
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what year did keeping up with the kardashians begin
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
It follows the lives of the Kardashian/Jenner family, including sisters Kourtney , Kim , and Khloé Kardashian .
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what year did keeping up with the kardashians begin
Keeping Up with the Kardashians
The series' success has led to the spin-offs Kourtney and Kim Take New York , Khloé & Lamar , Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami, and Kourtney and Kim Take Miami .
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Q1461
what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan (; ; ), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked sovereign state forming part of South Asia , Central Asia , and to some extent Western Asia .
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
It has a population of around 30 million inhabiting an area of approximately , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan has been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration .
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation from as far back as the Middle Paleolithic .
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
Urban civilization may have begun in the area as early as 3,000 to 2,000 BCE.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
Sitting at an important geostrategic location that connects the Middle East culture with Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent , the land has been home to various peoples through the ages and witnessed many military campaigns, notably by Alexander the Great , Genghis Khan , and in modern era Western forces.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
The land also served as a source from which the Greco-Bactrians , Kushans , Hephthalites , Saffarids , Ghaznavids , Ghorids , Khiljis , Timurids , Mughals , Durranis , and others have risen to form major empires.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
The political history of the modern state of Afghanistan begins in 1709, when the Hotaki dynasty was established in Kandahar followed by Ahmad Shah Durrani 's rise to power in 1747.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
In the late 19th century, Afghanistan became a buffer state in the " Great Game " between the British and Russian empires.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
Following the 1919 Anglo-Afghan War , King Amanullah began a European style modernization of the country but was stopped by the ultra-conservatives.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
During the Cold War , after the withdrawal of the British from neighboring India in 1947, the United States and the Soviet Union began spreading influences in Afghanistan, which led to a bloody war between the US-backed mujahideen forces and the Soviet-backed Afghan government in which over a million Afghans lost their lives.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
This was followed by the 1990s civil war , the rise and fall of the extremist Taliban government and the 2001–present war .
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
In December 2001, the United Nations Security Council authorized the creation of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to help maintain security in Afghanistan and assist the Karzai administration .
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
Three decades of war made Afghanistan one of the world's most dangerous countries, including the largest producer of refugees and asylum seekers.
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
While the international community is rebuilding war-torn Afghanistan, terrorist groups such as the Haqqani Network and Hezbi Islami are actively involved in a nationwide Taliban -led insurgency , which includes hundreds of assassinations and suicide attacks .
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what two empires fought to control afghanistan
Afghanistan
According to the United Nations , the insurgents were responsible for 80% of civilian casualties in 2011 and 2012.
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Q1462
what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
The American Civil War (ACW), also known as the War between the States or simply the Civil War (see naming ), was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 between the United States (the "Union" or the "North") and several Southern slave states that declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy" or the "South").
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Q1462
what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
The war had its origin in the issue of slavery , especially the extension of slavery into the western territories.
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
Foreign powers did not intervene.
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing rights to the freed slaves began.
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Q1462
what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
In the 1860 presidential election , Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln , opposed expanding slavery into United States' territories .
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
Lincoln won, but before his inauguration on March 4, 1861, seven cotton-based slave states formed the Confederacy.
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
Outgoing Democratic President James Buchanan and the incoming Republicans rejected secession as illegal.
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
Lincoln's inaugural address declared his administration would not initiate civil war.
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
Eight remaining slave states continued to reject calls for secession.
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
Confederate forces seized numerous federal forts within territory claimed by the Confederacy.
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
A Peace Conference failed to find a compromise, and both sides prepared for war.
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
The Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on " King Cotton " that they would intervene; none did and none recognized the new Confederate States of America.
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what triggered the civil war
American Civil War
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter , a key fort held by Union troops in South Carolina.
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