... with the governing of individual states. The states thought that the government “meddled� too much in the affairs of individual states. The abolishment of slavery was just the excuse the south was looking for to secede from the union and form its own government placing the majority of the governing power in the states and not in a central government. An excellent metaphor for the cause of the war, which I found on the net, is to say that the causes were like a “Wagon Wheel.� The central hub of the problem being the problem of states rights. This was the central cause behind the war. The spokes of the whee ...

... water ran dry. After the Tribes signed with the south in the civil war, the Government took half their land, and put railroad tracks going east and west and north to south down the middle of the territory. When people saw that there were money making opportunities in the Indian's land, they wanted the land. The tribes would not let them drill or dig unless they were part of one of the tribes. The only way they could join one of the tribes was to marry an Indian. A few people did that but a lot of people asked the government to take it away from the Indians. The government, after a few years decided to change t ...

... republics-Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia. In Serbia the two provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina were given autonomous status. The communist authority kept this country stable and peaceful for over 30 years. However national and ethnic tensions increased because of unequal development in this federation. Anyway it still was under control. However when Marshall Tito died in 1980, the Yugoslav Federation became unstable and some republics wanted to be independent. By 1992 the Federation had collapsed and nationalism dominated the Balkans again. Conflicts between different nations ...

... ideas and structures and how Americans clashed over coping with this massive change by looking at Robert Cherny's American Politics in the , "The River Ran Red" and the fourteenth amendment. Cherny discussed many of the changes that occurred during 1877-1895 in his book American Politics in the . Cherny's focus early in the book on the role of the political parties during the time period. He does not scratch the surface, but tries to dig deep the of politics. Cherny also addresses social and economic changes. He said that progress merely provided a "gleaming surface of the . Just below that golden surface, how ...

... gave over power of the government to a militant party. The result of this was the war with China from 1937 to 1945 and adherence to the Axis Powers. At the end of the war Hirohito wanted peace and, in 1945, he unconditionally surrendered to the Allies. The second, Isoroku Yamamoto, born in 1884, was the reluctant Commander- in-Chief of Japan's naval forces during WW II. He had a clear grasp of the situation and predicted that against a country like the U.S. or Britain, Japan would quickly lose the war. He died in 1943, shot down by the U.S. 13th Air Force in a surgical assassination strike. The last, Tojo Hideki, ...

... that were muted just a few years before. No matter a person’s color, gender, background, race, or ethnicity, the United States Civil War affected every person around the globe. If given a short background on the United States Civil War, one would learn this series of battles was based on a nation going to war over maintaining or abolishing the slavery of African Americans on U.S. soil. In the end, the Union armies of the North dramatically defeat the Confederate armies of the South, ending slavery once and for all with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. All these things might be true but very often ...

... by the Egyptians but later called Memphis by the Greeks. It is here at Memphis that the great pyramids where built. The pyramids were built to house the dead pharaoh of that time. Death was seen by the Egyptians as just the beginning of a journey to the other world. In Egyptian society each individual believed that his eternal life was dependant on the continued existence of their king, a belief that made the building of the pyramid a concern of the entire kingdom. Many people would be called to duty to work on the pyramids and many would go at will. It was found that the Egyptian people actually liked working ...

... their clothing was very plain. As the Renaissance progressed and humanism’s influence was more felt the paintings used lighter colors, the people in them were smiling and their clothing many times included gold trim or accents. The late Renaissance art also has a larger focus on religion, as humanism inspired people in many forms by the use of religion. Humanism came about with the idea that a person should have a very rounded education covering many aspects of society especially history, geometry, and art. During the renaissance as the ideas of humanism spread, especially in its educational sense ...

... led a hard life on the Southern plantations. Most slaves were brought from Africa, either kidnapped or sold by their tribes to slave catchers for violating a tribal command. Some were even traded for tobacco, sugar, and other useful products (Cowan and Maguire 5:18). Those not killed or lucky enough to escape the slave-catching raids were chained together (Foster). The slaves had no understanding of what was happening to them. They were from different tribes and of different speaking languages. Most captured blacks had never seen the white skinned foreigners who came on long, strange boats to journey them across t ...

... The music of black culture can be seen as a reflection of the values within a society, this explains the importance of musical expression compared to that of western culture. Western theory tends to detach art from life, whereas in black culture art is life. It is seen as a potential foundation for social activity. Black music and oral tradition is an essential part of black culture. The oral tradition has become important through spontaneous, often improvised acts, of a group nature. This is a valuable kind of expression through out all types of black music America holds a rich artistic background, expressively re ...