Compare And Contrast America And Australia

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America vs. Australia The comparing and contrasting of the governments The world is made up of many countries of many different shapes and sizes. They 're also made up of different governments. Some countries have similar governments to one another while others have governments that are different. An example of such countries are the United States of America and Australia. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the governments of the US and Australia. Here’s a brief history about the United States of America. America won its independence from its previous ruler Great Britain and the year of 1776 following the Revolutionary War, but were not recognized as a country until the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783. Years after the Revolutionary War, 37 new states were added to the original 13 which expanded America Westward. Following this, war broke out between the states during the years of 1861 and 1865 known as the Civil War. Northern states fought against the Southern states over territory, expansion and the right to own slaves. This war was won by the North, and with this victory slavery was abolished. Many years later in the 1930s a Great Depression fell on the US after the stock market crashed in 1929. This was not the end of troubles for the US, three more wars would be fought before the start of the 21st-century, wars such as World War I, World War II and the Cold War. More wars are still being fought to this very day. The history of Australia is an …show more content…

Some similarities of America and Australia are they both have a constitution, an executive, legislative, and judicial branch, and they both declared independence from the same country, Great Britain. Both also have a large presence in the world market economy, a bicameral Senate, a House of Representatives, a supreme court under different names and a federal

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