F.D.R. And The Work Reform Programs
.... state money to help their own state. The head of the state could do with the money as they pleased. When FERA went into play, the states set up their own program. They called it the Civil Works Act, (CWA.) This program told the people to go out and fix things that needed to be fixed around town, and then at the end of the week, they would get paid for it. Since there were no bosses around to enforce the jobs, many people slaked off and didn’t do any work and they were still paid for it. Even though the CWA didn’t work, FERA did. The government successfully gave people the money they needed to survive.
The Civilian Cons .....
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World War 2 And The American Navy
.... bag in one attack against the Shinano, a 59,000 ton aircraft carrier.
Japanese losses totaled 128, and Germany’s losses counted between 700-800 U- boats.
Though many victories were added to the pile, many losses top them all. 52 submarines and their crews were lost. The first ship to be lost was the Stallion on December 10, 1941. The Bullhead was the last on August 6, 1945. These 52 lost ships represent 18 percent of all submarines that saw combat duties.
On another somber note, 4,183,466 lives were taken, 30,950 were wounded, and 37,778 were not killed. That means that an astonishing 6,828 were left unharmed and with th .....
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The Boston Massacre
.... governor of the colony, the colonists were even more angered, because they did not agree with the governor’s thinking. They attempted to boycott stores that bought from England. Caught up in the patriotism, young boys would throw dirt, oyster shells, and dirt at those who went into the stores. On February 22, 1770, eleven-year-old Christopher Snider, was doing just that, when he was shot in the chest and stomach. The men who had killed him were put into jail. In support, two thousand people lined the streets as Christopher’s coffin was being carried to the burial ground.7
Not more than three weeks later, on the eveni .....
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The Revolutionary War Was An Economic Revolution
.... themselves as Indians, the event was not secret, supporters cheered from the wharf. Why, given low price for tea, would the colonists be upset by the Tea Act of 1773? The merchants could no longer compete with the low prices offered by the agents of the East India Company. The colonial merchants would be driven out of business. With this threat to their businesses, the colonists reacted swiftly and crowds rioted in the streets. The Boston Tea Party was called “the boldest stroke which had yet been struck in America.” It marked the beginning of violence in the dispute. King George, demanded t hat the Americans be brought unde .....
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The Colonial Economy
.... on England's. In New England they followed the English pattern established in the Feudal period of farmers living in villages. Most of their trade was with England and other European countries, although they also traded with Asia and Africa.
For several decades their survival depended on imported goods, and they were unable to export enough to pay for them.. A century after colonization began in the North American English colonies, they had developed an economy based on the export and imports between themselves and Europe and the Caribbean. New York ultimately became the center of this commerce.In the late colonial period, whi .....
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The French And Indian War
.... Duquesne had a quite a strong hold over the Ohio River Valley.
The British had many strategic advantages over the French and Indians. They had a strong militia in their colonies that could fight at any given time. They also had many more people, about one million. They also had a very strong navy and control of the Atlantic Ocean. Having control over the Atlantic Ocean meant destroying French supply ships that tried to enter North America. The British colonies were self-supporting and did not need supplies shipped over from Europe. The British situation had its disadvantages. They had more land to keep under control than t .....
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The Compromise Of Henry Clay
.... in the abolition of slavery. I will not be fooled by a so-called compromise that doesn’t include that which I really want. As an abolitionist, the only good part of the bill is that California is admitted as a free state. While this does strengthen the abolitionist movement, it does not ban slavery. By agreeing to this compromise, I would be saying that I was satisfied with the South having slavery as long as California did not have it. This is not a compromise that I would be satisfied with.
The compromise is not satisfactory to either side of the slave argument. By passing this compromise, neither party would be at all s .....
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The Civil War Campaign Of 1862
.... in front of McClellan to convince him that he was faced with an enormous force. Lee then moved across the river and attacked the Union forces there; these fell back so that Lee could attack the southern half on its flank, and this, in turn, fell back. Lee continued in this manner, pushing one flank and then the other, McClellan backing away before him, and only the relative inexperience of Lee's staff and army allowed McClellan to escape without total loss. Fighting a series of sound rearguard actions through Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Savage's Station, White Oak Swamp, and finally Malvern Hill, McClellan managed to extricate .....
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Nationalism = The Widespread Feeling Of Unity As A Nation
.... together in war strategy meetings and fought side by side in the battles and they found after talking amongst themselves that they had more in common than they had originally imagined. (1) They discovered that they were all fellow Americans who, for the most part, spoke the same language and shared the same goals and ideals. The French were a threat to all of them. They learned that they could be strong when they banded together, and they needed to be because in the early years of the war there were few British naval reinforcements. Because of this, the colonists had to handle the war mostly on their own. The British soldiers t .....
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Frederick Douglass' Speech For Individual Rights
.... States, and there is no reason for the blacks to be celebrating the nation’s birthday. Frederick Douglass believed that no black man or woman should be satisfied until their whole race was treated like Americans, and not slaves. Until then the Fourth of July was a holiday which is not “theirs.”
Although Douglass’s speech contains the detestable, horrid facts about slavery and other important issues, he saw a silver lining. “There is hope in the thought,” Douglass said, after he explicated how America is a new nation despite it being around the “old age for a man.” Since the United States has just started out, there is room .....
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The Evolution Of The Monroe Doctrine
.... result England wanted to join in an alliance with the United States in return for British aid in protecting the hemisphere from foreign colonization. However, the United States decided it wanted to maintain its independence won from England and to have no alliances with any other nations. The Monroe Doctrine was the dogma that told the world that the United States was ready to be completely independent from all other nations.
James Monroe, the nation’s fifth president was one of the nation’s most useful and successful presidents. He entered office in 1816 with great aspirations for the nation and had the hopes that he would be .....
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The Progressive Era
.... went to work full-time out of necessity. Wages in factories were low, they worked long hours in horrible working conditions. It took many years to get laws passed. The Illinois Factory Act was the first. State legislatures eventually passed laws banning or restricting child labor. It was not until 1938 that the federal government passed the Fair Labor Standards Act. This law banned employment for children under 16, and prohibited children under 18 from operating dangerous machinery. Progressives lobbied for regulations to protect workers, one of the most important efforts was to end child labor. The number of children un .....
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