Decision Of The Bomb: Drop It Or Not?
.... many Americans also
held bitter resentment against the Japanese for Pearl Harbor and the
treatment of American prisoners. So the decision to drop the atomic bomb
was essential.
The atomic bomb's initial explosion has been devastating, but it
also had many after effects. Those who didn't die suffered severe burns.
Acute radiation poisoning, which occurred directly after the explosion,
caused nausea, vomiting, fatigue, diarrhea, hair loss, and even death in
thousands of people for months. After effects of radiation such as keloids,
leukemia, cancer, and birth defects still appear even today. Black Rain
containing large amou .....
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Why The Civil War Was Unavoidable
.... between the North and South
parts of the United States was the taxes being put on the imported goods
coming in. When the tariff bill was passed, it hurt the South because it
increased the prices on all of the imports coming in from Europe. The
North wanted the South to buy things from them and not Europe, this angered
the South causing yet another major difference that made the Civil War
unavoidable. Again the South thought they were getting the bad part of all
the United States plans. Tensions were mounting and emotions were stirring
causing the sides to differ from one another even more.
The most important and cruc .....
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The 1960's
.... actually attended integrated schools, and in the south, "Jim Crow"
practices barred blacks from jobs and public places (Ascher 21). New
groups formed, new tactics devised, to push forward for full equality.
White resistance, however, often resulted in violence. This violence
spilled across TV screens nationwide. The average, neutral American, after
seeing his/her TV screen, turned into a civil rights supporter (Ascher 36).
Black unity and white support continued to grow. In 1962, with the
first large-scale public protest against racial discrimination, Martin
Luther King, jr. gave a dramatic and inspirational speech in Wash .....
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The Battle Of Antietam
.... and drove them back.
At the end Confederate generals urged Robert E. Lee to retreat, but
he refused. At dawn, on the 18th, the army was still there inviting
attack. Although more then 10,000 additional Union troops reached the
battlefield McClellan made no move. Lee had had read McClellan’s mind, he
also knew his own men. He knew that his soldiers’ prestige and morale
would be strengthened if they believed that the Army of Northern Virginia
could never be driven from a battlefield. The retreat did not begin until
the night of the 18th, and by morning the army was safely across the
Potomac. The first campaign to invade the No .....
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The United States Completed Manifest Destiny At The Cost Of The Mexican Government
.... price.
The selling of the Gasden Purchase was the down fall of President Santa Ana,
and led to his replacement.
The conflicts along the border region were a direct result of U.S.
expansion policies and Mexican fear for the United States. The Americans
saw Manifest Destiny, westward expansion, as there God given right. The
United States proved often that it supported policy of expansion. With the
Mexican-American war, the United States completed it's Manifest Destiny.
The United States completed Manifest Destiny at the cost of the Mexican
government and its people.
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The Black Panther Party
.... And their tenth point was, "We want
land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our
major political objective, and United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be
held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects
will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of
black people as to their national destiny." With these ten points as their
fuel the Black Panther Party was ready to take on the nation.
In the mid sixties Newton and Seale's organization took shape.
They finalized a draft of the Black Panther Party 10 Point Program and
Platform and found the Black Pan .....
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The Northwest Ordinance Of 1787
.... it
specify if African-Americans could attend schools with whites' and although
it the separation of church and state had been previously outlined, the
Ordinance did not mention if it was ok to teach creationism in schools.
These problems are still being debated on. (Northwest Ordinance packet,
40-41)
The Northwest Ordinance ensured the loyalty of the territories by
promising protection for them when they could not protect themselves and
ensuring them of eventual equality and self-government. (Northwest
Ordinance packet, 42-43)
The Articles of Compact of the Northwest Ordinance, differed from
the English system mainly in 2 .....
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American Republican Ideology
.... should. The memories of these early
pioneering settlers were a common theme for American revolutionaries
before the Revolutionary War. These early settlers were the creators of
the foundation to the building the revolutionaries would finish.
Another common theme which drove the revolutionary ideology was
the knowledge not only of the monumental significance of the job to be
undertaken, but also the impact a free democracy on a scale as large as
America would have on future generations of Americans who, certainly,
would not take their freedom for granted. The ideology held by most
American revolutionaries was one in which t .....
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Is FDR To Blame For The Bombing At Pearl Harbor?
.... the war is present in his
efforts to help China, which he was well aware was Japan’s rival at the
time. While America claimed to be "neutral," the U.S.’s actions
contradicted that statement when voluntarily shipping war materials to
China. In addition the U.S.A. also loaned money to China to prevent
exports to Japan of needed goods. This was another indirect way of
provoking Japan, and it eventually did just that.
By 1941, America had the information and access to intercept and
crack Japan's war codes. The USA was completely conscious of an attack
planned on December 7. Not only did America know this, but the Dutch
intercept .....
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Slavery And The Underground Railroad
.... to
live. Others ran due to fear of being separted or sold from friends and
family. Then there were some who were treated so cruely, that it forced
them to run just to stay alive. Since coming to America as slaves even
back as far back as when the first colonies began, slaves wanted to escape.
They wanted to get away from the situation they were forced into. Those
who were free were the "whites" who were somewhat separated in values. The
North, was a more industrialized area where jobs were filled by newly
imported immigrants, making them less dependent on slave labor. The South,
however had rich fertile land mostly used for farm .....
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Prelude To Revolution
.... place on December
16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party was when a group of Bostonians led by Samuel
Adams, dressed up as Native Americans boarded the vessel carrying 342
chests of tea and them all overboard. The Boston Tea Party had many
consequences. It led the way to more acts of violence by colonists, who
continued to harass tea agents and to destroy cargoes and ships.
The first Skirmishes at Lexington and Concord occurred April 19,
1775, the year of the American Revolution. the battle was between about 70
colonial minutemen commanded by captain John Parker. there were about 700
British soldiers who commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Fr .....
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Bacon’s Rebellion
.... people in Virginia the majority of people
are poor and has no land that is sufficient. They have no money not to
consider that most of them owe people money, for example in the case of
indentured servants that are poor and owe work to there masters and freed
indentured servants who have not gotten their land they were promised. This
is enough to discontent and frustrate, these people driving the to take
violent action. However it also suggests that one part of this group had
enough land and were wealthy, they were the upper class created by Berkeley
himself in the form of the Tidewater elite. Indians are plundered by the
white Fron .....
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