Columbine High School And Its Effects
.... existing gun laws and placing more federal prosecutors and
law officers on gun cases. Many agree that both areas are major problems.
Many of the points made on the need for more gun bills have been in
reference to the Columbine Massacre. Colorado governor, Bill Owens, wants
to require criminal background checks at gun shows, including juvenile
records. He also wants to allow for the local prosecution of people who
buy guns for criminals or children, raise the minimum age of buying hand
guns, and require parents who keeps guns in the house to store them safely.
He made all of these requests in response to the Columbine shooting .....
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The Cause Of The War Between Britain And America
.... where not only to house the troops,
but provide food as well. British General Thomas Gage asked the New York
assembly to convince colonists to agree to these terms. The assembly
refused the General's request. "If England had the right to pass tax laws
for them, it could pass any other sort of law it pleased"(Lancaster 07).
The English Parliament later passed the Declaratory Act. This act was
established to give all power to the British government. It was intended
to allow Britain to pass any law it please and strip the powers that the
colonies had. James Otis, a colonist, asked the question of taxation
without representation .....
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Anti-Vietnam Movement In The U.S.
.... when the college students went home during the summer
of 1965, other types of protest that grew through 1971 soon replaced it.
All of these movements captured the attention of the White House,
especially when 25,000 people marched on Washington Avenue. And at times
these movements attracted the interest of all the big decision-makers and
their advisors (Gettleman, 54).
The teach-ins began at the University of Michigan on March 24,
1965, and spread to other campuses, including Wisconsin on April 1. These
protests at some of America's finest universities captured public
attention. The Demonstrations were one form of attem .....
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Farmers' Discontent In The 1800s
.... in American economic growth. However, in many ways, the railroads
hurt small shippers and farmers. Extreme competition between rail
companies necessitated some way to win business. To do this, many
railroads offered rebates and drawbacks to larger shippers who used their
rails. However, this practice hurt smaller shippers, including farmers,
for often times railroad companies would charge more to ship products
short distances than they would for long trips. The rail companies
justified this practice by asserting that if they did not rebate, they
would not make enough profit to stay in business. In his testimony to the
Senat .....
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The Nation’s Sectional Discord And The Unity Within The Nation
.... House of Representatives) each member would represent the same number of people. ‘Quite appropriately this came to be called the Great Compromise. Other major compromises came on slavery and on the control of commerce. The southern states, where the slaves were really treated as property, still wanted the slaves counted as people for the purposes of representation in the New House of Representatives. Some delegates argued that if one kind of property was counted for representation, other kinds should be too. This issue was resolved when slavery and taxation were linked. It was assumed that Congress would raise money by levying dire .....
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It Was For The Best: The Long Island Railroad Massacre
.... partially paralyzed as a result of the Long Island Railroad Massacre.
The mass killing that went on in that commuter train was a tragedy with such extreme dimensions that, yet despite all the misfortune the outcome had an optimistic effect on the life of Carolyn McCarthy. A few years after the illogical act of violence shattered her family helped lobby congress for a ban on assault weapons. Later that year though the house of representatives, including her own representative Dan Frisa tried to overturn the bill. After he voted against the assault weapons ban McCarthy decided to run for congress as a democrat against Frisa, and .....
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Hostile Takeover Of The New World
.... to simply live on their lands peacefully.
The "Trail of Tears" was a great tragedy and many thought it would be the last now that all of the Indians were out of the eastern United States. But the U.S. government became land hungry and due to their idealism of "Manifest Destiny," the "Trail of Tears" was only a starting point on the path to the destruction of the Indians of the West. By 1850 gold had been discovered in California, and white settlers were heading West to strike it rich and lay claim to the entire continent. (Utley and Washburn, page 163) New violence erupted as the white man moved into Indian hunting grounds. Ten .....
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Willie Lynch’s Speech
.... lead to an obedient slave. His objective was to turn the slaves with visible differences in color, age, size and intelligence against one another. Turning slaves against one another would redirect any negative attention towards slave owners. Like chapter 6 Willie Lynch claims that if you expose a slave, in this case, to certain conditions that eventually he will adapt to certain responses. By creating distrust among slaves he created a sort of trust or loyalty between the slave and slave owner. The basic concepts and methods used in chapter 6 on animals were further used in the control of slaves and are still being used in our co .....
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The Battle Of Saratoga
.... in the south. They waited for almost three weeks, but he didn’t come. By now Burgoyne’s situation was tough. He was now facing a growing American army without help from the south, and their supplies were rapidly diminishing. They grew weaker every day. Burgoyne had to choose between advancing or retreating.
He decided to risk a second battle. A force of 1,500 men moved out of the British camp. The troops deployed in a clearing on the Barber Farm. By now the Americans knew that Burgoyne’s army was again on the move and soon attacked in three columns. Within an hour, Burgoyne lost eight cannons and more than 400 offi .....
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Importance Of The American Revolution
.... soldiers. With all these events occurring it angered the Americans so much that they waged war with Britain. The first battle of the American Revolution took place in Lexington, Massachusetts. There were many soldiers awaiting the first shot of the revolution, then suddenly a shot came from the dead silence. This was the first shot of the war and was known as “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.”
Later came a man named Ethan Allen from Vermont he was a very strong man and was said to be able to grip a sack of salt with his teeth and throw it over his head. Not only was he physically strong, but his mental intelligence led h .....
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The Constitution: Discord And Tension In 1850
.... In the other house (the House of Representatives) each member would represent the same number of people. ‘Quite appropriately this came to be called the Great Compromise. Other major compromises came on slavery and on the control of commerce. The southern states, where the slaves were really treated as property, still wanted the slaves counted as people for the purposes of representation in the New House of Representatives. Some delegates argued that if one kind of property was counted for representation, other kinds should be too. This issue was resolved when slavery and taxation were linked. It was assumed that Congress wou .....
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Bacon’s Rebellion
.... 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 Frontiersman; frontiersman are ta .....
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