Conditions Of The Slaves As They Were Brought To America And Why Slavery
.... which made it very hard for the Africans to communicate with one
another. Their only way of communication was a common music stile which
they all shared. Lineage was very important to the Africans. Many
families were separated which was one of the worst things for them.
The Africans were exposed to slavery in West Africa. Slavery in
Africa was much different than that in Colonial America. In Africa most
slaves had legal rights, some worked with their masters, some were soldiers,
and some served as governors of regions. In Africa people became slaves
because they were prisoners of war, had been kidnapped, or wer .....
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Analyze The Triumph And Tragedy Of The Manhattan Project
.... he see the success of
the Trinity (the code name for the test of the first atomic bomb) in July
1945. Vice President Harry S Truman became the thirty-third president of
the United States. At the time, Truman didn't know anything on the
Manhattan Project, but he sought to carry out Roosevelt's plans.
Roosevelt's thought went beyond the use of the atomic bomb as a weapon of
war. He saw it also as a powerful tool of diplomacy which could be used to
influence postwar relationships among other nations. He thought it could
have an impact on both former enemies and uncooperative allies such as USSR.
By the time Harry Truman .....
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The Manhattan Project
.... District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, because
much of the early research was done in New York City (Badash 238). Sparked
by refugee physicists in the United States, the program was slowly
organized after nuclear fission was discovered by German scientists in 1938,
and many US scientists expressed the fear that Hitler would attempt to
build a fission bomb. Frustrated with the idea that Germany might produce
an atomic bomb first, Leo Szilard and other scientists asked Albert
Einstein, a famous scientist during that time, to use his influence and
write a letter to president FDR, pleading for support to further research .....
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The Turbulent Sixties
.... Dylan in 1962 while he was living in
New York. The song is centered around racism and militarism, two main
focal points which were principal in many early sixties protest songs
(Pichaske 58). Dylan used conventional symbols to blatantly state his
point; a white dove representing peace, flying cannon balls describing war
and violence, and roads and seas symbolizing the hardships and struggles
there would have to be with eliminating the war.
Demonstrations against the Vietnam War took place in many major
cities and college campuses. While many of these demonstrations had only
peaceful motives, violent methods were often used to b .....
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The Reasons Why The South Went To War
.... the South when it included
stricter fugitive slave laws and New Mexico and Utah were created without
slave restrictions. A book called, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was also published
at this time emphasising the evils of slavery. This added tension between
the North and the South. The compromises seemed to have settled the issue
of slavery but it was just putting back the problem. The North and the
South were far from settling the slave issue.
Another reason that caused the South to go to war was the
difference in economic policies. The North was expanding more in the
commercial and industrial side while the South was relia .....
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The War Between The States
.... soil of the lowcountry. His Whilden ancestors had
settled in the Charleston area in the 1690's, and an ancestor on his
mother's side, the Rev. William Screven, had arrived in South Carolina
even earlier, establishing the First Baptist Church of Charleston in 1683,
today the oldest church in the Southern Baptist Convention. Like many
Southerners who came of age in the late antebellum period, Charles Whilden
took pride in his ancestors' role in the American Revolution, especially
his grandfather, Joseph Whilden, who, at 18, had run away from his
family's plantation in Christ Church Parish to join the forces under
Brigadier General Fr .....
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The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
.... 1902. During
the eighty-seven years of her life she accomplished many goals and over
came numerous obstacles. Elizabeth attended Emma Willard's School in Troy
where she obtained her education to the fullest extent possible for girls
in those days. She was a suffragist and Quaker abolitionist. In 1840 she
was chosen as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London,
but was banned because women were not aloud to vote. The year 1848 was a
tremendous year for Elizabeth Cady Stanton, for this was the year that the
first Women's Rights Convention was ever held. It was put on by Elizabeth
with the aid of a few close frien .....
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The Truman Doctrine
.... A direct influence of this Doctrine was, of course, the Marshall Plan.
The Marshall Plan was designed to give aid to any European country damaged
during World War II. It tremendously helped ravaged European nations such
as Italy and France. By helping them economically, the Marshall Plan
indirectly helped to stem growing Communist sentiment in these countries.
The process whereby the Truman Doctrine came to fruition was a long
and arduous one. After World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States
stood at the pinnacle of world power. By the late '40's, the U.S.S.R. had
caught up to the United States' nucl .....
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The Boston Massacre
.... of assaulting the people.
Many would say that the colonists had every right to be mad and
irritated. But what about the soldiers. They were just taking commands
from the country that they are defending and fighting for. To them they
were just doing the right thing. But we all know that they went to extremes
by the frequent wounding of persons by their bayonets and cutlasses, and
the numerous instances of bad behavior in the soldiery. This also led the
colonists to figure out the England did not send those troops over for
their well-being, but were there just for the benefit of England. But
once again, they were only .....
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Lincoln's Battle With His Cabinet
.... and openly opposed Lincoln's control of the Union. This made
Lincoln's position as Chief of State exceedingly difficult and hindered his
communication and control of the military. As time passed, however, Seward
recognized Lincoln's capabilities and gave him complete loyalty (Simmons
174). This could not be said of Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's first secretary
of the treasury. Blinded by an inflated ego, Chase pursued his own
presidential aspirations. He was in constant conflict with Seward, and in
general opposition to Lincoln, particularly over the issue of slavery.
Chase has been described as "jealous of the President," and "overl .....
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The 1960's
.... the student
movement, space exploration, the sexual revolution, the environment,
medicine and health, and fun and fashion.
The Civil Rights Movement
The momentum of the previous decade's civil rights gains led by rev.
Martin luther king, jr. carried over into the 1960s. but for most blacks,
the tangible results were minimal. only a minuscule percentage of black
children actually attended integrated schools, and in the south, "jim crow"
practices barred blacks from jobs and public places. New groups and goals
were formed, new tactics devised, to push forward for full equality. as
often as not, wh .....
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Women Of The Civil War
.... army, she worked as a nurse for the United States Christian
Commission. A short time before her death, she petitioned for a veteran's
pension. Two years later the pension was granted to her by Congress.
Some women did not dress up as men to fight. Southren women in
New Orleans despised the Yankee men that occupied their city. They spit on,
cursed at, and even emptied their chamber pots on Yankee soldiers whenever
they got the chance. Because these women were of the upper class, the
officers were reluctant to punish these ladies. General Order No. 28 was
put into effect by Benjamin Butler, the Union major general i .....
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