Robber Barons Or Captains Of Industry
.... his
title of robber baron. Rockefeller is known for his oil monopoly which at
once controlled 95% of the world oil market. His oil business started with
refining. Rockefeller knew that oil drilling was very expensive and he
figured that he would let some one else spend millions to blindly drill
into the ground looking for black gold while he could make millions
refining the black gold. Rockefellow first started with refining oil into
carosien but it was not untill the invention of the internal combustion
engine that Rockefeller made his huge fortune in oil.
Many People consider Rockefeller a robber of industry because of
his .....
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The Battle At Chancellorsville
.... pushing to the west while the
army corps secured Getmanna and Ely's fords. The next day these columns
reunited at Chancellorsville. Lee reacted to the news of the Federals in
the Wilderness by sending General Richard H. Anderson's division to
investigate. Finding the Northerners massing in the woods around
Chancellorsville; Anderson commenced the construction of earthworks at Zoan
Church. Confederate reinforcements under Stonewall Jackson marched to help
block the Federal advance, but did not arrive until May 1. The Confederates
had no intention of retreating as Hooker had predicted.
Hooker's troops rested at Chancell .....
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The Women's Civil Rights Movement
.... in Massachusetts to earn a
college degree.
Susan B. Anthony. She devoted her life to the temperance movement,
(against alcohol) and the abolition cause (against slavery). She fought
for women and black males to have the right to vote. She was arrested when
she attempted to vote in Rochester, New York local elections. We built
the Women's rights movement into a national organization.
Carrie Chapman Latt, was the president of the National American
Woman's Suffrage (NAWSA)
Victoria Woodhill fought for Women's freedom in economy on Wall
Street, in Congress and in the Whitehouse. She was the first of many to
appear before C .....
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The Boston Massacre
.... into something big. The
British soldiers were accused of Murder and manslaughter. To represent them
was John Adams, a relative of Samuel Adams. Adams wanted the trial to get
over and didn't want the truth to come out. The Boston Massacre and
misleading visual representation by Paul Revere could have been one cause
of a later war.
The Boston Massacre increased the hatred between the Americans and
the British. The radical people tried to use this minor event as propaganda.
Paul Revere and Samuel Adams were happy the few colonists died because they
used it as propaganda so the colonist would get mad at the British.
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The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
.... Cuban
Revolutionary Council, the government in exile, in New York City released a
statement saying that the bombings in Cuba were ". . . carried out by
'Cubans inside Cuba' who were 'in contact with' the top command of the
Revolutionary Council . . . ." The New York Times reporter covering the
story alluded to something being wrong with the whole situation when he
wondered how the council knew the pilots were coming if the pilots had
only decided to leave Cuba on Thursday after " . . . a suspected betrayal
by a fellow pilot had precipitated a plot to strike . . . ." Whatever the
case, the planes came down in Miami later that mo .....
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American Exceptionalism
.... stemming from centuries of writings that convey more of
an overtone than a tangible explication. Yet, Lipset has no trouble
asserting that American exceptionalism takes the form of "liberty,
egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire," all
characteristics of Americans, from the revolutionary period to modern times.
Thomas Massaro, a -reviewer of Lipset's obviously controversial book
American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword, paraphrases Lipset simply:
"The United States is different from other countries because it is founded
upon a national creed rather than upon the social bonds of ethnicity and
history th .....
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"Speak And You Shall Be Heard"
.... King Jr. came across as a kind human being,
not a person full of anger and violence. In speaking to one another we
should have the same tone in speaking as Martin Luther King Jr. in order to
be heard.
We should watch that we do not offend someone when speaking. We
sometimes do not realize our tones of our spoken word can hurt someone's
feelings. But this does not happen all the time. A person can take the
information as being helpfull and a good word of advice. It is up to the
individual how they will take the tone of a conversation as being helpful
or harmful.
On the other hand the spoken word can be very dramatic. .....
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The Spanish American War And Its Causes
.... He didn't want to look like a coward to the American
people. He was also afraid that resisting war would cost Republicans
control of Congress in the fall elections.
The battle for the Philippines was very important to the war. This
is where Spain's fleet was. The US took it out. This was very important
because now, Spain only had its land crew. This was one of the factors that
ended the war.
The US military was far too small. However, there were many
voluntary groups that were able to go to war for their country. One of
which was led be Teddy Roosevelt was the Rough Riders. They were a
voluntary Calvary unit that had no skills. .....
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The Watergate Scandal
.... August 21, 1971 and June 17, 1972. During
their sixth break-in on June 17, they were caught. (Secret Agenda) At
approximately 2:30 in the morning on this date, they were caught by police
in the Watergate Hotel. Police seized a walkie talkie, 40 rolls of
unexposed film, two 35 millimeter cameras, lock picks, pen-sized tear gas
guns, and bugging devices. (Gold 75). The burglars and two of their
accomplices, G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, were indicted in September
of 1972. They were charged with burglary, wire-tapping, and conspiracy.
They were subsequently convicted of these charges four months later.
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The Manhattan Project
.... isotope (U-238) could be used. They learned that each
fission releases a few neutrons. A chain reaction, therefore, was
theoretically possible, if not too many neutrons escaped from the mass or
were captured by impurities.
In 1942 General Leslie Groves was chosen to lead the project, and he
immediately purchased a site at Oak Ridge, Tennessee for facilities to
separate the necessary uranium-235 from the much more common uranium-238.
He also appointed theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as director
of the weapons laboratory, who ordered the construction of the headquarters
on an isolated mesa at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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How The Women's Movement Has Improved
.... do also. The war gave an
opportunity, a chance for women to show off their knowledge, abilities and
capabilities. Quite ironic, the jobs women obtained were partly forced
into voluntarily jobs. Some of the women wanted to prove themselves
capable of doing a “man” job, while others were indirectly forced into it
because they had no male to support their family financially.
During the 1940's sexual discrimination of female workers were
temporarily put aside. “The massive production requirements of World War
II created new demands for additional female workers. Suddenly it was
patriotic and appropriate for women to work.” (Van .....
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The Spanish-American War
.... the yellow press of rival
publishers, William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, printed outlandish
stories of the Spanish oppression in Cuba. They included wildly exaggerated
accounts that a quarter of the Cuban population had been killed at the
hands of their Spanish oppressors. President William McKinley was urged to
pressure Spain into granting Cuba limited self-government. Under the
disguise of a "courtesy call," the United States Navy battleship ‘
Maine',was sent to Havana in January, 1889, to protect US citizens and
interests in Cuba.
On February 15 a mysterious explosion blew up the battleship,
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