Slavery In The Eyes Of The South
.... men who wrote and supported this revolutionary declaration of separation from the British did not believe that this equality applied to the slaves. This statement is supported in the Dred Scott decision. This is something that the Southern states would argue, that the men who built this nation like George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and John Marshall all had slaves. They would argue that men like Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, defenders of American democracy, owned slaves.
Even though it’s not said in American history books, the rebelling Americ .....
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Impact Of The Spanish American War
.... the business owners did not give up their domination dreams and silently awaited an opportunity. That opportunity finally came when Spain sent troops to Cuba to stop the second Cuban war for independence. The American people sympathized the Cuban effort for independence, but at the same time owners were concerned about their Cuban properties being destroyed. The newspapers quickly seized the opportunity and inflamed the public opinion.
When the U.S.S. Maine mysteriously exploded near Havana, the uproar of the masses so great that the US was forced to declare war on Spain.
In early 1898 stories out of Cuba smoked with .....
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The Industrial Revolution
.... in 1776. England at the time was the most powerful empire on the planet. So, it was inevitable that the country with the most wealth would be a leader in this revolution. This revolution changed the entire life of the people. It completely changed the habits of workers-the men and women who produced the goods. It brought down prices, so that people were able to buy things they could not buy before (Derry 36). It made some men rich, but it reduced the earning power of others. It gave work to many that had been unemployed. At the same time it took jobs away from many skilled workers.
Because British entrepreneurs were unab .....
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D-Day
.... fighters in Nazi-occupied countries of western Europe.
American General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named supreme commander for the allies in Europe. British General, Sir Frederick Morgan, established a combined American-British headquarters known as COSSAC, for Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander. COSSAC developed a number of plans for the Allies, most notable was that of Operation Overlord, a full scale invasion of France across the English Channel.
Eisenhower felt that COSSAC's plan was a sound operation. After reviewing the disastrous hit-and-run raid in 1942 in Dieppe, planners decided that the s .....
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Declaration Of Independence: Abstractions In Power
.... the word power carried the same meaning of control, strength, and force, "power to produce an effect, supposes power not to produce it; otherwise it is not power but necessity" (OED 2536). This definition explains how the power government or social institutions rests in their ability to command people, rocks, colonies to do something they otherwise would not do. To make the people pay taxes. To make the rocks form into a fence. To make the colonists honor the King. The colonialists adopt this interpretation of power. They see power as a cruel force that has wedded them to a King who has "a history of repeated injuries and .....
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The Presidency Of Andrew Jackson
.... elected by a National Convention as well.
Jackson believed in a strong presidency and he vetoed a dozen pieces of legislation, more than the first six presidents put together. For example, he vetoed the congressional measure providing a subsidy to the proposed Mayside road in Kentucky. He used his Presidential powers the most during the Bank war’s. He did not renew the Bank’s charter which expired in 1836. He also removed all the government’s money from the Bank of the United states and placed it in “pet banks.” During his term he strengthened the Presidency permanently.
Jackson also reestablished the supremacy of the Un .....
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Causes Of The Great Depression
.... Prosperity" of the 1920's were not shared evenly among all Americans. According to a study done by the Brookings Institute, in 1929 the top 0.1% of Americans had a combined income equal to the bottom 42%(end note 2). That same top 0.1% of Americans in 1929 controlled 34% of all savings, while 80% of Americans had no savings at all(end note 3). Automotive industry mogul Henry Ford provides a striking example of the unequal distribution of wealth between the rich and the middle-class. Henry Ford reported a personal income of $14 million(end note 4) in the same year that the average personal income was $750(end note 5). By present d .....
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The 50s Was A Time Of Change
.... that would of killed you in the 50’s. We don’t have to worry about polio, the flu, and or pneumonia. Today we all have at least one TV, most of us have more. We can live out in space for months at a time, and there are computers in every classroom in school. In the 50’s opportunities were very scarce for women and minorities. Today there are laws for equal opportunity employment.
Important world issues were very different in the 50’s, than now in the 90’s. In the 50’s, the cold war was one of the most important issues to deal with. This war ended in 1991, now the main concern is Iraq. In the 50’s, there was a mass h .....
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Roosevelt And The Great Depression
.... the food. Also, the government paid those who voluntarily decreased acreage in production. Furthermore, it provided funds for loans to farmers to meet their mortgage payments. Unfortunately, the AAA was struck down by the US Supreme Court in US v. Butler in 1936, however, the program was a great success.
The National Recovery Administration, or NRA, also proved to be one of Roosevelt’s greatest New Deal plans. Designed to balance the interests of business, labor, and consumers, it attempted to reduce unemployment and restructure the economy. The NRA was created under the National Industrial Recovery Act and set codes of fa .....
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The History Of The Automobile
.... his dream of producing an automobile that was reasonably priced, reliable, and efficient with the introduction of the model T in 1908. This vehicle initiated a new era in personal transportation. It was easy to operate, maintain, and handle on rough roads, immediately becoming a huge success. By 1918, half of all cars in America were Model Ts. To meet the growing demand for the Model T, the company opened a large factory at Highland Park, Michigan, in 1910. Here, Henry Ford combined precision manufacturing, standardized and interchangeable parts, a division of labor, and, in 1913, a continuous moving assembly line. Workers remai .....
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The Roosevelt New Deal Program
.... that hit during the Great Depression years. Winds carried all of the top soil away and blocked roads. Some people were stranded inside their houses for a few hours until the wind carried the sand away from the doors.
Neighbors threw parties to help friends out. The parties were a way to get food and a smile. People waited in huge lines out side of shelters waiting for a table. There was lots of hunger in the depression
A few people profited from the Depression but most were left with little money. Every life was touched. People dated their life around it. Even kids went to work as newspaper boys, girls sold shellfish a .....
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Cuba, Castro, And The United States
.... nauseating to most public opinion. It became clear that Batista regime was an odious type of government. It killed its own citizens, it stifled dissent. (1) At this time Fidel Castro appeared as leader of the growing rebellion. Educated in America he was a proponent of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy. He conducted a brilliant guerilla campaign from the hills of Cuba against Batista. On January 959, he prevailed and overthrew the Batista government.
Castro promised to restore democracy in Cuba, a feat Batista had failed to accomplish. This promise was looked upon benevolently but watchfully by Washington. Castro was .....
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