America: One Nation
.... 28, D4).” This meant the U.S. would need to keep a strong military at hand. The Government sought to maintain its’ military dominance, and further the development of the atom bomb. Thus a nuclear age began.
Before the war, the American people were unsettled by the Great Depression. Unemployment was high. But the Second World War brought a lot of people into the work force, including women. While the men were at war, the women were at work. The standard before had been for men to work, and women to tend to the daily household duties. But women needed to support their families, and joining the workforce provided some .....
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Reasons, Causes And Details Of Plantation Slavery
.... on their plantations.
Before slaves came into the picture, indentured servants were the only source of labor colonists had. The population of indentured servants was decreasing because of many factors. They were running away from the masters, dying from diseases. When word of the treatment of indentured servants was heard in England less people wanted to become indentured servants because of the treatment they received from the masters.
The indentured servants were decreasing fast and the need for labor was need very much so.
Tobacco was the main source of income for most of the colonists. All of the colonies economy .....
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Changes During The 1950s-1990s
.... delinquency, due to the fact that teenagers were trying to find ways to express them selves and be noticed. They also did this through the music they listened to and through the movie stars and films that were made.
A major similarity between family roles in the 1950s is that the majority of women still do the cooking cleaning and other house work.
Entertainment although different because of technology, shows many similarities as people still enjoy television and radio. There are many similarities and differences in Entertainment between the 1950s and the 1990s. Television, radio, and film are still the main forms of ent .....
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American Attack On Omaha And Utah Beaches During D Day
.... other equipment needed for the invasion, and where exactly on the beach they were to land.
Before the landings were to begin, the coastal German defenses had to be adequately prepped, and softened by a combination of a massive battering by United States ships, and bombing by the United States Air Force. Between the hours of 0300 and 0500 hours on the morning of June 6, over 1,000 aircraft dropped more than 5,000 tons of bombs on the German coastal defenses. As soon as the preliminary bombing was over, the American and British naval guns opened fire on the Normandy coastline (D’ Este 112). A British naval officer described the .....
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The Closing Of The American Revolution
.... ladder consisted of black slaves. This conventional regime continued to dominate the Americas completely until the revolution sparked new standards of living for all races and sexes. Revolutionary efforts set a new course for American society. Both the poor and wealthy begun wearing homespun clothing and military leaders respected all members of the militia. Egalitarianism was on the rise, allowing white men to nourish the idea that ability, exertion, and rectitude defined a man’s worth. At this time egalitarianism did not apply to anyone other than white men. Yet, it later supplied the basis for which women, Blacks, an .....
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How Barbed Wire Was The Ruination Of The Cowboy Lifetyle
.... of the Federal Government, and in 1871, an elaborate feport was issued by the Deparment of Agriculture. This report revealed that fencing, even in the most timbered areas, was very costly and that it was almost prohibitive to those who lived on the marginal lands of the western prairies. As a result, the Great Plaines were largely left unsettled until certain inventions became available.
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Prohibition In The 1920's
.... the government to spend on schools and roads, now falls into the hands of bootleggers, who are illegally smuggling alcohol into the U.S. The remainding funds are given in forms of bribes to local officials so they can look the other way as bootleggers smuggle their contraband through state lines. Not only do public officials accomadate the illegal smuggling of acohol, but the Treasury department does also. The bootlegging industry has created a demand for bills of unusually large denominations. In 1922, two-hundred and eighty-seven million dollars worth of ten-thousand dollar bills were issued. Ask yourself what kind of buisness m .....
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American Foreign Policy Towards Cuba
.... Antonio Maceo distributed "The Kingston Proclamation," arguing the Spain had not kept its promises.
"instead of giving Cubans the opportunity to participate
in the direction of their government, Spaniards have
been pouring into the island to man political posts,
pushing the rightful representatives of the people to
one side; they are guided only by the interests of
their pockets and that of the Peninsula…"
On October 7, 1886 slavery was terminated in Cuba because it was no longer economically practical or necessary for the salve owners. In the same year Jose Marti wrote:
"The US has never looked up .....
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The Decline Of The Plains Indians
.... surrender and killed men, women and children. This was the start of the many wars between Indians and the United States.
Although Plains Indians fought hundreds of battles from 1860 to 18890, their cause was doomed because they were dependent on the buffalo for food, clothing, fuel, and shelter. When the herds were wiped out, resistance became impossible. In spite of some victories and heroic deeds, such as the 1,500- mile march of Nez Perces under Chief Joseph in 1877 to avoid capture, the result was inevitable.
In 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Act, which broke up Indian nations, even on reservations. The Dawes Act gave each .....
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The Vietnam War
.... in 1954, officially split Vietnam into two parts, North or Vietminh and South or French supported. It also ended the fighting of the North and South under several circumstances. First it officially declared France defeated by the Vietminh. After this was officially declared the United States stepped in to influence the South. The most important circumstance was the agreement that in 1956 general elections would be held. With the election two years away both parties had time to rebuild whatever armed forces or governments they could. The Geneva Conference stated, that the party that won the majority in the election would .....
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The History Of The Ku Klux Klan
.... with them. Contrary to what most people believe, the Ku Klux Klan was started because of a few people wanted to have some innocent fun, not because they were intending to start a chain of violence on anyone outside the white race.(The Klan, p.2)
The Ku Klux Klan began in Pulaski, Tennessee, a small town south of Nashville. On the night of December 24, 1865 six ex-confederate soldiers were sitting around a fireplace it the law office of Judge Thomas M. Jones.(Invisible Empire, p.9) These six friends were having a discussion and were trying to come up with an idea to cheer themselves up. One of the men suggested that the .....
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Geography And Climate In The American Colonies
.... different from others. For example, the Puritans came for religious freedom, and to create “A city upon a hill”. They left England because they felt the Anglican Church too closely resembled the Catholic Church, and they could only practice their religion underground, or they would be punished. To them, this was unacceptable, so they fled to Holland, and eventually came to Massachusetts Bay in America. Puritan society was completely based on religion, in which their main belief was predestination. There was no separation of church and state, schools were set up to teach children to read the bible, and only members of the elect cou .....
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