Earthquake San Francisco- 1906
.... noticed that the San Andreas Fault shifted a
250-mile long section witch tore roads and fences. Rivers, roads and power
lines were severed and not aligned with its surroundings. A road across the
fault ended up 21 feet north of the road to the east same with the rivers and
creeks.
The earthquake's most damage were in Los Bonas 30km east of the fault
yet there was little damage along towns to the east side of San Francisco Bay
such as Berkely, 25km east of the fault. And the capital of California
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The Goals And Failures Of The First And Second Reconstructions
.... in bringing about their goals. Born in hope,
they died in despair, as both movements saw many of their gains washed away. I
propose to examine why they failed in realizing their goals. My thesis is that
failure to incorporate economic justice for Blacks in both movements led to the
failure of the First and Second Reconstruction.
The First Reconstruction came after the Civil War and lasted till 1877. The
political, social, and economic conditions after the Civil War defined the goals
of the First Reconstr .....
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Illuminating The Path Of Progress
.... He later returned to school but left at age twelve to get a job and
help support his family.
Edison got his first job selling newspapers and snacks to the passengers
on the train between Port Huron and Detroit. Edison bought a used printing
press in 1862 and published the Grand Trunk Herald for passengers. It was the
first newspaper published on a train.
When Edison was fifteen, he was taught Morse code and became a manager
of a telegraph office. Edison got the idea for his first invention .....
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Immigraton Laws
.... immigrants came
from these areas. The majority of the immigrants were natives of Southern and
Eastern Europe, with immigrants from Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Russia
constituting more than half of the total. Until World War I, immigration had
generally increased in volume every year. From 1905 to 1914 an average of more
than a million immigrants entered the U.S. every year. With the start of the war,
the volume declined sharply, and the annual average from 1915 to 1918 was little
more than 250,000. In 192 .....
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Jay's Treaty
.... country.
Although Washington himself did not write the treaty he deserves all the
credit for initiating it in the first place. The times had become rough with
the British, and according to Hamilton the British were a vital part of our
economy. He said " …the tax on imports furnished much of the money for paying
off our foreign, domestic, and state debts." 2 Along with the British's
impressment of American seamen and their role in our economy Washington knew
something had to be done. Washington knew th .....
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Lusitania
.... Britain wanted to ship war materials over the Atlantic, but there was an
embargo of shipping munitions on passenger ships. America also tended to publish
the cargo manifests so that the Allies as well as the Germans would know what is
being shipped. Britain found a loophole in this. New cargo added at the last
minute did not go on the original manifest, thus a supplementary manifest would
be submitted 4 or 5 days later. Also, due to the embargo, munitions were listed
as ‘sporting cartridges' and s .....
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Pearl Harbor
.... planes struck Pearl Harbor, bombarding airfields and
battleships moored at the concrete quays. The U.S. totally taken off guard had
to defend themselves in pajamas. They used anti-aircraft guns in an attempt to
stop the Japanese. A second wave followed. The surprise attack was over before
10 AM. The results were devastating; 18 U.S. ships were hit, and more than 200
aircraft destroyed or damaged. The battleship Arizona was a total wreck; the
West Virginia and California were sunk; and the Nevada w .....
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Seneca Indians: Allies And Enemies
.... rooms or areas and the center areas were
used as social and political meeting places. They lived in scattered villages
that were organized by a system of matrilineal clans.
A calendar cycle of ceremonies reflected their agricultural, hunting,
and gathering. The men hunted, cleared fields, traded and made war. The woman
gathered various wild plant foods and tended gardens.
They had a great agricultural economy. Their man crop was corn, but
they also grew pumpkins, beans, tobacco, maize, squ .....
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The Early Nineteenth Centory
.... land because he needed more money for his fight with Great
Britain. So Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory, and doubled the nation's
size. This purchase was a mastermind move by Jefferson that let the farming
nation trade using the whole Mississippi.
Another achievement of Thomas Jefferson was the exploration of the
Louisiana Territory. He hired Lewis and Clark to explore the uncharted
territory. He told them to search the land for a river passage to the Pacific
Ocean. Jefferson also told t .....
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Witches
.... or the like: [and] partly because some things
supposed to be bewitched, or have a Charm upon them, being burned, she came to
the fire and seemed concerned." (P.20) Hale included neither of these charges in
his list of the evidence presented against Jones, but suggested that the crimes
had to do with her medical practice. She was accused of having a "malignant
touch," Hale noted, and her medicines were said to have "extraordinary violent
effects." When people refused to take her medical advice, he a .....
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The French And Indian War
.... hit trees than French and Indian
soldiers when the two armies fought. Ten miles from Fort Duquesne, Captain
Beaujeau and his French army made a surprise attack on the English. Most of the
British soldiers were killed and injured. While riding horses, General Braddock
had four of them shot from under him before he himself was killed. When George
Washington was 23 years old, he led the colonial militia on a retreat to safety.
Two horses were shot from under him and four bullet holes were found in his co .....
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The Grange
.... The Declaration stated they would use "all lawful and peaceful
means to free themselves from the tyranny of monopoly". Many of the members
opened stores and other businesses so they could begin to buy and sell to each
other. However most of these were farmers, with families, not businessmen and
many companies didn't survive because of their lack of real business knowledge
and the pressures of the middlemen who wanted them to fail. They worked as a
team to get candidates elected who agreed with the .....
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The Roswell UFO Crash
.... Mexico near
Roswell on the night of July 8, 1947. According to Roswell expert Henry Ritson,
many civilians arrived at the crash scene and witnessed the bodies of alien
beings (Roswell Reporter pg. 2). These witnesses report to have seen humanoid
beings with large, pear-shaped heads and bulging black eyes being hauled away by
government and military agents and to have been debriefed of the entire
occurrence by these agents (Roswell Reporter pg. 3). Some witnesses were
threatened not to speak of the incid .....
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Truth Or Fiction: The J.F.K. Assassination
.... death,
claims that the wound in Kennedys neck was much to small to be an exit wound,
and was clearly an entry wound. However, pictures taken at Bethsada Hospital
reveal a much larger neck wound than had been seen at Parkland. Apparently
someone had mangled the wound to make it appear as an exit wound. But who, and
why? Was it to support the Lone Gunman theory? If it was, it failed to do so.
Another startling piece of information was concerning Kennedys brain. When the
President was ordered out of Parkla .....
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WWII: Why Did The U.S. Get Involved In The War?
.... from the
Japanese and on December 8, 1941, congress declared war on Japan and so did the
British Parliament. Three days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the
U.S., and the congress replied with its own declaration of war. At this time,
the United States of America were full-fledged belligerent in World War II.
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