The War In Vietnam
.... to U.S.
security and world peace was monolithic, dictatorial communism emanating from he
Soviet Union. Any communist anywhere, at home or abroad, was, by definition,
and enemy of the United States. Drawing an analogy with the unsuccessful
appeasement of fascist dictators before World War II, the Truman administration
believed that any sign of communist aggression must be met quickly and
forcefully by the United States and its allies. This reactive policy was known
as containment.
In Vietnam the tar .....
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The Whiskey Rebellion
.... and logistical. These dilemmas had to
be overcome, and by October, 1794 the men were on the march towards Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. There, they contained the mob hysteria and anger. This event
represented the first use of the Militia Law of 1792 enabling the militia to “
execute the laws of the union, and suppress insurrection” (The Whiskey Rebellion
of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1).
It is clear that George Washington was the source of success in the
Whiskey Rebellion. When the militia, with Washington .....
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Women's Roles In The Revolution
.... messengers
a. relied on helpless stereotypes
b. young girls
1. could slip through lines easily
2. Enemy never suspected them
3. carried orders and information
c. women
1. listened to what British said
a. while serving food/drink
b. officers spoke freely
1. thought women were not
interested
2. they were wrong
2. Lydia Darragh
a. of Philidelphia
b. carried important information
1. to General Washington
2. at Valley Forge
E. .....
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The Great Inflation
.... Starvation
became a reality for millions of people, despite a bumper cereal harvest,
as shops reverted to the barter system. Farmers refused to accept the
effectively worthless, banknotes in exchange for grain, and food quickly
began to run short in the cities. Prices rose one trillion-fold from their
pre-war level. More importantly, for the long-term political future of
Germany, the middle and working classes saw their savings wiped out.
These were, in essence, the people who were later to become th .....
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The New Deal
.... social factors lead up to the New Deal. Staggering
statistics, like a 25% unemployment rate, and the fact that 20% of NYC school
children were under weight and malnourished, made it clear immediate action was
necessary.
In the first two years, the New Deal was concerned mainly with relief,
setting up shelters and soup kitchens to feed the millions of unemployed.
However as time progressed, the focus shifted towards recovery. In order to
accomplish this monumental task, several agencies were cr .....
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Imigration And Discrimination In The 20`s
.... America's political, economic, and social institutions.
Palmer exasperated this fear in Americans and then presented himself as
the country's savior, combatting the evils of Communism. He mainly
centered his attack on Russian immigrants. During the infamous Palmer
raids thousands of aliens were deported and even more were arrested on
little or no evidence. Their civil liberties were violated, they were not
told the reasons for their arrests, denied counsel, and not given fair
trials. What followed was an i .....
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The Constitution
.... express their thoughts, but they did not
mean that a pornography store should be allowed to do business a few blocks from
public schools. I myself like speaking and telling other people what I think is
right and what I think is wrong, but the well being of the public has to be
taken into consideration. The freedom of speech insures me that right to speak
out.
When I turn eighteen, I am permitted to vote for people representing my
state. I actively watch the news and think about politics. With all the .....
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"The World Today Seems To Be Going Crazy": The Unabomber's Manifesto
.... back to 1978. The
Unabomber's targets were universities and airlines (thus the "un" and the "a" in
the FBI's code name); proponents of technology. The Unabomber believes that the
present industrial-technological society is "narrowing the sphere of human
freedom" (Unabomber, 93).
The crudeness of the Unabomber's inaugural mail bomb attack was not an
indication of what was to come. The Unabomber's devices became more
sophisticated and deadly as his targets became more specific and focused. "The
press .....
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Kansas & Nebraska Act Resolved: The Kansas-Nebraska Act Was Fair
.... What if someone wanted to move above the 36-30 degree parallel?
Would they have to leave their slaves behind and hire workers?
Also the federal government just marked off land that slaves could be in.
Slaves are considered property and you can take property anywhere. That is
unfair because then they would have to leaves all their slaves behind.
Lastly people needed slaves to tend their farm. If the government just
marked off land where people owned slaves and said that the state is now
free and no one .....
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The History Of The Ku Klux Klan
.... decided to use linens. They wore the linens over their backs
and put pillowcases on their heads. They also draped the linens over their
horses. The Ku Klux Klan was going to ride for the first time. In the
beginning, the men wanted to do nothing more than play pranks on people.
However, the people were more frightened than they were cheered up. They
soon realized what they could do with these fear tactics. The South had
turned into a place that was no longer theirs. The slaves were now free
(many of thes .....
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Labor Unions
.... the product should be inelastic, so that there is little,
if any, decline in sales in response to price increases. Second, labor
costs should be a small portion of the total costs of production, so that a
rather large increase in wages would generate only a small increase in the
price of the product. Third, the supply of factors that can be used as
substitutes for union labor, such as nonunion labor or labor-saving
machinery, should be inelastic, so that their price rises substantially as
more units ar .....
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Roosevelt
.... of time and represent the twentieth
century. If there is a group, among them will be at least man involved in
World War II. Roosevelt, Churchill, Tojo and Hitler -especially Hitler -
are all candidates for the group because of their involvements in the
bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. In this world,blood is a hard
thing to forget about. Which ones, and in what light they'll be remembered
in depends entirely on the biases of historians and the abilities of
governments to cover up the embarr .....
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The New Deal
.... lead up to the New Deal. Staggering statistics, like a 25%
unemployment rate, and the fact that 20% of NYC school children were under
weight and malnourished, made it clear immediate action was necessary. In
the first two years, the New Deal was concerned mainly with relief,
setting up shelters and soup kitchens to feed the millions of unemployed.
However as time progressed, the focus shifted towards recovery. In
order to accomplish this monumental task, several agencies were created.
The National Re .....
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The New Immigration
.... of their ethnicity, religion, or politics. The German,
Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman (Turkish) empires ruled over many
different peoples and nationalities and often cruelly mistreated them.
Until 1899, U.S. immigration officials asked arrivals which nation
they had left, not their religion or ancestry. So oppressed people were
listed under the countries from which they fled. Armenians who escaped
from Turkey were recorded as Turks, and Jews who had been beaten by mobs
in Russia were lis .....
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The Three Great Compromises
.... getting their say, they "compromised" on a plan where they would have
two governmental houses, one being the House of Representatives and the second
being the Senate, with the Senate being the stronger of the two houses. The
House of Representatives was based on each state's population, that is the more
people in the state the more representatives that state would get. The Senate
said that regardless of the state's population each state would get two
representatives all with equal say.
The 3/5 Comp .....
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