The Civil Rights Movement
.... have achieved more
politically than before they began. Before the movement, blacks had almost no
political power due to laws designed to prevent blacks from voting, like poll
taxes, literacy tests and the Grandfather Clause. Also when some blacks went to
vote, people simply wouldn't let them register. Due to lack of voting ability,
no blacks were elected into office and therefore, blacks had no say in the
government. Also, blacks were not allowed to serve on juries, yet they were
almost always found gui .....
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Civil War
.... and there were many issues that they didn't agree on each
other such as Clay's compromise, Fugitive slave act, Pottawatomie massacre, etc.
The Southern states supported slavery because the slave population held more
than 40 percent of the entire population and also they needed slavery for their
industrialization. Therefore, if they freed all the slaves, someone would
predict, many whites would have no jobs and many things would be up-side-down.
As the result, controlling over slaves was very importan .....
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Conflicts During The 1920s
.... traditionalist Republican
presidents whose partiality to the strong was displayed by their strong backing
of big business while discouraging the Labor Union movement. Literature was one
medium by which the new intelligencia could express their views on
impracticality and injustice of the social system and government in the 1920's.
Sinclair Lewis was one such author who used his writing to condemn the
stale and outdated ways of thinking that were so widely popular in our nation
during the 1920's. In ad .....
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The Differences Of Native American Cultures
.... dance. Geography affected Cheyenne culture in
this way. The buffalo hunt was created so, since the Great Plains lacked much
food, the Cheyenne could get enough food to survive. Before they arrived at the
plains, the buffalo hunt was unneccesary because of the bountiness of food.
The Inuit people (known incorrectly as eskimos) were, of course, affected
by their geography. Their language consisted of over 50 words for ice. They had
to live in igloos, because of the lack of building resources. Shamans .....
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"The Watergate Complex Is A Series Of Modern Buildings With Balconies That Looks Like Filed Down Shark's Teeth"
.... and wire tapping. Four months later they
were convicted and sentenced to prison terms by District Court Judge John J.
Sercia was convinced that relevant details had not been unveiled during
the trial and offered leniency in exchanged for further information. As it
became increasingly evident that the Watergate burglars were tied closely
to the Central Intelligence Agency and the Committee to re-elect the
president. (Watergate)
Four of these men, that were arrested on the morning of June 17, 1972, cam .....
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The War At Gettysburg
.... they got scared, Their goal was to defend their
Union.
What Happened
The Confederate went to war with the union in a small town called
Gettysburg. The Union majorally beat the Confederate. 28,000 were wounded,
captured, and killed from the Confederate. Major General George Meade some
23,000 Union Men, that was nearly a quater of his men. The war was over on July
3, 1863. The Union had won the war.
Supplies
The men nedded alot and I mean alot of supplies. Most men needed Clothe .....
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The Transcontinental Railroad And Westward Expansion
.... started West of the Appalachian
mountains, and by the mid-1850's Chicago, St. Louis, and Memphis were connected
to the East. Still other lines were stretching Westward, beyond the Mississippi.
An international route connected New England and Montreal and another one
crossed Southern Ontario between Niagara, New York, and the Detroit River.
During the 1850's, North and South routes were developed both East and West of
the Alleghenies. It was not until after the Civil War, however, that a permanent
rail .....
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Human Nature And The Declaration Of Independence
.... the founding fathers felt it was necessary to
break the bonds that connected them to the monarchy. Not only did they feel they
had the God given right to do that but they also based their arguments on the
workings of governments of the time and contemporary theories of government of
writers and political-social thinkers of their time.
The three essays that were given to us in class, Politics by Aristotle,
Of Commonwealth by Thomas Hobbes, and Of the Limits of Government by John
Locke are all very .....
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Just War Doctrine And The Gulf Conflict
.... A just conflict may not be initiated void of just cause.
This tenet disallows justifying war for the purpose of economic gain, land
acquisition, or strategic position. If war is to be justly initiated just cause,
usually humanitarian, must first exist.
3. Right Intention - This relates to the tenet of just cause. Just
cause must be followed by right intention. It would be unjust seek a goal
devoid of the just cause.
4. Proportionality - Also in relation to just cause is the tenet of
proportionalit .....
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Lincoln's Legacy
.... This is what James Madison, "the father of the constitution," meant in
the constitution. We must compromise to solve our disagreements and keep our
country together.
The idea that many men had died for our country and that we should not
forget them was strongly emphasized in he Gettysburg Address. In the Bill of
Rights it is conveyed that no person should be deprived of their basic rights.
These men that died in order that we could all be sovereign, and that nobody
could own anyone else, were .....
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The Watergate Scandal
.... nobody
on the White House Staff was involved in the crime. Most of the public
accepted Nixon's word and dropped the questioning. But when the burglars
went to trial four months later, the story changed rapidly from a small
story to a national scandal. It ended only when Richard Nixon was forced
from office.
Watergate was connected to Vietnam, it eventually exposed a long series of
illegal activities in the Nixon administration. Nixon and his staff were
found to have spied on and harassed political oppo .....
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The Progressive Era
.... be traced back to
Liberal Republicans(An Oxymoron, Mr. Jetel?) during the Grant administration and
Mugwumps. Citizens were enraged, with big businesses' growing influence in all
branches of government and sought ways to purify it.
Big Business was also a target of progressivism. During this time
presidents like Roosevelt and William Howard Taft tried to regulate and control
big business. Many well educated people of the time, as well as moderately
prosperous businessmen and members of other profession .....
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Reconstruction In The South
.... governors and instructed
each to call a convention to create a new state government as soon as a group of
the state's citizen totaling 10 percent of the voters in the 1860 presidential
election had signed oaths of loyalty to the Union. Under this plan new
governments were formed in Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas but the Congress
refused to recognize them. Republicans in Congress did not want a quick
restoration, for the reason that it would bring Democratic representatives and
senators to Washin .....
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Proclamation Act Of 1763
.... of Quebec, cutting
Montreal from the Fur Trade, and also to reassure the Natives that their hunting
grounds, and fur trade would be protected and remain intact.
Some of the terms of the Proclamation Act were as follows: settlement in
the Ohio and Mississippi was forbidden, and trappers, traders and settlers were
allowed in only with a license given from the crown, stating there reasons for
being in those two areas. The French language was also allowed to continue.
This may seem very strange, but .....
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Reasons For The American Revolution
.... unbearable English demands.
The Currency Act hurt colonists by making paper money, which Americans
had an abundance of, useless and converting them to gold and silver which was
very scarce there.
The American sailors were also subject to hardships brought forth by the
British. They were forced by impressment to join the Royal Navy to fight against
their own brothers.
By placing duties on all imported goods, this raised the prices so much
that all the colonists could afford were smuggled goods. The s .....
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