Articles Of Confederation
.... changing the Articles to eliminate
the ideas that did not function properly was near impossible. Another factor of
the Articles' ineffectiveness was that Congress was in essence tied in its
authority. After the war, the colonists trusted no ultimate authority; not even
one they designed. It could not regulate commerce, so what resulted was
thirteen colonies with different taxations and tariff laws. This only added to
the already present feelings of dislike and distrust which had existed between
the co .....
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The Chicago Fire Of 1871
.... woke up, including the sleeping O'learys. The "America" hose cart
was the first to reach the scene. They were soon joined by the "Little Giant"
engine company. A neighbor ran to a drug store to turn on an alarm but the
alarm failed to work. The court house watchman had given wrong directions but
later tried to correct his mistake, but the alarm operator was eating dinner
so she refused to correct the mistake. The fire engines went about 1 mile
south of where the fire was. By the time the pro .....
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The Civil War And Its Ending Of Slavery
.... Conflict resumed, however, when the United States boundaries
were extended westward to the Pacific. The Compromise Measures of 1850 provided
for the admission of California as a free state and the organization of two new
territories—Utah and New Mexico—from the balance of the land acquired in the
Mexican War. The principle of popular sovereignty would be applied there,
permitting the territorial legislatures to decide the status of slavery when
they applied for statehood.
Despite the Compromise of .....
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The Power Of The Situation
.... In the course of this paper, I
plan to explore this question from a psychological perspective with an emphasize
on conformity and social norms, bystander intervention, social perception and
reality, and finally, prejudice. Generally looking at the Los Angeles riots,
and specifically drawing upon the Reginald Denny beating and subsequent trial,
the power of the situation becomes evident, as thousands of people living in an
extremely poor and crime-ridden area of Los Angeles, lashed out against a
perceptio .....
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Woodstock
.... were terrible, (Lack of food, sparse sanitation
facilities, drugs and alcohol, mud, to name a few) there were no violent
acts at the festival.
DRUGS
Drugs were a problem at the festival, nearly ninety percent of the people
there were smoking marijuana. There were no violence problems though.
Approximately one hundred percent of the 33 people arrested were charged
with drug-related charges.
FOOD
Food shortage was a problem since so many people showed up who the festival
organizers wree not pre .....
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Watergate Scandal
.... of Haldeman and Ehrlichman and
announced the dismissal of Dean U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst
resigned as well. The new attorney general, Elliot Richardson, appointed a
special prosecutor, Harvard Law School profesor Archibald Cox, to conduct a
full-scale investigation of the Watergate break-in. In May of 1973, the Senate
Select Committee on Presidential Activities opened hearings, with Senator Sam
Ervin of North Carolina as chairman. A series of startling revelations followed.
Dean te .....
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African And Native American Slavery
.... faintest idea of what the
Europeans had in mind when they said trade. They figured that when the White
Man came and showed all that hospitality they meant it. Of course, they didn't,
the Europeans captured the Indians to be used as slaves. They were also
slaughtered and raped because of resistance to leave their land. If any Indians
refused to leave their land they would be killed. The women were raped for sick
and disgusting reasons. Europeans didn't feel that the women, or men for that
matter, we .....
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Buffalo Soldiers
.... the black regiments performed
effectively. They fought innumerable skirmishes and running battles with Indian
warriors in the Great Plains, western Texas, the southwestern desert, and the
mountains of Colorado. One company of the 9th regiment fought in the last battle
of the Indian Wars, at Wounded Knee, S. Dak., in December 1890. The black troops
were proud to be called Buffalo Soldiers; in fact, the regimental crest of the
10th cavalry bore the figure of a buffalo.
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"Clay Beats Liston: February 25, 1964"
.... Press. The only articles that were not written by a member of the
Associated Press were the very rare editorials written about the fight. The use
of reports from the AP and the UPI shows that most newspapers did not think the
fight was very newsworthy. Only one newspaper published an article that was not
written by a member of the Associated Press or the United Press International,
however that one article was an editorial about Cassius Clay's new found wealth
and not the actual fight. The lack of cove .....
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The New Land Of New Ideas
.... However, in the new land there was more opportunity for
entrepreneurship. This led to a increase in the self-interest principle and a
decrease in the principles of religion. In Old England, it was believed that
the few that had the wealth were blessed. Even the King was viewed as the
Lord's represantive on Earth. In the new land one had to work to gain faith.
Wealth that the individual created was viewed as being faithful to the Lord. The
new America gives birth to a true entrepreneurship among th .....
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The Emancipation Proclamation
.... return fugitive slaves, thus annulling in effect the fugitive slave laws. On
April 10, on Lincoln's initiative, congress declared the federal government
would compenste slave owners who freed their slaves. All slaves in the District
of Columbia were freed in this way on April 16, 1862 . On June 19, 1862,
Congress enacted a measure prohibiting slavery in United States territories,
thus defying the supreme court decision in the Dred Scott case, which ruled that
Congress was powerless to regulate .....
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott
.... life for the white and the colored
citizens was completely segregated. Segregated schools, restaurants, public
water fountains, amusement parks, and city buses were part of everyday life in
Montgomery, Alabama.
“Every person operating a bus line should provide equal
accommodations...in such a manner as to separate the white people from Negroes."
On Montgomery's buses, black passengers were required by city law to sit in the
back of the segregated bus. Negroes were required to pay their fare at th .....
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The Assassination Of MLK
.... rules concerning
bus segregation, African-American residents of Montgomery, Alabama launched a
bus boycott. They elected Martin Luther King, Jr. as president of the Montgomery
Improvement Association. (Phillips 3). King received national prominence as the
boycott continued, due to his personal courage and exceptional oratical skills.
(Carson 2).
On charges on conspiracy, Martin Luther King, they bombed Jr.'s house,
and they arrested him along with other boycott leaders. (Mark 3). Despite these
actio .....
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Sixteen Most Significant Events In US History Between 1789 To 1975
.... significant
economic and political implications on this period in history. From an
economic perspective it doubled the size of the United States at a price of
only fifteen million dollars. It allowed settlement beyond the Mississippi
River in a territory that was rich in minerals and natural resources. It
eliminated the United States' long struggle for control of the Mississippi
River and its outlet to the sea, and as Jefferson stated, it freed America
from European influence at its borders. In additio .....
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Son Of Dallas Cop Says Dad Was 1 Of 3 Who Shot Kennedy
.... shooters, that he fired two of the three bullets that killed
the president, and that he also killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit
during the manhunt for Lee Harvey Oswald.
Among the material: a rifle with telescopic sight that uses the same
kind of ammunition as Oswald's gun; records showing that Oswald and White
served together in the Marines; three faded messages that appear to be
decoded orders to kill someone in Dallas in November 1963; and a son's
recollections of his father's incriminating .....
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