The Shooting Down Of An Iranian Airliner By The USS Vincennes
.... STARK that killed more than 30 if her crew in May of 1987. Another important event was the laying of mines in international waters by Iran, which lead to the USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS striking a mine and taking serious damage in early 1988. These events were probably still fresh in Captain Rodgers mind then he received word from the USS MONTGOMERY that they were tracking several Iranian gunboats the might be attacking a neutral tanker.
It is my opinion that Captain Rodgers saw this as an unprecedented opp .....
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Birmingham, Alabama And The Civil Rights Movement
.... as "the confrontation between grim-faced, helmeted policemen and their dogs, and black children chanting freedom songs and hymns." (p.163) For a seven-day period in May 1963, the nation was exposed to these and similar pictures (some of which appear in the book). Reports of the incidents in Birmingham moved President John F. Kennedy to remark that "the civil rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln." (p. 164)
A biography of a man and the ti .....
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Race In The New England And Southern Colonies
.... the southern colonies were established for economic motives.
England and the rebels of England (Pilgrims), made up the New England and southern colonies. "God Almighty in his most holy and wise providence hath so disposed of the condition of mankind, in all times some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity, other mean and in subjection. Yet we must be knit together in this work as one man."(John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity) This statement by John Winthrop, demo .....
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The Puritans And The Salem Witch Trials
.... not the Pope, was the head of the church in England."1 With that statement, the religious movement called "The Reformation" began to spread across northern Europe. The Reformation led to the formation of a religious group called Protestants. In the decade that followed, many other reforms took place in the Church of England. The Puritans, who had originally been part of the Church of England, greatly encouraged the reforms of others. They rejected the Catholic traditions and wanted to "purify" the ch .....
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The 1950s-1990s
.... in family roles were that men were taking up jobs which were considered to be only for women such as. Flight attendants, secretaries and nurses. Furthermore in the 1950s there was an increase in teenage 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 sti .....
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The Indians Of The Pacific Northwest
.... Duwamish, and allied Salish speaking tribes by proving his leadership qualities in a war that pitted his and other saltwater tribes against those of the Green and White Rivers. (1) He was considered to be Duwamish since his mother was the daughter of a Duwamish chief and the line of descent passed matrilineally. This was sometimes the case when fathers died while their son's were was still young and the mother would return to her tribe to raise the children. The Duwamish lived on the Duwamish River a .....
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Radical Reconstruction
.... clause stated that a man was still permitted to vote provided that his father or grandfather had been eligible to do so. It didn't apply to the blacks because blacks didn't have right to vote before the Reconstruction.
Then in 1876 election, Hayes won because of the secret compromise set up by the Southern Democrats. The compromise was to make Hayes win the election to withdraw the federal troops, to get the federal money and for a conservative Southerner in the cabinet. Thus, the federal troops were .....
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The Salem Witch Trials
.... the Pope, was the head of the church in England."1 With that statement, the religious movement called "The Reformation" began to spread across northern Europe. The Reformation led to the formation of a religious group called Protestants. In the decade that followed, many other reforms took place in the Church of England.
The Puritans, who had originally been part of the Church of England, greatly encouraged the reforms of others. They rejected the Catholic traditions and wanted to "purify" the churc .....
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The John F. Kennedy Assasination Conspiracy
.... and controversial theories of conspiracy in the assassination.
On September 27, 1964, The Warren Commission released a report consisting of 888 pages which stated that the committee had come to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone as the sole assassin of President Kennedy. Of course, there was no actual trial because Oswald had been shot while in police custody on November 24 by Jack Ruby. Ruby claimed that he shot Oswald for the good of the American people, and also to spare the wi .....
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The American Revolution
.... taxes, laws, and acts to make this possible, several influential measures were the Mercantile system, the stamp tax, and the Intolerable acts.
“The British Empire was erected on the then-popular theory of mercantilism, which held that colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country.” (Bailey 92) The Mercantile system was certainly not a new idea, it was already used by French and Spanish as a way of profiting more from their colonies. The Mercantile system was a way of ensuring that England .....
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U.S Involvement In The Vietnam War
.... one arena in which politicians have no place. War is the military's sole purpose. Therefore, the U. S. Military should be allowed to conduct any war, conflict, or police action that it has been committed to without political interference or control because of the problems and hidden interests which are always present when dealing with politics.
United States involvement in the Vietnam War actually began in 1950 when the U. S. began to subsidize the French Army in South Vietnam. This involve .....
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Not Only Impeach, Remove From Office
.... making sexual advances to his employees. As he questioned witnesses, he stumbled across a young woman named Monica Lewinsky. Monica was quickly summoned and gave accurate testimony. Bill Clinton was also examined. When he was interrogated about his and Ms. Lewinsky's relationship, he was quick to lie under oath. This is simply perjury. Others may argue that Mr. Clinton did not actually perjure himself. They believe that he did not honestly feel that he had a sexual relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. .....
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Causes Of The American Revolution
.... grip of the English crown. "I. That his Majesty's subjects in these colonies, owe the same allegiance to the Crown of Great Britain that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body, the Parliament of Great Britain." This statement can be used as a addition of the entire document that the Stamp Act Congress had initiated. The statement depicts the colonists has having to be submissive and servile in the view of Great Britain, this policy angered the col .....
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World War 2 And Executive Order 8802
.... minorities were receiving any jobs. Randolph indicated that they were prepared to bring, "ten, twenty, fifty thousand Negroes on the White House lawn" if their demands were not met.
After consultation with his advisors, Roosevelt decided to appease the Black leaders and issued Executive Order 8802 - "There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries and in Government, because of race, creed, color, or national origin." Roosevelt also established the Fair Employment .....
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Franklin Roosevelt And The Holocaust
.... and challenged anti-Semitism in 1938 by proposing the Evian Conference; a meeting attended by the Allies to determine how to deal with Hitler and the SS (Catledge, 1974). FDR was also a firm believer of the Wagner\Rogers bill, which if passed by congress would have given twenty- thousand Jewish children freedom into the U.S. However, this bill never found its way to FDR's desk.
Anti-Semitism in America was at an all time high during this time, maybe one reason why the Wagner\Rogers bill .....
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