African Americans
.... By 1740 the SLAVERY system in colonial America was fully developed. A Virginia law in that year declared slaves to be \"chattel personal in the hands of their owners and possessors . . . for all intents, construction, and purpose whatsoever.\" In spite of numerous ideological conflicts, however, the slavery system was maintained in the United States until 1865, and widespread antiblack attitudes nurtured by slavery continued thereafter. Prior to the American Revolution, slavery existed in all the c .....
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African-Americans In The Civil War
.... focuses on the actual enlistment. He notes that the first regiment of free blacks came into service at New Orleans in September 1862 through the efforts of Butler. Wilson credits Butler’s three regiments of blacks as the first officially mustered into Union ranks. North Carolina and Kansas also organized additional black units where minor skirmishes proved to be successful. Wilson also notes that "Kansas has ... the honor of being the first State in the Union to begin the organization of Negroes .....
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African-Americans In The South
.... states, inspired by American independence, abolished slavery by 1804. As a matter of conscience some southern slaveholders also freed their slaves or permitted them to purchase their freedom. Until the early 1800s, many southern states allowed these emancipations to legally take place. Although the Federal Government outlawed the overseas slave trade in 1808, the southern enslaved African American population continued to grow. By 1860 some 4 million enslaved African Americans lived throughout the Sout .....
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Alcatraz
.... in the protecting from Confederate Raiders. Early in the war, ten thousand rifles were moved to Alcatraz from the State armory, to prevent them from being used by southern sympathizers. The crew of a Confederate privateer were among the first inmates to be held within \"The Rock.\" Alcatraz\'s notoriety as a penitentiary overshadows its earlier, and longer use by the Army. Surprisingly, this small island once was the most powerful fort west of the Mississippi River. There was some limited modernization of .....
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Amendments
.... twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI (1791)
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have bee .....
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American Colonies
.... social latter. New settlers living on the coast could become rich by fishing and selling what they caught. If fishing was not a settler’s strong point, then they could try their hand at farming. Getting the land to farm on was the easy part. The ‘head right’ system gave each male 50 acres, and 50 acres to each indentured servant he might bring over. England could not do this because England so defined the social classes and they did not have enough land that they could give to every male and his indentu .....
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American Dream
.... field farming system, because it was easier. No one knew how to make a decision on their own, so they felt that this was the way that things were to be done. The social structure of Sudbury was very similar to that it was in England. There were higher people and lower people. The Minister happened to be placed with a lot of land, and the miller with lots of land, and the Town fathers the same. However, many of the other people had little to no land. This was all based, once again upon birthright, and w .....
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American Labor Movement: Development Of Unions
.... of garments. The wages, as in factories, were pitifully low, no benefits were made, and the worker was paid by the number of pieces he or she completed in a day. Unrealistic demands were put on the workers who could barely afford to support their families. (1)
The United States had the highest job-related fatality rate of any other industrialized nation in the world. Everyone worked eighty hours or more a week for extremely low wages. Men and women earned twenty to forty percent less than the .....
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American Revolution
.... theory, Sam Adams had said \"The parliament was taxing illegally!\", most colonists agreed, and a boycott of British goods resulted. When the British passed the Currency act, this left the paper money worthless, and the colonists had to rely (economically) on England for Hard Currency. The main reason for revolution was economics.
The colonies were economically subordinate to England by the tea and coercive acts. The tea act was an act where the colonist middlemen merchants were being bypassed, .....
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American Revolution
.... killed at the hands of the Indians.
Adding to all the turmoil, was a corrupted government. With William Berkeley as the current royal governor, he was in complete control of the colonies, and had not allowed an election in almost fourteen years. His only helpful action was to have more forts constructed, making planters feeling abandoned. The government was corrupted, and Great Britain was doing nothing to help. The Americans wanted a representative and responsive government, in which they could elec .....
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American Revolution
.... gaining full control of the territories that had previously belonged to the French. Great Britain, reestablishing its status, began its conduct over the colonists. After winning the war, it felt it had the right to start controlling the colonies as it pleased. After all, the colonies were the possession of the British, and were entitled to them. Yet the colonists had a different view. By this time, they felt they had no or very little connection with the original ‘mother country’. The early English set .....
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American Revolution - Causes
.... they produced and made them more dependent upon England.
In addition to the unrest caused by their mercantilist policies, domestic political issues distracted them from the activities of the colonies. Throughout the sixteen hundreds, Great Britain was more involved in solving the Constitutional issue of who was to have more power in English government, the king or parliament. When this complex issue was finally resolved in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, England turned its attention back to th .....
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American Revolution - Causes
.... of the same, the sole and exclusive right of imposing duties and taxes upon his Majesty\'s subjects in the said colonies....be it declared ...., that the said colonies and plantations in America, have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial Crown and Parliament of Great Britain;\". The Parliament of course denounced the attempt at independance and still dogmatilcally passed the following law to show that the colonists were still british subjects. Again, the c .....
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American Revolution - Causes
.... same, the sole and exclusive right of imposing duties and taxes upon his majesty\'s subjects in the said colonies.... Be it declared... that the said colonies and plantations in America, have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial Crown and Parliament of Great Britain;\". The Parliament of course denounced the attempt at independence and still arrogant passed the following law to show that the colonists were still British subjects. Again, the colonists wer .....
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Amish Culture
.... at home; they use High German at their worship services; and they learn English at school,\" (Amish Culture). On average, an Amish family numbers 8 as opposed to the rest of American cultures which numbers 3. Their homes are large with several rooms opening into one large room where they hold church. The houses are furnished very simply with benches on which the families sit to eat their meals. The floors are bare and the windows are covered with plain colored cloth. Amish children attend private, one- .....
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