Changes To The Bill Of Rights
.... public money on religious displays.
FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION: Robert Newmeyer and Glenn Braunstein were jailed in 1988 for refusing to stand in respect for a judge. Braunstein says the tradition of rising in court started decades ago when judges entered carrying Bibles. Since judges no longer carry Bibles, Braunstein says there is no reason to stand -- and his Bible tells him to honor no other God. For this religious practice, Newmeyer and Braunstein were jailed and are now suing.
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Chinese Americans
.... immigration records in the city, allowing many resident Chinese to claim U.S citizenship and many others to claim to be \"paper sons and daughters.\" The anticipated outcome that is intended or guides of the Board of Special Inquiry at Angel Island was to deport or exclude as many prospective Chinese immigrants as possible. Under the kindly explicit approval and guidance of seeking out the truth and separating the legitimate immigrants from the intended to deceive claims, the immigration service tried to g .....
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Civil Rights
.... city buses. 1957: Martin Luther King Jr. and a number of southern black clergymen create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). 1958: Ten thousand students hold a Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, D.C. 1959: Sit-in campaigns by college students desegregate eating facilities in St. Louis, Chicago, and Bloomington, Indiana; the Tennessee Christian Leadership Conference holds brief sit-ins in Nashville department stores. 1960-1970 1960: Twenty-five hundred students and .....
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Cival Rights Act 1964
.... to the ideals of democracy the NAACP pursued equality for all in the eyes of the government. Around the middle of the century gains were being made in small places, with a few minor changes in state laws. Yet blacks were still for all conventional purposes second class citizens (Mooney 776). World War II and its homecoming black veterans brought back even more unrest than before. After fighting the Germans and witnessing Hitler\'s racial holocaust blacks realized the inequality at home even more. The .....
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Civil War
.... but a guarantee of slavery itself in the District. As if these six proposals yielded more to the North then to the South, Clay’s final pair of resolutions tipped the balance Southward by denying congressional power over the interstate slave trade and calling for a stronger law to enable slave holders to recover their property when they fled to free states\" Battle Cry of freedom: The Civil War Era, McPherson James, (p.70-71). The Northerners hated the fugitive slave law, because in the past it was never .....
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Civil War
.... its famous \"march to the sea\". The march covered a distance of 400 miles and was 60 miles wide on the way. For 32 days no news of him reached the North. He had cut himself off from his base of supplies, and his men lived on what ever they could get from the country through which they passed. On their route, the army destroyed anything and everything that they could not use but was presumed usable to the enemy. In view of this destruction, it is understandable that Sherman quoted \"war is hell\" (Sherma .....
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Civil War - Causes
.... issue. Basically the South wanted and needed it and the North did not want it at all. The South was going to do anything they could to keep it. This was the issue that overshadowed all others. At this time the labor force in the South had about 4 million slaves. These slaves were very valuable to the slaveholding planter class. They were a huge investment to Southerners and if taken away, could mean massive losses to everyone. Slaves were used in the South as helpers in the fields in the cultivation of .....
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Civil War - Gettysburg
.... in the dark they have little sense of direction and hundreds are going from one field of slaughter to another as Ewell has his men on battle stations on the right flank. Those fleeing forward rush into Pickett’s command . At 10 pm the bombardment ceases as the Rebel artillerists realise they are running low on ready supplies of shells. Though they would not realise until morning that the battle was won, they had done the damage with their evening fusilade.
Stuart coming back with his cavalry .....
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Civil War - Gettysburg
.... with England and recognized the independence of the Confederacy and England was expected to follow suit very soon.
In Richmond McClellan was leading the Union delegation and was pursuing a course of peace on reasonable terms. Basically, it had settled down to where the borderlines would be drawn. Davis was prepared to concede what was now West Virginia but wanted the Indian and Arizona territories. Robert E.Lee had been appointed commander of all the Confederate Forces and given a free hand in appointm .....
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Civil War - North Vs. South
.... more developed times of the colonies, plays an extremely important role in the diversities of the two regions and the topic deserves some major consideration. The south consisted of mostly men and kept receiving ships filled with men to inhabit the colonies. (Doc. B) The New England area was different from the south in that their colonies had families that included females. (Doc. C) This difference in composition in the beginning gave New England an advantage towards prosperity. Since the Chesapeake Bay .....
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Civil War - Radical Reconstruction
.... the South. The South particularly resented the actions of the newly established Freedmen’s Bureau, which Congress established to feed, protect, and help educate the freed slaves.
With the exception of Tennessee, all Southern states refused to follow the 14th Amendment. To counteract the South’s actions, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867. This was a strong blow to the South. The act: put the South under military rule, dividing it into five military districts, each governed by a northern .....
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Civil War - The Battle Of Vicksburg
.... Vicksburg was the "Queen City of the Bluff" and a center, as one of them wrote, of "culture, education and luxury."
All this was to change with coming of the war. By early 1862 the peaceful town had become one of the most strategically important spots in the entire Confederacy- and would soon be one of the most bitterly fought over.
From the beginning of the war in 1861, to protect their most prized possession, the Confederacy put up fortifications at strategic points along .....
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Civil War - The Cavalry During The Civil War
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Starr was the third largest producer of revolvers. Starr was known for it\'s six shot double action revolver that weighed three pounds and was used mainly by the Union soldiers. It was very convenient because it held combustible cartridges and could also be fired by the old ball and powder method. Since Colt had a patent on its firing procedure Starr was forced into coming up with its own. To fire this pistol a soldier would pull the trigger, which unlocks then rotates a hammer that then sna .....
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Civil War - The Myth Of The Lost Cause
.... of loyalty to the LOST CAUSE sent in by veterans. Hill was Stonewall Jackson’s brother in law and he filled the magazine with stories, anecdotes and poems of the now legendary general. Other Confederate heroes received their share of attention from a flood of material supplied by readers commemorating Southern dead and using religion to explain the defeat. Book – writing was prolific in the ‘70s & ‘80s mainly from veterans but much on the romanticism of the Cause from women.
The most prominent .....
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Civil War - The War Of Northern Aggression
.... it’s their supreme authority.
One of the lies that has already been mentioned is that the \"Civil War\" is over slavery. This is one of the most dead wrong statements that one could think of. First of all, 70 to 80 percent of Southern soldiers didn’t even own slaves (Kennedy 34). People just don’t get motivated enough to give up their life over whether their neighbor is going to be able to continue having something. One soldier in the Confederate army claimed, \"I declare I never met a Southern sold .....
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