Dredd Scott Decision
.... in the free state or territory\" [Oxford, 761]. On account of this alone, Scott and his wife would have been freed when the case came to trial in 1847, however there was a problem of hearsay evidence in the case and the judge declared it a mistrial. It was not until three years later in 1850 that the court was able to correct the problem and unfalteringly sided with the Scott\'s and ordered them freed, citing that once he had been in free territory, he was indirectly freed and remained freed. By t .....
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Education And Egalitarianism In America
.... dissenters. Like the Protestants of the Reformation, who established vernacular elementary schools in Germany in the 16th century, the Puritans sought to make education universal. They took the first steps toward government-supported universal education in the colonies. In 1642, Puritan Massachusetts passed a law requiring that every child be taught to read. And, in 1647, it passed the \"Old Deluder Satan Act,\" so named because its purpose was to defeat Satan\'s attempts to keep men, through an in .....
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Exploration - Motives For
.... English explorers were the Northwest Passage, riches from colonization, and more land. Many of them were escaping from the religious wars that basically took over England in the 17th century. Unique to the English were the motives of the need for more land for England\'s surplus population and colonization. Because of all the knowledge of the New World paved out already, England explored for the best possible places to colonize and was ready to establish settlements. Of all the European influences on the .....
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First Amendment
.... under the state Constitution. I feel this is a major break through for students\' rights because it limits editorial control of school newspapers by educators and allows students to print what they feel is important. A newly proposed bill (A-557) would prevent school officials from controlling the content of student publications. Critics of the bill feel that \"student journalists may be too young to understand the responsibilities that come with free speech.\" This is a valid point; however, it wo .....
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Ford Car Company
.... These photos were obtained from the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. These pictures are of the Rouge during the switch of all production, from the Highland Park plant, to the Rouge. It was also the time that the Model A was beginning production.
This collection shows examples of four exterior views of the plant, allude to the many different factories within the Rouge plant. The Rouge was a steel mill, a foundry, a power producer and, an assembly line. This all encompassing idea helped ford re .....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
.... one that would lift them out of the depression. Now he was going to fulfill his promise. Roosevelt did not sit back and watch the country take itself out of a depression. uests would be permitted to reopen and those that couldn\'t, wouldn\'t. Banks that couldn\'t meet withdrawals requests would, together with federal aid, meet the withdrawal demands(Lawson 48). Of the nineteen thousand banks, only about twenty-four hundred Like he said in campaign speeches, \"If I were elected President, my first step wo .....
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Freedom In The United States
.... time. He depicts how people of all backgrounds worked together for one cause: freedom.
I selected Ray Bradbury\'s Fahrenheit 451 as a fictitious example of the evils of censorship in a world that is becoming illiterate. In this book, the government convinces the public that book reading is evil because it spreads harmful opinions and agitates people against the government. The vast majority of people accept this censorship of expression without question and are content to see and hear only the governm .....
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German Immigration To The Midwest
.... This would be because of the many revolutions in the 1860\'s and the poverty that almost always follows war. In one 20 year span in the late 1800\'s Germany went to war at least 7 times taking on neighboring countries such as: Austria, France, Belgium and Russia.
Like I said, much money was spent on the war effort in Germany. People were taxed heavily just to buy bullets for the army. Through all this, word was spread like wild fire through Germany that a new country in the west across the water wa .....
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Great Depression
.... For an economy to function properly, total demand must equal total supply. Essentially what happened in the 1920\'s was that there was an oversupply of goods. It was not that the surplus products were not wanted, but rather that those who needed the products could not afford more, while the wealthy were satisfied by spending only a small portion of their income. Three quarters of the U.S. population would spend essentially all of their yearly incomes to purchase goods such as food, clothes, radios, and c .....
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Great Depression
.... Act of 1926, signed by President Coolidge on February 26, 1926, which reduced federal income and inheritance taxes dramatically. Andrew Mellon, Coolidge\'s Secretary of the Treasury, was the main force behind these and other tax cuts throughout the 1920\'s. Even the Supreme Court played a role in expanding the gap between the socioeconomic classes. In the 1923 case Adkins v. Children\'s Hospital, the Supreme Court ruled minimum-wage legislation unconstitutional3. The large and growing disparity of we .....
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Hippie Culture
.... who went to Canada, they received assistance from the Committee to Aid American War Objectors. The committee helped the young immigrants with advice and aid on the Canadian immigration laws. For those who didn’t flee, life was full of harassment from the Government. Popular music and literature help display this message of repression. Jimi Hendrix released a song titled "If 6 was 9" that described his oppression: "White collared conservative flashing down the street/Pointing their plast .....
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Imigration And Discrimination In The 1920s
.... after in a last minute attempt to gain the 1920 presidencial nomination, he made predictions about a May Day radical uprising, the nation perpared itself, but on May 1st 1920 all was peaceful. While the raids had stopped, the hostilities towards immagrants still remained prevelent.
Immigrants were used by organized industries as a source of cheap labor. But as labor unions began to form and push for better pay, shorter hours, and improved working conditions industries saw that it was not as easy to exp .....
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Immigration
.... immigrated in large numbers. They came because they were dying in the streets of Italy. They were also seeking the money that was famed in America. The Italians were despised not only being different in religion, and skin color, but that they also brought with them, organized crime (the mafia). They banded together, and lived in communities in New York. They spoke Italian before English. As hard as things were, their faith kept them together, and allowed them prosper. While large-scale immigration cre .....
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Immigration
.... the Immigration and Naturalization Service from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice. The Act of April 29, 1943 provided for the importation of temporary agricultural laborers to the U.S. from North, South, and Central America. The Program served as the Legal basis for the Mexican bracero program, which lasted through 1964. The Displaced Persons Act of June 25, 1948 was a respond to the large numbers of Europeans who had been turned into refuges by World War Two. It also marked the firs .....
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Immigration
.... February 20, 1907 added further categories to the inadmissible list. Immigrants were screened for their political beliefs. Immigrants who were believed to be anarchists or those who advocated the overthrow of government by force or the assassination of a public officer was deported. This act was made mainly do to the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901. On February 5, 1917 another immigration act was made. This Act categorized all previous exclusion provisions and added the exclusion of il .....
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