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- 901: Kansas & Nebraska Act Resolved
- The Kansas-Nebraska act was a proposal by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas which said that Kansas and Nebraska territory could be allowed to govern for itself whether or not to be a slave state or a free state. By a vote of ...
- 902: The Writing Of The Constitutio
- ... on the 16th of July,1787. Over time, constitutional changes have come about as a result of formal amendments, judicial interpretations ,and presidential and congressional actions. The most common method of constitutional amendment has been proposal by two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress followed by ratification by three-fourths of the states. In my opinion , two of the most important amendments to the constitution are the Fifteenth Amendment(1870 ...
- 903: History Of The Computer Indust
- ... extremely powerful, centralized computational centers and toward a broader range of applications for less-costly computer systems. Most continuous-process manufacturing, such as petroleum refining and electrical-power distribution systems, began using computers of relatively modest capability for controlling and regulating their activities. In the 1960s the programming of applications problems was an obstacle to the self-sufficiency of moderate-sized on-site computer installations, but great advances in applications programming ...
- 904: Aphrodite
- ... this gesture more explicitly. Honour and Fleming note that this gesture emphasizes the natural beauty of the love goddess. Thus, the so-called "Pudic Venus" was "a figure whose erotic attraction was ... enhanced by her modest gesture" (Honour and Fleming 112). In the few nude female statuettes of the Near East, the "gesture of the Venus Pudica" was also often used (Ghirshman 47). Aphrodite was an important goddess because she represented ...
- 905: Overview Of Belgium
- ... all high-value products containing hormone-treated meat. This has led to the loss of U.S. agricultural sales in member states of the EU, including Belgium.6 A third issue includes customs valuation. The proposal under discussion would require that the customs value be based on the final sale price only. If adopted, many U.S. multinationals exporting to the EU through a chain of sales would find that EU ...
- 906: Vietnam War
- ... of 1967 was the March on the Pentagon in October, which was turning point for the Johnson administration. With public support for Johnson's conduct of the war fading, the president fought back by overselling modest gains that his military commanders claimed to be making. This overselling of the war's progress played a major role in creating the domestic crisis produced by the Tet Offensive in early 1968, sparked from ...
- 907: The Road To World War II
- ... were hastily put together and met with limited success. Germany still maintained its campaign of sea terror. The U.S. was not willing to enter the war. Then came the Zimmerman note, which was a proposal to Mexico to start a war with the U.S. to get the U.S. involved in war, and Mexico would get the Mexican cession back. Merchant ships had begun to arm themselves. A policy ...
- 908: The Compromise Of 1850
- ... Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the close of the Mexican War (1848) aggravated the hostility between North and South concerning the question of the extension of slavery into the territories. The antislavery forces favored the proposal made in the Wilmot Proviso to exclude slavery from all the lands acquired from Mexico. This, naturally, met with violent Southern opposition. When California sought admittance into the Union in 1849 as a free state ...
- 909: Main Causes Of The Great Depre
- ... paid an unheard of $2 a bushel for wheat, but by 1920 wheat prices had fallen to as low as 67 cents a bushel29. Farmers fell into debt; farm prices and food prices tumbled. Although modest attempts to help farmers were made in 1923 with the Agricultural Credits Act, farmers were generally left out in the cold by the government. The problem with such heavy concentrations of wealth and such massive ...
- 910: Frederick Douglass
- ... blacks endured through his lectures and writings. His oratorical abilities made him one of the most popular anti-slavery speakers ever. "He was described by his contemporaries as graceful, distinguished, imposing, strong, manly, confident and modest. He charmed the audiences with his style"10 In 1847 Frederick and the family moved to Rochester, where he began his independent career as an abolitionist editor. His thousands of editorials in The North Star ...
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