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- 911: Frederick Douglass
- ... the last meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society was held. Douglass spoke very highly of the many people who helped the blacks win their struggles and get to where they were at. He was modest about his own achievements though but no one had fought harder for black rights than Douglass. In 1870 Frederick Douglass was asked to serve as editor of a newspaper based in Washington, DC. The goal ...
- 912: Containment Policy
- ... dismissed possibilities for peaceful resolution of the Cold War conflict, which would have left the"political threat" intact. In his history of nuclear weapons, McGeorge Bundy writes that he is "aware of no serious contemporary proposal...that ballistic missiles should somehow be banned by agreement before they were ever deployed," even though these were the only potential military threat to the US. It was always the "political" threat of so-called ...
- 913: Bill Of Rights
- ... As ratified in 1791, the Bill of Rights protected individual rights from violation by the federal government. For example the First Amendment begins, Congress shall make no law... Madisons original draft had contained a proposal that would have also prohibited state governments from violating the Bill of Rights, but the Senate deleted it. (1) It was not until after the Civil War that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments were ...
- 914: The Course Of The Great Depres
- ... the distinctly easier monetary policy that had characterized the Federal Reserve's response to the stock market decline ended. Subsequent policy is more difficult to describe concisely. Open market purchases of government securities became very modest until large purchases were made in 1932. Further, although the discount rate was reduced between March 1930 and September 1931, it then was raised on two occasions late that year before falling back once again ...
- 915: Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts & The 60s: Years of Hope - Comparison
- ... authors all feel, however, that the generation of the sixties was out to build or create a new world. They all wanted to improve what existed. While one author describes the generation as having the "modest ambition of shaking America to its roots" (Gitlin 2), the other authors described the generation as a "scouting party for a new world" (Collier and Horowitz 14). Another thing the authors appear to agree upon ...
- 916: Labor Unions
- ... establish industrial democracy and socialism. Others have viewed unions as highly conservative institutions returning to workers the status lost in the transition from village societies to urban anonymity. In reality, their role has been more modest. In the early 1980's they enrolled in their ranks only one of five members of the labor force, down from one of four in the 1950's and 1960's. These workers had a ...
- 917: Kansas & Nebraska Act Resolved: The Kansas-Nebraska Act Was Fair
- Kansas & Nebraska Act Resolved: The Kansas-Nebraska Act Was Fair. 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 ...
- 918: The Writing of the Constitution
- ... 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 ...
- 919: The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery
- ... nearly elected its candidate, John C. Fremont, to the presidency. Meanwhile, in the contest for control of Kansas, Democratic President James Buchanan asked Congress to admit Kansas to the Union as a slave state, a proposal that outraged Northerners. Adding to their anger, the U.S. Supreme Court, on March 7, 1857, ruled in the Dred Scott case that the U.S. Constitution gave Congress no authority to prohibit slavery in ...
- 920: Virtual Reality
- ... monitor (BOOM), the workstation "desktop" model (DEERING), and the projection model (CAVE). The HMD is a tracked helmet worn by the user that provides small television screens properly placed in front of the eyes. Although modest in comparison with other VR devices, it is not lightweight enough to prevent fatigue, and the screen resolution is typically medium at best. The BOOM also uses small television screens, but the angle of view ...
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