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- 1461: THOMAS JEFFERSON
- ... to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786. Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He resigned in 1793. Sharp political conflict developed, and two separate parties, the Federalists and the Democratic ... cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third. He also sent a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates, who were harassing American commerce in the Mediterranean. Further, although the Constitution made no provision for the acquisition of new land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality when he had the opportunity to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803. During Jefferson's second term, he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation from involvement in the Napoleonic wars, though both England and France interfered with the neutral rights of American merchantmen. Jefferson's attempted solution, an embargo upon American shipping, worked badly and was unpopular. Jefferson retired to Monticello to ponder such projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. A French ...
- 1462: Latin America
- Latin America Latin America-This term used to designate the twenty American republics that sreak Romsnce languages and that were colonize by the Latin nations Spain, Portougal, and France. Other less-known terms for the same region are Hispanic America, Ibero-America, and Indo-America. These republics include Mexico; the six Central American states of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama; the three island republics of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republican; and the ten republics of South America, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. All these nations speak Spanish except Brazil, which speaks Potugese, and Haiti, which speaks French. The term Latin America does not apply to American possessions of European countries or of the United States or to former British possessions, such as Guyana, although Puerto Rico, culturally speaking, belongs to Latin America. A common name does not indicate that all ...
- 1463: Squanto
- Squanto Squanto is a Native American who lived in the early seventeenth century in what is now the Northeast United States. When the English came to this area of America to settle, they became very fond of Squanto and used him ... He helped the English to destroy some Indian tribes and used trickery to obtain undeserved favors from many people in his own tribe. While Squanto was essential to the survival of the English in their American colonies, he betrayed his Native American friends in the process of providing the English with what they needed to survive (Johnson p. 2). Squanto spent much of his life living in the Plymouth Colony teaching his newly acquired English friends ...
- 1464: Communism - From Marx To Zemin
- ... then, no one class should be allowed to have control over these things. He went onto comment that the exploitation of the working class must come to an end. That end would be achieved through revolution. Once this was achieved, everybody would work according to their abilities and then be paid accordingly (Capital, 586-617). Soon after, however, technical innovations would create such abundance of goods that "everyone works according to ... confused. By the time the government did anything to please the peasants, it was too late. In 1917, due to the breakdown of administration and military order, the peasants moved to carry out their own revolution. They tore down any form of legal and territorial authority and distributed the land in a rough equal fashion. During this time, a man by the name of Georgi V. Plekanhov had smuggled into Russia. Once there, these books influenced young students who saw the revolution dependent on the proletariat, not the peasant class. One of the people influenced by Plekanhov was man going by the name Nikolai Lenin. His revolutionary ardor was strong. Lenin went on to form a ...
- 1465: Maya Angelou
- ... she wrote and delivered a poem at his 1993 presidential inauguration. Whole her life, Maya Angelou has been trying to make something special in the poetry, history and in the film industry of the Africa-American women. Dr, Angelou, who speaks French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in drama and dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who ... of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ms Angelou became the northern coordinator for the southern Leadership Conference. She Commission on the Observance of International women's Year. Maya Angelou, poet, was among the first African -American woman to hit the bestseller lists with her 'I know Why the Caged bird Sings " helds the Great Hall audience spellbound with stories of her own childhood. Maya Angelou's second achievement was in 1971 ... award in communications. She received numerous honorary degrees and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the Sergejs Golubevs National Commission on the Observance of International Woman's Year and by President Ford to the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Advisory Council. She is one the board of the American Film Institute and is one of the few female members of the Director's Guild. In the film industry, through her work ...
- 1466: To The People Of Texas And All Americans In The World: The Alamo
- ... Travis during the siege of the Alamo on February 24, 1836. It was a cry for help to anybody and everybody willing to listen. It all started in 1830 with Stephen Austin, a leader of American pioneers in the wild, living in Texas, under the rule of the Mexican government, who had solved two major problems that the settlers had with the government. The colonist were now allowed to keep slaves ... arrival of new immigrants into Texas in 1830. Trade was also restricted with America. All borders were closed to newcomers but the Louisiana border could not be patrolled and settlers continued to arrive in Texas. American settlers were put into jail for the ruckus they caused due to these new laws, among them was Stephen Austin. On July 1833 Austin traveled to Mexico City to plead the cause of the colonists ... against a nation of seven million. They did not receive any government aid from the United States but sympathetic Southern states secretly sent troops. The war began with battle of "the Lexington of the Texas revolution" (Downey 46) taken place on October 2, 1835. This little battle consisted of one hundred Mexican troops sent to Gonzales, a town east of San Antonio, to order the settlers to surrender their only ...
- 1467: Henry Adams, Virgin And The Dy
- ... org, 1). Adams grew up in the United Stated where he was a Puritan. Puritans believed that sex (women especially) was just a form of fertility and reproduction; otherwise sex was a sin (Adams, 384). American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless (Adams, 385). The only sculptures and paintings of women that Adams viewed with understanding were those like the Virgin Mary, who was always seen as non-sexual. ...
- 1468: The Canadian Government
- ... they deserved to be by Anglophones. They wanted to change this by gaining political power.) gained political power and great changes occurred in Quebec. This period of Radical change has become known as the Quiet Revolution. These changes were introduced by the Liberal government of Jean Lesage, who became premier of Quebec in the 1960 election. Here is a list of some of the concearns of Quebeckers in 1960: - Wages in ... Joint Commission handles conflicts in which an action by a country on one side of the border effects the country on the other side of the border. It was created in 1912 and has three American and Three Canadian members which are appointed by each country's federal government. It makes dicisions by majority rules. It has one headquarter in Ottawa and one in Washington. There are three main functions of ... better plan production. This was to the benefit of both Canada and US. In 1957 Canada and US made a formal agreement to join defence efforts against attack from the air. This is the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD). Billions of dollars from Canada and US have been spent on radar stations, fighter planes, and command centres. Also, Canadians and Americans train with each other. The basic function of ...
- 1469: I Am Joaquin Vs. The First Sev
- ... of literature. The poem I am Joaquin and the short story The First Seven Years at the same time exhibit both contrasting positions and similar ideals. Even though I am Joaquin is told from Mexican-American perspective while The First Seven Years is told from Jewish-American perspective, similarities are found in both. They tell of the American Dream and of the two mentioned families roles and influences as a means of attaining that dream. The roles of the families in these works and each version of the American Dream are based ...
- 1470: Ruling Ideologies
- ... studies and demographics. It has been studied that welfare has almost no effect on bearing children. These studies show that younger women are more likely to be poor and their poverty makes their children poor. American adults by far are more unequal in wealth and income than any other industrial society as well as the declining incomes of young men since the mid-1970s. Many young men cannot afford to keep ... article dated 2/29/92, there are fewer children receiving assistance from welfare and are not just being lazy but and collecting checks, but actually getting off welfare. This ruling ideology that most of the American society supports leads to the lack of wide political support and budget-cutting of means-tested programs. These mean-tested programs are available only to those people who can prove that they are poor. Only Social Security and Medicare, both Universal programs, have largely survived cutbacks in recent years because it is widely accepted throughout the American society. The reason it is accepted in the American society is that everybody contributes to social security and everybody benefits from it. As stated before many people in the American society do not want ...
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