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- 4971: The Progressive Era
- ... saloons were a business with many business operating under their roof. Saloons would serve inexpensive meals, cash paychecks, and rent rooms. Prohibitionist felt that the mixture of foreign cultures, alcohol and machine politics would undermine American culture and democracy. They felt that if saloons were closed and alcohol was taken away - America would be a better place. Reformers felt that morality not the workplace was the answer to improving the lives ... the national level with the 18th Amendment which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor. 19th Amendment women's suffrage. One of the more interesting facts of the Progressive Era was the participation of American Women. Denied the right to vote for most of this period, women used what they saw as their rights as citizens to shape public policy and create public institutions. Female reformers were the leaders of ...
- 4972: The Events Connected to the Louisiana Purchase
- ... Fernandina to Natchez, some six hundred miles, and thence northward on the westward bank of the Mississippi River to the Lake of the Woods, some fourteen hundred miles farther, Spanish authority barred the path of American ambition. Of all the foreign powers, Spain alone stood in such a position as to make violence sooner or later inevitable even to the pacific Jefferson.”8 In June 1803, President Thomas Jefferson wrote to ... in the Louisiana Purchase. The maps that these teams made were very important later on to western travelers. The maps gave people an accurate view of the Great Plains, or as Pike called it, “Great American Desert.”10 Unfortunately the exploration that went into making these maps ignored the people that already lived there and had taken claims to it, the Native Americans. Starting two hundred and sixty-two years before ...
- 4973: The Disadvantages of the South During The Civil War
- ... by the ‘climate of opinion’ of the North. Lincoln did forge and use a new political religion for union, and thus Lincoln provided the North with an asset that the Confederacy was missing.” Was the American civil religion necessary for northern victory in the Civil War? Possibly not, but Kenneth Kantzer was correct by saying the American civil religion was the cement holding our country together (Hattaway 482). You could say that the South had a sort of civil religion, too. But it didn’t compare with the North’s, and didn ...
- 4974: The Civil War
- ... to compromise with britian on the division of the Oregon Territory because the United States was already at war with Mexico. The war came about for several reasons. Maxican patriots were still angry with the american annexation over Texas. So we insisted that the Texas border would be the Rio Grande. But on the other hand the Mexicans insisted it would be the Nuces river. Finally, controll of the mexican government ... the rio grande and to build a fort to blockade the river. To mexico this was an invasion of their territory. Mexican troops therefor crossed the rio grande and in a small battle wounded sixteen American soldiers. This was the Beginning Spark of war. The Mexican people were more united about the war then the americans were. Mexicans felt that they were defending thier territory against invaders. In the United States ...
- 4975: The Tuskegee Airmen
- ... white man so greedily kept for himself. Sadly however, as history tells it, they were denied of such opportunities for decades while many suffered, because as dismal as it may sound, “[segregation] is an established American Custom” (Mckissack 42). While there were always the African-Americans who demanded freedom, equality, and integration, there stood amongst them a group of men, later known as the Tuskegee Airmen, who demanded the right to ... The members of the Tuskegee Air Squad knew that prior to accepting the challenges of enlisting in the Armed Air Forces, they were not only pursuing their dreams of becoming the first group of African-American air force cadets. They were also setting a precedent for future African-Americans so that they too would be given the opportunity to fight and defend for their country. Their dreams, and the dreams of ...
- 4976: Black Women and Their Push For Equality For African Americans
- ... is obvious that the picture of the Panthers lack the presence of women. This failure to acknowledge women in the Panther picture represents the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. With a few exceptions, African American women generally do not receive the credit they deserve for their impact in the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement. When thinking about the most famous civil rights activists of the 1960’s the number of ... Black Panther picture represents this on a microcosm. Malcolm’s comment concerning women would be more accurate if he stated that behind and beside every strong Black man stands a strong Black woman. Currently African American women are denied proper respect and recognition as they continually push onward in the struggle against oppression. Hopefully the Million Women March held here in Philadelphia on October 25, 1997 will elevate the amount of ...
- 4977: The Watergate Scandal
- ... votes for the impeachment and only eleven against it. He was accused of misuse of his authority and also violating the constitutional rights of citizens by ordering the FBI and Secret Services to spy on American citizens. The last thing he was charged with was refusing to obey congress's subpoenas. Nixon had broken his oath to up hold the law. (Watergate) With the impeachment vote against him, Nixon would have ... helicopter and began his journey home to San Clemente, California. (Westerfled 57) At noon the Vice President, Gerald R. Ford, was inaugurated. He became the thirty-seventh president of the United States. He told the American people in his first speech "Our long national nightmare is over." (Westerfled 57)
- 4978: Iraq And The United States
- ... concerning the United States and Iraq. The United States have been discussing conducting air strikes against Iraq. The 1991 Gulf War may not have been as successful as believed. The United States spent millions of American dollars to support the war effort in the 1991 Gulf War. Taxpayers money is not the only expendable thing during the 1991 Gulf War. Many United States Soldiers are now suffering from an unknown "Gulf War Illness" that allegedly the government knows nothing about. The United States is also seeking American support in an air strike in Iraq, but it is evident that the government is lacking this support. The United States Government needs to realize that they are killing Iraqis but the moral, economy and ...
- 4979: The Battle of Midway
- ... 1859 and annexed by the United States in August 1867. Between 1903 and 1940, it served both as a cable station on the Honolulu-Guam-Manila underwater telegraph line and as an airport for Pan American Airways China Clipper. In March 1940, after a report on U.S. Navy Pacific Bases declared Midway second only to Pearl Harbor in importance, construction of a formal naval air station began. Midway naval Air ... the command of Lt. Col. Harold D. Shannon, a veteran of W.W.I and duty in Nicaragua, Panama and Hawaii. Shannon and Simarad meshed into an effective team right away. Knocking out the Pan American direction finder and destroying a Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat. The Japanese retired at 10 p.m., leaving four Midway defenders dead and 10 wounded. On December 23, 1941, Midway's air defenses were reinforced ...
- 4980: The Vietnam War
- ... a year. The North wanted America to leave immediately, so Vietnam could gradually come together. If Nixon withdrew, he would only be admitting defeat. He was quoted as saying, "I will not be the first American president to lose a war." Nixon refused to end negotiations until both the United Sates and Vietnam were politically satisfied(Herring 226). In 1973, the United States and Vietnam agreed on a "peace" proposal. North ... air power were kept in the Gulf of Tonkin to keep the peace. These powers had little effect on the North, who continued to attack the South in spurts(Herring 260). The total number of American deaths in the Vietnamese Conflict was 57,605. The estimated number of United States wounded in battle totalled 303,700. The Communists estimate their soldier deaths at around 444,000. The overall losses of North ...
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