|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 4981 - 4990 of 8618 matching essays
- 4981: The Decline of the Plains Indians
- ... fight for their land or die trying. Consequently, the Indian population began to decrease. There were multiple factors that contributed to the decline of the Plains Indians, but the three major were fighting between the American troops and the Indians, the extreme loss of buffalo, and the passing of the Dawes Act. The first concentrated fighting broke out in Colorado, just after the Civil war. Government officials tried to force the ... States citizenship. Unfortunately, the Plains Indians, who based their life of the buffalo hunt, did not understand the fine points of land ownership, farming, and were demoralized by reservation life. Between 1887 and 1943, native American lost to real estate speculations and government agents an estimated 86 million acres of the 138 million acres that had been granted to them. With the completion of the first intercontinental railroad, settlement toward the ...
- 4982: The Depression
- ... income, easy credit/huge debts, imbalance of foreign trade; people just didn’t notice them. Not until October 29, 1929--BLACK TUESDAY--anyway, when the bottom of the stock market fell out, taking millions of American lives with it. Even thoug h any didn’t admit it, they knew what was on the way. People who had been buying stocks on margin (10% down) suddenly found themselves penniless and in bigger ... Conditions, however, failed to improve. His other policies, the Reconstruction Finance Corporat ion (RFC) and the Home Loan Bank Act, also didn’t make much difference. The election of 1932 made it clear that the American people were unhappy with Hoover. Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the election on the Democratic ticket by a landslide. His promis e of "a new deal" gave Americans hope for what he could do for them ...
- 4983: The Seneca Falls Convention
- ... the history of western civilization, no similar public meeting had ever been called (USA 80). Using the Declaration of Independence as the framework, they connected the campaign for women’s rights directly to that powerful American symbol of liberty. Eighteen specific areas of life were enumerated where women’s rights were denied. In 1848, married women in most states legally dead in the eyes of the law. They did not have ... to destroy confidence in her own powers, to lesson her self respect, and make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life. Women were clearly treated as a sub-citizen class in the new American democracy (Rynder 23-24) Over three hundred people showed up for the Seneca Falls Convention, including forty men. By the time it closed, one hundred had signed their names to the document calling for women ...
- 4984: History of the Panama Canal
- History of the Panama Canal In 1825, a group of American businesspeople announced the formation of a canal building company, with interests in constructing a canal system across the Isthmus. This project was to take place in an area now called Panama. The endeavor was filled ... the principal factor and nationalism as secondary. The Panamanians fear the amount of reliance they have on U.S. investments. The fear is enhanced by the large dependence of their national economy on MNC's, American banks and mining companies. LaFeber continues saying that Panamanians find it difficult to cross the Zone because of check points and resent their country being split in half. Continuing he asserts that perhaps if the ...
- 4985: Franklin Roosevelt and the Holocaust
- ... only hope for survival was to have faith in the United States of America and its President, Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt-FDR. On December 11, 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States. This declaration brought American troops and its Allies into war in Europe and gave millions of Jews hope for survival. Although some historians and Holocaust survivors believe FDR betrayed the Jews by not bombing death camps such as, Auschwitz ... missions. The State Department actively shutdown news coming into the United States and FDR's office. This action prevented or limited FDR and his generals from bombing many of the death camps, especially Auschwitz. Many American Jews criticized FDR for not bombing the death camps earlier in the war - they say he might have saved millions of Jews by doing so. In defense of FDR, these criticisms should be made with ...
- 4986: U.S Involvement In The Vietnam War
- ... to subsidize the French Army in South Vietnam. This involvement continued to escalate throughout the 1950's and into the early 1960's. On August 4, 1964 the Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred in which American Naval Vessels in South Vietnamese waters were fired upon by North Vietnam. On August 5, 1964 President Johnson requested a resolution expressing the determination of the United Sates in supporting freedom and in protecting peace ... in Vietnam in respect to the political involvement is seen in the following quote by General Colin Powell, "If you're going to put into something then you owe the armed forces, you owe the American People, you owe just you're own desire to succeed, a clear statement of what political objective you're trying to achieve and then you put the sufficient force to that objective so that you ...
- 4987: The John F. Kennedy Assasination Conspiracy
- ... President Kennedy. Of course, there was no actual trial because Oswald had been shot while in police custody on November 24 by Jack Ruby. Ruby claimed that he shot Oswald for the good of the American people, and also to spare the widow Jackie from having to go through the horrific ordeal of a trial. The commission based its conclusion on a variety of key points which implicate Oswald: 1. A ... circumstances. Shaw was later acquitted of all charges. Though many people tend to disagree with Garrison’s theories of conspiracy, he did reveal to a large extent just how much evidence was withheld from the American people (Bethell, MI, 3) as well as just how ridiculous some of the Warren Commissions conclusions were. Former Garrison aid Tom Bethell later wrote: “Garrison’s investigation actually shed no new light on the assassination ...
- 4988: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
- ... disaster until the day he died. JFK did not trust the CIA and he reportedly intended to dismantle it after the 1964 election. In Vietnam, the CIA refused to carry out instructions from the ranking American official in the country. The CIA ignored President Kennedy's directive that it not initiate operations requiring greater firepower than a handgun. It also ignored JFK's orders to stop working with the Mafia. When ... later in the Parkland Memorial Hospital in an almost pristine condition was planted to match Oswald's rifle. In my view, the main reasons President Kennedy was killed were (1) He refused to further escalate American involvement in Vietnam (2) He was moving to end the Cold War (3) Mafia's outrage over his war on organized crime. Just below these reasons, I would list LBJ's lust for the presidency ...
- 4989: The Atomic Bomb and Japan
- ... atomic bombs were therefore necessary to show the Japanese that the destruction of their nation could happen much quicker than the Japanese had planned and force them into unconditional surrender. Japan used several tactics which American troops would never use, such as Kamikazes and the Baaton Death March. The term Kamikaze referred to pilots who flew their aircraft, loaded with explosives, directly into U.S. naval vessels. Kamikaze pilots, who sacrificed ... Compton, "Should the United States Have Dropped the Atomic Bomb?", pg 2) I believe that Dr. Compton's assessment was correct, as was the Truman Administration's notion that lives would be saved. Therefore, the American decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan was indeed a morally justifiable action.
- 4990: Address at March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- ... Another thing that he says is that black people got a “bad check”. “We got a bad check because in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence people had signed a promissory to which every American has to follow”. The thing that Americans have to follow is “that all men, yes black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of ... Another thing that he says is that black people got a “bad check”. “We got a bad check because in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence people had signed a promissory to which every American has to follow”. The thing that Americans have to follow is “that all men, yes black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of ...
Search results 4981 - 4990 of 8618 matching essays
|
