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- 751: The Presidential Contenders In
- For the presidential election of 1856, the Democrats nominated James Buchanan and John Breckenridge, the newly formed Republican party nominated John Fremont and William Drayton, the American [or Know-Nothing] party nominated former president Millard Fillmore and Andrew Donelson, and the Abolition Party nominated Gerrit Smith and Samuel McFarland. Buchanan started his political career as a state representative in Pennsylvania, was elected ... and in that capacity helped forge the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War. He was appointed by President Polk as minister to Great Britain in 1853. As such, he, along with the American ministers to Spain and France, issued the Ostend Manifesto, which recommended the annexation of Cuba to the United States. This endeared him to southerners, who assumed Cuba would be a slave state. He was one ... territories and crossed the Sierra Madres into the Sacramento Valley. As a captain in the Army, he returned to California and helped the settlers overthrow Mexican rule in what became known as the Bear Flag Revolution, a sidebar to the Mexican War. He was elected as one of California's first two Senators. The infant Republican party was born from the ashes of the Whig party, which had suffered spontaneous ...
- 752: The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class
- The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class In The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David Roediger, we are able to examine the antebellum era with emphasis on class formation and the fluidity of racial boundaries in popular culture. According to Roediger, mobbing, blackface and minstrelsy are key elements in the formation of the white-working class. During the antebellum time period, Blacks were victimized by the white mobs. The African American community as a whole endured tremendous social injustice. The mobs wanted Blacks to be disassociated from the citizens of America. Roediger used the term anti-citizen to express this point, exhibiting that the white ...
- 753: What is America?
- ... imperialistic web woven by the British. Americans could not elect a representative to the British parliament that created the laws that governed them. In addition, the British taxed Americans so heavily and unjustly that eventually American rebels took up arms against the British in a Revolutionary War. Although America had escaped from British oppression, the struggle for justice was far from over. Social problems existed in our society that had never ... of men like Martin Luther Ling and Jackie Robinson that eventually led to the abolishment of this segregation. Although these events occurred long ago, conflicts similar to them are currently prevalent in America. For example, American citizens in the District of Columbia are currently fighting for the right to elect a representative to congress, a right enjoyed by every other American citizen in one of the 50 states. And in our own state, there is a currently a debate over Affirmative action that will be put to a vote this November. One may ask how ...
- 754: The New Federalist Party
- ... To put it simply, NATO is no longer needed. Not only will we get out of NATO, we will also remove all of our nuclear weapons from Europe. In addition, we will also pull all American forces out of Japan, the Philippines, Central America and South Korea. Next, the United States government will stop playing it's self appointed role of 'Globocop'. Military interventions such as the situations in Somalia and ... in the failing status quo. Many tools will be utilized to reform this decrepit system. Among these will include a full range of incentives to encourage recipients to re-enter the work force. Social Security: American social security could be the greatest joke of our time. With the increase in fraud and bankruptcy of the current social security system the New Federalist party will abolish current social security expenditures. Those people ... on others rights. Electoral College: The electoral college may have been a great idea when it was invented, but now it is horribly out of date and can no longer meet the needs of the American people. When a president is elected by the electoral college yet does not get a majority of the popular vote, something is obviously wrong. A constitutional amendment will be proposed to dissolve the electoral ...
- 755: American Beauty
- American Beauty You can never be too thin or too rich, said the Duchess of Windsor. She might have added "or too pretty." What psychologists call the "attractiveness stereotype" is so strong that beauty is literally ... beautiful. Recently in history, women, who were far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. The first social history of American beauty culture: a richly textured account of how women created the cosmetics industry and how cosmetics created the modern woman. You don't need the latest census to tell you that America is, more than ever, a rainbow of faces with worldwide roots. More and more women of African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American heritage are celebrating their own personal beauty, and the cosmetics industry is responding. Viramonte uses the character of Champ to show the changing mood in America towards the need to fall in line for ...
- 756: The Constitution in the 1850's: Unity or Discord
- ... the 1830's when the abolitionist followers of William Lloyd Garrison began to attack slavery (ibid, 241). Slave states were those states where slave-holding was authorized by law before the Civil War. After the American Revolution, slavery disappeared from areas north of Delaware and Maryland. In 1845 nine new slave states had entered the Union. Efforts to add additional slave states and to prevent the spread of slavery led to fighting ... so intent on acquiring California, which belonged to Mexico, that he was prepared to make war in early May of 1846 with or without a pretext. He received a pretext when Mexican troops fired on American soldiers in territory that was claimed by both nations. Even though the troops might have been sent into the disputed area with the intention of provoking a conflict, Congress approved Polk's request that ...
- 757: Gays: A Struggle for Acceptance
- ... by the gay and lesbian population is a question that arises; if they really had a choice in the matter is another. I think gays' relentless struggle for acceptance into mainstream society came from the American constitution itself. After all, the gay liberation movement started in America, the land of the free, where all men are created equal and with an inalienable right to pursue their own happiness. No one should be able to take these rights away from anyone. Also, in the 1950s, the civil rights movement became active and words like desegregation and equal rights for all became synonymous with the American way of life. Stand up and fight against those who have done you wrong! This is what gave homosexuals such a conviction to start fighting for their own cause. This paper will follow the progress ... Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The Unites States declared war on Japan and was suddenly a participant in the largest war in the history of mankind. A massive military force of 12 million men was assembled. American soldiers were sent to Europe and Japan to participate and win the Big One. The military bureaucracy grew accordingly and thousands of new jobs were created. With the military's enormous demand for personnel, ...
- 758: The Library Of Congress
- ... a supreme nationwide accomplishment: its 23-carat gold-plated dome capped the "largest, costliest, and safest" library structure in the world. Its highly decked out front wall and center, for which more than forty American artists and sculptors could outshine European libraries in magnificence and loyalty to classical civilization. A modern guidebook bragged: "America is justly proud of this gorgeous and palatial monument to its National sympathy and appreciation of Literature, Science, and Art. It has been designed and executed entirely by American art and American labor (and is) a fitting tribute for the great thoughts of generations past, present, and to be." This new national Temple of the Arts instantly met with irresistible support from the American public. Known ...
- 759: Atomic Bomb 8
- ... of bombing and they would surrender. Truman didn t want to wait. Also he believed that Japan was willing to fight to the bitter end (Ferrell 34). Japan possessed little or no offensive threat to American forces. Despite this fact the Japanese were the most tenacious and driven of American foes throughout the war. The battles for Okinawa, Wake and Guam all were ample testament to the Japanese willingness to die in the face of overwhelming odds. The kamikaze was a perfect example of the Japanese battle attitude. Japanese pilots would strap themselves into planes loaded with explosives and fly them into American ships. By the war s conclusion the Japanese kamikaze attacks had sunk 3 aircraft carriers, damaged 285 craft and sunk a total of 34. The Japanese also did well in increasing support for the ...
- 760: Normandy
- ... own experiances as a solider in World War II, he wrote two other Landmark Books about the war; From Casablanca to Berlin and From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa. Since the war he has written The American Revolution as well as many other books articles, and reviews. He lives with his wife and co-author, Naomi, and his college-age son in New York City. Summary Strategy D-Day began with the concept ... shown up over Normandy beaches in 1944. At the same time, the bombing forced the Germans to rationalize certain production techniques. The result, ironically, was the military production increased during the bombing offensive. British and American officers drew up plans for several contingencies in 1943. Operation OVERLORD was a large-scale assault against the German Army in France. This plan served as the basis for a final plan developed early ...
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