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- 1291: ABRAHAM LINCOLN One Of The Gre
- ... confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Mr. Lincoln gives forth an impassioned political Speech at New Haven in New Haven, Connecticut. He wishes to get on with the ...
- 1292: Assassination Of JFK
- ... strong evidence that some anti-Castro Cubans never forgave Kennedy for the failure at the Bay of Pigs, and many of these same individuals were furious at Kennedy over his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis and over his shutting down of their para-military training camps. It should be noted that the militant anti-Castro exiles were almost exclusively under the control of the CIA. Richard Nixon was one of ...
- 1293: Overpopulation
- ... future statistics say. A other example is oil. Predictions of the world using up all its oil have been around for at least 70 years. They reached their peak in the 1970s with the oil crisis brought on by the Oil and Petroleum Exporting Countries' attempt to raise oil prices by voluntarily limiting supply . As the price rises, however, the quantity demanded by consumers decreases. As the price of gasoline increases ...
- 1294: Origins Of The Cold War
- ... relations and co-operation were delicate and risky. This common misunderstanding led to a failure to co-operate on many issues, a deep mutual distrust and several near-disaster crises, most notably the Cuban Missile Crisis. The establishment of mutual distrust in the inter-war period, the post war bi-polar system, and the threat of mutual nuclear oblivion after 1949, left the world in a precarious state of 'Cold War ...
- 1295: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... for peace was evident to me from the beginning of my research, but I did not realize how far-reaching it was until I noted the steadiness and rectitude he displayed throughout the presidential electoral crisis of 1876-77, which could have become a disaster. Also remarkable to me was Grant's "Quaker" Indian Peace Policy: on the eve of what could have become the complete genocide of the American Indian ...
- 1296: The Compromise Of 1850
- ... the Wilmot Proviso to exclude slavery from all the lands acquired from Mexico. This, naturally, met with violent Southern opposition. When California sought admittance into the Union in 1849 as a free state, a grave crisis threatened. Also causing friction was the conflict over the boundary claims of Texas, which extended far westward into territory claimed by the United States. In addition, the questions of the slave trade and the fugitive ...
- 1297: Richard Nixon
- ... the bombing of North Vietnam and to increase US military involvement. Nixon campaigned against the war, and brought US soldiers back home. He developed the Nixon doctrine, stating that the United States would continue helping Asian nations combat Communism, but would no longer commit US troops to land wars in Asia. However, in 1970, Nixon expanded the war by allowing an invasion and several bombing missions. Into the second half of ...
- 1298: J.P. Morgan
- ... including Carnegie and Rockefeller were stronger than the government and were not subject to ordinary laws. The validity of this statement can be only subjectively measured; however the power of Morgan was clear after the crisis in 1895. The national Treasury had been successively issuing bonds to maintain the depleting gold reserves. However, their actions were hurt by the ironic withdrawals of gold, by the Treasury itself, with which to make ...
- 1299: Frederick Douglass
- ... of Columbia in 1877 and recorder of deeds in Washington D. C. in 1881. He was also the U. S. minister to Haiti from 1889 to 1891. Frederick Douglass stood at the center of the crisis black intellectuals faced at the end of the Civil War and thereafter. He was the most influential of all the black leaders throughout the mid 19th century. Bibliography Bibliography Bailey, Thomas A. The American Spirit ...
- 1300: First Amendment
- ... strike of workers. The case was decided on November 10, 1919. Justice John H. Clarke delivered the opinion of the Court, he concluded that the purpose of the pamphlets was to excite, at the supreme crisis of the war, disaffection, sedition, riots, and
[defeat] the military plans of the Government. Just like Schenck they were given the maximum of twenty years in a federal penitentiary. While Justice Holmes still stood by ...
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