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- 4651: Women Rights
- ... still less than 3% of our political representatives. And today women only hold an 11% of seats in congress, and 21% of state legistative seats. Although these these numbers seem small, women have made a big impact and changed thousands of local, state, and federal laws that had limited women's legal status and social roles. In our country today, a man, or a woman has chance to fulfill their dreams ...
- 4652: Reconstruction
- ... setup public schools in the South. This effected the Southern lifestyle in that all people would have an opportunity to learn. Being educated meant everyone would be smarter for the future. This definitely was a big part of the Reconstruction Act in the South. All of the events mentioned above were direct results of the act . Without them the Reconstruction Act would have been a total failure. They are just a ...
- 4653: Why The North Won The Civil Wa
- ... Revolution dug its spurs deep into the side of the Northern states. Luckily, immigration numbers were skyrocketing at this time, and the sudden profusion of factory positions that needed to be filled was not a big problem (See Appendices and Randall and Donald 1-2). The immigrants, who were escaping anything from the Irish Potato Famine to British oppression, were willing to work for almost anything and withstand inhuman factory conditions ...
- 4654: DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST BEYOND
- ... the problem, the government sent men like General Custer to dispel the Indian problem. Although Custer was slightly successful at first, he was eventually killed by a group of Indians at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Needless to say, white man-Indian relationships were at a low point in this period. In conclusion, the west was settled slowly because, geographically it was in the middle of nowhere. It was isolated ...
- 4655: The Regulators Of North Caroli
- ... rode into Hillsborough, rescued the horse, and before leaving town, fired several shots into Edmund Fanning's house. Fanning, who was in court in Halifax, immediately ordered the arrest of three Regulators who played a big role in the Hillsborough horse incident, William Butler, Peter Craven, and Ninian Bell Hamilton. Citizens of Orange County were very sympathetic with the Regulators. Hermon Husband was chosen as one of two delegates to meet ...
- 4656: Causes Of The Civil War
- ... and was forgotten when the Civil War began. The existence of slavery was the central element of the conflict between the North and South. Other problems existed that led to succession but none were as big as the slavery issue. The only way to avoid the war was to abolish slavery but this was not able to be done because slavery is what kept the South running. But when the South ...
- 4657: The Telescope
- ... changed the world greatly. Not just by using the telescope for all its uses, but also to encourage people to invent and discover things. As I stated before, it was one of the first big scientific discoveries of the Seventeenth century. So I will ask you again, what would the world be like without the telescope? Would we have discovered so many things without it? It is a good thing ...
- 4658: Custer
- ... were ready for battle. Who knows what would have happened if Sitting Bull didnt get his visions. Would they be prepared? Would they have lost more men then they already did? It was a big concern to go to battle because of the loss of his people, but he knew that they were going to be successful with the challenge. The Europeans didnt care about the Indians. Everywhere that ...
- 4659: Cold War
- ... it considered vital to its national interest, including much of Eastern Europe. The Yalta Conference is often cited as the beginning of the Cold War. During the seven days of February 4 11, 1945, the Big Three Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin met in Crimea at the Lavidia Palace on the Black Sea. The main purpose of Yalta was the re-establishement of the nationas conquered and destroyed Germany ...
- 4660: 20s And 30s
- ... the high and exotic life. Movie stars like Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, and Fred Astaire offered an escape from the harshness of life. Jazz was still the popular form of music, but it advanced into Big Bands, jazz orchestras that played in a ballroom while people would dance to them. The bleak economic situation closed the gap between high and pop culture. From the 1920s to the 1930s, foreign policy was ...
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