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- 1081: The Progressive Era
- ... 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 the movement against child labor, they won minimum wage and maximum hours laws for women workers, improved educational opportunities ... to take part in reform movements, which led them into politics. Once there, women started to ask why they were not allowed to vote. Suffrage quickly became the number one goal of the women's rights movement. Leaders of the movement believed that if women had the vote, they could use it to gain other rights. The number of women employed stayed the same from 1900-1920, 20%, the type of work changed from domestic labor such as servants, cooks, laundresses, to clerical work such as clerks, typists, bookkeepers, and ...
- 1082: The Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine
- ... there was no use in asking for Britain to relent. Besides having different views with Congress about Great Britain, internal affairs also caused some tension. He questioned Congress’s powers a few times, about their rights to deal with the exclusion of slavery in future states. Monroe had entered into office a little too ambitious, but after each defeat he bounced back stronger than ever. Monroe’s second term was when ... the United States was part of the Unholy Alliance since the Holy Alliance was against progress and freedom. The Holy Alliance became a dangerous phantom haunting Americans, and all other nations that believed in the rights of man. The diplomats, who could be considered royal frauds in Europe, all wanted to rule after the Napoleonic Wars. They did this with brutality and force without any democratic process. Metternich turned Prussia, Russia ... caused by Russia’s brutal ambitions. Tsar Alexander, a member of the Holy Alliance hadn’t been doing very well with getting Europeans to jump on his bandwagon, so he decided to grant exclusive commercial rights to the Russian-American Trading Company and prevented all vessels from coming 100 miles from the 51 degrees north latitude American coast. Any ship that violated this order was subject to immediate confiscation (Rink ...
- 1083: Women In Western Society
- ... should be better educated. They should be able to learn what men are learning. A English writer Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the fonder of modern European feminism. She began the women movement arguing the rights of women. She declared, that women should have equal rights with education and in economic and political life. During the French Revolution woman began to show that they weren t afraid anymore. After the Declaration of Rights of Man and citizen on August 26, 1789. Women started questioning themselves , do this rights include women. These law brought about many disputes. One of the biggest disputes is when the women marched to ...
- 1084: How Dole Could Have Used The Issues To His Advantage
- ... a women's right to choose. Clinton stands firm on the fact that abortions should be "safe, legal and rare" without many unnecessary restrictions. To further show his hard stance on abortion, Clinton vetoed a bill in April that would have banned a rarely used procedure termed "partial birth abortions." President Clinton defended his decision, calling it justifiable in extreme situations, such as cases of rape, incest and to save the ... Republicans. A law and order president, Clinton has supported the death penalty, and backed the "three strikes you're out" policy of life sentences for three time convicted criminals. The President also signed the Brady bill establishing a five day waiting period to buy handguns and also pushed the mainly Democratic, 1994 crime bill which sanctioned 100,000 new community police officers. Dole has supported almost every anti-crime legislation that has passed his desk in his 35 years in Congress, but in a show of partisan politics ...
- 1085: Drug Prohibition
- ... another emerges. The funds spent on reducing supplies could be better used to reduce the amount of demand by better educating children and adults alike, and also by treating addicts. Governments exist to protect the rights of the people. By prohibiting drug use, American's civil rights are betrayed. How is prohibition protecting American's rights? Prohibition increases crime and corruption. It also wastes billions of dollars in taxpayer's money in the futile effort of eradicating drugs. It also violates American's rights as free persons to do themselves ...
- 1086: The American Pursuit of Happiness
- ... it, and pursuing it is exactly what everyone needs to do. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter ... to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” The Rights of the American public are exactly what Thomas Jefferson had in mind in 1776 when he replaced John Locke’s definition of rights in the Declaration of Independence from “Life, Liberty and Property”, to “ ...
- 1087: Gun Control
- ... a surprising fact that the NRA is a powerful lobbyist organization. And skeptically viewed upon by many people (Lacayo 19). As a lobbyist organization, the NRA has a current main objective of protecting American citizens= rights, to possess and operate a firearm, form being violated by gun control laws. One of the NRA=s main weapons in this crusade is the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. The amendment=s translation in the eyes of the NRA and many American citizens, clearly protects the individual rights of all citizens to possess and operate firearms. This would easily make any and all gun control laws unconstitutional. And therefore illegal. This translation, however, is not accepted by all people. Including the United States ... current laws, like those of Texas, require that people MUST retreat and be pursued by the intruder before any means of force could be taken upon the would-be attacker. Unfortunately, arguments of >criminal=s rights=, and >excessive force=, put to rest thoughts of a possible veto of some bans. With some effort from anti-gun control groups, such as the NRA, some of these laws have been lifted. Also, ...
- 1088: Martin Luther King Jr. 6
- ... ways. His speeches where monumental because they offered promise to oppressed people, and a nonviolent means to achieve it. He was a powerful speaker and became a figure head for large movements for the civil rights of blacks in the South. One of his many achievements began in 1955 after Rosa Parkes was arrested for not giving up her bus seat for a white person. He was asked to lead the bus boycott in Montgomery, and achieved his goal of desegregating busses. Building on the success of the Bus Boycott, King founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and emphasized the importance of black voting rights when he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial during the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. King's renown grew as he became Time magazine's Man of the Year and, in December 1964, the recipient of the ... Peace Prize. Among many other things he also organized huge rallies against poverty. Early in 1968, he initiated a Poor Peoples campaign designed to help economic problems that had not been addressed by early civil rights reforms. Kings overall effectiveness in achieving his goals where limited because of divisions among blacks. He also encountered resistance from national political leaders. The FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's extensive efforts to undermined ...
- 1089: A Consise History Of Germany
- ... traveled unceasingly about their realm. They had no income beyond that from their family lands and gifts from churchmen. Feudalism was the rule. The great lords, theoretically vassals of the king, in fact usurped royal rights to build castles and administer justice. The vast majority of common people lived on country manors belonging to nobles or churchmen. The few cities, such as Trier and Cologne, were chiefly Roman foundations or imperial ... to assert full imperial authority over the Lombard city-states and the popes. In 1155, on his first trip, he was crowned emperor. On his second, he had the Diet of Roncaglia (1158) declare his rights, and he installed podestas (imperial representatives) in the cities. Some cities had Ghibelline sympathies, but most objected to being ruled and taxed by uncouth, greedy foreigners. The popes needed imperial support against a Roman rising ... scientist, artist, and poet. He was also an excellent soldier, diplomat, and administrator. To gain German support for his campaigns in northern Italy, Frederick allowed the princes to usurp royal powers. The confirmation of their rights by the Privilege of Worms (1231) made them virtually kings in their own territories. Henry, when he came of age, objected to this policy and revolted but was quickly deposed and imprisoned by his ...
- 1090: Hippies
- ... were put away when the topic of politics came up. Indubitably the instigator for their existence, politics played a huge role in their lives. Having strongest feelings for the Vietnam War and for the Civil Rights Movement, the Hippies made their beliefs known to the world. They did this in many ways including musical shows, pacifist folk songs, and through peaceful sit- ins(This Fabulous Century 206). But none of their ... back and that's what they got in the 1969 when the President gave the word to bring them back home. Hippies had other feelings about racism and persecution. They took part in the civil rights movement, just as they did in the for the Vietnam troops. When President Kennedy tried to pass his Civil Rights policies and they never went through, the Hippies were more aggravated (Harris 8) Eventually some Hippies tried to make their colonies where there was no racism and persecution. There were Hippie communes all over ...
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