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- 2991: Mercantilism Helped To Shape The American Nation
- ... misery of Great Britain because of the already accumulated debt from previous wars. The English finally won in 1763. The treaty of Paris was signed in 1763 in Paris, France. The treaty gave all the rights of French land to the English. As a result of all the wars that were going on with England during this time, the English lost interest in the American colonies. They were in a state ...
- 2992: Mercantilism
- ... make our own rules. In 1765 the British established the Quartering Act, where the Americans had to house and feed the British Troops that were in America. The Americans saw this as contrary to the Rights of Englishmen that were established in such famous documents as the Magna Carta, or the Great Charter. The Declaratory Act in 1766 was a retreat by parliament, it was a reaction by Britain to the ...
- 2993: Medicine In America
- ... often took care of the day to day healing. Midwives handled childbirths, and basically anyone with any knowledge of medical literature was considered capable of healing. Some of the common treatments included steam baths, religious rights, and herbal remedies. Surgical methods were basically limited to that of setting bones and pulling teeth. Realizing that sanitation was a problem, larger towns eventually began to pass regulations on the removal of garbage and ...
- 2994: Marine Corps
- ... to come, the Marines would assist the "American" forces against the English, and finally, gaining the Independence for America on July 4th, 1776. It was on July 11, 1798 that President John Adams signed a bill, which would allow the United States Marine Corps to officialize and gain a total of five hundred privates, as well as necessary officers and non-commissioned officers. It would be the next decade that the ...
- 2995: John F. Kennedy In Vietnam
- ... reports. They began to focus on US participation and direction instead of support and training. All this made the US look imperialist as if we were in control, which was not so yet. The civil rights movement created the climate for protest. As of January 1962, the total military personal in South Vietnam reached a total of 2,646. During this strenuous time for JFK the Cuban Missile Crisis occurs in ...
- 2996: JFK Assination - Conspiracy
- ... important that the American people understood why this case was re-opened over a decade later! The investigation was set up as direct result of the assassinations of two other major political figures; the civil rights leader, Dr Martin Luther King and the Presidents brother Robert Kennedy, in 1968. Naturally this aroused immense suspicion and the American public started questioning why so many key US figures had been assassinated in the ...
- 2997: Immigration
- ... one sided right to mandate to limit or even stop the immigration of Chinese laborers. In effect canceling the right of the Chinese to enter the country. Congress quickly complied and made a ten-year bill that the President signed on May 6, 1882. While exempting teachers, students, merchants, and tourists the Act suspended immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years. The law was renewed for a second ten-year period ...
- 2998: Hippie Culture
- ... sent the youth to accepting communities, particularly out west. Most of the people leaving their homes came from working-class families whose parents and communities had driven them out for simply for supporting the civil rights movement. Being alienated from their towns and considered communists, they found it easy to side with the anti-war movement. It was also easy for them to discover drugs and the free-love idea that ...
- 2999: Franklin D. Roosevelt
- ... Like he said in campaign speeches, "If I were elected President, my first step would be to mobilize the country for war on unemployment"(Woolf). This is exactly what he started to do. Another main bill passed in the hundred days was the Civilian Conserv He also signed into law one of the most important laws that today helps back up our bank system. Until that time there was no insurance ...
- 3000: Cultural Revolution Of The 1920s
- ... it was against Gods will. This would cause another of the conflicts that arouse due to a changing society. With the Scopes Trial, Red Scare, the rise and fall of the KKK, and Women's Rights, we see how the times were changing in the 1920's. Religion, politics, and ignorance were all obstacles to the progress that was being made in the 1920's. Change always brings about conflict between ...
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