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- 3011: Vietnam War - Vietnam Soldiers - "They Carried Ghosts"
- ... distant. The soldier did not want to worry his parents at home and knew that they would not understand what he was going through. In the Documentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, directed by Bill Couturie, showed these relationships change. One soldier writes to his mother and tells her that for a second, he felt as if he was on vacation because it was so beautiful in Vietnam. One had ...
- 3012: Racism - After The Civil War
- The conclusion of the Civil War in favor of the north was supposed to mean an end to slavery and equal rights for the former slaves. Although laws and amendments were passed to uphold this assumption, the United States Government fell short. The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were proposed and passed within five years of the ...
- 3013: Political Policies Between The United States And The Soviet
- ... of the Soviet armed forces and the Soviet/Cuban involvement in Africa placed extreme pressure on dιtente's success. In the midst of these events the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975 placed human rights high on the political agenda. America began to place pressure on the USSR's domestic policy in regards to the treatment of Russia's minority groups. Carter's crusade to liberalize Communist societies through external ...
- 3014: Nineteenth Century
- ... all parts of The United States. Proposed on June 13, 1866, and ratified on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution stated that all people born in the United States should have equal rights. However, even after the Civil War, most African Americans were still not treated equally. In Mississippi, for example, all African Americans had to have proof of employment, or go to jail. In South Carolina, in ...
- 3015: New Deal America
- ... earnings of current workers. By taking money from the workers the government slowed the increase in public consumption needed to restore the health of the economy (1256). In addition to the Social Security Act, a bill was passed providing work to relief to the unemployed. These programs were managed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The measures Roosevelt took during the Second New Deal seemed very radical, but actually they were ...
- 3016: Native Americans
- ... S. troops more than 600 soldiers were killed by a force of mostly Shawnees and other Indians. The cause of the conflict was settlers moving into the Indians land in large numbers, ignoring Indians rights and demanding military protection if the Indians opposed them. This kind of situation was the cause for many of the largest fights with Native Americans, for example the battle of little big horn (otherwise known ...
- 3017: The American Civil War
- ... number of hours and near its end, Lincoln made his orders clear: "Let them once surrender and reach their homes, they won't take up arms again. They will at once be guaranteed all their rights as citizens of a common country. I want no one punished, treat them liberally all around. We want those people to return to their allegiance to the Union and submit to the laws." (Porter, David ...
- 3018: The Watergate Scandal
- ... these aides forced Nixon to begin getting above Muskie in the elections. Overall, the Democratic nomination went to George McGovern, a liberal senator from South Dakota. His supporters included many people who supported the civil rights, anti-war, and environmental movements of the 1960s. McGovern had fought to make the nomination process more open and democratic. Congress had also passed the 26th amendment to the Constitution allowing eighteen-year-Olds to ...
- 3019: The Regulators Of North Caroli
- ... Lords Proprietors, an English founding company that helped finance early American exploration. When North Carolina was freed from British proprietorship, the Granville family, descendants from the original Lords Proprietors, con-tinued to hold their land rights. This area, which became known as the "Granville District," was the scene of many disputes over land grants, taxes, British support, and a great deal of lesser issues. Settlers in the back country (Piedmont) felt ...
- 3020: New England And The Chesapeake
- ... they had the full right to say in the governing of the colonies. These people believed that if they had survived the hard times with no or little help from authorities, those authorities had no rights to impose laws upon them, especially if those laws were seen as unfair. As a result of these differences two totally different types of people formed in New England and in the Chesapeake region. New ...
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