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- 3041: 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 ...
- 3042: The War Of 1812 And Its Effect
- ... Britain led the efforts to stop French expansion under Napoleon I. American presidents from Washington to Madison tried to keep the United States impartial during these conflicts, but both France and Britain flagrantly disregarded the rights of neutral countries (War of 1812). For the Americans, the greatest irritant was Britains practice of impressment, or the seizure of American seamen for service in the British navy. The British government claimed that ...
- 3043: JFK
- ... Roman Catholic president. Kennedys economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II. He promoted social legislation, including a federal desegregation policy in schools and universities, along with Civil Rights reform. And in formation of the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought Americans to the aid of developing nations. In the height of the Cold War period, Kennedy displayed moderation and a ...
- 3044: The Trancontinental Railroad
- ... receive free of charge a 400 foot right away through public lands, and alternating grants of 10 square mile sections of land per mile of track (Faragher 683). The two companies would also receive mineral rights on adjacent land. The total land grant from the government amounted to over forty-five million acres. The companies were authorized to build a line Westward from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California. Both sides would ...
- 3045: World War II
- ... given to women during the war and its removal with the advent of the returning men, had a definitive effect on gender relations in American society and which one of the seeds of the womens rights movements in later decades. Another hardship encountered by returning soldiers was the reactions of the children they left behind. Most of the fathers that returned from the war concerned with how they would fit into ...
- 3046: French Nuclear Testing
- ... France may cancel one out of the eight scheduled nuclear tests. Even the renowned Jacques Cousteau has publicly asked Chirac to rescind the tests. Cousteau has even resigned from the government agency Council for the Rights of Future Generations, in protest. France, along with the United States and Great Britain, has not signed a treaty completely prohibiting the detonation of any nuclear device in the South Pacific. Many of the protesting ...
- 3047: How England Instigated The Ame
- ... of cause (The American Revolution, pg.62). This was a powerful weapon against smuggling, but most importantly to the Colonists; it allowed the invasion of their privacy. This was crossing the line and violating the rights of an English man. During the Seven Years War, the British sent over ten thousand troops to America to deal with property problems at the frontier. This cost a large amount of money, and Britain ...
- 3048: Progressivism
- ... that all U.S senators be elected by the popular vote. By calling for Initiative, referendum, and recall the Progressives allowed by initiative to take part in the process of having a legislature pass a bill, to allow voters to vote on proposed laws on their ballots by way of referendum, and finally recall which allowed voters to remove an unsatisfactory politician from office by majority vote before the end of ...
- 3049: Roswell
- ... must realize that amid the vast universe there is other life, and it has visited earth. Works Cited Bimes, William and Philip Corso. The Day After Roswell. New York: Pocket Books, 1997. Brlitz, Charles and Bill Moore. The Roswell Incident. New York: Putnam Berkley, 1980. Klass, Phillip. The Real Roswell Crashed- Saucer Coverup. Chicage: Prometheus Books, 1997. Korff, Kal. The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know ...
- 3050: Morocco
- ... in 1926, but the movement for independence continued. In 1934, a group of Moroccans drew up the Plan of Reforms. It called for a reinterpretation of the Treaty of Fez that would guarantee Moroccans' political rights. France rejected the plan. Following widespread demonstrations in 1937, France arrested or exiled leaders of the independence movement. Morocco was the scene of fighting between Allied and Axis forces during World War II (1939-1945 ...
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