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- 4601: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
- ... make such further investigation, as the Commission finds desirable. In less than one week they found that a 'lone nut' killed JKF. At no time did the Warren Commission seem to consider the basic legal rights of Oswald - innocence until proven guilty, the right to legal representation, or the right to cross-examine witnesses and evidence against him. There is no way that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. Firstly ...
- 4602: United States and Imperialism
- ... in the 1880's through the 1890's. The United States managed a reciprocity treaty (admitting Hawaiian sugar duty-free to the U.S.) out of its diplomatic relations with Hawaii, and later gained exclusive rights to build a naval base at Pearl Harbor. The United State's reasons for establishing itself in Hawaii were the economic opportunity found in sugar planting in Hawaiian soil, and the global recognition it would ...
- 4603: Boston Massacre
- ... would order troops down to Castle William.7 Samuel Adams was the strongest antagonist Thomas Hutchinson had to face. He was a complete democrat with great democratic will. He was a great watchdog of the rights and privileges granted to the colonies. Samuel Adams observed that the removal of the troops was in the slowest order, taking eleven days, when it had taken only forty-eight hours to land them. Adams ...
- 4604: Reconstuction
- ... it was, but was it a good one? The answer to that question is no. A large cause for the civil war was to free the African-American slaves, to allow them to have equal rights to the white race. But after the war was over, and the slaves were supposedly free, did they still not remain caged? Where could they turn? The newly freed slaves had no money, no land ...
- 4605: Causes of Civil War
- ... were only seen as breeders and there were no laws against the rape of a female slave. In 1860 slaves accounted for one third of the South's population and even still they had no rights. The Unionist North many people believed it was immoral to own another human being. These people were called Abolitionists. The South relied strongly on the slave trade and when the North spoke of abolishing it ...
- 4606: The Jim Crow Laws
- ... else is that compared to most negroes, you have better training. As you can see, Jim Crow Laws had a great effect on the African Americans in the south. These laws brought about the Civil Rights Movement, and were a very important part of both American and African American history.
- 4607: 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 ...
- 4608: Ground War In The Persian Gulf
- ... that 100,000 Iraqi soldiers died, 300,000 were wounded, 150,000 deserted, and 60,000 were taken prisoner. The DIA said the estimate could be off by as much as 50 percent. Many human rights groups claimed markedly different numbers.
- 4609: Native American Genocide
- ... Iroquois, apparently had considerable effect on concepts later incorporated into the U.S. Articles of Confederation and the Constitution (of 1787). The systems of checks and balances, popular participation in decision making, direct representation, states' rights, and bicameral legislatures were all part of the Iroquois Confederacy, dating back to the 1400s. The Native Americans were ousted through a series of clever tricks and roux that seeming had an unseen outcome that ...
- 4610: The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
- ... of abominations and threatened to succeed if it was not removed. Vice President Calhoun offered nullification as an alternative to succession and the delegates of South Carolina agreed. Jackson was furious, and passed the Force Bill, which gave the president the right to use the military to enforce acts of Congress. He believed that the nullifiers were committing treason, and accused them of daring to put their own interests before the ...
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