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- 4631: 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 ...
- 4632: The Watergate Complex
- ... Millions of people watched the committee vote on television. There were twenty-seven votes for the impeachment and only eleven against it. He was accused of misuse of his authority and also violating the constitutional rights of citizens by ordering the FBI and Secret Services to spy on American citizens. The last thing he was charged with was refusing to obey congress's subpoenas. Nixon had broken his oath to up ...
- 4633: Rock Music
- ... n' Roll. Record companies distributed records played by whites but composed by blacks. Whites were frustrated because there weren't any white artists and they didn't want the blacks to be the stars until Bill Haley appeared with his "Rock Around the Clock". In this decade, Elvis Presley introduced a music that was sexual suggestive and outraged dull adults. In time he changed the style of the music by adopting ...
- 4634: Watergate Scandal
- ... 8-0 that Nixon must turn over the tapes. On July 29-30, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment, charging Nixon with misusing his power in order to violate the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens, obstructing justice in the Watergate affair, and defying Judiciary Committee subpoenas. Soon after the Watergate scandal came to light, investigators uncovered a related group of illegal activities: Since 1971, a White ...
- 4635: The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery
- ... should be admitted to the Union, won elective office in the North also worried Southerners. The issue of slavery expansion erupted again in 1854, when Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois pushed through Congress a bill establishing two new territories -Kansas and Nebraska -and applying to both the principle of popular sovereignty. The Kansas-Nebraska Act, by voiding the Missouri Compromise, produced a wave of protest in the North, including the ...
- 4636: Reasons for the American Revolution
- ... things from because the British had the right to search all ships without warrants. How could a loyal hard-working American colonists pledge their allegiance to a country where the sovereign does not recognize their rights, their presence in Parliament, and their importance to Great Britain's survival.
- 4637: The Watergate Affair
- ... or tried for any crimes, Richard Nixon still remains one of the most notorious Presidents of our time not because of the good he did like withdrawal from Vet Am and passing of the Equal Rights Amendment, but for the negative connotation still adherent to his profile as a leader. That connotation is one of dishonesty and trickery. As long as the memory of Richard Nixon lives, so too, will his ...
- 4638: The Declaration of Individualism and The Encouragement of Protest from Birmingham Jail
- ... Junior. Martin Luther King Junior's letter from Birmingham Jail was an expression of his encouragement for protest against tradition and established laws and a justification for his actions. King, a leader of a civil-rights group that supported protest against traditional views, encouraged protesting against tradition and established laws that are unjust. In his letter from Birmingham Jail King states: "It was illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in ...
- 4639: The Grange
- ... power to influence and change politics. Alone these unimportant, unpowerful, poor people could do nothing, however when they came together elected leaders, their sheer numbers made people listen and shaped laws protecting their lives and rights as citizens of these
- 4640: The Early Nineteenth Centory
- ... had a small military, it did not want to be involved in the French-British War. America tried to stay neutral while trading with Europe, but France and Great Britain kept on violating their neutrality rights. The United States kept on trying to trade, but both sides put blockades on each others ports. This meant that the other countries took their ships. The British, however, not only took their ships, but ...
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