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- 791: Jefferson Davis: Leader of the Confederacy
- ... would claim the lives of 360,000 Union members and 260,000 Confederate members and the total over 20 billion dollars. The Civil War was the greatest struggle in the United States for people's rights and state's rights. Jefferson Davis was elected president of the confederates, and was the one responsible to preserve the constitutional liberties of his people. Davis was born on June 3, 1808 in Christian county Kentucky. He was born ... new states free of slavery, or free to slavery. Both sides were v ery willing to say what they thought was right. The North said that the slaves should be free the fought for the rights of all people and claimed that we are all created equals. On the other hand the Southerners argued that it was unconstitutional and that they had the right to take their property where ever ...
- 792: Lyndon B. Johnson
- ... Washington as majority leader, a post he held for the next 6 years despite a serious heart attack in 1955. The Texan proved to be a shrewd, skillful Senate leader. A consistent opponent of civil rights legislation until 1957, he developed excellent personal relationships with powerful conservative Southerners. A hard worker, he impressed colleagues with his attention to the details of legislation and his willingness to compromise. In the late 1950s ... tool of wealthy Southwestern gas and oil interests. Either to soften this image as a conservative or in response to inner conviction, Johnson moved slightly to the left on some domestic issues, especially on civil rights laws, which he supported in 1957 and 1960. Although these laws proved ineffective, Johnson had demonstrated that he was a very resourceful Senate leader. To many northern Democrats, however, Johnson remained a sectional candidate. The ... Congress passed a tax-reduction law that promised to promote economic growth and the Economic Opportunity Act, which launched the program called the War on Poverty. Johnson was especially skillful in securing a strong Civil Rights Act in 1964. In the years to come it proved to be a vital source of legal authority against racial and sexual discrimination. In 1964 the Republicans nominated Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona ...
- 793: The Issue of Slavery in the Westward Expansion
- ... this statement. Westward expansion intensified the slavery extension issue like nothing else could have. It all began simply enough in 1787 when the Ordinance of 1787, better known as the Northwest Ordinance, was passed. The bill structured a government for the west by setting up a governor, secretary and three judges to establish and maintain order. The bill also stated that when a territory reached 60 thousand people it could apply for statehood. At the end of the bill there was a small phrase that stated slavery would be prohibited in all of the territories and future states governed by the bill. This didn't cause many problems because many people subscribed to ...
- 794: Political Morality In Colonial Times
- ... and putting more demands on. In return, the colonists declared their freedom from their tyrant. In this document, it states, "All men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The great men who wrote this down had a strong sense of morals. They believed that men were given rights by God that no one could take away. This is essential to the issue of morality because it determines the rights-that are agreed upon all- are wrong. This brings us to religion. Religion is a major contributor to how we think and act because it mirrors our beliefs in what we hold as right ...
- 795: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... After the War, President Andrew Johnson faced the difficult task of actually reuniting the nation. A conflict developed between President Johnson and a group of Republicans in Congress who wanted strict protection of the civil rights of blacks. However, Johnson was more concerned with the constitutional rights of states than with the rights of former slaves. Grant opposed Johnson's policies and decided to give his full support to the Republicans. The Republicans needed a popular hero for their presidential candidate in 1868, and Grant's victories ...
- 796: Political Morality In Colonial
- ... and putting more demands on. In return, the colonists declared their freedom from their tyrant. In this document, it states, "All men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The great men who wrote this down had a strong sense of morals. They believed that men were given rights by God that no one could take away. This is essential to the issue of morality because it determines the rights-that are agreed upon all- are wrong. This brings us to religion. Religion is a major contributor to how we think and act because it mirrors our beliefs in what we hold as right ...
- 797: Rosa Lee Parks
- ... Lee Parks Rosa Lee Parks was an African American woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Rosa Parks refusal helped bring about the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Lee McCauley was the daughter of James and Leona (Edwards) McCauley. She was born in Tuskegee,Alabama on February 4, 1913. Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress. Rosa Parks ... the city rather than taking the bus. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. , appointed spokesperson for the boycott talked about the importance of nonviolence by all participants. Thousands of courageous people joined togethe to demand equal rights for all. The boycott ended on December 21, 1956 after the U.S Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional Rosa Lee Parks an African American civil rights activist was best known for her role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. After her husband died she left Alabama and went to Detroit in 1957. From 1967 to 1988 ...
- 798: Abortion
- ... pre-born child is given the status of a "product of pregnancy" and never seen as the miracle only a women can create. Compassion for the small one is drowned out under a demand for "rights", but what about the rights for the unborn. "A women has a right to her own body" is an idea more and more women are realizing, but that idea ignores the unborn child's right to his or her body ... has the state granted to one citizen the right to have another killed in order to solve their personal, social, or economic problems. the embryo is its own being that should have it's own rights to protect it. The zygote is a unique genetic being (Zindler 27). If one was to abort an embryo than that embryo, that human life would never be duplicated. A scientist that may have ...
- 799: W.E.B Du Bois
- ... be a Negro in the beginning of the twentieth century in his book The Souls of Black Folk. W.E.B. Du Bois, was a black editor, historian, sociologist, and a leader of the civil rights movement in the United States. He helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was its spokesman in the first decades of its existence. William Edward Bughardt Du Bois was ... concerts given by Fisk's Jubilee Singers, giving him faith about blacks, and how they will have a better life to come. However, after visiting back home he saw that Tennessee deprived Negroes of citizenship rights, and that Negroes were the blunt of jokes. W.E.B. realized the discrimination and knew something had to happen to improve the lives of Negroes. "I am a Negro, and I glory in the ... in London, he later created the Pan- African Conferences in the United States and in Europe. For this extraordinary accomplishment, he received the Springarn Medal in 1920. Booker T. Washington felt that Negroes should gain rights slowly, however Du Bois wanted immediate rights for the Negro. The split between Washington and Du Bois reflected a bitter division of opinion among these two prominent black leaders. In 1905, at Niagara Falls, ...
- 800: Hostile Takeover Of The New Wo
- ... the states east of the Mississippi, have, one by one, been exterminated in their abortive attempts to stem the western march of civilization
If any tribe remonstrated against the violation of their natural and treaty rights, members of the tribe were inhumanly shot down and the whole treated as mere dogs
It is presumed that humanity dictated the original policy of the removal and concentration of the Indians in the West ... of Energy Resource Tribes to balance the use of natural resources, mining, oil and gas exploration scars thousands of acres of Indian lands. (Lewis, 2) Sportsmen and state governments largely debate Indian hunting and fishing rights. Off-reservation hunting and fishing is already limited. These regulations hit Native fishermen in the Northwest particularly hard .In the 1960s; Indian activists staged fish-ins to publicize the situation. Eventually the case was taken to court. In United States v. The State of Washington (1974), Judge George Bolt reaffirmed the rights of Northwest tribes to harvest fish under the provisions of the 1854 Treaty of medicine Creek without interference by the State of Washington. The Boldt Decision restored a measure of Indian control over their ...
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