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- 141: When the Government Stood Up For Civil Rights
- When the Government Stood Up For Civil Rights "All my life I've been sick and tired, and now I'm just sick and tired of being sick and tired. No one can honestly say Negroes are satisfied. We've only been patient, but how much more patience can we have?" Mrs. Hamer said these words in 1964, a month and a day before the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. She speaks for the mood of a race, a race that for centuries has built the nation of America, literally, with ... no more. Mrs. Hamer speaks for the African Americans who stood up in the 1950's and refused to sit down. They were the people who led the greatest movement in modern American history - the civil rights movement. It was a movement that would be more than a fragment of history, it was a movement that would become a measure of our lives (Shipler 12). When Martin Luther King Jr. ...
- 142: ... and "Dreamers", the In Poems "The Man He Killed", "Reconciliation", and "Dreamers", the That Man Kills Because He Must In the chosen poems, Thomas Hardy, Walt Whitman, and Sigfried Sassoon each have a common viewpoint: war brings out the worst in man, a feeling buried deep inside the heart. Even with this clotting of the mind due to the twisting ways of war, a flicker of remorse, a dream of someplace, something else still exists within the rational thought. These poems express hope, the hope that war will not be necessary. They show that man only kills because he must, not because of some inbred passion for death. These three authors express this viewpoint in their own ways in their poems: " ...
- 143: The Red Badge Of Courage --
- The Red Badge of Courage Time Period The Civil War officially started in 1861, yet problems between the North and the South date back as far as the early 1830s. The North was infuriated over slavery after a woman by the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe published her book Uncle Tom s Cabin. Stowe s book analyzed the life of a slave in an astonishing and realistic way. It caused many people to join the Union. Then the war began in July of 1861 when a Confederate army met with a Federal army at Manassen, Virginia. Many battles were fought until finally the north was victorious. Slavery was abolished, and the federal government ...
- 144: Confederate States Of America
- ... these words to a former slave that kneeled before him while walking the streets of the abandoned Confederate capitol of Richmond in 1865. Although there are several different questions of why the North won the Civil War, factors involving manpower, economy, military tactics and leadership, and presidential leadership, are all parts of a puzzle historians have tried to put together for years. I believe that these four factors should prove to be ... of America. The presidential leadership of Lincoln will be revealed as the major influence over the other three factors. According to Robert Krick, an interviewee of Carl Zebrowski's article "Why the South Lost the Civil War," "the basic problem was numbers. Give Abraham Lincoln seven million men and give Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee twenty-one million, cognitive dissonance doesn't matter, European recognition doesn't matter, the ...
- 145: Eisenhower 2
- ... half of 1951. Despite Eisenhower's often-repeated declaration against holding political office, American business leaders and politicians continued to urge him to run for the White House. They told him that the "stalemated" Korean War, and scandals in Washington divided the nation and took away from it's prestige. Eisenhower admirers work laboriously to persuade the general that he was what the American people wanted and needed for the country ... leadership, and his assessment of the needs of the nation. Eisenhower took a view towards dealing with congress that many of his predecessors didn't. Many of the presidents before Eisenhower seemed to be "at war" with congress, but Eisenhower decided that nothing would get done without cooperation on both sides. Because he enjoyed only slight Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, Eisenhower worked assiduously to win the support of ... in 1953 struck Eisenhower hard. His successor as majority leader, William F. Knowland of California, was well-meaning, but "cumbersome," in Eisenhower's opinion, and unable to command great respect in the senate. Waging Cold War "Our country has come through a painful period of trial and disillusionment since the victory of 1945," President Eisenhower told the American people on February 2 1953 in his first state of the union ...
- 146: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... Army to second lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, stationed near St. Louis. There he met Julia Dent, the sister of a classmate. They fell in love and soon became engaged, but the threat of war with Mexico delayed their wedding until 1848. In 1845, Grant's regiment went to Texas, in an area claimed by both Mexico and the United States when the Mexican War began in 1846. (Scaturro 2) In 1847, Grant took part in the capture of Mexico City. By the end of the war he was promoted to first lieutenant for his skill and bravery. Grant's experiences in the Mexican War taught him lessons that will later help him during the Civil War. Grant was almost 39 ...
- 147: The Inverted Pyramid And The E
- By: Joe Cerniglia Newswriting, as it exists today, began with the adoption of the telegraph, which roughly coincided with the start of the American Civil War. The necessity of getting at story through before the telegraphs occasional malfunction forced a radical change in the style of writing used in reporting. Before the telegraph, much of writing news was just that ... a concise manner, was born. The inverted pyramid system, born of necessity, was absorbed into newswriting over the proceeding century, and exists today as the standard style for reporting news. At the beginning of the civil war, the protracted narrative style still predominated the newswriting of the period. For the most part, stories were verbose almost to the point of obsequy and read more like an intellectual discourse on the ...
- 148: The War in Vietnam
- The War in Vietnam The Vietnam War, the nation's longest, cost fifty-eight thousand American lives. Only the Civil War and the two world wars were deadlier for Americans. During the decade of direct U.S. military participation in Vietnam beginning in 1964, the U.S Treasury spent over $140 billion on the ...
- 149: Causes Of The Civil War 2
- ... were within its border. The Currency Act increased the load of taxes on the colonists. This act directed colonists to pay the whole domestic debt which they had created in waging the French and Indian War. The Stamp Act was not accepted throughout the colonial assemblies. The colonists refused to buy additional goods while the act remained in force. It was repealed in 1766 because, as English subjects, the colonists could ... ports. Meanwhile in Boston, a group of citizens disguised as Indians tossed 15,000 pounds worth of tea into the harbor. This event, known as the Boston Tea Party, was significant in the pre-Revolutionary War crisis because it was the first act of resistance that ended in the destruction of a large amount of private property. This act of rebellion infuriated England. Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party with ... Intolerable Acts. The acts closed the port of Boston to all shipping until all the destroyed tea was paid for. They declared British soldiers and officials immune from court trials for acts committed while suppressing civil disturbances (164 Text). Parliament modified the Massachusetts charter, by taking away the lower house s privilege of electing the upper legislative chamber. Instead, the governor appointed the members to the chamber. The fourth measure ...
- 150: Civil War - Gettysburg
- ... sufficiently from his wounds had resumed command of the army but had been summoned to Richmond by President Davis following overtures from ( Vice ) President Johnson to discuss common grounds for a peaceful settlement to the War. Lincoln left the Capital for Canada, reluctantly, following pressure from Cabinet to avoid possible capture by the advancing Confederates who seemed unstoppable as the Union forces in and around Washington disintegrated into a disorderly rabble ... Washington post-haste. Thousands of southern troops lined the streets as Lieutenant- General Thomas ""Stonewall Jackson proceeded down Pennsylvania Avenue to set up headquarters in the White House. By the 15th of July 1865 the Civil War was effectively over. The South was, to all intent and purpose, now an independent country free to make its own way in the brotherhood of nations. The saving factor of the above story is ...
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