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- 2061: Canada's Immigration From 1852-1990
- ... government was promoting it's self every where with it's fur and grains to encourage new comers and settlers that moved to the U.S. back to Canada. With the out break of World War I tension was high. This was the lowest amount of people in years (although the amount of Americans was increasing with year of the war). Once desired immigrants were now "enemy aliens". Also people from Germany, Hungry, Poland, Romania, and many others become the objects of hostility. After the war there was a huge boom in immigrants because of Canada's growing economy. But after all booms there is always the come down by 1930 Canada was in a bad depression people were also ...
- 2062: The Indians and Losing Their Homes
- ... leave, they were giving them more land and more privacy than what they originally had. It was like what happened to African slaves that were shipped to the United States in the mid 1800’s, civil war time. They had the choice to go back to Africa after they were given the right to be free, but they chose not to. The United States was their home now, and they did not ... mother and father, but does not feel comfortable there, being scolded by his father more often than not. In his sister’s home he feels more free and secure, sitting at the piano and singing war tunes. Here is an example of one’s own house not being his real home. For Brother Vaughn, he couldn’t feel anything but apprehension in his father’s house, so he escaped from ...
- 2063: La Amistad
- ... Hartford Connecticut with Judge Thompson presiding. Thompson denied the writ of habeus corpus, which was motioned for, keeping the Africans in custody in New Haven jail. Later, Tappan had several of the Africans bring up civil suits against Montes and Ruiz, the people who bought the Africans as slaves and were left alive on the Amistad, for wrongful imprisonment and battery. This is one of the things that the movie mis-portrays. In Amistad, Montes and Ruiz were arrested and imprisoned by the judge who replaced the first judge who was dismissed. Both of these statements are untrue. Within a week after the civil suits were filed, Judge Inglis had released Montes and lowered Ruiz’s bail. Eventually, they both fled to Cuba. Also, there was never a dismissal of a judge, only appeals. The case started in the ... that the secretary of state handpicked the judge for this case in the hope that the Africans would be sent back to Cuba. This was done to help the president not be responsible for a civil war. The secretary was so sure that this would be a victory that he ordered the navy to have a ship ready in New Haven to transport the slaves to Cuba. This seems like ...
- 2064: Popes
- ... VII. Overall, Leo distributed five cardinalships among his cousins and nephews. Problems broke out when Leo decided to obtain the duchy of Urbino for his nephew Lorenzo. He poured thousands of ducats into an empty war on Urbino, leaving the Papacy in financial wreck. The Papacy was too entrenched in its own lack of morality to provide any sort of spiritual guide for the commoners. The biggest crime of the Renaissance ... most to Luther's success. Luther was an eloquent, charismatic man who appealed to the many classes. Secular officials resented the privileges the church claimed. Monks and nuns paid no taxes and were exempt from civil duties. The monasteries where they lived often occupied large amounts of land. Protestantism gave civil officials the right to claim the Church's land and place clergy under civil law. Intelligent and educated people were dissatisfied with the quality and irregularity of church sermons. As a result, many prosperous ...
- 2065: Effects of the Great Depression on Canada
- ... United Church (1929-1933) had a message which said, "Religion works: it provides the key to success, peace of mind and a worthwhile life" 12 There was an overproduction of wheat and industrial goods. The war had created changes in the structure in the economy as well as damage in the international trade. Wages were always falling behind. Economic theories of John Maynard Keynes were helpful and suggested that if private ... employment, the state must initiate public investment through deficit spending to create jobs. Keynesian economics became part of the government policy, and it was due to the large sum of state expenditures necessary for the war which helped to reduce unemployment. "Prairie wheat economy $1.60 a bushel price in 1929 - .38 in 2 and a half years" 13 The hardest hit area was Saskatchewan "Per capita income fell from $478 ... would pay only one third of the cost of direct relief in any town or city and contribute nothing to cost of administration. 24 On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler gave orders to start World War Two. On September 10, 1939, Canada declared war and so everyone was at work for the next 6 years. Great Depression ended with World War two, "courtesy of Adolf Hitler" 25 Among all the ...
- 2066: Gideon vs Wainwright
- ... most important implication set fort in this trial is the further proof of the legitimacy of the dominance of the federal government over the states. The power of the Federal government has grown since the Civil War, in which legitimacy of the federal government was firmly established. The southern states felt that the true power was invested in the state, and that their secession was justified. After the defeat of these secessionist ... ensure that the rights of the citizens set forth by the constitution are not infringed by the state. Works Cited Goodman, Elaine and Walter. The Rights of the People. Toronto: Doubleday, 1971. Asch, Sindey H. Civil Rights and Responsibilites under the Constitution. New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1968. Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963). Wilson, James, and John J. DiIulio, Jr. American Government, institutions and Policies. Lexington, Massachusetts: ...
- 2067: Robert Capa
- Robert Capa Robert Capa was born in Budapest, hungary in 1913. Robert Capa is most known for his photographs in war. Known for obtaining photos taken during a war that shows what it is like to be in a war. Showing things like the hardships that soldiers have to endure and the suffering of people whose homes and cities were destroyed as a result of war. His photos are divided into three categories: images ...
- 2068: England's Territorial Expansion
- ... of its global dominance. Each land charter that was granted in the New World was, in a sense, a ticket for rebellion. The urge for separation began to grow among the settlers long before the War of Independence. And when England took notice of these feelings, it imposed restrictions on the colonies that only fanned the flames of the revolution. After the victorious French and Indian War, England had accumulated an extremely large debt. Since the war was fought for the benefit and protection of the colonies, England expected them to pay for at least a third of the debt. So in 1774, they imposed two laws on taxation called the ...
- 2069: The Doctrine of Fascism
- ... of Fascism, but our image is usually of a brutal soldier wearing a uniform emblazoned with a swastika. Most people in the U.S. are aware that the U.S. and its allies fought a war against the Nazis, but there is much more to know if one is to learn the important lessons of our recent history. Adolph Hitler's Nazis were certainly the most prolific of the Fascist states. The seeds of Fascism, however, were planted in Italy. "Fascism is reaction," said Benito Mussolini, author of The Doctrine of Fascism, but reaction to what? Mussolini forged Fascism in post-World War I in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. That anger frequently found its outlet in an ideology that asserted ...
- 2070: Racism
- ... groups, in the U.S. as well as around the world. At this moment in our nation´s history, it is critical that we start remedying the effects of discrimination. We find that many successful civil rights remedies, voting right laws, which have begun to take part in the Congress and state legislatures, have come under attack from conservative polititians. Affirmative action, for example, wich has created an increasingly diverse workforce ... long as our society is ridden with race-based problems, we will need race-based remedies. And while we have come a long way, we still have a long way to go. In 1963 the civil rights reformation was speed up by Martin Luther King Jr. As the speech, of "I have a dream" was performed in washington, on August 28. By this time discrimination, social issues, and violence, such as ... created in benefit of the blacks, and for the protection of their rights. Among these we find, the NAACP. The NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is the oldest, largest and strongest Civil Rights Organization of the United States. The principle objective of the NAACP, is "to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of the United States." The NAACP, was founded ...
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