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- 2231: The Sedition Act of 1798
- ... Order of Council" and the French "Milan Decree" wreaked havoc with America's shipping and led to Jay's Treaty of 1794. Jay's Treaty was advantageous to America and helped to head off a war with Britain, but it also alienated the French. The French reacted by seizing American ships causing the threat of war to loom large in American minds. President Adams sent three commissioners to France to work out a solution and to modify the Franco-American alliance of 1778, but the Paris government asked for bribes and ... the commissioners returned to the United States with Elbridge Gerry staying behind to see if he could work something out. This became known as the XYZ affair and was the beginning of an undeclared naval war between France and the United States. The XYZ affair played right into the hands of the Federalist Party. They immediately renounced all treaties of 1788 with France and began their agenda of creating a ...
- 2232: The National Debt
- ... the national debt has increased every year from 1945 to 1995. The biggest increase of the debt was from the years 1985 to 1995 whwn it went up about three trillion dollars. Right after the Civil War the debt held at three billion dollars. In 1900, this debt of three million dollars had decreased to one million dollars. In 1919, at the end of the World War 1, the debt skyrocketed to 25.5 billion. When the Wall Street fell apart in 1929, the United States fell into something that was called the Great Depression. It started in 1930 and lasted ...
- 2233: August Tubbe
- ... spoken by the August Tubbe family in the United States and his children had no understanding of German. Page 3 Ironically, August Tubbe was charged with being an Alien-enemy as the conflicts of World War I emerged. He denied these accusations emphatically and believed the charges to be absolutely unreasonable. August tried to explain that all he had in the world was right there in Nacogdoches County, Texas. He questioned ... Government be established in Germany; and, a permanent world peace would result. August Tubbe's plea was not honored and at the age of 72 he was held in confinement until the end of World War I. Currently, April 1999, John August Tubbe and his wife Sarah who are both retired school teachers form the Goose Creek ISD, live on August Tubbe's farm in Nacogdoches, Texas. This farm has been ... to America occurred around 1848, which was within two years of the time that the Tubbe family arrived in America. The Bassett family members were farmers who originally settled in Georgia. By 1863, during the Civil War, the Bassett descendants moved from Georgia to Texas by way of covered wagon. These family members settled in Sulphur Springs, Texas in Hopkins County, where they remained for four generations. An interesting person, ...
- 2234: Henry David Thoreau
- ... He didn't see why he should have to pay the tax, he had never voted, and he knew that such a purely political tax had to be affiliated with the funding of the Mexican War and the subsistence of slavery, both of which he strongly objected to (Derleth 66). The following morning Thoreau was released because someone, probably his Aunt Maria Thoreau, had paid his back taxes (68). This imprisonment compelled Thoreau to write "Civil Disobedience," one of his most famous essays. On May 6,1862 ("Thoreau" 697), after an unavailing journey to Minnesota in 1861 in search of better health, Henry David Thoreau died of tuberculosis. Thoreau was buried ... the original 1,000 copies ("Thoreau" 697), but his doctrine of passive resistance impacted many powerful people such as Mahatma Gahndi and Martin Luther King, Jr. (The 1995 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia 1). Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience," accentuated personal ethics and responsibility. It urged the individual to follow the dictates of conscience in any conflict between itself and civil law, and to violate unjust laws to invoke their repeal. Throughout ...
- 2235: ASSATA Shakur
- ... conflict. She learned false history of the slave period in the U.S., thinking Lincoln supported the slave liberation act, when actually it was a misconception created for brainwashing. The union including Lincoln fought the Civil War only in their own interests; it was a war between two economic systems for control of the u.s. by two separate factions of the ruling class. Further, Assata was educated as a child that the slaves hadn't fought back, yet truly ...
- 2236: Daily Life of the Aztecs
- ... items. The water problem that these people would have was the suffering of floods and droughts. In Tenochtitlan every man was either a warrior or wished to be a warrior. A boy was dedicated to war at his birth. He was told that he was brought in to this world to fight. When they were ten years old, the boys had their hair cut off with a lock left on their ... they would have to quit being a warrior and tend to a piece of land. There were three classes of officials in the Aztec society. The first were governors of certain cities; their duties were civil and administrative. Another official was the calpixque; there duty was to organize the cultivation of the lands set aside for paying taxes. The last official was the judge, his job was kind of like a ... chamber where they would pray for four days. On the fourth night there would be a bed made for them. On the fifth day the couple bathed themselves and a priest came to bless them. War was common in the Aztec society. When high tensions came up between cities, any wrong move could start a war; wars started after negotiations did not resolve the tension. The dress of a warrior ...
- 2237: Martin Luther King
- ... defeat segregation and racism that existed in the United States, and it was his influence to all the Blacks to defy white supremacy and his belief in nonviolence that lead to the success of the Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia where the city suffered most of the racial discrimination in the South, and, in addition, the Ku Klux Klan had one ... role in shaping the personality of his son. M.L. Sr. helped to advocate the idea that Blacks should vote. He was involved with the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, an important Civil Rights group. These efforts to improve the way of life for Blacks could be seen by his son. In December 5, 1955 King began to be significant in the changing of the Black man's ... out the knife or if it moved in any way, he would have died because the tip of the knife was touching the aorta of his heart. King's will and courage to fight for civil rights was affected by the achievements of Gandhi's philosophy. On February 10, 1959, he toured India and admired Gandhi for his achievements in breaking down the caste system, which was a system in ...
- 2238: Analysis of Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
- ... turret with a hose. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell is a poem about a soldier dying in the ball turret of a fighter plane during what was most likely World War II. The poem tells of the fear of young soldiers being sent to war and their thoughts of dying. The poem is told from the point of view of a young fighter aboard a bomber during World War II. The fighter is positioned in the ball turret which was an enclosed bubble with a swivel gun in the belly of the plane. This poem reads like a nightmare or dream being told ...
- 2239: The United States and National Security, and Dominant Party in Balance of Power
- ... S. international relations. Hopefully, an investigation into this atomic diplomacy, along with a balanced analysis of the problems of conceptualizing and implementing containment, will provide insight for our current efforts to devise a workable post-war national security policy. There is no way to tell the story of post-war national security without also telling the story of George Kennen. Kennen, the foremost expert of Soviet Affairs in early post-war America, is almost wholly responsible for the policy of containment. What we must remember under Kennen's containment is that nuclear diplomacy is not separate from other national security measures as it is often ...
- 2240: Mark Antony
- ... he was the leader of the Roman Cavalry. He was commander and chief of the army and from 54 B.C. to 50 B.C. He fought in Gaul serving under Julius Caesar. During the War between Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar in 48 B.C., Mark Antony lead the left wing of Caesar’s army at the Battle of Pharsalus. In 47 B.C. when Caesar was visiting Africa ... will to the Senate. It said that all of Rome were to be left to Cleopatra. When the Senate heard this, they gave Octavian permission to take away all of Anotony’s power to declare war on him. Octavian challenged Antony to a sea battle. Antony accepted the challenge even though he was much better at fighting wars on land. When Cleopatra and Antony arrived in Egypt, she sent Antony a ... Caesar’s army in the defeat of Vercingetorix’s United Gallic army at Alesia 50-Elected tribune and augur Jan.49-Flees to Rome after the Senate grants Pompey dictation powers and starting the Roman Civil War 49-Antony governs Italy while Caesar fights Pompeian forces Aug.48-He serves as second-in-command in Caesar’s defeat of Pompey at Pharsalus, Greece 48-47-Governs Italy while Caesar campaigns ...
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