|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 3521 - 3530 of 6744 matching essays
- 3521: The Roaring Twenties: A Time of Great Advancement and Excitement
- ... games and dinner-dancing lounges became overcrowded. George H.(“Babe”) Ruth became better known than most statesmen, and fans bought tickets in such numbers that Babe’s hometown park, Yankee Stadium, became known as “the house that Babe built.” Dinner and dancing lounges became very popular by the mid-1920s. Friday and Saturday nights were their most popular nights. People went out to these lounges not only to enjoy a good ...
- 3522: The Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine
- ... the United States, and Henry Clay began a campaign for these colonies to become recognized as new countries. As an American he shared the view that all people should have freedom. He spoke in the House of Representatives in 1818 long before freedom was a fact in Latin America. He said: We are their great example. Of us they continually speak as brothers having similar origin…In many instances they employ ...
- 3523: The Boston Massacre
- ... apprentice had been following orders by going after the officer, because they thought he did not pay for his haircut. The solider then hit the apprentice with his musket, and carried on at the Custom House.5 The colonists who witnessed this attack began to throw snowballs at the soldier in support of the apprentice. One of the colonists threw a rock filled snowball, and hit a soldier in the eye ...
- 3524: Native Americans
- ... strung along the Rio Grande and its tributaries in eastern New Mexico. Between lie several other pueblos, including those in Acoma and Laguna. Pueblo homes had several stories and many rooms, like a city apartment house. Each family had only one room. Early ancestors of the Pueblo tribes set their buildings in caves high in canyon walls or on the ledges of cliffs and so they have been called Cliff Dwellers ...
- 3525: The Stamp Act
- ... by many Massachusetts towns. Adams argued the act was illegal because the people had not consented to paying it. Benjamin Franklin was also a key player in repealing the Stamp Act. Franklin appeared before the House of Commons to answer a series of 174 questions dealing with "taxation without representation," in which he answered clearly and well. Opposition to the Stamp Act was widespread and violent by the Americans. Many incidents ...
- 3526: A Slave's Life
- ... at the time was the introduction of lifetime servitude; even the children of a slave would be enslaved for life. Slaves were forced to perform numerous tasks, from serving as guides, trappers, craftworkers, nurses, and house servants, but were mainly used for agricultural purposes. Slaves were large in numbers were labor intensive staple crops were grown. At first mainly tobacco was grown in the upper south. Slaves also worked on large ...
- 3527: The Sixties - Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- ... its roots”. In 1965, he organized a Wall Street sit-in at the Chase Manhattan Bank rallying against loans being made to South Africa. He demonstrated with a vast majority of protesters at the White House in Washington, DC protesting against the war of Vietnam. He went door to door recruiting and organizing Appalachian white immigrants from Chicago to join an interracial movement of the poor to support his theory. Todd ...
- 3528: The Trail of Tears
- ... All Cherokees where invited to present claims to be forwarded to the U.S. authorities for settlement before they left. Cherokees billed the government for things raging from mansions fully furnished to farm animals and house wares. The government would hope to make this money back by the sale of this abandoned land. The government would consider this a self-supervised removal. These plans and actions enraged Ross’ arch foe, Andrew ...
- 3529: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
- ... membership. By the mid-1970s the Klan had gained somewhat in respectability; later that decade a resurgence of Klan violence occurred. A former grand wizard of the Klan, David Duke, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989.
- 3530: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... tormentors as two…women -- Sarah Osborne, Sarah Goode. They also pointed to (Rev Parris's slave), Tituba (Breslaw 103). On March 1, 1692, magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin conducted an examination at the Meeting House. Sarah Good and Sarah Osburn were separately examined and as they answered the questions put to them, the "afflicted" girls went into horrific fits. “To all present, the girls were obviously victims of these women ...
Search results 3521 - 3530 of 6744 matching essays
|
