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- 3631: The Stamp Act
- ... passed the Stamp Act in March of 1765, a man named George Grenville sponsored it and it was the first direct tax imposed by Britain. Grenville tried to be cautious in putting the law into effect. He discussed the matter with agents of the colonists and gave them time to suggest alternatives. He also allowed to colonists to give out the stamps themselves. The act specified that a stamp must be ...
- 3632: Attempts to End Slavery
- ... Massachusetts. Gradually, other northern states had followed, providing for the abolition of slavery. However, after the cotton gin was introduced to the economy, instead of eliminating the need for slavery, it actually had the opposite effect—the south now needed slavery more than ever. In addition, before Missouri joined the union, many northerners opposed the idea of Missouri becoming a state because it would allow the expansion of slavery and also ...
- 3633: The Invention of the Airplane
- ... an airplane with this design, the two brothers fashioned a 5-foot biplane kite. By flying the kite in the breeze, the two brothers were able to show that twisting the wings had the intended effect in causing the kite to roll. The identification of an effective method of lateral control is universally recognized as being one of the most important contributions the Wrights made to aviation, and was the idea ...
- 3634: America's involvement in World War Two
- ... more than it already was. On the following day Roosevelt argued that the attack “had given us an opportunity”. Congress approved the declaration of war with only one dissenting voice. Eleanor Roosevelt noted that the effect of the Japanese attack was “to release my husband from months and pent-up tension and anxiety”. Andrew Wheatcroft says in his book The Road To War, “ It is tempting to see Pearl Harbor as ...
- 3635: Japanese Americans During WWII
- ... were taken from their homes in South America, Peru, and shipped to detention camps in America. The U.S. government called these people living in South America “alien enemies” The 1988 Redress Law does not effect these people because in order to get the apologies and payments you had to be a U.S. citizen by 1952. If you became a citizen after this, like Alicia Nishimoto you were out of ...
- 3636: Nuclear Physicists And The Development Of A Nuclear Bomb
- ... a nuclear transformation was so great that it could cause a detectable change in the mass of the nucleus. But the study of nuclei -- in those years the fastest growing area of physics -- had scant effect on Einstein. Nuclear physicists were gathering into ever-larger teams of scientists and technicians, heavily funded by governments and foundations, engaged with massive experimental devices. Such work was alien to Einstein's habit of abstract ...
- 3637: The California Gold Rush
- ... of the Gold Rush in 1860 it peaked at 380,000 people. In 1850 California was admitted to the Union become a non-slavery state. “The Gold Rush in the United States had a profound effect on the nation” (Gold Rush 3). Not only did the population of the state grow but also so did the size of the cities. No one city was effected more by the Gold Rush than ...
- 3638: What Are The Decisive Events And Arguments That Produced The American Revolution?
- ... One law closed Boston Harbor until Bostonians paid for the destroyed tea. Another law restricted the activities of the Massachusetts legislature and gave added powers to the post of governor of Massachusetts. Those powers in effect made him dictator. The third measure provide d that British officials accused of committing crimes in a colony might be taken to England for trial. The fourth act allowed the governor of Massachusetts to quarter ...
- 3639: The Beginning of the Civil War
- ... turn the territory we seized from the Mexican War into free or slave territory. President Polk suggested stretching the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific. While others stated that Popular Sovereignty should be placed in effect and that the people living in the territory should decide whether they live in a slave or free state. Still, others proclaimed that slavery should be banned completely in the land seized from Mexico. Calhoun ...
- 3640: The New Deal
- ... on politics. Other ways in which the New Deal was a revolution involve heavy social changes. Over 25 million people were unemployed at the time that Roosevelt took office. Once the New Deal was in effect unemployment went down in large amounts thanks to the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Tennessee Valley There were also many changes in political affiliations. In the Midwestern farm belt, which had been Republican for a ...
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