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- 3661: The Cause of the War Between Britain and America
- ... of the War Between Britain and America The cause of war between Britain and America was over many reasons. America had no representation in the British Parliament. Britain still proceeded to pass laws that would effect the Americans. Americans would not stand for Britain' laws for long. Americans took their first stand against Britain when they rebelled against the Stamp act. In order to keep the colonist from becoming out of ...
- 3662: The Battle of Antietam
- ... day after the battle, he did not achieve his larger goal of seriously hurting the Federal Army, and the Maryland Campaign did little to advance the cause of Southern Independence after all. Another short- term effect of the battle was the final end to President Lincolns patience with his top General. Because McClellan could not seem to pursue the Army of Northern Virginia for some six weeks after the battle ...
- 3663: The Ku Klux Klan
- ... Klan differed from the old version in many ways. The old Klan wanted to set things back to the old ways. They wanted their freedom back and wanted nothing more. Being prejudice was only an effect. In the eyes of the modern KKK, prejudice was the cause. The new Klan was far more violent. People were tarred and feathered, lynched, and beaten for little reason more than being a certain race ...
- 3664: The Manhattan Project
- ... forming a supercritical, explosive mass. Estimating the explosive power required knowledge of many other nuclear properties, including the cross-section (a measure of the probability of an encounter between particles that result in a specified effect) for nuclear processes of neutrons in uranium and other elements. Fast neutrons could only be produced in particle accelerators, which were still uncommon in 1942. The measurements of the interactions of fast neutrons with the ...
- 3665: The Flying Men
- The Flying Men Who knows when a human first dreamed of flying like a bird . It is important to recognize flying, its effect on people and their communication has changed because of flight. I believe that the invention of airplanes just enhanced the way people communicate and how they relate. Literature as a form of communication, was one ...
- 3666: The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time for the US
- ... back in command to stop this invasion. They fought a bloody battle at Antietam Creek. The invasion was stopped, but the battle could only be counted as a draw. Thie results did have a good effect for the North. If Lee would have won then Great Britain and France might have given the confederates support. The result also gave Lincoln the chance to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. He felt this was ...
- 3667: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- ... case of the Twentieth Century, Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). The federal district court was sympathetic to the Negro cause and agreed that segregation in public schools had a negative effect on Negro children, but the court felt binded by the descion in Plessy v. Ferguson, and refused to declare segregation unconstitutional. Mr. Brown then took the case directly to the Supreme Court of the United ...
- 3668: New Jersey During the Revolution
- ... or supply loyalist units from one. Ships were built along the ocean and Delaware rivers for use against the British. The fighting force of the United States fleet, and State ships was small, but the effect of the commerce raiding on British merchantmen was an important factor in winning the war. Many sea battles were fought in NJ Ocean waters. Through the war, with New York City held by the British ...
- 3669: The Women's Rights Movement (1848-1998)
- ... needed to take to remain healthy. Title IX In 1972 the inclusion of Title IX (nine) in the Education Codes, equal access to higher education and to professional schools became the law. The long-range effect of one straight forward legal passage beginning, Equal access to education programs..., has been phenomenal. The number of women doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects, and other professions has doubled and doubled again as quotas actually limiting ...
- 3670: The Turbulent Sixties
- ... cultural activists began formulating ideas about a peaceful station for communal living called the Youth Nation (Anderson 279). What many of these activists failed to realize is that with Woodstock, the 1960's had in effect ended. What followed were strings of commercial takeovers of bands and exploitations of the now popular counterculture. More significantly, the fact that Charles Manson was portrayed as a "freakish hippie", led to the downfall of ...
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