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- 4691: Cuban Missle Crisis
- ... by the Western Hemisphere, signed the Proclamation of Interdiction. By the end of the day, the US ships had taken up position along the quarantine line, 800 miles from Cuba. The quarantine was to take effect at 10:00 a.m., on October 24. At 10:25 a.m. the next day, EX-COMM received a message that the Soviet ships were turning back without protest. Khrushchev was not yet ready ...
- 4692: Colonies
- ... s List of Emigrants Bound for Virginia). The use of the word "Master", shows, that the southern colonies were more of a individualistic state rather than a communal state(New England). This individualism was the effect of the motivation of the southern colonies for economic opportunity. "We whose names are underwritten, being by God's providnce engaged together to make a plantation...." (Articles of Agreement). The New England settlers, again were ...
- 4693: Cold War
- ... Thus, the United States caused the conflict known as the Cold War, through its political policy and propaganda. The political relations going on in Europe during and directly after World War II had an enormous effect on laying the foundation for the Cold War. War time conferences such as Yalta and Terhran harshened the relationship between the communists and the capitalists. At the end of W.W.II American policy towards ...
- 4694: Chinese Americans
- ... away from hardship in their mother land and enter the United States to abuse the liberty and the freedom those founding fathers of United States had anticipated. Undergoing not only discriminating decisions that would eventually effect the elders future generations and lives; these Chinese immigrants literally risked their lives. However, many of the next generations do not appreciate or acknowledge the past. How can America, which was built on the labor ...
- 4695: Changes To The Bill Of Rights
- ... who tried to get their two thousand dollars back were denied by the Florida courts. RIGHT TO BE SECURE IN PERSONS, HOUSES, PAPERS AND EFFECTS AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES: A new law goes into effect in Oklahoma on January 1, 1991. All property, real and personal, is taxable, and citizens are required to list all their personal property for tax assessors, including household furniture, gold and silver plate, musical instruments ...
- 4696: Boston Tea Party
- ... this act, the colonists started the violent part of the revolution. It was the first try of the colonists, to rebel with violence against their own government. The following events were created by the snowball effect. There, all the colonists realized the first time, that they were treated wrong by the British government. It was an important step towards the independence dream, which was resting in the head of each colonist ...
- 4697: American Revolution - Causes
- ... people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying it's foundations on such principles and organizing it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.". What the declaration is really saying, is that a society who has no or little rights (such as the colonies) should be destroyed, thus separation from England. A new society would ...
- 4698: American Revolution
- ... American Revolution began when Great Britain stopped paying attention to the colonies, and absorbed into its own affairs, politely ignoring the colonies it started. Everything else that triggered the minds of these revolutionaries was the effect caused by Britains salutary neglect of the American colonies. When the early settlers came to the newly discovered continent of America, their intentions were rather simple. Beginning from the Pilgrims in Plymouth and the ...
- 4699: Amendments
- ... of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article. Section 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of ...
- 4700: African-Americans In The Civil War
- ... and placed "these men in the Union army in places which otherwise must be filled with so many white men." Lincoln also felt that seeing the blacks fighting against the Confederacy would have a psychological effect upon the South. With the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves, the North began recruiting black soldiers but, as reported by Batty and Parish, this was a slow recruitment at first. In ...
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