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- 4711: A Gold Rush Leads To War
- ... for ten days, whereafter the bill became invalid. This angered the "Radical Republicans" who wished to take revenge on the south for their atrocities, but allowed for the light Reconstruction policy which would eventually take effect at war's end. Meanwhile, Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman were making a name for themselves fighting the rebels. With the Confederacy split along the Mississippi River, Grant commanded Sherman to ...
- 4712: The Vietnam War
- ... on January 30, 1968 a Vietcong uprising, now commonly known as the Tet Offensive, took place. Tet is the Vietnamese new year and is commonly accepted as a cease-fire. With a cease-fire in effect, most major cities' defensives were less tight. As if all at once, more than one hundred South Vietnamese cities were being shelled with Vietcong gunfire. Included in the cities were Saigon, capital of South Vietnam ...
- 4713: Vietnam: The War We Should Hav
- ... of the defoliating gas, Agent Orange. Hundreds of millions of acres of jungle were destroyed and even more fields and rice paddies were poisoned because of Agent Orange. South Vietnamese farmers complained about the detrimental effect Agent Orange had on their rice paddies, and its use flooded camps and cities with refugees from outlying areas where entire crops were destroyed. Agent Orange was supposed to eliminate the VC's advantageous hiding ...
- 4714: Cruel Treatment From The Briti
- ... pass the declaration. Knowing that nothing would get done if it was not passed, John Adams gave up the war to allow for that to clause remain in the declaration. The declaration was officiall in effect on July 4, 1776.
- 4715: Events Leading To The American
- ... 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 ...
- 4716: 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 ...
- 4717: Was Colonial Culture Uniquely
- ... varied people, conditions, and customs. The culture and views of the people were broad, stemming from large cultural groups. The conditions were also highly diverse, ranging from tropical climates, to snowy mountainous forests. The combined effect of all these variables, in both environment and people, contributed to the making of not one unique cultural group, but a variety of them. BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 4718: Essay On 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 ...
- 4719: List Of 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 ...
- 4720: Abraham Lincoln
- ... battlefield setbacks, generals who weren't ready to fight, assassination threats, etc., Lincoln stuck with this pro-Union policy for 4 long years of Civil War. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. This was Lincoln's declaration of freedom for all slaves in the areas of the Confederacy not under Union control. Also, on November 19, 1863, Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address which dedicated the battlefield ...
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