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- 881: Causes of the Great Depression
- ... 1926, which reduced federal income and inheritance taxes dramatically (end note 11). Andrew Mellon, Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury, was the main force behind these and other tax cuts throughout the 1920's. In effect, he was able to lower federal taxes such that a man with a million-dollar annual income had his federal taxes reduced from $600,000 to $200,000(end note 12). Even the Supreme Court ... and early 1930's. Starting with the Fordney-McCumber Act of 1922 and ending with the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930, the United States increased many tariffs by 100% or more(end note 34). The effect of these tariffs was that Europeans were unable to sell their own goods in the United States in reasonable quantities. In the 1920's the United States was trying "to be the world's banker ...
- 882: The American Revolution
- ... not violently, enforced. The colonists succeeded, they overthrew the stamp collecting forces in the colonies, and eventually the British had no choice but to repeal the tax. The stamp tax had a greater long term effect than just a victory for the colonists, it marked one of the first times the colonists really united in a common cause. After the stamp tax was repealed, it gave the colonists renewed faith, that ... both in political meetings and in the streets, encompassing all those from the aristocracy to the unemployed, to fight against what they believed to be wrong. Although the Stamp Act Congress had a relatively small effect in both the colonies and England, Its ripples, however, began to erode sectional suspicions, for it brought together around the same table leaders from the different and rival colonies. (Cohen 127). Colonists were coming together ...
- 883: World War I and Bringing People Together
- ... between the classes, harmony, and tolerance, launching the nation into a decade of peace, equality, and greater justice for all" Critically evaluate the statement, explaining why you agree or disagree. In your essay, discuss the effect of the War on racial relations, the treatment of immigrants, and First amendment freedoms. Explain the legacy of the war from 1919 to 1929. Explain the culture wars of the 1920s. George Creels statement was ... weapons that were used in the war. Women supported America, they were nurses working long hours, they proved that their service was invaluable. Although, women later received the right to vote. That really didn't effect any outcomes, most women voted the way their husbands voted. Women at that time, held no position of authority, they held no position of office, like a senator, or congressman. Women were not in charge ...
- 884: About Gettysburg
- ... all my fault." Gettysburg, a military and logistical disaster for the South, cost Lee 20,000 men (killed and wounded) and 30,000 arms. Meade lost almost as many men. The battle had considerable psychological effect on both North and South, calling forth President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Occurring in the same week that Vicksburg fell to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Gettysburg put the Confederates on the defensive in the east ... middle. This allowed Union forces to the north and south pull out from their fences and into the field which allowed the to attack the Confederate soldiers from either side. This also caused a deadly effect. One group of about 300 Confederate finally reached the stone wall they climbed over and engaged in hand-to-hand fighting with the Union troops. General Hancock saw this break in the defense and sent ...
- 885: American Prohibition in the 1920s
- ... its purpose was to solve, this was Prohibition. On Midnight of January 16, 1920, one of the personal habits and customs of most Americans suddenly came to a halt. The Eighteenth Amendment was put into effect and all importing, exporting, transporting, selling, and manufacturing of intoxicating liquor was put to an end. Shortly following the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment, the National Prohibition Act, or the Volstead Act, as it was called because of its author, Andrew J. Volstead, was put into effect. This determined intoxicating liquor as anything having an alcoholic content of anything more than 0.5 percent, omitting alcohol used for medicinal and sacramental purposes. This act also set up guidelines for enforcement (Bowen, 154 ...
- 886: Edgar Allan Poe 2
- ... it a second edition though and it was entitled "Poems by Edgar A. Poe" in which his famous poems "To Helen" (another version was published in 1848) and "Israfel" appeared. These show of the musical effect that has come to characterize Edgar's poems. Later Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his aunt, Maria Clemm, and his first cousin Virginia. In 1832 he won a $50 prize for his story ... York and Philadelphia, trying to establish a name in literary journalism but without any major success. His theories on musical poems and short prose narratives which were to aim at "a certain unique or single effect" can be for example be seen in "Ligeia"(1838) and THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1839) which would eventually become one of his most famous stories. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841 ...
- 887: The New Deal
- ... stock market will always stay sound. Roosevelt used this Act as an attempt to spark up the buying power and get the economy and stock market running. The Securities Exchange Act was a long-term effect and is still in affect today. This act set up the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the Stock Market. The Commission set margins and requirements at a wise rate to regulate securities transactions. This ... to become a stronger nation. The relief programs and government actions did not help a whole lot, but after WWII the economy was booming again, and only some of the relief programs were still in effect. Although the New Deal did not get the U.S. out of the depression, the relief programs caused the government to have a hand in the business place and let the society realize that the ...
- 888: State Constitutions In Colonial America
- ... state constitution. State constitutions range from 5,000 words all the way to 200,000 words.(Alderman, 99) Each state constitution had to be approved by the Federal Government before it could be taken into effect. It also needed to be approved by the voters of the state. After the State constitution was approved then the state would be accepted into the union and it could go about doing its normal ... independent. They still were somewhat guided by the king and parliament. Something that I agree with is how the people of the state also had to agree with the state constitution before it went into effect. It showed how each state is truly a democracy and how the people really do have a say in what goes on in their government. Also, it is curious to me that schools stress so ...
- 889: The New Deal
- ... stock market will always stay sound. Roosevelt used this Act as an attempt to spark up the buying power and get the economy and stock market running. The Securities Exchange Act was a long-term effect and is still in affect today. This act set up the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the Stock Market. The Commission set margins and requirements at a wise rate to regulate securities transactions. This ... to become a stronger nation. The relief programs and government actions did not help a whole lot, but after WWII the economy was booming again, and only some of the relief programs were still in effect. Although the New Deal did not get the U.S. out of the depression, the relief programs caused the government to have a hand in the business place and let the society realize that the ...
- 890: Heart Of Darkness
- ... such positive phrases as "to enlighten," for instance, are conventionally opposed to negative ones such as "to be in the dark," the traditional expectations are reversed. In Kurtz's painting, as we have seen, "the effect of the torch light on the face was sinister" (Watt 332). Ian Watt, author of "Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness," discusses about the destruction set upon the Congo by Europeans. The destruction set ... painted a painting releasing his knowledge of the horror and what is to come. A painting of a blindfolded woman carrying a lighted torch was discussed in the book. The background was dark, and the effect of the torch light on her face was sinister. The oil painting suggests the blind and stupid ivory company, fraudulently letting people believe that besides the ivory they were taking out of the jungle, they ...
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