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- 8321: The American Revolution
- ... for a radical change in American life. Ever since the beginnings of settlement, England and America had been growing apart. In 1774, England was still an aristocracy, ruled by men born and bred to a high station in life. Their society was one of culture and refinement. The common people, deprived of abundant opportunity at home, accepted a position of dependence. They regarded hard work, deference to superiors, and submission to ...
- 8322: Mercantilism
- ... were for the most part loyalists. They liked the protection of Britain, and the monopoly they had over British tobacco merchants. However even they began to get sick of the taxes without representation and the high resale price that Britain put on tobacco. They began to write petitions and letters of complaint in "rebellion" to Britain. The rich people of the middle colonies had the advantage of having the two biggest ...
- 8323: Manhattan Project
- ... made a destructive force equal to 25,000 tons of TNT. The bomb vaporized the tower where it was dropped from. The bomb reached new heights by a mushroom cloud that was 41,000 feet high and shock-waves from the bomb were felt from at least 10,000 feet away from the test site. The blast was also heard or seen from at least 50 miles away. After the testing ...
- 8324: Mafia - A History
- ... tax evasion , so he fled to Israel. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli government under pressure by the U.S. revoked his visa and Lansky was forced to stand trial. He avoided conviction because of his high level government contacts and retired to Miami, Florida and died in 1983. At the time of his death, his estate was valued at 4 million dollars. The third member of Murder Inc. was Benjamin (Bugsy ...
- 8325: Lewis And Clark
- ... and fallen timber. Since the hunters were unsuccessful this day, the expedition party killed a colt for meat. They named the creek they found Colt Killed Creek. The next day, the party reached elevations as high as seven thousand feet, on todays Wendover Ridge. Travel was incredibly difficult. There was a steep descent that was made even more difficult, by the excessive quantity of fallen timber. Several horses slipped and ...
- 8326: Labour Unions
- ... that their price rises substantially as more units are employed. Fourth, the ability of these factors to substitute for union labor should be highly limited; it would be hard to substitute for workers with very high skil! ls or skills that are highly specific to a single employer. Numerous studies have been made to estimate the extent to which unions in the United States have raised the wages of their members ...
- 8327: Jimmy Carter
- ... 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith. When his father died in 1953, he resigned a naval commission and returned to Plains. He became involved in the affairs of the community, serving as chairman of the county school board and the first president of the Georgia Planning Association. In 1962 he won election to the Georgia Senate. He lost his first gubernatorial campaign in 1966, but won the next election, becoming Georgias ...
- 8328: J. Edgar Hoover
- ... its version became gospel (Summers 50). All of these different types of information made J. Edgar Hoover that much more powerful. J. Edgar Hoover was an extremely intelligent and shrewd individual. George Washington University Law School, where Edgar enrolled in 1913, did not have the prestige of other local universities. It offered, however, a respectable conservative law program and a solid grounding in the nuts and bolts of the legal system ...
- 8329: Immigration
- ... provisions and added the exclusion of illiterate aliens form entering into the United States. This Act made Mexicans inadmissible. It insisted that all aliens pay a head tax of $8 dollars. However, because of the high demand for labor in the southwest, months later congress let Mexican workers to stay in the U.S. under supervision of state government for six-month periods. The Gold Rush in California brought a large ...
- 8330: Comparison Of Martin Luther King Jr And Malcom X
- ... from the Ku Klux Klan. Malcom's mother suffered a nervous breakdown and her eight children were taken by the welfare department. Malcom was sent first to a foster home and then to a reform school. After 8th grade, Malcom moved to Boston where he worked various jobs and eventually became involved in criminal activity. (Malcom X, pg.1) In 1946, he was sentenced to prison for burglary. While in prison ...
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