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- 8341: War Of 1812
- ... French. With James Madison becoming president in 1809, and with the War Hawks in Congress, America began to develop a very bitter attitude toward anyone who violated American rights on the homeland or on the high seas. The United States at the time was a newly formed country, with really no place in the current international system. Nevertheless, with the alignment with France, the United States became a major player in ...
- 8342: War Of 1812
- ... S. vessels, including naturalized Americans of British origin, claiming that they were either deserters or British subjects. The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and challenged the British practice of impressment on the high seas. Relations between the two nations reached a breaking point in 1807 when the British frigate Leopard fired on the USS Chesapeake in American territorial waters and removed, and later executed, four crewmen. In addition ...
- 8343: War Of 1812
- ... S. vessels, including naturalized Americans of British origin, claiming that they were either deserters or British subjects. The United States defended its right to naturalize foreigners and challenged the British practice of impressment on the high seas. Relations between the two nations reached a breaking point in 1807 when the British frigate Leopard fired on the USS Chesapeake in American territorial waters and removed, and later executed, four crewmen. In addition ...
- 8344: Vietnam War - The War We Should Have Won
- ... pretty, either. Daily firefights, dead comrades, and officers who were fresher than you were were a few of the troubles grunts had to deal with on the battlefield. Drug use was rampant, soldiers would get high before battles to help them forget about what they were doing. 4 Mutiny was common, and the amount of soldiers who went AWOL was higher than any other war. With soldiers who didn't know ...
- 8345: Vietnam
- ... story with a brief explanation of where he came from and how he came about to become the Secretary of Defense. McNamara studies extend from University of California at Berkley then to the Harvard business school. He then went on to work for the Ford Motor company where he was selected to be one of the "whiz kids," a group of men selected to keep pace and compete with the newly ...
- 8346: Unions
- ... prejudices from the white members of the AFL. In 1902, blacks constituted only three percent of total union membership and mostly segregated into ineffectual locals. The AFL’s record with women was almost as poor. High union dues, apprenticeship requirements and the autonomous structures of individual unions meant that few women entered craft unions. Indeed, the more women went to work, the more they aroused the anxieties of workmen who considered ...
- 8347: The New Deal
- ... jobs. "Black cabinets" or "black brain trust" became advisors of the president. William Hastie and Mary Leod Bethune were of the top names in this group of African Americans. They helped thousands to stay in school and learn new traits. With the help of Eleanor Roosevelt, many women took jobs at the White House. In 1936 the democratic convention declared that every platform should have an alternate of the opposite sex ...
- 8348: The New Deal
- ... succeeded with the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936. This planned to remove acreage from production while conserving the soil from erosion that had taken so much of the topsoil during drought and high winds. In order to accomplish this, farmers were paid to plant soil conserving crops or to let the land lie fallow. This was much more successful than its predecessor. The Second Agricultural Adjustment Act, passed ...
- 8349: Teddy Roosevelt
- ... on the Japanese by insisting that holding up the peace negotiations over an indemnity might cost them more in the long run due to the expense of the war. Roosevelt also appealed to the Japanese high moral standard in the advent of them being a world leader to bring peace. At the same time, Roosevelt appealed to the British, who had much closer ties to Japan, to put pressure on the ...
- 8350: Slavery - Underground Rail Road
- ... Many slaves would also try to read the bible; if caught they were punished. A way many slaves did learn was by passing the slaves down from one to another. They could not have a school or anything like that. When a slave were to runaway from their plantation they would go at night and some even tried to go by horseback. Life as a slave was harsh and completely unfair ...
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