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- 3021: The Boston Tea Party
- ... in America than Foreigners can supply us, and confine the Duty to keep up the exercise of the Right. The Ministry had no idea that people could act 'from any other principle but that of interest' and believed that a Duty of three pence per pound would be sufficient to overcome all the Patriotism in America" (In Defence of the Public Liberty). The Tea Act became law on May 10, 1773 ...
- 3022: The Assassination of John F Kennedy
- ... pictures of Harrelson. It was likely that they were same person. Similarly, police officers trained in photo identification have that Harrelson definitely appears to be the tall tramp. So far federal authorities have shown no interest in investigating Harrelson in connection with any role he might have had in the assassination. Why would the Mafia have wanted JFK dead? Quite simply, because the Kennedy administration was threatening the very existence of ...
- 3023: The Atomic Bomb and Japan
- ... July 24th he mentioned to Stalin that "we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force" (Truman's memoirs). Stalin did not inquire about the specifics of this "new weapon" as he showed no special interest in it. Stalin only said that "he was glad to hear it and hoped we would make good use of it against the Japanese." War is an inherently immoral activity. But, it is generally accepted ...
- 3024: The 1920's
- ... double what the farmers had been getting. The land speculation frenzy was financed by mortgaging and re-mortgaging their land. By 1920, the debt load rose to $8.4 billion with $574 million of annual interest. The price of wheat did not remain at its high of $2.19 in 1919. Instead, it declined to less than a dollar a bushel in 1922. Other commodities suffered similar price declines, while other ...
- 3025: Leo Szilard and the Atomic Bomb
- ... and Peivels made significant findings on the bomb, they found it would only take 5 - 10 kg. of uranium not 100 tons as the Americans had feared. The U.S. government didn't take any interest in them and they were keeping secrets from Szilard that would help advance his findings. Szilard needed more money to do better experiments and the U.S. government wasn't doing anything to advance the ...
- 3026: Theory of History
- ... the two sides. The American colonist felt that they were not properly represented in the parliament and therefore could not tax its people. Nevertheless, the parliament felt as though they looked out for the best interest of the entire kingdom, therefore had the right to enact legislation. This action caused civil unrest and uprisings within the thirteen colonies. Protests took the form in many different ways such as newspapers, church sermons ...
- 3027: The Great Depression
- ... miles of roads, more than 100,000 bridges, and nearly 600 airports, which kept about 2.1 million people employed. The New Deal efforts proved that the Great Depression was highly resistant to remedy. Unemployment rates stayed in the double digits, and the wages were less than pre 1929 levels. The New Deal created several temporary relief agencies, but nothing long term.
- 3028: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement
- ... protest that grew through 1971 soon replaced it. All of these movements captured the attention of the White House, especially when 25,000 people marched on Washington Avenue. And at times these movements attracted the interest of all the big decision-makers and their advisors (Gettleman, 54). The teach-ins began at the University of Michigan on March 24, 1965, and spread to other campuses, including Wisconsin on April 1. These ...
- 3029: Events Leading To The American Revolution
- ... of the parliament. Dickinson's comments were ubiquitous among the colonists, and thus infuriated them to rebellion, and the seizure of basic democratic rights. "From necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament as are bona fide restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial ...
- 3030: Native American Genocide
- ... stolen lands, in practice the Indian Claims Commission is a fraud. The Commission refuses all requests to grant land title to Indians, offering only compensation for lands that it determines were lost by Indians (at rates that are often a century old). So Indians entering claims to land find that accepting payment amounts to a permanent extinguishing of their aboriginal title, which is the opposite result of the one they sought ...
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