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- 1201: Cuban Missile Crisis: The Edge Of War
- ... allies knew of the situation, special briefings were given to members of the Organization of American States (OAS), and Congressional leaders were requested to return to Washington. On Monday, President Kennedy addressed the nation. Two letters were delivered to Khrushchev in Moscow, just thirty minutes before Kennedy's address. One was a copy of the speech, the other was a letter from JFK himself. He wrote that he assumed that Khrushchev ...
- 1202: Coca-Cola - The History
- ... and/or outraged, many said that they were considering switching to Pepsi. Within six weeks, the eight hundred number was being jammed by six thousand calls a day. The company also fielded over forty thousand letters, which were all answered and each person got a coupon for the new Coke. A retired Air Force officer, explained in a letter to the Coca-Cola company that he wanted to be cremated and ...
- 1203: Boston Tea Party
- ... the following Boston Tea Party. The colonists reacted to this act by holding meetings to discuss it. Supporter of the revolution ( just to name some of them: John Adams, John Hancock, Dr. Joseph Warren ) wrote letters of protest to the government's officials, but they didn't achieve anything. The tea ships arriving in Boston still had to pay the full British tax. The event ( its getting exciting ) In September, 1773 ...
- 1204: American Revolution - Causes
- ... the right to put taxes on the trade of the colonies but could not place taxes directly on the colonists to raise revenue(America Online). The spokesperson of the colonies, John Dickinson, wrote in his "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer," on the issue of direct taxes. He distinguished between taxes that were imposed to regulate trade and those that were intended solely to raise revenue. If the tax was used to ...
- 1205: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... innocent people of something they only read about. It seemed extremely convenient that three of the five judges on the court of oyer (to hear) and terminer (to decide) were Cottons friends. He wrote letters telling how evidence should be weighed and basically ran the trials from his own home. Giles Cory Of the witches accused in Salem, Giles Cory is the only one to refuse to stand trial. Unfortunately ...
- 1206: Slavery - Underground Rail Road
- ... is to this day very hard to describe. Traks were laid to aide the slaves to freedom. People talked in secrecy to make safe paths for the slaves to run on. These were the tracks. Letters were sent that had terminology or code for the balcks. A lot of the terms come from things found along railroads. This is because real railroads at this time were the newest thing and happened ...
- 1207: Slavery - The Anti-Slavery Effort
- ... Tubman became a friend of many of the best known Abolitionists and their sympathizers: Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Seward, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Lydia Maria Child and Wendell Philips. John Brown refers to her in his letters as one of the best and bravest persons on this continent - General Tubman as we call her."(Encyclopedia Britanica, 1978 Vol. 10, p.167). Born to slave parents, she escaped to freedom in 1849 by ...
- 1208: Slavery - Southern White Slaveholder Guilt
- ... the logical conclusion, as discussed above, is that this stems from a moral responsibility. To avoid the guilt that plagues the slaveholders, Eavans' owners take steps to treat him as a human being. These two letters give adequate example of slaveholding guilt, but perhaps a better place to look is in the proslavery dogma of the time. The propaganda of slaveholders seems an unlikely place to find evidence of guilt, but ...
- 1209: Slavery - Slave Resistance
- ... right of freedom. Their owners were acutely conscious of this fact and went to great lengths to prevent slave uprisings from occurring. An example of a drastic measure would be the prohibition of slaves receiving letters. They were also not allowed to converge outside church after services, in hopes of stopping conspiracy. Yet the slaves still managed to fight back. In 1800, the first major slave rebellion was conceived. Gabriel Prosser ...
- 1210: Oppressed Slaves To Champion Soldiers
- ... as deadly, if not deadlier, that their white counterparts. They won many of the Civil War battles, and in doing so, won their independence. "Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, US, let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pockets, and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the ...
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