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- 1411: Was Andrew Jackson A Good Pres
- ... simple that offices should rotate among deserving applicants (Jackson, Seventh President 1829-1837). During his eight years of presidency, he removed no more than one-fifth of the federal officeholders. In doing so, embraced the philosophy of the spoils system (Brinkley, 239). Jackson favored tariffs for raising revenue. On one occasion, he met head-on the challenge of John Calhoun, leader of forces trying to rid themselves of a high protective ...
- 1412: Unity Amid Diversity
- ... the early 1960’s. He culminated a sense of pride and fear at the same time. His fearless, larger than life attitude challenged African-Americans to follow him in his quest for Black Nationalism. His philosophy was designed to encourage black people to gain complete control over the politics and politicians of their own community. Malcolm X taught African-Americans about their greatness in history and helped them regain a pride ...
- 1413: Karl Marx
- ... this belief, but also has other ideas to protect the weaker of the species. He believes in equality of all. Not, whoever is bigger than the other, wins. It is more of a Christian, religious philosophy, and to tell the complete truth, I agree 100% with Huxley. Along with this theory, there are many others in which Darwin believes. For instance, he doesn’t have views of creation, he has views ...
- 1414: Hofstadter Chapter 1
- By: Audrey Hofstadter Summary: “The Founding Fathers: The Age of Realism” Summary of Section: I The reasoning behind the Constitution of the United States is presented as “based upon the philosophy of Hobbes and the religion of Calvin. It assumes the natural state of mankind in a state of war, and that the carnal mind is at enmity with God.” Throughout, the struggle between democracy and ...
- 1415: Frederick Douglass
- ... in nature. "Like the great forces of the physical world, fire, steam and lightning, they had slumbered in the bosom of nature since the world began."11 During the 1850s Douglass moved beyond Garrison’s philosophy of nonresistance and said it was a slave’s moral right to overthrown their oppressors. Douglass accomplished many feats worth noting. In the 1860s he was the "station master and conductor" of the Underground Railroad ...
- 1416: Civil Rights
- ... Stokely Carmichael, who popularized the term the Black Power. Black Power advocates were influenced by Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam minister who had been assassinated in early 1965. They viewed Malcolm's black nationalist philosophy, which emphasized black separatism and self-sufficiency, as more realistic for dealing with racism in the United States. They also appreciated Malcolm's emphasis on black pride and self-assertion. The national media reported Black ...
- 1417: Behind The Urals
- ... all time low. He left his roots in the United States to begin a new life in a foreign country simply because he was disgruntled with American governing and was appealed to by the Soviet philosophy of governing. It tool Scott a tremendous amount of will and fortitude to leave behind everything he knew so well, to start a new life on the other side of the world. He showed his ...
- 1418: Holocaust
- ... persons. In the last paragraph or so the same message was being presented. By reading, a person would believe and accept the information on propaganda given. The Nazis utilized propaganda to spread the Nazi ideology, philosophy, and mentality into the German population. The hope of the Nazis was the ideas and mentality expressed were going to be part of the Germans everyday regime, and their everyday lives. The thought of the ...
- 1419: Bus Boycott
- ... one of the strongest organizations in the Civil Rights Movement. The leadership Martin Luther King Jr.in SCLC made him one of the most profound leaders of the civil rights movement. The Non-violent protest philosophy used by the people of Montgomery bus boycott was the starting point for non-violent protest to be used in America for the fight for civil rights. When M.L.K was attending Crozer seminary ...
- 1420: Freedom In America
- ... refused to take action. The defendant was acquitted on the basis that in cases of libel the jury should judge both law and the facts. James Alexander was the first colonial writer to develop a philosophy on the freedom of speech. He founded the American Philosophical Society and masterminded the Zenger defense. Alexander's chief conviction was "Freedom of speech is a principal pillar in a free government: when this support ...
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