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- 1811: Ku Klux Klan
- ... South about these masked men. Many people loved the idea and wanted to be involved. The Klan quickly grew. A leader was soon needed to control the large group. Their first choice was Southern General Robert E. Lee. Although he supported the group and its cause, he was very ill and could not handle the task. Their next choice was a man named Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest, although he wasn't ...
- 1812: History Of The Computer Indust
- ... field. The first computers were made with vacuum tubes, but by the late 1950s computers were being made out of transistors, which were smaller, less expensive, more reliable, and more efficient (Shallis, 40). In 1959, Robert Noyce, a physicist at the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, invented the integrated circuit, a tiny chip of silicon that contained an entire electronic circuit. Gone was the bulky, unreliable, but fast machine; now computers began to ...
- 1813: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805-18
- ... the west. It is my goal to learn more about this man and even read this book, Democracy in America. Works Cited "Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)." DISCovering Biography. 1999. Galenet. 4 May 1999. . Kraynak, Robert P. "Tocqueville's Constitutionalism." The American Political Science Review. 81. Dec., 1997: 1175-1195. Mitchell, Harvey. "Tocqueville's Mirage or Reality? Political Freedom from Old Regime to Revolution." The Journal of Modern History. 60 (Mar ...
- 1814: Aphrodite
- ... Fleming. The Visual Arts: A History. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1982. Janson, H. W. History of Art. 4th ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991. Langlotz, Ernst. "Classic Art." Encyclopedia of World Art. Vol. 3. Robert W. Crandall, ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960, 631-673. Parrot, Andre. Nineveh and Babylon. Stuart Gilbert and James Emmons, trans. London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. Prag, A. J. N. W. "Classical Greek Art." A ...
- 1815: Articles Of Confederation
- ... view, realized the precarious situation when he stated “the Nation was under the verge of collapse and near-anarchy and that the five year period after 1783 was the most critical time in American History.” Robert Morris, secretary of finance, resorted to desperate measures with the Newburgh conspiracy in an attempt to raise funds for a depleted military; but it took an impassioned plea from General Washington himself to put down ...
- 1816: Albert Einstein
- ... a particles. He also hypothesized that the energy carried by a photon is depositional to the frequency of radiation. The formula E= HU proves this. Virtually no one accepted this theory but thought differently when Robert Andrews Millikan proved it. The third paper was on electrodynamics of moving bodies. It became known as the theory of relativity. It explains how matter and radiation interact with one another. With these well thought ...
- 1817: Origins Of The Cold War
- ... in the war, with the isolationists pushing for America to stand back and let the two dictators grind each other down. In consideration for declaring war on Germany, and therefore aiding Russia, the American Senator Robert A. Taft declared "A victory for communism would be far more dangerous for the United States than a victory for fascism." The American involvement in the war was an interest in European security in both ...
- 1818: Vietnam War
- ... in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. --- Bibliography Bibliography Brown, McAfee, et al. Vietnam: Crisis of Conscience. New York: Association Press, 1967 Gaullucci, Robert L. Neither Peace Nor Honor. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Gettleman, Marvin E. Vietnam and America: A documented history. New York: Grove Press, 1985. Lewis, Lloyd B. The Tainted War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood ...
- 1819: The Louisiana Purchase
- ... empire in the New World, with its center at New Orleans. President Jefferson was alert to the dangers of a powerful nation controlling the mouth of the Mississippi. He instructed the American minister to France, Robert R. Livingston, to open negotiations to buy New Orleans and some territory east of the city. A treaty would have to satisfy the financial claims that some United States citizens had against the French government ...
- 1820: Radicalism Of American Revolut
- By: Robert Smith “Radicalism of the American Revolution” By Gordon S. Wood Gordon Wood’s Radicalism of the American Revolution is a book that extensively covers the origin and ideas preceding the American Revolution. Wood’s account ...
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