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- 1581: Why Puritans Came to America: Freedom
- ... entitled the American people to rights which they had not experienced before such as the freedom of press and speech. In Tennessee's "Monkey Trial" of 1925, John Scope, a science teacher, was convicted for teaching evolution. Only 43 years later would that state law be overturned. This constant evolution of the Bill of Rights has made it what it is today, a document claiming that the American people have certain ...
- 1582: The Sedition Act of 1798
- ... law in the case of eleven communist (Dennis v United States.) This decision was later modified in 1957 (Yates v United States.) The Court limited conviction to direct action being taken against government, ruling that teaching communism or the violent overthrow of government did not in itself constitute grounds for conviction. Another instance of governmental infringement of the liberties of American citizens is the well known Senate Sub-committee on un ...
- 1583: Women's Roles in the Revolution
- ... on this subject. Abigail Adams was another important woman of the revolution. She addressed the women's role in strengthineing our nation directly when she said: “ We can improve and pull our nation together by teaching our children the priciples of democracy and the history of this nation. Don't ever think for a moment that our quest for independence will end when the war does.”5 John Adams, the husband ...
- 1584: Multiculturalism
- ... Aquinas, Marx and Freud. By 1987, a group called the Rainbow Coalition argued the fact that the books were all written by DWEM's or Dead White European Males. They felt that this type of teaching denied students the knowledge of contributions by people of colour, women, and other oppressed groups. In 1987, the faculty voted 39-4 to change the curriculum and do away with the fifteen book requirement and ...
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