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Industrialization 2

... children to work. Many factories were badly light, poorly ventilated and hazardous. Young men would be hunched over for so long, that they stopped growing, causing them to look extremely young, 17 years old boys would look 12. Owners were very greedy, they refused to pay for people safety for the mere fact that it would cut into their profits. They also gave very low wages for very long hours. Some had 12 hour days for 6 days a week only earning 10 cents an hour, $5.50 a week. Children would only earn half that. This was also a time of Im ...

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Franklin Roosevelt And The Holocaust

... American troops and its Allies into war in Europe and gave millions of Jews hope for survival. Although some historians and Holocaust survivors believe FDR betrayed the Jews by not bombing death camps such as, Auschwitz and Buchenwald; FDR did more than anyone else to save the Jews. During his presidency, FDR had publicly condemned anti-Semitism more than any other public official in the nation. He was opposed to Hitler from the beginning and challenged anti-Semitism in 1938 by proposing the Evian Conference; a meeting attended by t ...

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The Vietnam Era

... it will spread like cancer to other countries. The Gulf of Tonkin was the incident that made the Vietnam conflict into war for the U.S. J.F.K. was assassinated in 1963. Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. He was the civil rights leader who promoted separation between blacks and whites. He would "by any means necessary" do what it takes to gain civil rights acceptance. The general attitude about the U.S. being involved in Southeast Asia at the beginning of the war was that the public was gung-ho and behind the government to sto ...

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Birmingham, Alabama And The Civil Rights Movement

... in the biography. "The movement was really about getting publicity for injustice" (p.164) noted Andrew Young, a lieutenant of King's. The Albany campaign was uneventful. In its wake, King directed the energies of the civil rights movement to Project C, for "confrontation." In Bull Connor, the civil rights movement found "the perfect adversary," to coin the author's term. There was no more vivid a picture of the injustice of segregation as "the confrontation between grim-faced, helmeted policemen and their dogs, and black children ...

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Dead Man Walking

... Helen begins to come to him almost every day after Poncelet asks her to be his spiritual advisor on the day of his death. During this phase of the film Sister Helen tries to get Poncelet to tell her about his own life. Poncelet tells her about his life and why he was put on death row. Poncelet was convicted along with another man in the murder of the youth and a girl after raping the girl. Sister Helen is very sympathetic and is also looked down upon for this reason. Though she is repressed she still goes on helping Poncelet an ...

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Human Nature And The Declaration Of Independence

... be accountable to God just as the founding fathers were. God is Sovereign over men as the final Judge. The Declaration of Independence is a document co-written by the founding fathers in order to declare their independence of the Crown of Britain. They belived this to be within their rights indowed upon them by their Creator. Believing that they were under religious persecution and certain forms of "absolute tyranny" from Britian the founding fathers felt it was necessary to break the bonds that connected them to the monarchy. Not only did ...

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The Holocaust

... about a group of people or things. The Nazi's were prejudiced about the groups mentioned above. The Nazi's labeled each class with symbols to isolate and ostracize, for example: a. Political prisoners: red upside down triangle b. Communists and gypsies: black upside down triangle. c. Jehovah's Witnesses: purple upside down triangle d. Homosexuals: pink upside down triangle e. Criminals: green upside down triangle f. Jews: Star of David In November of 1938 all synagogues in Germany were set on fire, windows were smashed and th ...

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The New World

... the way for others to travel to . The Europeans called this place, where people were already living, a New World. To them it was a New World because they had never lived there before. The Europeans also felt American land was virgin. Virgin Land is defined as "land never touched by man" (Franklin). The land was touched by the Indians, but to the Europeans they were simply savages. The Indians were very mislead by the European explorers. When the Europeans landed in the Americas, the Indians were very helpful and giving. They brought ...

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Charlemagne 2

... greatest ruler of the Frankish Empire, we are able to learn a great deal about these aspects of Frankish society. Since Einhard, Charlemagne’s biographer was a member of Charlemagne’s court, much of what is learned about Frankish society is in reference to Charlemagne’s relations with the different of society. Political authority played a significant role in the rise of the Frankish Empire. Charlemagne’s role as the political leader of the empire is one of the key factors of the success of the . The basis ...

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Benedict Arnold

... alone to work with his cousins. (B Arnold) The army had excused him without penalty because of his tender, young age. In 1762, when Benedict was just twenty-one years old, he went to New Haven, Connecticut where he managed a book and drug store and carried on trade with the West Indies. (B Arnold) In 1767, he married Margaret Mansfield, a daughter of a sheriff of New Haven County. (B Arnold) They had three sons together. (B Arnold) When the Revolutionary War was just beginning to break out, became a prosperous ship owner, merchant, and trader ...

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Cuban Missile Crisis

... with Khruschev and the Communist threat in Cuba put the world in extreme risk by forcing Moscow to choose only total surrender or total war. Due to fear, mistrust, and the desire to show political strength, JFK brought the Untied States and the world as close as it has ever been to global catastrophe. War was avoided, but there is room for doubt that this dangerous gamble was necessary to create peace. On April 17, 1961, an invasion force comprised of anti-Castro Cubans, who had been trained by the United States government, landed on the ...

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The Bay Of Pigs Invasion

... and its origins. Part I: The Invasion and its Origins. of April 1961, started a few days before on April 15th with the bombing of Cuba by what appeared to be defecting Cuban air force pilots. At 6 a.m. in the morning of that Saturday, three Cuban military bases were bombed by B-26 bombers. The airfields at Camp Libertad, San Antonio de los Ba¤os and Antonio Maceo airport at Santiago de Cuba were fired upon. Seven people were killed at Libertad and forty-seven people were killed at other sites on the island. Two of the B-26s left Cuba and f ...

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