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- 141: Origins of Ideas That Form the Basis of the American Governmental Tradition
- Origins of Ideas That Form the Basis of the American Governmental Tradition The ideas that form the basis of the American governmental tradition have come from a number of different sources including Voltaire, John Locke, and Montesquieu. John Locke, was from England. He believed in the Natural Rights of Life, Liberty and Property for the people ... idea of John Lockes theory of Power comes from the people. That if the law is bad or disobeyed the people have the right to change it. He also supported the idea of Right to Revolution, where the government is changed if its not doing the job. This can also be found and supported in the Declaration of Independence. In the Declaration it says that It is the right of ...
- 142: War Of 1812
- ... to stay neutral and continue its trading with both nations. However several mandates passed by both France and England made this very difficult. With Englands naval blockade and the repeated search and seizure of American trade vessels, the United States, led by an aggressive group of leaders in congress known as the Young War Hawks, took a very aggressive approach to Britain and its royal navy. However, the War Hawks ... to build up. Britain began to employ a naval blockade of the European mainland, to stop all incoming and outgoing trade. With this tactic employed France employed the same tactic and this is where the American claim of neutrality was violated. With both Britain and France mandating that any trade ship must first pass through their ports or be subject acts of hostility, America was forced into a no win situation ... some even eventually seized, America began to develop an even stronger feeling of distrust and hatred for the British government. These actions lead eventually to the United States allying with, its friend from the Revolution, the French. With James Madison becoming president in 1809, and with the War Hawks in Congress, America began to develop a very bitter attitude toward anyone who violated American rights on the homeland or ...
- 143: Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt To say that Theodore Roosevelt was a complex personality would be to put things mildly. He was one of the greatest American heroes of the nineteenth century. The man said and did a lot of things, but more importantly he helped build America into the great superpower it is today. Roosevelt accomplished what few would even dare ... placed himself in harms way in order to prove a point or take a stand. He was not a dreamer but rather a doer. Roosevelt was and still is an everlasting symbol of the American dream. In truth the man would do little to raise America to economic greatness, he symbolically raised it to impossible heights as a world power. He was the hero that the country needed after years ... okay. This warrior philosophy of TR led to an inherent competitive nature that dominated his life and presidency. In essence his career was extremely effective because of his aggressive fight for power. He aided the American cause in the Spanish American War, by taking matters into his own hands. While his boss took a days absence Roosevelt commanded the navy to prepare for battle off the coast of Hong ...
- 144: Flag Desecration
- By: shane E-mail: sfdon@uswest.net Flag Desecration Flag desecration is not American. People who burn the American flag lack respect for themselves, America, and the many people who have died to preserve American freedom. The people who desecrate the American flag have no right to call themselves Americans. They are unpatriotic, two faced, cowards, and worse of all un-American (communist). To be patriotic a person must ...
- 145: American Exceptionalism
- American Exceptionalism Perhaps one of the most ambiguous creeds to develop concerning the United States is American exceptionalism, a largely controversial ideology both despised and revered by conflicting historians. Enticed by the presence of a mode of thought so unique to the United States, believers in this singular philosophy, such as Seymour Martin Lipset, a professor of public and political affairs, claims that America is "qualitatively different" in origin, individualism, patriotism, and optimism. History professor Ian Tyrrell disagrees and denounces Lipset's aim to "reaffirm" American exceptionalism. He foresees a time when historians will view the United States only through the "comparative analyses" of other developed countries, creating a collaboration of history termed "transnational": the evolution of specific "themes" of ...
- 146: French Revolution
- French Revolution French Revolution, one of the major revolutions in European history. The revolution marks a turning point in Frence history and in world history in general. Forms of government, morals, ideologies, and social development were greatly affected by it in all Europe and even in U.S. ...
- 147: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... he got into schoolboy mischief. He was caught smoking a cigarette by one of the priests, but was forgiven and not punished. His favorite game to play outside was cowboys and Indians. Tales of the American West were very popular among boys in Austria and Germany. Books by James Fenimore Cooper and especially German writer Karl May were eagerly read and re-enacted. May, who had never been to America, invented ... republic. They joined the German Workers' Party in growing numbers. There were many other political groups looking for members, but none more successful than the Marxists. Genuine fear existed there might be a widespread Communist revolution in Germany like the Russian revolution. Hitler associated Marxism with the Jews, and thus reviled it. He also understood how a political party directly opposed to a possible Communist revolution could play on the fears of so many Germans and ...
- 148: African Americans
- ... those persons in the United States who trace their ancestry to members of the Negroid race in Africa. They have at various times in United States history been referred to as African, coloured, Negro, Afro-American, and African-American, as well as black. The black population of the United States has grown from three-quarters of a million in 1790 to nearly 30 million in 1990. As a percentage of the total population, blacks ... that time. Over the past 300 and more years in the United States, considerable racial mixture has taken place between persons of African descent and those with other racial backgrounds, mainly of white European or American Indian ancestry. Shades of skin colour range from dark brown to ivory. In body type black Americans range from short and stocky to tall and lean. Nose shapes vary from aquiline to extremely broad ...
- 149: Cyberspace Offers A Revolution
- ... as important in cyberspace as they are in traditional contexts. The right to speak and publish using a virtual pen has its roots in a long tradition. With the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, American Congress has prepared to turn the Internet from one of the greatest resources of cultural, social, and scientific information into the online equivalent of a children's reading room. By invoking the overboard and vague term "indecent" as the standard by which electronic communication should be censored, American Congress has insured that information providers seeking to avoid criminal prosecution will close the gates on anything but the most tame information and discussions. The American First Amendment states that no laws shall be made towards an establishment of religion or prohibiting the freedom of speech or of press. The Act breaks the laws of the First Amendment and takes ...
- 150: Analysis of the Red Scare
- ... a belief in the words of Christ", and "too ardent a faith in the brotherhood of man" are more acceptable. Some organizations such as the National Civil Liberties Bureau, which would later be renamed the American Civil Liberties Union, took up the task of standing up for the rights of conscientious objectors. Before the war, the NCLB-ACLU opposed American involvement, and afterward defended the rights of the objectors. Later, the ACLU would gain a reputation for helping people with liberal cases who were too poor to pay for their own representation in court. After ... General A. Mitchell Palmer did in the years 1919-1920. Palmer used the laws set down in 1917 to deport members of the IWW. He did not only reserve his weapon for the Wobblies; the American Communists and many other radical groups were not to be left out. When the Palmer Raids began, which will be discussed in more detail later, there were two main targets: the Communist Party, and ...
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