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- 10761: The John Scopes Trial
- ... most celebrated American battle between creation and evolution: the Scopes Monkey Trial. The defendant, John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools. Although the penalty was small (a $100 fine paid by someone else), the ramifications were anything but. The verdict would later be overturned in a higher court, and evolution became standard teaching in classrooms across America. This ruling ...
- 10762: Geography and Climate In the American Colonies
- ... an overstatement. Slavery and immigration, religious experiments and improper preparation certainly had an enormous impact in differentiating the colonial way of life. The New England climate was one of the largest factors in the high death rate in colonies such as Massachusetts Bay because of its harsh winters and hot summers. The soil in New England was also rocky and somewhat infertile, causing a shortened growing season. Farming was tough and ...
- 10763: The Vietnam War
- ... the Communists. Finally, a leader in the South took control. His name was General Duong Van Minh(Gibbons 110). In 1965, the United States officially began to increase participation in the war. Before Diem's death there were about 16,000 United States soldiers in Vietnam. When Lyndon Johnson came into power in the United States, he ordered that number to increase to more than half a million soldiers. The Johnson ...
- 10764: American Foreign Policy Towards Cuba
- ... diplomatic note to the US government) that exile planes violating Cuban air space will be shot down. On February 24 Cuban MiGs shoots down two airplanes belonging to Brothers To The Rescue resulting in the death of four exiles. The downing of the two planes causes the passing in congress of the Helms-Burton Act. It imposes penalties on foreign companies doing business in Cuba, permits US citizens to sue foreign ...
- 10765: Causes of the Great Depression
- ... as for their own. The United States had entered the struggle late, and had poured forth no such contribution in lives and losses as the Allies had made. It had paid in dollars, not in death and destruction, and now it wanted its dollars back(end note 33)." There were several causes to this awkward distribution of wealth between U.S. and its European counterparts. Most obvious is that fact that ...
- 10766: U.S Involvement In The Vietnam War
- ... do not learn from these lessons that are so obvious in the differences between these two conflicts then we are condemned to repeat the same mistakes. Lets just pray that it does not take the death of another 58,000 of America's men to learn that the politicians place is not in war but in peace ( Roush ). Works Cited "Interview with General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander-in-Chief, Central Command." Frontline ...
- 10767: Government Lies From Vietnam
- ... that the CIA is responsible for the more than two million deaths that occurred during that time. The reason why the CIA, and the United States in general, can get away with those kinds of death figures has to do with two words: nuclear bombs. Flat out, if Vietnam even had the ingredients to make a nuclear weapon the United States would have never initiated a full out war starting with ...
- 10768: Slavery
- ... on friendly terms with their masters. Roman slavery was differed in several important aspects from that of ancient Greece. Roman masters had more power over their slaves, including, by law, the power of life and death. Slavery was also far more necessary to the economy and social system of Rome, especially during the empire, than it had been in Greece. Wealthy Romans, often maintaining large city and country homes, depended on ...
- 10769: The New Deal
- ... system of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance, which is still around today. Social security consists of public programs to protect workers and their families from income losses associated with old age, illness, unemployment, or death. It was automatically deducted from societies pay checks every month in order to benefit them later. The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) established a federal Minimum Wage and maximum-hours policy. The minimum wage, 25 ...
- 10770: About Gettysburg
- ... This action and reaction caused the battle to sway back and forth. The Wheat Field had changed who had the upper hand six times in that afternoon. The scene was described as a "maelstrom of death." The fighting at Devil's Den and at the Wheat Field were so brutal that there were no reinforcements left for Union troops at the Peach Orchard, causing the men to be pushed back quickly ...
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