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- 10771: American Prohibition in the 1920s
- ... and sacramental purposes. This act also set up guidelines for enforcement (Bowen, 154). Prohibition was meant to reduce the consumption of alcohol, seen by some as the devil’s advocate, and thereby reduce crime, poverty, death rates, and improve the economy and the quality of life. “National prohibition of alcohol -- the ‘noble experiment’ -- was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, reduce the tax burden created by prisons and ...
- 10772: British Rule of The American Colonies
- ... colonies were often bribe-taking politicians that were not smart enough to hold government positions in England. After Grenville and Townshend the most incompetent was Lord North, who became Prime Minister in 1770 after the death of Charles Townshend. “North was the kind of politician George had been looking for ----a plodding, dogged, industrious man, neither a fool nor a genius, much like the king himself. For the next twelve years ...
- 10773: The 1920's
- ... all over the country became involved in their case. The pair had been ably defended by a Massachusetts lawyer named Thompson. He had argued to the trial judge that these men were being sentenced to death because they were anarchists and foreigners. Actually, there was evidence presented that Vanzetti was insane at the time of the crime. Commonwealth v. Sacco and Vanzetti, 255 Mass. 369, 151 N.E. 839 (1926). However ...
- 10774: Harry Truman and The Atomic Bomb
- Harry Truman and The Atomic Bomb As Vice-president, Harry Truman had not known about the development of the atomic bomb. On the day he assumed the Presidency at the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson had spoken to him briefly and told him that the United States was working on a weapon of extraordinary power. Twelve days later, on April ...
- 10775: The War in Vietnam
- ... the murders of Diem and Nhu. Whether these gruesome developments would have led Kennedy to redirect or decrease U.S. involvement in Vietnam is unknown, since Kennedy himself was assassinated three weeks later. Diem's death left a leadership vacuum in South Vietnam, and the survival of the Saigon regime was in jeopardy. With a presidential election approaching, Lyndon B. Johnson did not want to be saddled with the charge of ...
- 10776: The Petersburg Campaign
- ... At Yellow Tavern, which lay in Richmond's outskirts, he met J.E.B. Stuart, with 4,500 sabers. The Confederates were driven from the field and Stuart was mortally wounded. News of Stuart's death would come as a body blow to Lee. Union Losses: 400 Confederate Losses: about 1,000 On May 20th, Grant again moved South, this time toward Hanover Junction. Lee recognized Grant's attempt to cut ...
- 10777: Dynamic Change In The U.S.
- ... drive to achieve their dream pushed them harder than the ordinary American worker, and landed them in very dangerous working conditions with low pay. Many of these Chinese immigrants were injured and often even saw death. Know as “Robber Barons,” due to the questionable financial practices of the railroad men, the building of these railroad companies included shameless profiteering through construction companies controlled by insiders. This resulted in many scandals and ...
- 10778: The Cold War
- ... many involved in the federal administration at this time. This included the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover, who did not like competition from a rival intelligence organization. With the death of Roosevelt in April of 1945, the OSS was disbanded under Truman and departments were either relocated or completely dissolved. Soviet intelligence began with the formation of the Cheka, secret police, under Feliks Dzerzhinsky at ...
- 10779: Theory of History
- Theory of History Through the dawn of time anarchy has been the basis of life and death. Anarchy is the theory of life and conduct under which social interactions exist without government interference or assistance. It is not chaos, nor terrorism, it has no affiliation to senseless violence; anarchy is basically existing ...
- 10780: Life In The 1900's
- ... of 2 hours, 24 min and 24 seconds when he ran the Boston Marathon. Jan 22/1901 Queen Victoria died at the age of 63 years. The Queens reign stretched across the globe. With her death came modernization. In the early 1900's horses were being used extensivley for all transportating duties and some manual labor jobs. A few years later the bicycle hit Canada and presented the Canadians with a ...
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