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- 10811: 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. The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) established a federal Minimum Wage and maximum-hours policy. The minimum wage, 25 cents per hour, applied to many workers engaged in interstate commerce. The law was intended to ...
- 10812: 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 ...
- 10813: Truth or Fiction: The J.F.K. Assassination
- ... a conspiracy by the government come from the hospitals where Kennedy was examined immediately after the assassination. Dr. Charles Crenshaw, MD, who was in the emergency room at Parkland Hospital before and during the Presidents death, claims that the wound in Kennedys neck was much to small to be an exit wound, and was clearly an entry wound. However, pictures taken at Bethsada Hospital reveal a much larger neck wound than ...
- 10814: Illuminating the Path of Progress
- ... that year, New York's first power station was opened. By the end of 1883, Pearl Street was lighting 10,000 lamps for 431 customers. In the summer of 1884, tragedy struck with the sudden death of his wife who died of typhoid fever. Two years later he married Mina Miller. He moved to West Orange, New Jersey and raised a second family. In 1888, Edison invented a kinetoscope, an early ...
- 10815: The Civil War
- ... more encouraging developments, the Union government was having internal conflicts. Congress and the president began dueling over power distribution starting at about the time of Andrew Johnson's presidency. Johnson became president after Lincoln's death and immediately set the tone for the rest of his dealings with Congress. His plan for reconstruction was much to relaxed for radical Republicans in Congress, and Johnson lacked the diplomatic abilities of Lincoln. Johnson ...
- 10816: Life in The 1900s
- ... 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 ...
- 10817: African-American Troops in the Civil War: The 54th Massachusetts
- ... vanguard and over 250 men of the regiment became casualties. Shaw, the regiment's young colonel, died on the crest of the enemy parapet, shouting, "Forward, Fifty- fourth!" That heroic charge, coupled with Shaw's death, made the regiment a household name throughout the north, and helped spur black recruiting. For the remainder of 1863 the unit participated in siege operations around Charleston, before boarding transports for Florida early in February ...
- 10818: The Reformation
- ... people should join the clergy. It encouraged reform of monasteries and convents. These actions corrected Church abuses. Inquisition became stronger after the Council of Trent. Protestants living in Catholic countries were threatened with imprisonment or death. The Church also created an Index of books that Catholics were banned to read, own, or sell. The Catholic Church hoped to stop the spread of heresy. New religous orders were also set up to ...
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