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Education System After The Revolution
Number of Words: 1480 / Number of Pages: 6
... respect for America, but how to properly bury these roots was a question of great debate. The major cause of debate was how to organize a balance between freedom and order.( Spring p.53) Everyone was in agreement that this new found virtue of freedom was one that had a place in the education system, but with the strong religious beliefs and newfound political ideas the concern was on how to control this idea of freedom. Society would allow people to be free if they were taught to be ethical through education.(Spring p.53) So, it was agreed that schools would teach students to read, write and to h ...
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Violations Of The Declaration Of Human Rights During The Salem Witch Trials
Number of Words: 673 / Number of Pages: 3
... that had been clearly violated during the Salem
witch trials was article five, which states that "everyone has the right to
recognition everywhere as a person before the law". Many thought of the
women accused of practicing witchcraft to be diabolic and inhuman ; in fact,
they were thought of human figures of the devil. This would clearly
interfere with the judge´s veredict and it would be almost impossible for
the victimis to save themselves from being condemned to death. If these
victims of whom most were in their late fifties, had been seen as people
who are just like us, they would have been saved ...
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Life During The Civil War
Number of Words: 1345 / Number of Pages: 5
... us as though they were
so many logs(Brown, 115).” The soldier would march threw battlefields
where dead men, horses, and smashed artillery were scattered about in utter
confusion; the Blue and the Gray mixed-their bodies so bloated, distorted,
and discolored from decomposition, that they were basically
unrecognizable(Mohr, 326).
There was also the duties of the officers. “Often when a
detachment was on scout, there were no men left in camp to release the
pickets, and they had to remain on post for seventy-two hours at a
stretch(History of the Service, 129).” Marching, shooting, charging,
scouti ...
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The Whites Versus Native And African Americans
Number of Words: 1243 / Number of Pages: 5
... government forced the Native Americans to reside on
reservations in which they could not leave without the permission of the
government agency created to oversee their safety. They had to live, hunt,
and survive living in a fixed boundary. The Medicine Lodge Treaty stated
that the plains tribes were confined on two reservations. The northern
reservation was in the Dakota Territory and southern was in Oklahoma.
Later in 1887, came the Dawes Act in which the government decided that the
Native Americans had to become farmers and land owners and give up the
Native American lifestyle totally. The Native ...
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The Civil War
Number of Words: 1174 / Number of Pages: 5
... subject to
their jurisdiction." It seemed democracy had triumphed by giving freedom to
slaves, but the amendment was not complete. It only stopped slavery, and made
no provisions for citizenship; therefore, blacks were still not considered
United States citizens. The fourteenth amendment was the democratic expansion
that fixed that problem. Originally passed to "put a number of matters beyond
the control or discretion of the president," the amendment also made "All
persons born or naturalized in the United States . . . citizens of the United
States." It also provided that, "No State shall abridge ...
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A Discussion On The Myth And Failure Of Reconstruction Following The Civil War, And How This Failure Impacted And Changed America
Number of Words: 5063 / Number of Pages: 19
... was intended as a device by which the defeated states of the Southern Confederacy would be joined again to the Union, the more than four million black freedmen living within them absorbed politically and economically in a nation reunited by the force of arms, and safeguards provided against any possible renewal of rebellion."(Carter 11)
Reconstruction officially began with Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction in 1863.(Tindall 452) Lincoln's "10 Percent Plan" ,as it was called, would allow a state to be admitted into the Union if 10 percent of its voting population took an ...
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How Has Film Influenced Lifestyles And Human Behavior In The
Number of Words: 609 / Number of Pages: 3
... but they did manage to find money to go the movies. Even during the darkest days of the Depression, movie attendance was between 60-75 million per week. The balancing act for film making was to both reflect the realism and cynicism of the Depression period. They also provided escape entertainment to boost the morale of the public by optimistically reaffirming values such as thrift and perseverance.
During The Golden Age of Hollywood, movies were under strict enforcement and censorship. Film studios submitted their films for review and if they met the strict standards of decency they could be relea ...
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Reconstuction
Number of Words: 894 / Number of Pages: 4
... question is no.
A large cause for the civil war was to free the African-American slaves, to allow them to have equal rights to the white race. But after the war was over, and the slaves were supposedly free, did they still not remain caged? Where could they turn? The newly freed slaves had no money, no land, no food, and no jobs. They remained slaves because they lacked those basic necessities. Therefore, where they really freed?
The first example that kept them in captivity was food. Everybody needs to eat regardless of their skin color. Previously, food had been provided for them by the slave own ...
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History Of Photography
Number of Words: 874 / Number of Pages: 4
... after the creator…).
Daguerreotypes where developed in natural light in artist studios. The subject had to hold perfectly still for up to 45 minutes. Children where restrained with harnesses and metal neck braces which can’t have been the most comfortable thing for the children to put up with. The image itself is like chalk on a chalkboard and therefore has to be protected under glass and sealed with tape to keep out the elements. Yet these early daguerreotype photographers managed to not only record history but also to create art on miniature canvas's made of copper which have been left behind for ...
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The Slave Trade And Its Effects On Early America
Number of Words: 1211 / Number of Pages: 5
... were
burdened with huge elephants' tusks. Others, and many of the women too, bore
baskets or bales of food. Little boys and girls trudged along beside their
parents, eyes wide in fear and wonder” (McCague, 14).
After they were marched often hundreds of miles, it was time for them to
be shipped off to sea, so that they could be sold as cheap labor to help harvest
the new world. But before they were shipped off, they had to pass through a
slave-trading station. The slave trade, which was first controlled by Portugal,
was now controlled by other European nations. In the late 1600's, Spain,
Holland, ...
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