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Brown V. Board Of Education
Number of Words: 298 / Number of Pages: 2
... road, the principle of "separate but equal" was applied thereafter to
all aspects of public life in states with large black populations.
of Topeka, Kansas, decided on May 17, 1954, was
one of the most important cases in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Linda Brown had been denied admission to an elementary school in Topeka
because she was black. Brought together under the Brown designation were
companion cases from South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, all of which
involved the same basic question: Does the equal protection clause of the
14th Amendment prohibit racial segregation in the p ...
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Offensive At St. Mihiel
Number of Words: 1675 / Number of Pages: 7
... map 2), which made excellent defensive positions for them, and gave the Germans the high ground. The reason the salient was so important to the Germans was that it interrupted the Paris-Nancy Railroad and completely cut off the Verdun-Toul Railroad. Which gave the Germans complete control of any supplies coming into the area.
The final plan for the operation called for a main drive against the Southern face of the salient, a second drive from the west and then holding attacks and raids at the tip. The I and IV Corps were going to be the main attack forces. I Corps, commanded by Major-General H. ...
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History Of Portugal
Number of Words: 644 / Number of Pages: 3
... decline as a political and commercial power. This trend continued under King Sebastian, who was killed during another expedition against Morocco in 1578. On the death of his successor, King Henry, in 1580, the Aviz dynasty came to an end.
When Henry died, seven claimants disputed the succession to the throne. The most powerful was Philip II, king of Spain, who in 1580 became Philip I of Portugal. The annexation of Portugal to the Spanish Habsburg monarchy subjected it to the heavy expenses of Spanish wars in a period known as the Sixty Years’ Captivity. After 1600, Portuguese domination of trade with ...
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Kansas & Nebraska Act Resolved
Number of Words: 372 / Number of Pages: 2
... behind and hire workers?
Also the federal government just marked off land that slaves could be in. Slaves are considered property and you can take property anywhere. That is unfair because then they would have to leaves all their slaves behind.
Lastly people needed slaves to tend their farm. If the government just marked off land where people owned slaves and said that the state is now free and no one could own slaves, what would the slave owners do. The slave owners needed slaves to tend their farm and tend the crops, what would slave owners do if they had to give up their slaves and hire people and ...
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Info On Ww1
Number of Words: 414 / Number of Pages: 2
... were made over the top of No Mans Land and nearly every single one was shot down and died. This type of warfare had never ever been seen by the army and some people claimed that it wasn't war of strength it was a war of attrition, that is that the winner would be the person with more people and supplies. In between the trenches was an area called No Mans Land, this was an area in which if a person went in they would never come out of alive unless they were extremely lucky. After a while the Allies started producing films which showed the greatness of the Allies at war and so make more people wan ...
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Discovery Of The New World
Number of Words: 449 / Number of Pages: 2
... necessary. The Portuguese could stay a safe distance away from the enemy vessel and shoot the cannons at them.
The political changes in Spain had the most dramatic effect on the . It started when Princess Isabella of Castile wed Prince Ferdinand of Aragon. When they were wed, they formed the kingdom of Spain. Princess Isabella and Prince Ferdinand finished their expansion of Spain when the conquered Granada. After the conquest of Granada, Christopher pleaded his case to Queen Isabella. Christopher had asked several times before but was not given the money or ships because they were not available. ...
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History Of Bikes
Number of Words: 800 / Number of Pages: 3
... the pedals. But because it the wheels
were so tall, the bicycle was unstable and many people
wouldn’t try it.
In 1885, J. K. Starley, an English bicycle manufacturer, producted the first commercially successful bicycle. It was much lower than the penny-Farthing with two wheels of the equal size, making the bicycle much more stable. It was the first bicycle that incorporated the design and parts of today’s bike. Later, the iron tires were replaced with solid rubber tires and patented name “bicycle” was given to it.
Years later, with the coming of the industrial revolution, the bicycle indu ...
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Babylon
Number of Words: 588 / Number of Pages: 3
... Gulf, where their earlyest myths represent the
first man, Adapu (Adam), speading his time fishing"(Hotbot Babylon). From the little known
information about this culture, they were believed to be a considerably culture for being so early
in development.
Babylonians were a very technological advanced people and known for their tall, highly
fortified walls construction and waterways, such as canals and aqueduct (grolier 254). This made
them a hard country to conquer because the highly fortified walls, so that the position could not
get in and b ...
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The Hundred Years' War
Number of Words: 2142 / Number of Pages: 8
... King of Navarre and Edward III, King of England.Edward III claimed that he himself was deserving of the throne because his mother was the sister of the late French king, while Philip VI was only a cousin. But according to French law, no women could inherit the throne, nor could the crown be inherited through a woman.
"Philip of Valois chances of becoming King of France had been remote and he had not been brought up as the future lieutenant of God on Earth. Philip VI spent much of his resources on entertainment and finery with gay abandon." 5 This caused conflict with the king's subjects. Since th ...
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Apartheid In South Africa
Number of Words: 467 / Number of Pages: 2
... their country.
The Apartheid legalized discrimination against all colored people and it also became as accepted practice making coloreds inferior. The coloreds were denied an education on the grounds that field workers didn’t need an education. The minority readily accepted the majority to be ignorant. The coloreds were made to give up their cars on the whims of the minority; along with whatever else they wanted at that time. They were told where they could eat and where they could live.
The self-respect and dignity where stripped from the majority when the minority declared itself the superior ...
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