Why the progress of racial equality was so slow in America. SIGNS OF CHANGE BY 1955: How far is it accurate to say that the status of black Americans varied considerably in 1945? Political: Politically‚ blacks had no say in elections. They were prevented from voting by the “legal” means of state laws that established the qualifications required to vote. These ranged from the grandfather clause (you had to be able to prove the previous two generations had voted) to the literacy clause
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What makes a successful business? This is really not an easy question for those who are going to start business. In fact‚ there are many things that contribute to make a business successful. But the most important ones are strategies‚ human factor‚ and leadership. Good business strategies include good advertisements‚ having good plans. Advertising has always played an immense role in our society. Without advertising‚ the average consumer would not know what to buy. It has become fact that advertising
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1. Why was the South so afraid to loose slavery? What did they have a stake? Because they depended on slaves to work on their farms and agriculture‚ and they had already been living a lifestyle dependent on slaves. If they lost slavery‚ the slaves would also gain voting rights eventually‚ and they would then lose power in the government. 2. What is the 13th amendment and why did Lincoln feel he needed to pass the amendment? It is the amendment that would abolish slavery. Lincoln wanted to pass
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In the article “Why Ancient Earth Was So Warm” the key point was to explain why early earth was as warm as it was‚ without a strong sun. The researchers‚ Eric Wolf and Brian Toon‚ go on to explain that the sun was about 70-80 percent as bright as it is today. So it would not warm the earth as much. That was then named the faint young sun paradox. The article then explains how the two greenhouse gases carbon dioxide‚ and methane could have trapped heat in the atmosphere. This would have all been
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Why was the opposition to the state more often unsuccessful than successful in the period 1855 – 1964? Divided opposition. One reason why opposition to the state between 1855 and 1964 was mostly unsuccessful is the divided nature of oppositional forces. One example of this is the Civil War of 1918 where Richard Pipes argued it was a ‘foregone conclusion’ that the Reds would win. The Whites were made up of many different oppositional groups such as the SRs‚ Liberals looking for a tsarist revival
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their full power was realized. However‚ these nations failed in their goal to conquer new land and spread their ideologies. In order to determine their failure‚ we must first analyze their successes. The Axis had many successes at the beginning of World War II. Victories such as the German invasion of Poland had given the Axis an early string of victories‚ which could have brought the Axis great success. Other victories from the Axis include France’s occupation by Germany‚ which was a huge land grab
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the conflicts. The Progressive Era lasted from 1890 to 1920‚ with its beginning being that of a social movement and later becoming a political movement. U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge was a keynote speaker at the 1912 Progressive Party convention. Senator Beveridge summarized the Progressive platform
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1. Under the rule of Brinksmanship and in the Cold War against the Soviet Union‚ a missile gap could mean that the US would not be able to strike back against the USSR and the US would be weaker in negotiations and crises. This made Americans worried about the missile gap because‚ to them it signaled a weakening of American power and a weakening American population‚ unable to keep up scientifically with the Soviets. 2. The purpose of due process is to make sure that laws do no treat people unfairly
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Haig was a significant character for various reasons during World War One‚ most of which were negative. In his earlier days‚ Haig was significant because it was ultimately his leadership that resulted in a number of disasterous losses for the British Army‚ for example the Battle of the Somme (1916) which is still seen as one of the British Army’s biggest failures to this day. His intial failures stem from his backward leadership and poor connection with the British troops. Having said this‚ in the
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