Chapter 24: An Age of Limits Section 1: The Nixon Administration. A) Nixon’s New conservatism President Richard M. Nixon entered office in 1969 determined to turn America in a more conservative direction. Toward that end‚ he tried to instill a sense of order into a nation still divided over the continuing Vietnam War. 1) NEW FEDERALISM Nixon’s plan‚ known as New Federalism‚ was to distribute a portion of federal power to state and local governments. Under revenue sharing‚ state and local
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The Civil Rights Movement took place between 1865 and 1920. It was a movement for blacks to achieve equal rights in the United States but it didn’t end racial discrimination. American slaves were delivered due to the Civil War and were later given basal civil rights through the acceptance of the Fourteenth amendment‚ addresses the equal protection and rights of former slaves‚ and the Fifteenth amendment‚ granted African-American men the right to vote. A struggle to secure these amendments continued
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Major Problems in American History Volume I: to 1877; 3rd ed. Chapter 2: The Southern Colonies in British America Introduction * April 26‚ 1907 – group of ships bearing 128 men sailed into the Chesapeake Bay; began the settlement of Jamestown --►first successful plantation in the Americas * English had attempted to establish colonies in locations as varied as present-day Maine and Virginia --►but all had failed * Colony’s early years were horrific * Colonists were more interested
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encouraged followers to use the Bible as a moral compass rather than to believe that the Bible represented scientific or historical truth. Many Liberal Protestants became active in the “social gospel” and other reform movements of the era. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) An organization founded in 1890 to demand the vote for women. NAWSA argued that women should be allowed to vote because their responsibilities in the home and family made them indispensable in the public decision-making
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Hamilton. As a young child Hamilton worked for a merchant‚ he was later on sent to the American colonies to be educated. At only sixteen years old‚ young Hamilton was off on his own. “Hamilton at the time‚ was enrolled in King’s College (now Columbia University) but due to the war with British his studies were cut short” (Enote.com). He played a big role during the war in 1755.“In 1775‚ after the first engagement of American troops with the British at Lexington and Concord‚ Hamilton and other King’s College
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How Jacob Riis’ “How the Other Half Lives” Brought Social Change via Photography Jacob Riis’ “How the Other Half Lives” brought to light the disparity between the exorbitantly wealthy of New York and the immigrants who live in the slums such as the Five Points. Urban populations grew exponentially in the United States when floods of immigrants entered through Ellis Island. During the turn of the 20th century corruption was embedded in every aspect of industry‚ economy‚ justice‚ and politics. This
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Prince Hall was an African American‚ and considered one of the most prominent citizens of Boston‚ during the revolutionary period. He is also known as the father of Black Masonry. He is noted to be the founder and master of the African Lodge of the Honorable Society of Free and accepted Masons of Boston‚ which is the world’s first black Masonic lodge. Today this lodge is called African Lodge Number 459. African Lodge Number 459 is the foundation‚ or cornerstone‚ for the organization which still
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‘The actions of Native Americans themselves contributed nothing to the advancement of their civil rights in the period 1865 to 1992’. Native Americans admittedly‚ did surprisingly little in the initial two thirds of the period‚ despite the Plains Wars and other small-localized armed resistance during the nineteenth century; the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1889 effectively marked the end to such resistance. Whilst it can be argued that their efforts were at best lukewarm during the beginning‚
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African-American history is the portion of American history that discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of captive Africans held in the United States as slaves from 1619 to 1865. The history of African Americans in the United States has been an irony of incredible accomplishments in the face of human tragedies. Without the study of Black History there would be no American History. African American History should
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The American West was viewed as a land of opportunity and success for many people of different racial and financial backgrounds during the time between 1865 to 1890. However‚ the extent of success from the opportunity varied on multiple factors. For the homesteader‚ opportunity was based upon good weather conditions and hard work but mostly only large scale corporations succeeded. Mining provided little for the average miner; large mining industries profited instead.. At some point West was the land
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