the Ohio “Nativists” as they were called and the immigrants were becoming more and more hostile and the breaking point would come when word came that Archbishop Bedini‚ an emissary of Pope Pius IX‚ would be coming to Cincinnati‚ Ohio‚ during his visit to the United States. The German Protestant immigrants who came to Cincinnati after the Revolution of 1848‚ identified the Archbishop with the cruelty of the royal rulers in their old countries. Their unlikely allies the anti-Catholic Nativist or “Know-Nothing”
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The setting of 12 Angry Men is a jury deliberation room where the jurors are and required to decide the guilt or innocence of an 18 year old that is accused of committing first-degree murder by stabbing his father with a switchblade knife. Witnesses were presented to give evidence of hearing a quarrel; hearing a threat to kill‚ and have seeing the boy run away. Another witness swore to having seen the boy stabbing his father from a window across from where the murder occurred. Eleven jurors were
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19th century and early 20th century‚ immigration to the United States was wrought with challenges. The newly arriving aliens were met with racist native-borns who feared that they would threaten their way of life. This tension between these new groups facilitated the U.S. government’s anti-immigration laws‚ which also caused political outbursts from those who supported immigrants. Despite gaining the Chinese exclusion act during the 19th century‚ nativists were not satisfied. The national people’s
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Keianni Williams February/2/2011 AP U.S History Throughout the years 1880 through 1925 the United States witnessed a rise in immigration. Industrialization provided greater opportunities for Americans. America’s gilded age gave off the illusion of a utopian society. The visions of such society attracted many foreigners from parts of Europe and Asia. Though these foreigners helped with the expansion of the U.S‚ economic‚ political‚ and social tensions arose. These tensions included scarcity
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embraced Buddhism into China as it gave a sense of equality and comfort‚ others essentially responded toward this religion with negative disapproval and was seen as a threat. However‚ Confucian scholars and Emperors evidently show a more fair minded response toward Buddhism. COMPARE Buddhism was greatly praised and welcomed into china as it was brought by the first century. The influence of Buddhism gradually gained converts over time and was supported by Buddha and Chinese scholars.{topic
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DBQ Essay (Part A 2004) When one studies history‚ they will realize and understand that every large movement or spread of controversial ideas will generate a huge variety of responses from people; both supporters and non supporters. With a glance at the information provided in the documents‚ it is evident that the spread of Buddhism from India to China was not an exception and had its own set of responses. Many Chinese scholars desired to extinguish this new spread of ideas and annihilate all
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Document A 1. How did religion influence the Magna Carta? King John of England had unlimited power and was taking large amounts of money without consulting his nobles. Magna Carta is a document that was created to stop the King from abusing his nobles. According to this document anything related to God is exempt from this rule. 2. How did the Magna Carta limit the power of King John? King John was forced to signed the Magna Carta document. This greatly reduced his power. He couldn’t collect
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Christopher Nieves The social tension of the 1920s was to a large extent due to backlash from Nativists and the KKK towards immigrants. With the immigrant surge threatening jobs and tainting the white Anglo-Saxon society‚ the idea of nativism began to proliferate through the minds of native born Americans. Social conflicts often came to violent ends by the hands of members of the “Ku Klux Klan”‚ they too had a nativist mindset however they focused primarily on African Americans but harbored hatred towards
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Grace Chavez Response to Twelve Angry Men 11-4-2013 Twelve Angry Men Twelve angry men is a movie which takes place in a New York jury chamber on one of the hottest days in the year during the deliberation faze. Juror #8 (Henry Fonda) is the only juror out of the twelve who believes that the case they are deciding on should not be open and shut he wants to talk and point out facts of the case. The twelve men in the case must decide on this young boy’s fate‚ who is on trial for the murder of
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Immigration Family is a universal concept: everywhere we go we see happy families with excessive members or even those excited "soon-to-be" families with a newborn on the way. But what if I were to tell you that in 2008‚ out of these "soon-to-be"mothers "eight percent...we’re illegal aliens" (502)? Our founding fathers would encourage us to welcome these "aliens" as they had accepted those wanting to experience democracy and escape from tyrannical rule‚ however most U.S. "natives" nowadays would
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