INTRO Did Hispanics face discrimination in the United States during the 1960s like African Americans? How did their lives improve with reforms? To begin‚ the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement is one of the least studied social movements of the 1960s‚ but is important for Chicano history because the campaign improved a vast amount of issues like farm workers rights‚ to enhanced education‚ as well as housing and immigration rights. The movement followed in the footsteps of the African American
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entitled to this in most states. According to pew research center‚ “In 2012‚ polling finds slightly more support for same-sex marriage (48%) than opposition to it (43%). The public has gradually become more supportive of granting legal recognition to same-sex marriages over the past decade. In 2001‚ roughly one-third of American adults supported gay marriage (35%)‚ while 57% opposed it.”(2)*AM I SUPPOSE TO CITE THIS WITH A NUMBER EVEN THOUGH I STATED WHERE THE INFORMATION CAME FROM?* I believe that the
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From the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century‚ there were lots of reform efforts in an era called the Progressive Era. Many of these reform were extremely successful. Some of the main reforms during the Progressive Era included living conditions in cities as well as reform efforts in the workplace. These reforms were extremely important because they led to happier populus as well as less deaths. During the Progressive Era there was a political party that was called the Progressive
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During the eighteenth century‚ children were expected to be seen and not heard. Society believed all children should be angelic‚ submissive and in fear of God. Many of the Romantic writers challenged these ideas in their prose and poetry. Some of the more interesting and controversial thoughts come from such writers as Blake‚ Coleridge and Wordsworth. The romantics esteemed children because they were innocent and close to nature. Youngsters had tended to be included in family groups‚ dressed as young
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World War I broke out in 1914‚ but the United States did not join the conflict until 1917. The regimes involved in the war did much to present their cause as the just or virtuous cause. Many posters stressed patriotism or staunchness toward one’s nation. Nationalism was a prevalent theme in World War I posters. Nationalism is extreme pride in one’s nation‚ or the conception that one’s nation is superior to others. European nations emboldened nationalism in regime-sponsored posters by appealing to
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1) Describe the underlying reasons for the rapid growth of crime laboratories in the U.S. since the late 1960s. In the 1960’s the world’s crime rate had went up with more crimes and more drug activity more then ever. Crime labs were keeping up with the times as well as the crime. As the years went on more crime labs got more technical and got new equipment and started to branch out into different units which meant that they were able to get more scientist and which led to being able to open more
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issues being would the United states be a dissolvable group of sovereign states (The Confederacy) or an indivisible nation with a central government; the other being if the nation announcing itself to the world as an equal nation where all are created equal would maintain its identity as the largest slave owning country in the world. In January 1861‚ seven Southern slave states individually declared their withdrawal from the United States of America and formed the Confederate States of America. Abraham
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serving a population 4 times as big as the United States. This led to smaller investment in Argiultar and limited China from producing or importing modern manufacturing equipment which causes the manufacturing plants to be some years behind modern western manufactories. In addition the central government inefficiency to make fast decision and be flexible among the difference region caused China to have a growing imbalance between industrial and argicular growth. In 1957 Mao Zedong noticed that the industries
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many nations were going through hard times and did not want to engage in another war. WWI had just ended about 20 years ago and still were recovering their economy. To avoid wars nations came up with policies and treaties with other nations in order to keep the piece. The US‚ UK and france all wanted to prevent the war. UK‚US and france came up with things like the neutrality laws‚ policy of appeasement‚ and the five power treaty The United States were a huge arsenal for WWI which was one of the
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Developments in transportation‚ rather than in manufacturing and agriculture sparked economic growth in America in the first half of the nineteenth century. The developments in transportation helped the economy of America to compete with European nations. There was much growth due to the new transportation systems of canals. With the creation of canals came a less expensive way for westerners to transport goods from the west. This also made it easier for Westerners to market their goods to the North
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