In the year 2000‚ there was only about 8.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. A few years later‚ we added up to 11 million undocumented people. Statistics shows that 86 percent of those people have lived in America for about seven years or more. The majority of undocumented people try to live in a friendlier state‚ if possible‚ to avoid deportation. States like‚ Arizona‚ Utah‚ Georgia‚ Indiana‚ Alabama‚ and South Carolina have applied immigration enforcement laws that target illegal
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Secretary of State‚ George C. Marshall‚ stated in his speech that‚ “The role of this country should consist of friendly aid in the drafting of a European program and of later support of such a program so far as it may be practical for us to do so.” Marshall’s speech at Harvard University helped show the impact that the United States could make on European countries by helping restore the political and economic crisis that had happened due to World War II. As a result of the many disasters that happened
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Our government is known as one of the best standing democracies in the world‚ and it also has our president under the title of “Leader of the Free World”. However‚ how did our country’s government become this superpower today? What challenges did it have to pull through to get here today? It may come as a surprise‚ but our government wasn’t always the powerhouse it is after the Revolutionary War. We didn’t even have the Constitution at that time. That’s why people should educate themselves on the
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By the late 19th and early 20th centuries‚ the roots of imperialism had gone deep into the policy and mentality of the United States; this in turn affected the state’s relations with other nations. It became an age of imperialism‚ with American influence increasing all over the world for various reasons‚ like economic interest‚ strategic interest‚ or even belief in cultural superintendence. Thus‚ imperialism defined the foreign policies of the country through a more aggressive application to international
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Japans origin as a country goes back to 30‚000 B.C.‚ throughout this long period of time their Government system has undergone many changes. In comparison to the United States of America‚ which is roughly 200 years old‚ and has kept the same system of Government. These country’s seem very different from affair. However‚ as we take a closer look their Government is more alike than people realize. The history of Japan has two prominent eras‚ Feudal era‚ and the Modern era. Japan’s Feudal era
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Being a president is one of the biggest honors you can get in the whole world. How could one mess up their chances‚ there are so many great and good presidents in U.S history but there are a couple bad ones like James Buchanan‚ the first and only Pennsylvania born president. How did he become president? James Buchanan was born April 23‚ 1791‚ at Cove Gap‚ Pennsylvania. His first political time was running for a seat in the U.S. House‚ which he won. Being young‚ he was a prominent leader of the Amalgamator
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Did you know that Alexander Hamilton helped save the United States as you know it? He did this by being a Federalist‚ the nation’s first Secretary of Treasury‚ an author of the Federalist papers‚ and much more. But he was not born in the United States and he was not a Founding Father. Although he was not a Founding Father of the United States‚ Alexander Hamilton was one of our most important political influencers and did many things to make the United States how it is today. In October‚ 1787‚ Hamilton
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Germans had declared unlimited German submarine warfare and the Zimmermann note. The German had totally disregarded the international laws protecting neutral nation’s ships by sinking neutral ships. We warned the Germans one too many times and they did not take us seriously so in 1917 we finally had enough and we joined the war. The Germans had decided that they would sink any ship they wanted without warning even if it was a merchant ship. This had upset the Americans because they soon started
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Party in 1904. Later‚ Winston Churchill successfully helped his allies win World War 2 and defeat the Axis powers. Churchill started suffering from a series of strokes in June of 1953‚ at the age of 78‚ but he returned to work as the Prime Minister in October of that year. With his health declining‚ Churchill retired as the Prime Minister in 1955‚ but he remained on the Parliament until the general
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the Federal Reserve Act and more. He believed in liberal values such as capitalist development‚ democracy‚ and free trade. He also believed that the United States could lead the world in a new international system based on peaceful commerce and political stability. It was argued that the United States must use its colossal moral and material power to create the new order; a principle that soon led America into Europe’s most devastating war. In August of 1914‚ WWI had begun with
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