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    to solve the situation. Police officers uses nerve gas‚ batons‚ pepper spray and guns to or physically intimidate the civilians. But the question is that should it be necessary every time or for different kind of race? In August 2014‚ in Ferguson Missouri was stop violent protests continue for four days and months after a police officer Darren Wilson killed an unarmed named black male Mike Brown. After the three months the grand jury had made

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    Trevon Franklin Ms. Gregory Missouri History 31 October 2017 Granville Allen Granville Allen was born in 1910‚ in Kansas City‚ Missouri. Granville was the 7th person ever to be executed at the Missouri State Penitentiary. He was executed at age 28 on October 28th‚ 1938. Granville lived with his mother and some other relatives. Granville Allen was convicted in the Jackson County Circuit Court on the murder of Howard Preston. He shot Preston to death after he searched Preston’s pants and then threatened

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    rest of America. The Missouri Compromise can be an example as well‚ when they applied to become a state‚ it was being considered however James Tallmadge Jr. introduced an amendment that created a rift being those who were pro slavery and against it. When you look at American history between 1785-1850‚ it can be said that America can never add without dividing; this statement is correct in saying that and it can be backed up with the effects of the Louisiana Purchase and the Missouri Compromise‚ which

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    of Dr. Emerson. Dred Scott sued for his freedom in the Missouri Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis on April 6‚ 1846 . Dred Scott’s legal suit is for assault and false imprisonment: “A slave could be punished and kept as property‚ but a free person could not.” From 1833 to 1843‚ he lived in the free state of in Illinois and in a part of the Louisiana Territory‚ where slavery was prohibited by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Missouri compromise controlled slavery in the western territories

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    the Missouri Compromise as well as the extension of slavery into the western territories. They supported the concept of admitting Kansas as a free state‚ and hoped to restore the nation to the principles and standards of Washington and Jefferson. The emergence of the Republican Party was a primary cause of the Civil War through its opposition to the repealing of the Missouri Compromise‚ sectional bias‚ and nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the Presidential Election of 1860. The Missouri Compromise

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    In 1868‚ the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution because of the concern related to the status of protection extended to the newly freed slaves against mistreatment by the states recently freed slaves. The Fourteenth Amendment offered a solution to these discriminatory laws simply guaranteeing “due process of law”‚ requiring the legal system to provide fundamentally fair trial procedures and “equal protection of laws”‚ and thereby requiring the government to treat all persons with equal

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    and liberal interpretations of his own authority‚ proclaimed the freedom of any slave confiscated under his command in Missouri. This order ran counter to Lincoln’s war strategy and threatened to deliver Kentucky and other border - states to the Confederacy. Nevertheless‚ although Fremont’s decision was injudicious and unconstitutional according to Lincoln‚ the conditions in Missouri‚ the strategic importance of holding that state‚ and the latitude given by the ministration to Fremont in his western

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    happy‚ but it didn’t help. The Missouri Compromise was a good plan in theory. It made one state a slave state and another state free. It alternated between the two to keep it even. The Missouri Compromise made Missouri a slave state‚ and made Maine a free state. Eventually‚ they split slave states and free states along the 36-30 parallel‚ which divided the states into North and South. The North became free states and the South became the slave states. The Missouri Compromise helped keep things neat

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    Cosmetology school offers training that helps people land jobs in stable‚ lucrative fields. After all‚ even a recession doesn’t stop people from getting a haircut! Missouri College of Cosmetology‚ a beauty school with campuses in Bolivar and Springfield‚ wants to help students learn about the job opportunities available to them once they complete their program. Here are some of the best jobs that cosmetology and esthetic graduates can look forward to: Salon Owner: Once you become a hairdresser

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    Lab 6-6: Cyclonic Weather Systems The Top 3 Deadliest Tornadoes in the US: 1.The Tri-State Tornado: Date: Wednesday‚ March 18‚ 1925 (F5 tornado) Time: Started around 1:00pm in Missouri and ended around 4:30 in Indiana. Places: Missouri‚ Illinois‚ Indiana‚ Kentucky‚ Tennessee‚ Alabama‚ Kansas‚ etc. Number of fatalities: 747+ (695+ from one tornado) 2.The Great Natchez Tornado: Date: May 7‚ 1840 (scale unknown; could have been an F5-6 tornado) Time: 1:45pm Places: Natchez

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