Week 1 RECONSTRUCTION-Reading Assignments: Norton et al.‚ A People and A Nation chapter 16‚ Portrait of America chapter 1 “The Checkered History of the fourteenth Amendment “quiz Identification Terms: Freedmen’s Bureau Tenure of Office Act Ku Klux Klan Scalawags Enforcement Acts Carpetbaggers Compromise of 1877 Sharecropping Reconstruction Acts of 1867 Crop Lien 14th Amendment Black Codes 15th Amendment Week 1 WESTERN SETTLEMENT –Reading assignment Norton A People and A Nation
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Assess the benefits of proportional voting systems. (25) Currently our country uses the voting system ‘First Past the Post’. This system has received a lot of criticism for not being very proportional with the distribution of seats in relation to votes. Other systems like AMS‚ STV and List systems are a lot more proportional. In this essay I will assess the benefits of these systems. One main benefit to these proportional systems is that it ensures seats are proportional to votes. In the
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and Reconstruction Amendments led to more legal forms of disenfranchisement. Gerrymandering practices in the south ensured Democratic majority in state legislatures. This in turn allowed unchallenged‚ indirect disenfranchisement legislation and referendums to become lawful. The first legal disenfranchisement at state level not only affected and discouraged southern blacks from voting but also the poor southern whites. Poll taxes‚ literacy test‚ and prejudicial voter registration requirements were
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in force to this day. Their Second judgement fell when Upper Silesia was wanted by both Poland and Germany during 1921. The Treaty of Versailles had given the people of Upper Silesia the right to have a referendum on whether they wanted to be part of Germany or part of Poland. In this referendum‚ 700‚000 voted for Germany and 500‚000 for Poland. This close result resulted in rioting between those who expected Silesia to be made part of Germany and those who wanted to be part of Poland. The League
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Chapter 4: The Progressive Era 1890-1920 1865- The Salvation Army was started in London by a Methodist Minister as a street corner mission in the Slums 1889- Salvation Army in NYC: Slum Sisters (2 women) went to tenements to care for the sick I. The Drive for Reform Progressivism: social justice Movement in response to social problems in the 1890s (needed new ideas and efficient honest government A. Origins of Progressivism Came from all walks of life: diff political parties‚ social
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As progressivism expanded throughout American cities and towns‚ there was the need to create a solution due to the highly prevalent political and economic issues. However‚ the solution to the problem was not apparent because of the corruption deep within the system in the national and state governments. For a resolution to the many problems present in the country‚ the progressive era was the response of different groups to the problems present. Progressivism focused on promoting new ideas with a
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of government: the legislative‚ judicial‚ and executive. All of those branches suffered productivity decrease in the period of current global crisis but the law system was badly structured from the whole beginning. In 1991‚ after the favorable referendum on accession from Yugoslavia on June 25‚ 1991‚ Slovene assembly has enacted the Basic Constitutional Charter on the Sovereignty and Independence of the Republic of Slovenia which became the legal basis for its independence. The Constitution was
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The policies protectionism and paternalism had a major impact on the freedoms and rights of indigenous people. The major impact was the government controlling the aboriginal’s way of life. Protectionism meant that aboriginals were removed from contact with the white Australians‚ and they were required to live in reservations or in missions with restrictions on their movement and their way of life. The other policy paternalism was about white Europeans acting in a fatherly way to the indigenous people
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the US Constitution requires a two thirds majority of both Houses of Congress and ratification by three quarters of State legislatures. In the Republic of Ireland amendments must be passed by the legislature and then approved by a majority in a referendum. The UK constitution is described as flexible as it requires only the normal procedure to pass on Act of Parliament‚ essentially a majority in both the Houses‚ to change any written law elements. The UK constitution also includes non legal rules
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that Mill’s account of the intrinsic worth of individuality is not useful to modern societies‚ the precision of Mill’s depiction of conformity in conflict with progress and development in society is staggeringly evident. For example‚ in the recent referendum on voting reform‚ we can see how tradition and custom eclipsed a genuine chance for change and development in part of society (voting) which‚ through remaining as a “stagnant pool” had prevented development and change for hundreds of years. EXCELLENT
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