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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two presidents. In the United States‚ a president can only hold two consecutive terms of four years each. The limit on terms is alike for the France president‚ except that a term consists of five years‚ which was brought down from seven since the referendum on the reduction of the mandate in the year 2000. For the nomination process of both countries‚ a president is elected from a pool of contenders‚ though the procedure in determining what candidates participate in the presidential election are
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World War One was a war that affected Australia‚ its culture and history in ways that are still prevalent in today’s society. The hardships that the war placed on the country and its people helped to allow Australia to adapt and change to manage these issues in the best way possible for the continuation of Australia’s prosperity and cultural growth. However this also brings up the question as to whether or not World War One did not actually help bring the people of Australia together‚ but instead
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named Macklemore. Macklemore has recently reached number one on The Billboard Hot 100 with his song “Thrift Shop” and his voice has become very influential to his mainstream fan base. “Same Love” was recorded during the campaign for Washington Referendum 74‚ which legalized same-sex marriage in Washington State in 2012. The song has peaked at number eleven on The Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and has reached number one in Australia and New Zealand. “Same Love” is the first song about
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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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