America wrote the Constitution‚ Bill of Rights and other important documents in English but still failed to make English the official language. The fact that English was not the official language of America didn’t really matter because immigrants would care enough to learn English or at least have their children learn English but now they don’t even seem to care to learn the American language. English is what kept America together even though it was becoming a melting pot (Turbak). These people believe
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What Patriotism Means to Me Patriotism means to love and fight for your country. Just like our heroic forefathers I think we should pursue the same dream. Many role models had patriotism. For example‚ Patrick Henry was famous for the quote “Give me liberty or give me death”. He meant that he would risk his life for the freedom of his country. To me I think patriotism means not only being willing to fight for our country‚ but trying to change it. Like Martin Luther King‚ Jr who had one of the biggest
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The power of the United States to intervene between the conflict of Texas and Mexico is another act of being a hegemon and to show its power and dominance over others. Mexico‚ an autonomous state composed of lands from West Coast after its independence from Spain in 1821‚ worked to gain a stable government and sees the United States as a threat because United States seeks to expand its land to the South. The result is an unstable and poor economic‚ social and political condition Mexico is in. Texas
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the new land and tried their best to survive and build their own colonies. These settlers were in search of a source of labor which would increasingly aid them in building plantations and cities. As they progressed into the land they found that it was very difficult to enslave the Natives of the land and also wanted a cheaper source of labor than source than indentured servants. Thus‚ these colonists chose the cheap‚ and easy to catch and control Africans. The Europeans started importing them during
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April 21‚ 1898‚ the United States declared war against Spain. ... The reasons for war were many‚ but there were two immediate ones: America’s support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule‚ and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor. Spanish-American War definition. A war between Spain and the United States‚ fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of Cuba. ... The United States acquired Puerto Rico
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People don’t realize how important it is to vote. Many think one vote won’t hurt anything‚ but if everyone had that mentality no one would ever vote. It is very important to know who you are voting for and putting in office‚ but how do you know who you are truly voting for. Does he share the same religion as you? Is he a conservative or liberal? Or what kind of bills is he trying to pass? These are some basic questions that should be asked when looking at who’s running for office. After all the
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plaguing African Americans and minorities in the United States of Americas. Since the abolition of slavery African Americans and minorities have found it difficult to find affordable housing and integrate into mostly white communities. These problems can be traced back to the Jim Crow Laws. These set of prejudicial beliefs made it impossible for non-whites to live near or within white communities or even associate with whites. Jim Crow ordinances were made illegal by the Supreme Court back in 1917
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On August 6‚ 1945‚ the world witnessed a display of unimaginable power in the form of an atomic bomb being deployed by the United States on Hiroshima‚ Japan. Innocent citizens heard an imaginable thunder‚ that was nothing short of earth-shattering. The decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was not taken lightly. The Manhattan Project‚ a top-secret American scientific endeavor‚ worked tirelessly to develop a weapon of unprecedented power. The successful test of the first atomic bomb‚ codenamed
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The United States motive for pursuing nuclear proliferation is one of the cornerstones of American history and American foreign policy. The initial interest in building a nuclear weapon was in response to Nazi Germany scientists successfully developing fission in 1939 in Berlin1. After successful experiments by American scientists‚ and the possibility of uranium being transferable to a bomb‚ Albert Einstein‚ through Alexander Sachs delivered a note to President Roosevelt2 . In his letter Einstein
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Nullification in the United States can be defined as a legal‚ constitutional theory that gives any one of the states the right to declare any law passed by congress null and void that that particular state feels is unlawful or unconstitutional. It has been said that this theory has never been legally sustained by the federal court. The federal and state courts‚ not to mention the Supreme Court‚ have frequently rejected the idea of Nullification. All of the courts banded together and came to the decision
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