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- 341: El Salvador
- ... drugs, and chemical products. El Salvador has only 384 miles of railroads. But the country has about 1500 miles of government-controlled roads. El Salvador's share of the Pan-American Highway was completed in 1939. Steamship lines connect the various coastal cities. The inland cities are connected by roads or railroads with the ports and with other Central American cities. Postal, telephone, and telegraph systems serve most of El Salvador. Radio broadcasting stations have been established. Several commercial air lines connect the republic with the outside world. Topic 1 ... It remained a Spanish colony attached to Guatemala until 1821. In that year El Salvador revolted and won its independence from Spain. El Salvador then became part of the Central American Confederation. Francisco Morazan, leader of the Confederation, made San Salvador his headquarters after he had been driven from Guatemala. The Confederation was finally broken up in 1839, and almost ...
- 342: Labor Unions
- ... the strike. It ended in a victory for the shoemakers. Similar victories were soon won by other trade unions. These successes led to big increases in union membership. Yet most American workers were generally better off than workers in Europe and had more hope of improving their lives. For this reason, the majority did not join labor unions. In the years following the Civil War (1861-1865), the United States was transformed by the enormous growth of industry. Once the United States was mainly a nation of small farms. By 1900, it was a ...
- 343: Henry James
- Post-Civil War American Literature saw a transition from the prominence of romance to the development of realism. In the late 1800's, the United States was experiencing swift growth and change as ...
- 344: The Existence of Prejudice: Past and Present
- The Existence of Prejudice: Past and Present Author: Ashley Snow Prejudice and discrimination have been a part of American history since before the Civil War. Throughout history, the government has tried to enact legislation to change the views of society and give equal rights to all people. However, we still find ourselves struggling for ...
- 345: Egyptian Cosmogony
- ... out all types of black music America holds a rich artistic background, expressively reflecting the circumstances and times of their place. Of these creative endeavors, the most cultural and uniquely American music is that of the art of Jazz. Jazz music is a story, idea, or feeling through the infusion of complex rhythm and musical interface, which often comes so effortlessly and naturally to these musicians. Their instruments provided a voice to be heard, a voice that commonly was countered by the ignorance of a young American society. This voice was born from an extreme emotional and spiritual past, where music celebrated was the very essence of life. Religion and Spirit played a major role in life ... New World believed in spirit gods, and the goal of each believer was to be possessed by a spirit in a state of mental and physical convulsion. Soon many African- American rites and celebrations were born, playing a major role in the life of slavery. Jazz is a music with a history and a heart, it is both historically and ...
- 346: The Turbulent Sixties
- The Turbulent Sixties Throughout American history, each generation has sought to individualize itself from all others preceding it. Decades of American history can be separated to represent a distinctive set of values, culture, and political ideals. The 1960's was a decade caught between euphoric, idealistic beginnings and a discordant, violent ... which the generation danced to, marched to, and got high off of. This paper will discuss the ways popular music of the 1960's produced national awareness of the anti-war movements, led to the partialcollapse of the structure of American society, and forever changed the way current generations listen to and buy music. The songwriters of the 1960's ...
- 347: Legalization of Marijana: For
- ... of Marijana: For It's time we put to rest the myth that smoking marijuana is a fringe or deviant activity, engaged in only by those on the margins of American society. In reality, marijuana smoking is extremely common, and marijuana is the recreational drug of choice for millions of mainstream, middle class Americans. According to the most recent NIDA data1 ... the legal status of cannabis, responsible users will adhere to emerging tobacco smoking protocols in public and private places." (NORML,2) It is Time To Stop Arresting Marijuana Smokers. The "war on drugs" is not really about drugs; if it were, tobacco and alcohol would be primary targets. They are the most commonly used and abused drugs in America and unquestionably they cause far more harm to the user and to society than does marijuana. Instead, the war on drugs has become a war on marijuana smokers, and in any war there are casualties. According to the latest FBI statistics, in 1994 nearly one-half million (482, ...
- 348: Reconstruction
- ... entire race. In the South the Reconstruction period was a time of readjustment accompanied by disorder. Southern whites wished to keep blacks in a condition of quasi-servitude, extending few civil rights and firmly rejecting social equality. Blacks, on the other hand, wanted full freedom and, above all, land of their own. Inevitably, there were frequent clashes. Some erupted into race ... have been about equal in competence and honesty to the whites. it is true that these Radical governments were expensive, but large state expenditures were necessary to rebuild after the war and to establish--for the first time on most southern states--a system of common schools. Corruption there certainly was, though nowhere on the scale of the Tweed Ring, which ... looting New York City; but it is not possible to show that Republicans were more guilty than Democrats, or blacks than whites, in the scandals that did occur. If the Civil War was fought to set black slaves free, then Reconstruction proved to be a fight to limit their freedom. Political power was gained by former slaves during the late ...
- 349: Naval Battles
- ... naval battles in world history. Up until that point, all battles had been waged between wooden ships. This was the first battle in maritime history that two ironclad ships waged war. The USS Merrimack was a Union frigate throughout most of its existence, up until the Union Navy abandoned the Norfolk Naval Yard. To prevent the Confederate Navy from using her ... the modifications were complete, the ship was rechristened the CSS Virginia, but the original name the CSS Merrimack is the preferred name. The USS Monitor was the creation of Swedish-American engineer, John Ericsson. The ship was considered small for a warship, only 172 feet long and 42 feet wide. Confederate sailors were baffled by the ship. One was quoted describing ... Northern Navy" (Lavy 4). Wooden ships were now obsolete. Ironclad ships began to roll out of ship yards more often than their wooden counterparts. "The invention of ironclads in the Civil War set examples for the future of ship building in the United States" (Lavy 5). The ironclads were at an advantage over the wooden ships of the two Navies ...
- 350: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
- ... Bureau of Investigation primarily investigated violations of laws involving national banking, bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, naturalization, and neutrality violation. With the April 1917 entry of the United States into World War I (1914-1918), the Bureau was given the responsibility of investigating espionage, sabotage acts, sedition (resistance against lawful authority), and draft violations. When the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act was ... kidnapping statue. In 1934, many other federal criminal statues were passed, and Congress gave Special Agents the authority to make arrests and to carry firearms. During the period of World War II, the FBI's size and jurisdiction greatly increased and included intelligence matters in South America. War for the United States began December 7, 1941, when Japanese armed forces attacked battleships and military facilities at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States immediately declared war on Japan. ...
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