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- 761: Did The Congress Made Amendment 14 to Punish the South?
- Did The Congress Made Amendment 14 to Punish the South? Amendment #14 punished the south for the entire rebellion, and the Civil War. The way that Congress made the law made it seem that it was helping the Freedmen, however, most of the sections are directed to the south, or made so that ... that debts incurred in aid of rebellion are void. This drastically hurts the people who supported the south. If someone had sold products to the south, expecting that after the war they would get paid a great sum of money, than they would get nothing from the United States government and nothing from those states. This was a sort of " ...
- 762: Caesar
- ... Crassus in 53 BC. and the great success of Caesar in Gaul eventually destroyed Caesars relationship with Pompey. On January 10, 49 BC., Caesar crossed the Italy border which started civil war. Caesars stronger army defeated Pompeys army and forced Pompey to withdraw to Greece. In 49 BC., Caesar was appointed dictator of Rome and in 44 BC. he was appointed dictator ... death, his adopted son Octavian took his place as dictator. Besides being a great leader, he was also an accomplished orator and writer. His two surviving works On the Gallic War and On the Civil War introduced personal war commentaries into our literature. To sum things up, Gaius Julius Caesar was a powerful leader in our history. Caesar struggled to ...
- 763: Trends In Policing
- ... female prisoners and to positions as police matrons. Police department didn t see women as regular police officers until the turn of the century, and by the end of World War I, more than 220 cities employed police women. Women were actually welcomed into the police departments where they were assigned to handle cases involving children and women. The second era ... disassociate the policing from politics. Police were to become professionals whose charge was to enforce the law, fairly and impartially. As time went on, some departments mounted an all-out war on crime and the social service function became of lessor importance, and in some cases nonexistent. The two keys to this war were preventive patrol in automobiles and rapid response to calls, which is the style of policing that most Americans are familiar with and have come to expect. With this ...
- 764: Consensus Historians
- ... to Boorstin's work" (Sternsher pg. 15). In Boorstin's work he takes on many elements of anti-progressive and left to right course of development due to the cold war. In one of his book's called, The Genius of American Politics, he points out how unique its past was. He wanted to stress that that American people, politics, and ... the world and the people must cherish this and embrace it. In the words of J.R. Pole in the Pastmaster, "during the period when the international crisis of Cold War was compounded by the domestic crisis of McCarthyism, and part of the purpose was to give his countrymen some historical bearing by which they could help to steady themselves" (Kraus & Joyce pg. 322). Boorstin then went on to publish a series of essays which were on subjects of the American Revolution, Civil War, and American Theory. His main points in these essays were to show that there was little conflict and change in American History ( Kraus & Joyce pg.323). He also ...
- 765: The Monitor and the Virginia
- The Monitor and the Virginia The U.S.S Monitor and the C. S. S. Virginia were the first ironclads to grace the waters of the American Civil War. Their battle in 1862 at Newport News Point is still considered one of the best and most exciting naval engagements of all times. The reason people think of it as ... the battle of the "Monitor and the Merrimack" is because the Merrimack had been the Virginia's name when she was still a union ship. Since the Union won the war, they wrote the history with their name for her. When rebel forces were about to invade the port at Norfolk, the U.S.S. Merrimack along with every other ...
- 766: Stephen Vicent Benet: An American Poet
- ... S. - d. March 13, 1943, New York, NY), American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best known for John Brown’s Body, a long narrative poem on the American Civil War (Fenton). Born into a military family, Stephen was raised on military posts by his father, Colonel James Benét. “His father read poetry aloud to Stephen, an older brother, William Rose ... all of whom became writers” (Fenton). Stephen was 17, a student at Yale University, when he published his first book, entitled Five Men and Pompey (Fenton). “Civilian service during World War I interrupted his education at Yale Univerisity. When the war was over he returned to Yale. In 1919, he received his master of arts degree, submitting his third volume ...
- 767: Presidential Anomalies
- ... one month into his term. In 1860, candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected President and had to preside over America’s greatest crisis. He was reelected in 1864 and saw the Civil War come to a successful conclusion. At his second inaugural address, Lincoln said “with malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; bind up the nations wounds.” Shortly after the war’s end, a fanatical Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, assassinated him. In 1880, Ohio Congressman James A. Garfield won the election despite a very slim lead in popular votes, ...
- 768: Lincoln's Battle With His Cabinet
- ... as the greatest president ever to stand at America's helm. This reputation is extremely well deserved, as Lincoln was able to preserve the Union and gain victory in the civil war, despite his fighting an uphill battle against his own presidential cabinet. Had he not been struggling against this divided government, President Lincoln could have achieved victory with extreme efficiency and ... He grew so furious with the President's capable rule that he finally resigned his position (Williams 202). Another weak link in Lincoln's cabinet was his first secretary of war, Simon Cameron. He was considered an honest politician, being that he "would stay bought when he was bought." His reputation as a swindler caused dissent among the cabinet, and ...
- 769: Genghis Khan
- ... began to look beyond their homeland and Genghis Khan was poised to begin on his great adventure of world conquest. Genghis Khan’s new nation was organized, above all, for war and Genghis used the same techniques in disciplining his armies as he had in his earlier years. Initially his troops consisted only of cavalry, riding the hardy Mongol pony, which ... his generals. He himself was compelled to turn his efforts away from China and carry out the conquest of Khwarezm. The governor of the city of Otrar had provoked this war when he massacred a group of Muslim merchants who were under the protection of the Mongols. War with Khwarezm would have come sooner or later anyway, but through this act it became necessary. It was in this war that the Mongols earned their reputation for savagery ...
- 770: Inside The IRA
- ... parliament, and declared the sovereignty of Northern Ireland as part of the Republic of Ireland. The response of the British government was to ban all of these Institutions and declare war on the new Irish Democracy. Guerilla tactics in this war established the basis for modern guerilla warfare. The war lasted until 1921, when, with no question of a surrender of arms, the IRA called a truce. Things went back to normal and Britain began ruling Northern Ireland again. ...
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