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2111: Attempt At Reconstruction: ... The failings of these Reconstructions are not as simple as racism, politics, or individual events; to single out one to explain such complicated periods gives an incomplete picture of both history and the nature of racism. The leaders of both the First and Second Reconstructions fell into this trap and sought to solve racial inequality through political means. Their failure to ... In all three states the Republicans controlled the returning boards which had to certify the election results, and in all three states they certified their own parties ticket. As the history books reveal, the crisis was finally overcome when the Southern Democrats agreed to support the Republican Candidate Rutherford B. Hayes, as a part of a larger compromise (The Compromise of ...

2112: The Great Depression: ... went on to become a hero for the war effort and gave inspirational speeches. Jesse Owens great accomplishments on the track field made him one of the most famous in history. While on the Ohio State University track team in 1935 he set a world record in the broad jump (26 feet 8 1/4 ). In 1936 he set a new ... went on to become a hero for the war effort and gave inspirational speeches. Jesse Owens great accomplishments on the track field made him one of the most famous in history. While on the Ohio State University track team in 1935 he set a world record in the broad jump (26 feet 8 1/4 ). In 1936 he set a new ...

2113: WHAT MADE THE AMERICANS EXPAND: ... States. New York: Lodestar Books, 1996. Leuehtenburg, William E., and Bernard Wishy, eds Fronteir and Section. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1961. Turner, Fredrick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. New York: Holt, Tinehart, and Winston Inc., 1962 Turner, Fredrick Jackson. Rise of the New West. New york: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1966. Turner, Fredrick Jackson. The United States 1830-1850. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1965. "Westward Expansion and Regional Differences." An Outline of American History. Downloaded from AOL. March 27, 1999.

2114: The New Deal: ... immediate relief of economic disaster rather than long range recovery. This agency was founded in 1933 to cooperate with the states in relieving hardships caused by unemployment and drought.(Economic History of the U.S., vol. 9). By letting the unemployed draw unemployment payments, it moved American society towards what has been called "the Welfare State." The goal of this program ... temporilary needed to pull the vast members of poor people out of the Depression and back on their feet. World Book Encyclopedia, Vol.14, Britanica Jr Encyclopedia, Vol. 13, Economic History of U.S Vol.9

2115: Crazyhorse: ... reservations one particular event comes to my mind. That event is the Battle of the Little Big Horn. It is one of the few times that the Oglala Sioux made history with them being the ones who left the battlefield as winners. When stories are told, or when the media dares to tamper with history, it is usually the American Indians who are looked upon as the bad guys. They are portrayed as savages who spent their time raiding wagon trains and scalping the white ...

2116: The Contenders: ... union, as a free state, until the closing days of the Buchanan administration. By then several southern states had already seceded. Buchanan had failed. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bergman, Peter M. The Chronological History of the Negro in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. Black, Earl and Black, Merle. The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Brinkley, Alan. American History, A Survey, Vol. 1. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Meltzer, Milton. Milestones to American Liberty: the Foundations of the Republic. New York: Cromwell, 1961. Saturday Evening Post. The Presidents. Indianapolis ...

2117: Vietnam: After thinking about all the things we would learn this year in American history I decided to do my project on the experiences of Vietnam War veterans. There is a lot of controversy as to whether or not the Vietnam War veterans are given ... napalm and defoliants (such as Agent Orange) left many people badly burned, and destroyed the ecology of a country that was mainly agricultural. This is an important part of US history because it was the first war in which there was no clear winner. 57,685 US soldiers were killed, and triple that amount were wounded. Even those who returned to ...

2118: Normandy Invasion: As they prepared for a cross-Channel assault on France, the Western Allies built up on British soil one of the largest and most powerful invasion forces in history. For 2 months before the landing, while troops, equipment, and supplies poured into Britain, the Allied air forces bombed railroads, bridges, airfields, and fortifications in France and Belgium and continued ... Hundreds of warships and innumerable small craft supported the invasion. Between 6:30 and 7:30 A.M., waves of Allied troops moved ashore between Cherbourg and Le Havre in history's largest amphibious operation, involving approximately 5,000 ships of all kinds. About 11,000 Allied aircraft operated over the invasion area. More than 150,000 troops disembarked at Normandy ...

2119: The War Of 1812 And Its Effect: ... with a clear-cut victory, the American people saw the War of 1812 as evidence of the success of the democratic experiment. The war ushered in a period of American history that has frequently been called “the era of good feeling,” a time when, at least on the surface, most Americans felt unified behind a common purpose. The War of 1812 ... revolution that had not really seen combat. That's why so many mistakes were made, but it was also why the United States, was for the first time in its history, united in their fight. Though some of the states like Massachusetts decided not to heed the call of the federal government for troops unless their state was invaded, they still ...

2120: Muckrakers: ... permission, but more importantly operate immorally. This investigation was eventually printed in 1902 and is now considered the work that started the muckraking era (Reiger 121-125). Besides writing her "History of the Standard Oil Company," Ida Tarbell wrote many other muckraking works. She followed the Standard Oil Company saga to write two articles on how the company affected Kansas and ... left no corrupt businessman or politician feeling completely safe, it did not enjoy too much direct success. However, indirectly, it was one of the most powerful journalistic movements of our history. The total circulation of the ten muckraking magazines reached over three million. Also, Upton Siclair's novels The Brass Check and The Jungle went over the hundred thousand mark by ...

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