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- 251: Fireside Chat
- ... administration upheld the belief that welfare would destroy the character of the American people. Near the end of Hoover’s disappointing term in office, he signed a law creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. This organization could loan up to 2 billion dollars to banks, insurance companies, and railroads. Hoover’s last ditch attempt to help the economy was too little, too ...
- 252: Facts Behind The Great Depress
- ... and public works, modification of the rules of the Federal Reserve System to make it easier for people in business and farming to obtain credit, and the establishment of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), with assets of $2 billion, to make emergency loans to industries, railroads, insurance companies, and banks. Nevertheless, the economic depression steadily worsened during the remainder of the ...
- 253: Emancipation Proclamation
- ... Citizenship privileges were supposed to go along with this. Though some blacks did gain from this, things were still very hard for them. The Fifteenth Amendment, the final step in Reconstruction, added on to the assistance of the recently freed. Ratified in 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment prohibited states from denying black people the right to vote. The combination of the Emancipation ...
- 254: Developement Of Europe
- ... in the country itself, France estimated that Germany owed it at least 200 billion dollars. France’s major economic concerns were the rebuilding of war-torn areas and the general reconstruction of the county. Being deeply in debt forced France to take a strong stance on the issues of reparations. Finally, there is Germany’s economic conditions. Germany claimed that reparations ...
- 255: Civil War 9
- ... 1860 and 1877. Some of the major events that took place during this time period were the secession of the southern states, Civil War, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendment, and reconstruction. In 1860, South Carolina declared their causes of secession. South Carolina was the first state to secede, and their main reason was that their powers were restrained by the federal ...
- 256: Collective Memory
- ... the future state of Palestine. The date for this states declaration of existence has changed numerous times during the past few years. Yael Zerubavel writes about Collective remembering and Zionist reconstruction of the past. I do not agree with the historian that Zerubavel talks about in his writings. I feel that Halbwach’s view of history expressed as “collective memory”. Collective ...
- 257: Civil War: Northern Attitudes
- ... following the collapse of the Southern armies in 1865. Michigan Senator Zachariah Chandler was nationally known during and after the Civil War for his support of a radical policy for Reconstruction in the South. The Civil War hastened Michigan’s change from an agricultural to an industrial state. By 1880 manufacturing had increased threefold, and rapid industrialization continued. Detroit’s manufacturing ...
- 258: Civil War Causes And Reconstru
- ... These are just a couple of the reasons the Civil War began, but the fighting was all just an interruption in the real struggle, the violence and bloodshed solved nothing. Reconstruction after the war tried to resolve these issues while trying to create a balance that would work, but both of the sides were very stubborn and would not give up ...
- 259: Compare And Contrast The Attit
- ... collected 6 percent of the vote in 1912. The socialist doctrine demands state ownership and control of the fundamental means of production and distribution of wealth, to be achieved by reconstruction of the existing capitalist or other political system of a country through peaceful, democratic, and parliamentary means. The doctrine specifically advocates nationalization of natural resources, basic industries, banking and credit ...
- 260: Cold War 4
- ... and systematically slaughtered by the Soviet military. Poland was a different story. After the fall of Khushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev came into power. He instituted many reforms such as military cuts, reconstruction of agriculture, openness to the government, and democratization. Because of some of these reforms, the revolts of Poland were not a bloody massacre as the first two, but effective displays ...
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