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- 51: Clement Richard Attlee
- ... be set up, which would allow Newfoundlanders to consider their situation and their future. This would be followed by a referendum. To meet the fear of a future collapse, a reconstruction plan would be developed. This would give the country what was described as "the fairest possible start for the future." The problem with this policy was the expense of the reconstruction plan, estimated at $100 million. Britain could not afford to allocate so many scarce dollars to Newfoundland, whose government, though solvent, did not have large reserves. Perhaps Canada could help ... interested. However, Canadian officials did offer to cooperate with the British in trying to bring about confederation instead of a return to responsible government. By the fall of 1946 the reconstruction plan was dead, and, informally, Britain and Canada had agreed to encourage Newfoundland to join confederation. It was a gamble, and much would depend on the National Convention, whose ...
- 52: Important African American Figures
- ... to this post in 1964. Two years later he was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican, the first black to serve in the upper house since the Reconstruction era and the first ever to be elected by popular vote; he was reelected in 1972. Hurt by a widely publicized divorce and accusations of financial misconduct, he was defeated ... and Keep the Faith Baby! (1964) Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, b. Macon, Ga., May 10, 1837, d. Dec. 21, 1921, was a black American who achieved political prominence during the Reconstruction era. Pinchback, whose mother was an emancipated slave and whose father was white, attended high school in Ohio. In 1862 he ran a Confederate blockade and reached New Orleans, which ... the Negro into the mainstream of American life as quickly as possible." Having begun to recognize the deeper relationships of economics and poverty to racism, King now called for a "reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values." Along with demands for stronger civil and voting rights legislation and for a meaningful poverty budget, he spoke out against the ...
- 53: History of the World Bank
- ... provides are membership subscription quotas, international capital market borrowing (bonds), repayment of loans and retained earnings. The institutions that form the WB group today are: 1. IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development), 2. EDI (Economic Development Institute), 3. IFC (International Finance Corporation), 4. IDA (International Development Association), 5. MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency) and 6. ICSID (International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes). The IBRD was created in 1946 for two purposes: the reconstruction of Europe after WWII and for investment in the developing world. The initial priority (reconstruction of Europe), ends in 1955 and all lending to Europe ends in 1967 and doesn't resume until 1989 with assistance to Central and eastern Europe. Investment in the ...
- 54: Civil Rights Movement 3
- ... group in the United States, have been denied their full civil rights more than any other minority group. Black Americans made significant gains in their struggle for equal rights during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the American Civil War. During Reconstruction, Congress passed several laws to protect blacks' civil rights. The 13th Amend., adopted in 1865, abolished slavery in the United States. In 1868, the 14th Amendment made the former slaves ... schools unconstitutional and later declared to have all schools desegregated. This decision broke down the “separate but equal” principle. In 1957, Congress passed the first federal civil rights law since Reconstruction. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 set up the Commission on Civil Rights to investigate charges of denial of civil rights. It created the Civil Rights Division in the ...
- 55: Famous African Americans
- ... to this post in 1964. Two years later he was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican, the first black to serve in the upper house since the Reconstruction era and the first ever to be elected by popular vote; he was reelected in 1972. Hurt by a widely publicized divorce and accusations of financial misconduct, he was defeated ... and Keep the Faith Baby! (1964) Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, b. Macon, Ga., May 10, 1837, d. Dec. 21, 1921, was a black American who achieved political prominence during the Reconstruction era. Pinchback, whose mother was an emancipated slave and whose father was white, attended high school in Ohio. In 1862 he ran a Confederate blockade and reached New Orleans, which ... the Negro into the mainstream of American life as quickly as possible." Having begun to recognize the deeper relationships of economics and poverty to racism, King now called for a "reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values." Along with demands for stronger civil and voting rights legislation and for a meaningful poverty budget, he spoke out against the ...
- 56: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Innovative Narrative Technique
- ... help) reconstructs the story and understands the meaning of Thomas Sutpen's life. In the novel Absalom, Absalom!, a multiple consciousness technique is used to reassess the process of historical reconstruction by the narrators. Chapter one is the scene in which Miss Rosa tells Quentin about the early days in Sutpen's life. It's here that Rosa explains to Quentin ... reveal for the reader that he/she must make some of their own speculations in order to ascertain some of Sutpen's historical facts. Mr. Compson is creating his own reconstruction of Sutpen's history. Again, Faulkner uses words like “believes” and “doubtless” to make us understand Compson's explanation of the past. The reader is now compelled to believe the ... than just collecting the facts and then recording them, the reader now begins to realize the all history is subject to interpretation. With the reader beginning to question the historical reconstruction of Sutpen's life, Miss Rosa take over the narration in chapter 5. It's important to know that her narrative is in italics. The italics signal a break ...
- 57: Abraham Lincoln 4
- ... of the conservative Blair, reunited the party, and in November 1864 Lincoln was triumphantly reelected. The president's success at the polls enabled him to seek to establish his own Reconstruction policies. To blunt conservative criticism, he met with leading Confederates at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and demonstrated the impossibility of a negotiated peace. The radicals, however, were also dissatisfied. Because of ... of Louisiana, which he had organized. In addition, after the fall of Richmond, he alarmed his critics by inviting the Confederate legislature of Virginia to repeal the secession ordinance. His Reconstruction policies, however, had been determined by military necessity. As soon as the Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, Lincoln withdrew the invitation to the Virginians. He ... a large degree to his excellent sense of timing and his open-mindedness. Thus, he was able to bring about the abolition of slavery and to advocate a policy of Reconstruction that envisaged the gradual enfranchisement of the freedmen. It was a disaster for the country that he did not live to carry it out.
- 58: The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- ... While this is a small hyperbole, it serves as an example of the general mood that pervaded the period from 1865 to 1901. The early dominating factor was, of course, Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a dirty game, and nobody liked it. Johnson fought with congress and the end result proved very little had changed. The South was still largely agrarian, and the North ... Hagedorn 10). The fact that the family was able to live, from all accounts, very harmoniously, is quite astonishing and gives credit to the fine parents who raised young Theodore. Reconstruction's greatest (and perhaps only) accomplishment was the establishment of a basis for industrialization. The basic destruction of the southern agrarian process combined with the greater need for items ...
- 59: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: An Innovative Narrative Technique
- ... help) reconstructs the story and understands the meaning of Thomas Sutpen's life. In the novel Absalom, Absalom!, a multiple consciousness technique is used to reassess the process of historical reconstruction by the narrators. Chapter one is the scene in which Miss Rosa tells Quentin about the early days in Sutpen's life. It's here that Rosa explains to Quentin ... reveal for the reader that he/she must make some of their own speculations in order to ascertain some of Sutpen's historical facts. Mr. Compson is creating his own reconstruction of Sutpen's history. Again, Faulkner uses words like “believes” and “doubtless” to make us understand Compson's explanation of the past. The reader is now compelled to believe the ... than just collecting the facts and then recording them, the reader now begins to realize the all history is subject to interpretation. With the reader beginning to question the historical reconstruction of Sutpen's life, Miss Rosa take over the narration in chapter 5. It's important to know that her narrative is in italics. The italics signal a break ...
- 60: Ku Klux Klan 4
- ... members initiated new members to join their social club. (Ingalls, 9) A year after the creation of the KKK, the onetime social club joined the raising campaign against the Republican Reconstruction. The "new" direction of the Klan was well planned and organized. The Klan was now ready to expand to a bigger group. The Klan adopted a prescript. This was an ... 1872, the federal crackdown had broken the back of the KKK. Because of the restriction and the Act passed violence was isolated but still continued. The KKK was dead, and Reconstruction lived on in southern legend . This would not be the last of the KKK. On the night of Thanksgiving in 1915, sixteen men from Atlanta, Georgia climbed to the top ... long cross and burned it. One week later, this group applied for a state charter making it "The Knights of the KKK, Inc." This was put in effect during the Reconstruction. The new Klan at first received little attention. Only in time, it became the biggest and most powerful Klan in history. Klan membership was limited to native-born, white, ...
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