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    Presentation Speech: Slide 1: Prelude to the Civil Rights Movement 1950s First, to see how we have gotten to the point of where society is at today, we need to know where we have come from. We can trace the roots of the civil rights movement back to the late 1940s and 1950s, starting with World War 2. During the war, the military was kept segregated, which kept white supremacy prominent. For example, blacks had separate drafts which limited into what branch they could serve. The Air Corps and Navy

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    Freedom of Expression Must be Upheld in America It's the amendment all United States citizens know: the first. This amendment is so huge that there is even an organization dedicated to protecting the rights guaranteed by it called the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Some people nowadays disagree with the idea that freedom of expression is guaranteed, believing only freedom of speech and religious practices are express rights given by the constitution in the first amendment, and that the

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    The American Revolutionary War was actually stemmed from the political and economic conflicts between American colonist and the British government. This war for independence of a new country actually could be called as the American rebels. The military action evolved though four distinct phases. The phase one continued for 2 years. On April 19, 1775, The Revolutionary War began with the gunfire at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. The blasting fuse was the British attempt to arrest rebel government

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    Healing springs, sacred ground where corpses of fallen Civil War soldiers once lay and a 124-acre farm memorialize Willoughby Run and its environs as a hallowed place in history. Here in the sprawling Pennsylvania countryside in and around Gettysburg, a fierce battle between the Blue and Gray broke out on July 1, 1863. The deadly, albeit decisive, Gettysburg Campaign erupted early that morning at a shallow stream called Willoughby Run. On that first day of battle, a combination of brilliant strategy

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    prevalent and disputes were resolved. Third parties even began to receive some real popular support. Recently, however, this theme has been on the decline. The political polarization of today has changed the scene of politics from a real courthouse where civil Democrats debate respectable Republicans to a conjured battlefield where militant Communists contend with fanatical Fascists. What is missing from today’s society that has precipitated this result? Well, what do you need to do to destroy a civilized

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    WAS THE CIVIL WAR INEVITABLE? Shannon Olivolo History 101: US History I 5 May 2017 The American Civil War was one of the bloodiest and deadly wars in US history, with over two percent of the population dying during war from either disease or injuries (Reilly 2016). One may question why this war was the most deadly in history and could it have been prevented. A vast majority of historians will argue that this war was inevitable due to many precipitating factors, mainly being the invention

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    The secession crisis was a radical movement in United States history that ultimately led to one of the most notorious conflicts within the country, the American Civil War. This crisis was a prelude to the war; it began when eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union. Twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the United States, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the Confederate States of America. As a result, even

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    The statements by Sharon and Port Huron published in 1960 and 1962 respectively emphasize on the idea of defending the United States citizens. The two statements rely on the Declaration of Independence as the primary source of their arguments. The young authors present an opinion regarding the approach needed by the future government in addressing the future of the nation. However, despite the noted similarities, the two statements differ in regards to their conclusions as to how the U.S should continue

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    The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The result of a long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. The nationalists of the Union proclaimed loyalty to the U.S. Constitution. They faced secessionists of the Confederate States of America, who advocated for states' rights to expand slavery. Among the 34 U.S. states in February

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    Nevertheless, back in China, it was a lawless decade dominated by rapacious warlords. Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, led a campaign called Northern Expedition from 1926 to 1928 to control China by defeating the warlords. But he faced relentless Japan’s attack, and in the 1919 Versailles Treaty, Western power return Shandong Province to Japan instead. Japan then seized Manchuria and controlled China by assigning Puyi as puppet ruler. Chinese immigrants were eager to help, but soon American mired

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