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    Malayshia Green Constitutional Law Case Brief #2 Team 2 Facts: The Child Labor Act of 1916, prohibited shipment of goods in interstate commerce factories that employed children; under the age of fourteen. Roland Dagenhart and his two minor sons worked at the mill in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dagenhart brought an injunction against the Act, claiming that it was not a regulation of interstate and that the law was unconstitutional. . (The Oyez Project) Procedural History: The North Carolina district

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    San Antonio, Texas is not just a tourist spot, and there are lots of cultural festivals is going on for the whole year. The events, lots of local people join with the tourist visitors from all around the world. Some of the cultural festivals are: Celebrate San Antonio on New Year’s Eve, BorderFest, San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, El Dia De Los Muertos, Texas Sandfest, Memorial Day Arts & Crafts Show, Fiesta San Antonio, etc. Now we are giving you the list for the whole year, thinking that you may

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    history that lives within the San Antonio River and the importance of it to San Antonio. He mentions that the Spaniards passed the River on 1691 which lead them to name the river, "San Antonio de Padua" to highlight the feast day of St. Anthony of Padua. The Spaniards chose San Antonio as the homestead of a defensive station between Spanish settlements on the Rio Grande and the Spanish border with French Louisiana to the northeast. The spring waters in the San Antonio River were known as the Blue Hole

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    Alamo Quarry in San Antonio, Texas. He conveys to the reader that the Alamo Quarry Markey that most San Antonioans know today is not what it was originated to be. The Alamo Quarry was originally the Alamo Cement Company in 1908. It was the hub for the striving cement industry for San Antonio. After the material at its original site was exhausted, the plant was moved to a place that came to be known as Cementville. Soon after the Alamo Cement Company was abandoned-The City of San Antonio saw an opportunity

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    missionaries along a 12.4 kilometer (7.7-mile) stretch of the San Antonio River in southern Texas in the early part of the 18th century. These missions tell a story of the Spanish colonial period in North America, and the efforts of the Spanish Crown to convert natives to Catholicism and protect and sustain New Spain’s northern frontier. The five missions are: San Jose, Espada, San Juan, Concepcion, and The Alamo/San Antonio de Valero. The San Antonio Missions also represents a blending of cultures-that of

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    San Antonio History

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    Alamo is an 18th-century mission church in San Antonio, Texas It was originally built to be the church for the Mission San Antonio de Valero began as a Catholic mission and compound in 1718, one of many Catholic missions organized as part of the official Spanish plan to Christianize Native Americans and colonize northern New Spain. The first of five missions to built in what would become San Antonio, the mission was established by Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares, of the College

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    In chapter 1 of On the Border: An Environmental History of San Antonio, Char Miller introduces the reader to the environmental background of the San Antonio region. He explains that throughout San Antonio there is a lot of rich environmental history due to the human environmental interactions and the physical setting of San Antonio. He also answers the question of why San Antonio was established at its location. He conveys this through three answers that he calls environmental factors. These factors

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    The Alamo Research Paper

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    the Alamo in San Antonio. It was really interesting, and we stayed there all day so we wouldn’t miss a thing. There is a lot of history behind this historic landmark, and it’s amazing that it is still here today! The Alamo used to be a old mission. It was established as Mission San Fransisco de Selano, where Spanish mission Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares converted people to Catholicism. The mission we know today as the Alamo was established as Mission San Antonio de Valero in

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