Rebekkah George Mrs. Lopez English 1H January 23‚ 2015 The Reckless Decade The 1890’s were a prominent time period teeming with racism‚ segregation‚ and many notable authors‚ such as: Emily Dickinson and Ida B. Wells. The fact that the economic systems of the African Americans continued to improve in the 1890’s infuriated the whites‚ leading them to create preposterous voting regulations. In order to vote‚ African Americans were required to pay an annual poll tax two years before the election actually
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American Women in the 1920s The 1920s was a decade full of challenges‚ opportunities‚ and new outlooks on the world for American women. They experienced drastic changes in politics‚ education‚ and even within their own homes. The “new women” were independent‚ confident‚ and no longer afraid to fight for their rights. Being isolated in their own homes‚ getting married and having children was no longer the only option‚ and many women chose different life paths‚ whether it would be pursuing a career
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The “American Dream” is the ideal that every US citizen‚ regardless of ethnic background‚ should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work. Millions of determined people come to America to find a better life and a chance at the American Dream‚ but the sad reality is that it is just a dream‚ and people eventually need to wake up or fall into despair. The collection of stories that is The House of Mango Street shows multiple characters that strive for‚ but cannot
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harder for the colonists to achieve due to the many different cultures and a cornucopia of religions and ethnicities which caused tension. The skeleton of American unity is a simple caricature (Document A) which was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. In this caricature‚ Benjamin Franklin simply stated the necessity for Americans to either "join‚ or die". America was not going to tolerate loyalists to the crown‚ they needed to unite in order to survive as a free nation. This document
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people‚ but imperialism helped us become the country we are today. Around 1900‚ imperialism became the most talked about issue within the United States. After the Spanish-American war ended and the U.S. gained many Pacific islands as a result‚ most Americans became concerned over whether to annex the Philippines or not. The Americans who wanted to annex the Philippines believed that they were in there as legally as the citizens themselves. Taking them was not wrong at all‚ nor was it violating the Declaration
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empire and having colonies all around the world. Some pioneers in the 1600s traveled overseas to the North American continent to settle along the East Coast. As the new American colonists thrived and settled successfully‚ tensions between American colonists and the British escalated up to the point where the colonists wanted to gain independence and cut all ties with Great Britain. The American colonists were justified in declaring independence from Great Britain because the British Parliament passed
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It wasn’t until the Stamp act of 1765 that Americans started to have financial difficulties‚ this act affected almost all of the colonists since it placed a tax on all printed documents. The stamp act however was different from previous tax acts‚ although other acts raised some income for the British
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According to NOAA‚ the Tornado of 1925 was classified as one of the destructive and deadly storms. The following information about the storm is based upon the National Weather Service account. The tornado moved across southeast Missouri‚ southern Illinois‚ and southwest Indiana‚ it remained on the ground for over 3 hours with winds over 300 MPH. The storm left 695 people dead‚ 2‚000 injured and 15‚000 homes destroyed. The Tornado of 1925 still maintains storm records even to this day‚ the longest
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created a temporary gov. like agreement called the Mayflower Compact which in a way was like an attempt to break from the mother country and sort of make their own identity. They colonist started to develop a sense of their identity and unity as Americans as the revolution neared because of British imposed stuff. Along with that each section of colonies‚ south‚ middle‚ and north‚ all developed
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DBQ The United States has gained a reputation of equality and social democracy. Religious tolerance and freedom of speech were rights that were said to be revolutionary. However‚ an entire section of the population was excluded from these promises of social and economic improvement—women. After the American Revolution‚ “republican motherhood‚” the idea that women were responsible for guarding the nation’s values and passing them on to the countries youth‚ had taken hold in American society. The
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