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30.) How did the National Urban League help African Americans? by helping newcomers to large cities to find homes and jobs by providing legal support to defend them in court by providing them with good medical care by helping them integrate lunch counters 34.) What was the intent of the Immigration Act of 1965, which was passed during the Johnson administration? to increase the number of imigrants from northern and western Europe to eliminate quotas restricting immigration from certain countries to reduce the total annual number of immigrants to the United States to stem the flow of political refugees to the United States 36.) The term feminism describes the theory of women's special nature the equality of men and women women's superiority over men women's role of serving men 38.) The Japanese American Citizens League spoke out against Japanese American property losses during their wartime internment the integration of Japanese into Anglo culture lack of educational opportunities for Japanese Americans favorable treatment given to Chinese Americans 39.) What prevented the Equal Rights Amendment from becoming law? It failed to receive enough votes in Congress It received enough voted in the House, but stalled in the Senate It failed to be ratified by enough states It stalled in a committee 40.) American soldiers fighting in Vietnam had to cope with lack of training tropical infections and booby traps a lack of sophisticated equipment working side by side with Communists 41.) In the United States, television was instrumental in promoting understanding between Americans and the Vietnamese developing enthusiasm for the American war effort in Vietnam bringing the brutality of the war into people's living rooms revealing the contents of classified military documents 42.) Some Americans questioned the fairness of the draft because the government refused to draft African Americans only men between the ages of 18 and26 were drafted college students could easily avoid the draft women werre drafted along with men 43.) Which of the following conditions did Americans fighting in Vietnam experience? an enemy with more advanced weapons unqualified support from the home front sniper fire and land mines harsh cold 44.) Television coverage of the Vietnam War encouraged support for the war built support for communism help to fuel American antiwar feelings showed how effective American weapons were in defeating the enemy 45.) What was the primary focus of the protest movement of the 1960s? to ban the use of Agent Orange to demand US withdrawal from Vietnam to end segregation of the military to build support for the draft 46.) Tensions between studens who opposed the war and National Guardsmen resulted in four deaths at Kent State "Ole Miss" James Madison University Ohio State 47.) The SALT I treaty proved that the United States could achieve nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union there was a basis for diplomatic ties between the United States and China the superpowers could reach agreements relating to arms control there were deep rifts within the Communist world 48.) One outcome of the Watergate scandal was the impeachment of Nixon resignation of Gerald Ford conviction of Nixon by the Senate resignation of Richard Nixon 49.) What did SALT I prove to the world? the policy of realpolotik could not work in the Soviet Union that the United States could not catch up to the Soviet Union militarily that the Soviet Union would no longer dominate Eastern Europe that the United States and the Soviet Union could work to limit nuclear weapons production 50.) Why did Nixon resign? to avoid impeachment to prove his innocence to avoid turning over his tapes to prove his loyalty to his staff 51.) The Reagan administration repidly increased spending on social programs support of the Soviet Union the American military enlargement of the federal government 52.) Critics charged that President Reagan's conservative policies led to a larger gap between rich and poor the advancement of civil rights an expansion of governmetn regulations a liberal Supreme Court 53.) During Reagan's second term, United States relations with the Soviet Union broke down completely improved grew increasingly cold did not change 54.) What cause was promoted by some groups within the New Right? women's rights civil rights Christian values federal regulations 55.) What distinction did Sandra Day O'Connor achieve in 1981? She becam more

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31.) What did Malcolm X encourage African Americans to do? to fight for greater integration with white society to separate themselves from white society to love and pray for white people to abandon violent, militant tactics in favor of civil disobedience 32.) In 1961, President Kennedy committed NASA and the nation to the goal of expanding the nation's highway system landing a man on the moon within the decade replacing Fidel Castro with Fulgencio Batista as ruler of Cuba overhauling the nation's military forces 33.) The Warren Commission declared that Kennedy's assassination was the work of a large, organized conspiracy CIA directed plot gang sent from Cuba lone assassin 34.) What was the intent of the Immigration Act of 1965, which was passed during the Johnson administration? to increase the number of imigrants from northern and western Europe to eliminate quotas restricting immigration from certain countries to reduce the total annual number of immigrants to the United States to stem the flow of political refugees to the United States 35.) Which of the following brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of a nuclear war? the Cuban Missile Crisis the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty the Panamanian riot the Bay of Pigs Invasion 36.) The term feminism describes the theory of women's special nature the equality of men and women women's superiority over men women's role of serving men 37.) LAtinos in the United States come from different countries, but they all live in California all are citizens of Mexico speak the same language work at the same kind of job 38.) The Japanese American Citizens League spoke out against Japanese American property losses during their wartime internment the integration of Japanese into Anglo culture lack of educational opportunities for Japanese Americans favorable treatment given to Chinese Americans 39.) What prevented the Equal Rights Amendment from becoming law? It failed to receive enough votes in Congress It received enough voted in the House, but stalled in the Senate It failed to be ratified by enough states It stalled in a committee 40.) American soldiers fighting in Vietnam had to cope with lack of training tropical infections and booby traps a lack of sophisticated equipment working side by side with Communists 41.) In the United States, television was instrumental in promoting understanding between Americans and the Vietnamese developing enthusiasm for the American war effort in Vietnam bringing the brutality of the war into people's living rooms revealing the contents of classified military documents 42.) Some Americans questioned the fairness of the draft because the government refused to draft African Americans only men between the ages of 18 and26 were drafted college students could easily avoid the draft women werre drafted along with men 43.) Which of the following conditions did Americans fighting in Vietnam experience? an enemy with more advanced weapons unqualified support from the home front sniper fire and land mines harsh cold 44.) Television coverage of the Vietnam War encouraged support for the war built support for communism help to fuel American antiwar feelings showed how effective American weapons were in defeating the enemy 45.) What was the primary focus of the protest movement of the 1960s? to ban the use of Agent Orange to demand US withdrawal from Vietnam to end segregation of the military to build support for the draft 46.) Tensions between studens who opposed the war and National Guardsmen resulted in four deaths at Kent State "Ole Miss" James Madison University Ohio State 47.) The SALT I treaty proved that the United States could achieve nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union there was a basis for diplomatic ties between the United States and China the superpowers could reach agreements relating to arms control there were deep rifts within the Communist world more

Voting Question: A letter to Christians?

Warning: This is long, I hope it's worth reading. Ok, this evening I had a mass debate with a pastor. I just want to open my mind up to you guys on a sensitive issue, gay marriage. Apparently homosexuals are the work of Satan. Can I ask you something? Really? Do you Really? He mentioned how homosexual marriage is a abomination ( unnatural ). I don't see how homosexuals are unnatural if they choose to be that way - aren't they born that way. Ok, Christianity has some good points they want to be open minded OR take the bible word for fking word. He quoted Genies Romans? I wasn't really paying attention because I was to busy yelling at myself. If you want to take the bible word for word you might want to take it into consideration that the fact...you can't eat shellfish. ...that's a sin. Or like in Judges 1:19 it mentions on how god can't defeat an iron chariot Judges 1:19 Since the lord was with Juda, he cannot dislodge those who of those who live on the plains because they had iron chariots. Or I THINK this pretty much justify incest. Go look it up. But He questioned the morality to homosexuals who are filled with ENVY and HATE, murderous thoughts. That's completely not true. Maybe they have those thoughts because there no more average then a human being, because that's what they are HUMAN BEINGS, and if you can't see that or if you don't agree with that, you don't deserve to have ANY SAY in this argument. Dear Habbo4Chirst and Friends God's little say dosen't really..make laws, the people make laws. And if it's people like you who make laws I really fear for this nations future. Some of you mentioned when people think marriage they think of a man and his WIFE, WIFE. Just because you associate a word with something dosen't mean it has to be a law. People associate FDR of getting us out of the great depression. That's wrong, it's been proven wrong. "The Roosevelt rescission" - The New Deal Plan? making us worse before Japan bombed us. That's if you know your history, that's my little analogy because people aren't always right. But GOD DAMMIT we try. I may not be the smartest person but I believe that people ALL PEOPLE. At least in this nation because that's all we can really hope for. All it's citizens have equal rights. The same right, to get married being one of those. Listen, I'm only a 17 year kid I can be completely wrong here please let me know. Maybe I'll rethink my argument. BUT if you live in this country which I guess we call the " greatest " country in the world. " You should be entitled to have the same rights as the wealthiest person, the poorest person are equal in the eyes of the law. NOT HOMOSEXUALS. They can't get married. Why? Because people quote that out of date, touch book as reasons why they shouldn't get married because as you say. MAN DID NOT MAKE MARRIAGE, MANS MAKER MADE MARRIAGE, I never really recall god making marriage. I don't remember Adam and Eve getting married. That means our great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents were all bobba children. Now, I don't want to get into a religious argument, now I want to get into a actual constitutional argument because that's what dictates our government. Section I Article: 14th Amendment states that all citizens have the same rights. It's great how hypocritical we can be because of Christianity. Closed minded, ignorant god fearing bat sh*t insane christens who would rather look good in the eyes of some fictional being then have a citizen in the same country be equal to them. HOW HOW, can you justify that. LOVE THY NEIGHBOR. It's in there but no, you call this SATAN. Your saying that homosexuals are the work of Satan? Look, if that's true Satan appears to be a better guy then god. At least he's more rational and reasonable. How can you christens and other religions like you justify this. It's ridiculous. Sorry I went on a rant, but I just ask you guys. Don't get offended. I don't think I've offended anybody. But I ask you all to just THINK, THINK. I promise you your brain wont fall out. IF YOU JUST THINK, THINK for one second. MAYBE, MAYBE we can make this world a better place. PERHAPS. I may be speaking all bullsh*t, but PERHAPS it's my little theory maybe it will work. PERHAPS Love, AntibodysDon't tell me homosexuality is a f*cking choice, yeah it's a choice I choose to live in a discriminated society, I choose to walk down the street with my partner and have to see everybody laughing, in fact my dad is homophobic so I have to be gay so he will disown me.Last edited: Simply stated: Love is not a crime. If you dis-a-fucking-gree, then fucking you can fucking go shove a fcking piece of your "un-fucking-natural" shit up your god fucking damn mother-fucking asss. Thanks. more

Resolved Question: plessy versus ferguson question?

Speaking for a seven-man majority, Justice Henry Brown wrote: "A law which only implies a legal difference between the white and colored races -- has no tendency to destroy the legal fairness of the two races. ... The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but it could not have been intended to abolish division based upon color, or to enforce social, as well-known from political fairness, of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either." what does this mean?? John Harlan, the dissenter said "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. ... The present decision, it may well be apprehended, will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and irritating, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens, but will encourage the belief that it is possible, by means of state enactments, to defeat the beneficent purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution." what does this mean?? more

Resolved Question: us history questions?

american forces suffered their greatest defeat on the revolutionary war at? a.charles town b.new york city c.philadelphia 2. shays rebellion started because. a.massacusettes raised taxes to pay off its debts istead of issuing paper money b.merchants refused to accepts paper money in payment for debts 3.the three fifts compromise specified that. .a. small states would have three fifts the number of votes as large states. b.every three enslaved people in a state would count as five free persons. c. every five enslaved people in the state would count as three free persons. 4. the colonist proteste the stamp act by a. refusing to sel goods to britain b.refusing to buy goods from britain c.dumping tea in to boston harbor 5. the american victory at saratoga was a turning point in the wat because a. it convinced france to send arm and supplies to the americas b. it convinced france to commit troops to the american cause c. it convinced spain to enter the war on the amrican side 6.southern leaders showed little intrest in aboloshing slavery because. a. they belived that enslaved africans were unsuitable for freedom b. the south relied on slavery to sustain its economy c. enslaved africans had fought with the british during the american revolution 7. the real issue for opponents of the constituiton was wether a national government a. was really needed b. or state governemnts would be supreme c. could regulate trade. 8. the sothern colonies developed an economy based on a. manufacturing b. fishing c. agriculture. 9. the bill of rights that went into affect in 1791 had.... amendments a.eight b.ten c.twelve 10. the last ammendement in teh bill of rights states that a. that people have other ights that are not listed b. that people have the right to ber arms. c. any powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the state. 11. the united states gained the lousinana territory by a. buying it from france b. buying it from spain c. winning in the war of 1812 12. the steamboat was an improvement over barges because it could. a. carry more cargo b. travel upstream c. provide entertainment for trvalers 13. manifest destiny was the idea that a. white men were meant to civilize the native americans b. the inited states was meant to become the gretaes nation in the world c. the nation was meant to spread all the way to the pacific. 14. the war between the united states and mexico ended when us troops took a. veracruz b. mexico city c. guadalupe hidalgo 15. a cotton gin a. piked cotton b.spins cotton into clotj c. removes cotton seeds. 16. at the seneca falls convention, elizabth cady stanton proposed a. equal pay for equal work b. getting women elected for congress c. gaining the right to vote. 17. in the election campaign, candidates james k polk promised to a. annex texas, oregon, and lousiana b. annext texas and oregon, and buy california from mexico c. buy texas and california from mexico 18. lincoln wanedt to prevennt maryland from seceding, because if did. a. the south would gain control of the stargically important potomac river b. the south would gain control of important arsenals there c. washington dc, would be surrounded by the conderate territory 19.lincoln tried to prevent marylands secession by a. respecting the declaration of neutrality b. allowing slavery in maryland c. declaring martial law in in baltimore 20.the most famous conductor on the underground railroadwas a. harriet beeche stowe b. harriet tubman c. sojourner truth 21. john browns intention in raiding arsenal at harpers ferry was to arm a. virginians for civil war b. his followers so they can overthrow the fedral governent c. enslaved people and begin an insurrection agaiinst slave holders. 22, the confederate constituition stated that a. each state could impose its own protective tarrifs b. each state could ecide for itself wether or not to accept alvery c. each state was independant. 23.all of the followong states seceded from the union except a. missouri b. arkansas c. tennese 24.robert e lee did not accept command of the inited troops because a. his home stae was virginia b. he was already confederate commander. more

Voting Question: us history midterm questions help!?

american forces suffered their greatest defeat on the revolutionary war at? a.charles town b.new york city c.philadelphia 2. shays rebellion started because. a.massacusettes raised taxes to pay off its debts istead of issuing paper money b.merchants refused to accepts paper money in payment for debts 3.the three fifts compromise specified that. .a. small states would have three fifts the number of votes as large states. b.every three enslaved people in a state would count as five free persons. c. every five enslaved people in the state would count as three free persons. 4. the colonist proteste the stamp act by a. refusing to sel goods to britain b.refusing to buy goods from britain c.dumping tea in to boston harbor 5. the american victory at saratoga was a turning point in the wat because a. it convinced france to send arm and supplies to the americas b. it convinced france to commit troops to the american cause c. it convinced spain to enter the war on the amrican side 6.southern leaders showed little intrest in aboloshing slavery because. a. they belived that enslaved africans were unsuitable for freedom b. the south relied on slavery to sustain its economy c. enslaved africans had fought with the british during the american revolution 7. the real issue for opponents of the constituiton was wether a national government a. was really needed b. or state governemnts would be supreme c. could regulate trade. 8. the sothern colonies developed an economy based on a. manufacturing b. fishing c. agriculture. 9. the bill of rights that went into affect in 1791 had.... amendments a.eight b.ten c.twelve 10. the last ammendement in teh bill of rights states that a. that people have other ights that are not listed b. that people have the right to ber arms. c. any powers not given to the federal government are reserved to the state. 11. the united states gained the lousinana territory by a. buying it from france b. buying it from spain c. winning in the war of 1812 12. the steamboat was an improvement over barges because it could. a. carry more cargo b. travel upstream c. provide entertainment for trvalers 13. manifest destiny was the idea that a. white men were meant to civilize the native americans b. the inited states was meant to become the gretaes nation in the world c. the nation was meant to spread all the way to the pacific. 14. the war between the united states and mexico ended when us troops took a. veracruz b. mexico city c. guadalupe hidalgo 15. a cotton gin a. piked cotton b.spins cotton into clotj c. removes cotton seeds. 16. at the seneca falls convention, elizabth cady stanton proposed a. equal pay for equal work b. getting women elected for congress c. gaining the right to vote. 17. in the election campaign, candidates james k polk promised to a. annex texas, oregon, and lousiana b. annext texas and oregon, and buy california from mexico c. buy texas and california from mexico 18. lincoln wanedt to prevennt maryland from seceding, because if did. a. the south would gain control of the stargically important potomac river b. the south would gain control of important arsenals there c. washington dc, would be surrounded by the conderate territory 19.lincoln tried to prevent marylands secession by a. respecting the declaration of neutrality b. allowing slavery in maryland c. declaring martial law in in baltimore 20.the most famous conductor on the underground railroadwas a. harriet beeche stowe b. harriet tubman c. sojourner truth 21. john browns intention in raiding arsenal at harpers ferry was to arm a. virginians for civil war b. his followers so they can overthrow the fedral governent c. enslaved people and begin an insurrection agaiinst slave holders. 22, the confederate constituition stated that a. each state could impose its own protective tarrifs b. each state could ecide for itself wether or not to accept alvery c. each state was independant. 23.all of the followong states seceded from the union except a. missouri b. arkansas c. tennese 24.robert e lee did not accept command of the inited troops because a. his home stae was virginia b. he was already confederate commander. more

Resolved Question: (Spoof) Do you agree or disagree with this Supreme Court Ruling?

754 US 345 Arizona Cardinals & Seattle Seahwaks vs Pittsburgh Steelers & NFL Chief Justice John Roberts opinion of the Court(9-0): Facts of the case: On Febuary 1, 2009 The Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals by a score of 27-23 in Super Bowl XLIII and three years before the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Seattle Seahwaks 21-10. Because of the importance of this case to the nation and the fact that the winners of the Super Bowl got $78,000 and the losers got $40,000 which would give both the Cardinals and Seahawks legal standing as they were defeated anf got less money. We granted a writ of cert. Opinion of the court: The plaintiffs filed suit based on the Constutional right under the ninth amendment unenumerated right to win Super Bowl and the right under the 14th amendment equal protection clause. We disagree with the plaintiffs claim. The NFL has a ninth amendment right to create thier own sport with their own league rules. One of these rules is to determine a right to determine a winner which in this case the Super Bowl. This falls into James Madison's claim of natural rights and not positive rights. A natural right is to do something without the obligation of someone else and a positive right is an obligation to someone. No one has a right to win a Super Bowl, if they did then the NFL rights to run a league competititon would be violated. Given that the Cardinals won two challenges they were given equal opportunity. We affirm the lower courts decision. Concurring opinion Justice Ginsburg: Because the NFL is a private entity there is no jurisdiction for this court concerning the Constitution. more

Resolved Question: (Spoof) Are Steeler haters going to take their complaints to the Supreme Court?

754 US 345 Arizona Cardinals & Seattle Seahwaks vs Pittsburgh Steelers & NFL Chief Justice John Roberts opinion of the Court(9-0): Facts of the case: On Febuary 1, 2009 The Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals by a score of 27-23 in Super Bowl XLIII and three years before the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Seattle Seahwaks 21-10. Because of the importance of this case to the nation and the fact that the winners of the Super Bowl got $78,000 and the losers got $40,000 which would give both the Cardinals and Seahawks legal standing as they were defeated anf got less money. We granted a writ of cert. Opinion of the court: The plaintiffs filed suit based on the Constutional right under the unumerated right to win Super Bowl and the right under the 14th amendment equal protection clause. We disagree with the plaintiffs claim. The NFL has a ninth amendment right to create thier own sport with their own league rules. One of these rules is to determine a right to determine a winner which in this case the Super Bowl. This falls into James Madison's claim of natural rights and not positive rights. A natural right is to do something without the obligation of someone else and a positive right is an obligation to someone. No one has a right to win a Super Bowl, if they did then the NFL rights to run a tornament would be violated. Given that the Cardinals won two challenges they were given equal opportunity. We affirm the lower courts decision. Concurring opinion Justice Ginsburgh: Because the NFL is a private entity there is no jurisdiction for this court concerning the Constitution. more

Resolved Question: Are Steeler haters going to take their case to the Supreme Court?

754 US 345 Arizona Cardinals & Seattle Seahwaks vs Pittsburgh Steelers & NFL Chief Justice John Roberts opinion of the Court: Facts of the case: On Febuary 1, 2009 The Steelers defeated the Arizona Cardinals by a score of 27-23 in Super Bowl XLIII and three years before the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Seattle Seahwaks 21-10. Because of the importance of this case to the nation and the fact that the winners of the Super Bowl got $78,000 and the losers got $40,000 which would give both the Cardinals and Seahawks legal standing as they were defeated anf got less money. We granted a writ of cert. Opinion of the court: The plaintiffs filed suit based on the Constutional right under the unumerated right to win Super Bowl and the right under the 14th amendment equal protection clause. We disagree with the plaintiffs claim. The NFL has a ninth amendment right to create thier own sport with their own league rules. One of these rules is to determine a right to determine a winner which in this case the Super Bowl. This falls into James Madison's claim of natural rights and not positive rights. A natural right is to do something without the obligation of someone else and a positive right is an obligation to someone. No one has a right to win a Super Bowl, if they did then the NFL rights to run a tornament would be violated. Given that the Cardinals won two challenges they were given equal opportunity. We affirm the lower courts decision.Concurring opinion Justice Ginsburgh: Because the NFL is a private entity there is no jurisdiction for this court concerning the Constitution. more

Resolved Question: Why is anti-feminism so popular in America, and why has Britain never had an anti-feminist movement?

"As of 2008 the most successful antifeminist organization in the US is STOP ERA, founded by Phyllis Schlafly in October 1972. Schlafly successfully mobilised thousands of people to block the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in the USA. It was Schlafly too who forged links between STOP ERA and other conservative organizations, as well as single-issue groups against abortion, pornography, gun control, and unions. By integrating STOP ERA with the so-called New Right she was able to leverage a wider range of technological, organisational and political resources, successfully targeting pro-feminist candidates for defeat. Outside the United States, organised antifeminist groups have been conspicuously less successful. In Australia, Babette Francis has led Endeavour Forum (formerly "Women Who Want to be Women") for over twenty five years, but has failed to halt ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), as well as the eventual introduction of medical abortion in Australia, and the successive liberalisation of laws related to abortion in Australia within every state and territory. REAL Women of Canada has similarly failed to halt same sex marriage and decriminalisation of abortion in Canada, while Britain has never had an organised antifeminist group of its own, and New Zealand's "Women for Life" (1983-2004) ceased to exist several years ago." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AntifeminismHuh - feel free to challenge the wikipedia information with your own links if you wish :-)Time Passenger - if you do not espouse feminism, which is probably most people, then you are a non-feminist. If however, you actively state that you are an opposer of feminism then you are, quite logically, an anti-feminist. I have no problem saying I am anti-neoliberalism, or anti-communism - why do you have a problem with people saying they are anti-feminism? :-)Keypoint- fathers for justice are a joke - their stunts are ridiculous and they have achieved nothing that I am aware of :-) more

Resolved Question: When did Liberals become so sexist? Are we back in the 1950's?

"...When Joe Biden tragically lost his wife and infant daughter in a car wreck in 1972, not a single colleague, friend or competitor advised him to quit his newly won Senate seat to raise his two little surviving sons. Rather, he was sworn into office from the injured boys' bedside, and took to commuting an hour and a half each way from Delaware to Washington. And when Biden's second wife gave birth to a daughter, no one thought to ask him to step aside and stay home.... Palin is a mother five times over. She also hunts, fishes, coaches hockey, has a day job as the governor of the state of Alaska - and is known to commute home from the state capital of Juneau daily during session. Just like Biden. And, until at least four months ago, Palin also had the ability to bear a child, which we've just learned is a talent she shares with her 17-year-old daughter. But women on the left, who fought long and hard for the ability to raise children simultaneously with election cash, are in spasms. (Some have simply kept silent. Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton - where are you?) The same lefty media that studiously ignored the adolescence of Chelsea Clinton can't wait to dig into Bristol Palin. The Diary section of Daily Kos Web site had a curious way to make Palin's daughter into a campaign issue: "Considering Palin was chosen solely for her religious right family values cred, Bristol's shotgun marriage and pregnancy are very fair game. They are the direct result of this lunatic abstinence-only garbage, and should be highlighted as such." The stupendously sexist New York Times printed a front-page article noting that some unnamed women argue over "whether there are enough hours in the day for her to take on the vice presidency, and whether she is right to try." Which left the field weirdly clear for Phyllis Schlafly, who helped defeat the Equal Right Amendment - and also ran for Congress while raising six children - to tell the Times, "People who don't have children, or who have only one or two, are kind of overwhelmed at the notion of five children." The only question we should be asking is: Can Sarah Palin do the job?" http://www.nypost.com/seven/09032008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/a_time_warped_sexist_assault_127183.htmMikey Jones - you are pathetic if you think 90% of Republicans would be happy if Obama was shot... are you so blinded by your hatred?MichaelOB86 - Republicans aren't the only ones with interesting buttons... http://www.americans-working-together.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/obama_button.jpgNMMNG - why does it matter if I cut and paste? Maybe I thought this author expressed a question I actually thought should be asked...? And your shotgun question does nothing but show your own ignorance - you have no idea what is going on behind closed doors in the Palin family - even Barack Obama has said that he will not discuss family matters & considers them off limits (something I respect about him)Summer -- this is my point exactly. Why is the party of feminism (the Democratic Party) telling Sarah Palin she should stay at home and do her wifely duties?Good Guy - I have never considered race or gender a factor in this election... and I do not believe that the bulk of the Republican party does either. You forget that the Democratic party was the one that opposed integration and birthed such parties as the "Dixiecrats"... Could it be that the Democratic party is getting uncomfortable now that the Republicans are doing something publicly progressive? more

Resolved Question: Would someone please help me??

What was a major reason that President George Bush responded forcefully to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait? a. he wanted to protect the flow of oil to the west b. he wanted to keep the united nations out of any conflict c. he feared that Iraq would invade the United States next d. He feared the spread of communism in the Middle East The recession of 1981-1982 a. boosted employment figures b. drove interest rates down c. lowered the federal deficit d. reduced the inflation rate American celebrated patriotice renewal through all of the following except the? a. centennial of the Statue of Liberty b. 200th anniversary of the Constitution c. defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment d. 1984 Olympic Games In the area of civil righs, President Reagon worked to? a. establish a civil rights commission b. appoint federal judges sympathetic to civil rights goals c. extend the Voting Rights Act. d. end some affirmative action programs During the campaign for President in1988, George Bush promised that he would? a. not limit the role of government b. not raise taxes c. employ "voodoo economics" d. end the Reagan Revolution. In the late 1980's, a series of anti- communist revolts broke out in? a. Eastern Europe b. West Germany c. the Persain Gulf d. the Commonwealth of Independent States  more

Resolved Question: United States History?

MULTIPLE CHOICE 1 The Union general who defeated the Confederacy at Gettysburg and turned the tide of the Civil War in the process was A George McClellan B George Meade C Philip Sheridan 2 The Civil War came to an end when Robert E. Lee surrendered at A Gettysburg B Appomattox C Richmond MATCH THE AMENDMENT WITH WHAT IT PROVIDED. ____1 Abolished slavery everywhere in the U.S. ____2 Required equal rights to all citizens ____3 Cancelled the Confederate war debt ____4 Gave former slaves the right to vote ____5 Barred Confederate officials from holding office A. 13th Amendment B. 14th Amendment C. 15th Amendment more

Resolved Question: Did liberals fear John F. Kennedy for his religion?

John F. Kennedy The Protestant immigrants to the New World brought many things in their baggage, including a deep-seated distrust of Roman Catholicism. Although Catholics had been among the early settlers of the New World, they had been a minority in the thirteen colonies that eventually became the United States. Not until significant numbers of Catholics began migrating to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century did anti-Catholicism emerge as a potent, and ugly, political and social phenomenon. Although Irish Catholics began to play a major role in local and state politics in the latter nineteenth century, the first Catholic to seek a national office was the popular governor of New York, Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was the Democratic nominee for president in 1928. Anti-Catholic prejudice, the fear that a Catholic president would "take orders" from the Pope, insured Smith's defeat. Methodist Bishop Adna Leonard declared: "No Governor can kiss the papal ring and get within gunshot of the White House." Even liberal Protestants were concerned. The Christian Century declared it could not "look with unconcern upon the seating of a representative of an alien culture, of a medieval, Latin mentality, of an undemocratic hierarchy and of a foreign potentate in the great office of the President of the United States." Smith's defeat at the polls seemed to foreclose a Catholic from seeking the White House, until John F. Kennedy captured the Democratic nomination in 1960. Much to his dismay, he discovered that many southern Protestant groups still believed in old canards about every Catholic having to obey the Pope's commands unquestioningly. He finally decided to try to defeat the issue by meeting it head-on, and on September 12, 1960, he delivered the following statement before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. There, according to one of his biographers, "he knocked religion out of the campaign as an intellectually respectable issue." Anti-Catholicism, of course, could not be eradicated that easily, but Kennedy's meeting the issue forthrightly limited the damage to those whose prejudices would never respond to reason. And with his election that November, barriers to Catholics in American politics melted away. For further reading: T. H. White, The Making of the President 1960 (1961). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADDRESS TO SOUTHERN BAPTIST LEADERS I am grateful for your generous invitation to state my views. While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that I believe that we have far more critical issues in the 1960 election: the spread of Communist influence, until it now festers only ninety miles off the coast of Florida -- the humiliating treatment of our President and Vice President by those who no longer respect our power -- the hungry children I saw in West Virginia, the old people who cannot pay their doctor's bills, the families forced to give up their farms -- an America with too many slums, with too few schools, and too late to the moon and outer space. These are the real issues which should decide this campaign. And they are not religious issues -- for war and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barrier. But because I am a Catholic and no Catholic has ever been elected President, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured -- perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again -- not what kind of church I believe in for that should be important only to me, but what kind of America I believe in. I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him. I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish -- where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source -- where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials -- and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all. For, while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew -- or a Quaker -- or a Unitarian -- or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that led to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today, I may be the victim -- but tomorrow it may be you -- until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped apart at a time of great national peril. Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end -- where all men and all churches are treated as equal -- where every man has the same right to attend or not to attend the church of his choice -- where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind -- and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, both the lay and the pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood. That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe -- a great office that must be neither humbled by making it the instrument of any religious group, nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding it, its occupancy from the members of any religious group. I believe in a President whose views on religion are his own private affair, neither imposed upon him by the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office. I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty (nor would our system of checks and balances permit him to do so). And neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test -- even by indirection -- for if they disagree with that safeguard, they should be openly working to repeal it. I want a chief executive whose public acts are responsible to all and obligated to none -- who can attend any ceremony, service or dinner his office may appropriately require him to fulfill -- and whose fulfillment of his Presidential office is not limited or conditioned by any religious oath, ritual or obligation. This is the kind of America I believe in -- and this is the kind of America I fought for in the South Pacific and the kind my brother died for in Europe. No one suggested then that we might have a "divided loyalty," that we did "not believe in liberty or that we belonged to a disloyal group that threatened "the freedoms for which our forefathers died." And in fact this is the kind of America for which our forefathers did die when they fled here to escape religious test oaths, that denied office to members of less favored churches, when they fought for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom -- and when they fought at the shrine I visited today -- the Alamo. For side by side with Bowie and Crockett died Fuentes and McCafferty and Bailey and Bedillio and Carey -- but no one knows whether they were Catholics or not. For there was no religious test there. I ask you tonight to follow in that tradition, to judge me on the basis of fourteen years in the Congress -- on my declared stands against an ambassador to the Vatican, against unconstitutional aid to parochial schools, and against any boycott of the public schools (which I attended myself) -- and instead of doing this do not judge me on the basis of these pamphlets and publications we have all seen that carefully select quotations out of context from the statements of Catholic Church leaders, usually in other countries, frequently in other centuries, and rarely relevant to any situation here -- and always omitting of course, that statement of the American bishops in 1948 which strongly endorsed church-state separation. I do not consider these other quotations binding upon my public acts -- why should you? But let me say, with respect to other countries, that I am wholly opposed to the state being used by any religious group, Catholic or Protestant, to compel, prohibit or prosecute the free exercise of any other religion. And that goes for any persecution at any time, by anyone, in any country. And I hope that you and I condemn with equal fervor those nations which deny it to Catholics. And rather than cite the misdeeds of those who differ, I would also cite the record of the Catholic Church in such nations as France and Ireland -- and the independence of such statesmen as de Gaulle and Adenauer. But let me stress again that these are my views -- for, contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for President [but the candidate] who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters -- and the church does not speak for me. Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected -- on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling, or any other subject -- I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictate. And no power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise. But if the time should ever come -- and I do not concede any conflict to be remotely possible -- when my office would require me to either violate my conscience, or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office, and I hope any other conscientious public servant would do likewise. But I do not intend to apologize for these views to my critics of either Catholic or Protestant faith, nor do I intend to disavow either my views or my church in order to win this election. If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate satisfied that I tried my best and was fairly judged. But if this election is decided on the basis that 40,000,000 Americans lost their chance of being President on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people. But if, on the other hand, I should win this election, I shall devote every effort of mind and spirit to fulfilling the oath of the Presidency -- practically identical, I might add with the oath I have taken for fourteen years in the Congress. For, without reservation, I can, and I quote "solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution so help me God." Source: New York Times, September 13, 1960. more

Resolved Question: i need to write an essay on plessey v. ferguson i need help?

"That [the Separate Car Act] does not conflict with the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery...is too clear for argument...A statute which implies merely a legal distinction between the white and colored races -- a distinction which is founded in the color of the two races, and which must always exist so long as white men are distinguished from the other race by color -- has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races...The object of the [Fourteenth A]mendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either." [5] The lone dissenter, Justice John Harlan, showed incredible foresight when he wrote "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law...In my opinion, the judgment this day rendered will, in time, prove to be quite as pernicious as the decision made by this tribunal in the Dred Scott case...The present decision, it may well be apprehended, will not only stimulate aggressions, more or less brutal and irritating, upon the admitted rights of colored citizens, but will encourage the belief that it is possible, by means of state enactments, to defeat the beneficient purposes which the people of the United States had in view when they adopted the recent amendments of the Constitution." [6] Over time, the words of Justice Harlan rang true. The Plessy decision set the precedent that "separate" facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were "equal." The "separate but equal" doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life, such as restaurants, theaters, restrooms, and public schools. Not until 1954, in the equally important Brown v. Board of Education decision, would the "separate but equal" doctrine be struck down.but i dont know how to start the essayi have to state the main topics 2 quotes more

Resolved Question: Has Pat Robinson converted to the Muslim Religion view with Women's Civil Rights?

Christian conservatives believe a women's place is to be submissive to his husband: "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." - Sept. 11, 1992, quoting a PAT ROBERTSON newsletter. "The feminist agenda is notabout equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." - from a Pat Robertson's letter used to raise money to defeat an Equal Rights Amendment for women in Iowa I got this from another person posting and I would like to extend this discussion...my question would be with this thinking is: This isn't any different from what the Muslims are trying to preach about controlling their women, is it?Do American women wants their Civil Rights removed and controlled by right wing extreamist? I suggest that you might want to vote for Hillary Clinton to combat this rediculous form of thinking, don't you? more

Resolved Question: What do christian women think when christian conservatives say this about women?

Christian conservatives believe a women's place is to be submissive to his husband: "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." - Sept. 11, 1992, quoting a PAT ROBERTSON newsletter. "The feminist agenda is notabout equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." - from a Pat Robertson's letter used to raise money to defeat an Equal Rights Amendment for women in Iowa more

Resolved Question: Does Anyone Question G W Bush's Greatness!!!!?

THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT GEORGE W BUSH -the most socially conservative president of recent decades -the defeat of the Democrats’ Senate leader Tom Daschle in 2004 -the nominations of Justices Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005 -Banned Partial Birth Abortion -Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy -By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act. -By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services -Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals. -Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004. -Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman -Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools -Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms) -Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline -Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs -Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains. Signed trade promotion authority. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing." On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.) Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to to become teachers. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured. Leader by leader and member by member, al Qaida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaida leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaida leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy. Ordered a review of overseas deployments. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant). Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).* The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country." Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.* Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. Equal Justice Freedom of Speech Limited Government Power Private Property Rights Religious Tolerance Respect for Women Rule of Law and the list goes on and on...... but need i say more?? more

Resolved Question: What do u think of my essay?

Hi! I'm a 12th grade Student. My essay is about the Reconstruction Period. What do u think of it? How much do u rate it from 1-100? Are there any errors? What are they? Thank you so Much! Reconstruction was the process in U.S. history from 1865-1877 that attempted to resolve the issues of the American Civil War when both the Confederacy and slavery were destroyed. At the end of the Civil War , the defeated South was a ruined land. The physical destruction wrought by the invading Union forces was enormous, and the old social and economic order founded on slavery had collapsed completely, with nothing to replace it. The 11 Confederate states somehow had to be restored to their positions in the Union and provided with loyal governments, and the role of the emancipated slaves in Southern society had to be defined. The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. The North's victory settled two important issues. First, it established that states were not allowed to leave, or secede from, the United States. Second, it put an end to slavery throughout the country. But the end of the war also raised a whole new set of issues. For example, federal lawmakers had to decide whether to punish the Confederate leaders, what process to use to readmit the Southern states to the Union, and how much assistance to provide in securing equal rights for the freed slaves. Because these complicated issues carried a great deal of importance for the future of the nation, Reconstruction was a time of great political and social turmoil. President Andrew Johnson who took office after Abraham Lincoln, controlled the earliest Reconstruction efforts. But the U.S. Congress felt that the president's Reconstruction policies were too lenient (easy) on the South. Led by members of the Republican Party, Congress enacted stricter Reconstruction policies beginning in 1866 and sent in federal troops to enforce them. The ongoing dispute between Johnson and Congress led to the president's impeachment in 1868. On Mar. 2, 1867, Congress enacted the Reconstruction Act, which, supplemented later by three related acts, divided the South (except Tennessee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme. Johnson continued to oppose congressional policy, and when he insisted on the removal of the radical Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton , in defiance of the Tenure of Office Act , the House impeached him (Feb., 1868). The radicals in the Senate fell one vote short of convicting him (May), but by this time Johnson's program had been effectively scuttled. Under the terms of the Reconstruction Acts, new state constitutions were written in the South. By Aug., 1868, six states (Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida) had been readmitted to the Union, having ratified the Fourteenth Amendment as required by the first Reconstruction Act. The four remaining unreconstructed states—Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia—were readmitted in 1870 after ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed the black man's right to vote. By 1876 only Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana remained under Republican domination. The Republican presidential candidate that year, Rutherford B. Hayes , promised to alleviate conditions in the South, but the feeling there had already led to the formation of the "solid South" in support of his Democratic opponent, Samuel J. Tilden . In those three states the presidential contest was the occasion for a determined effort to throw off Republican rule, and on their electoral votes (and on one disputed electoral vote in Oregon) hung the fate of the famous disputed election of 1876. It is practically certain that at least one of the three gave a majority, and thus the presidency, to Tilden, but two sets of returns were sent in from each of the three states. A specially constituted electoral commission (composed of eight Republicans and seven Democrats) accepted the Republican returns, and Hayes was given the presidency. Reconstruction officially ended as all federal troops were withdrawn from the South. White rule was restored, and black people were over time deprived of many civil and political rights and their economic position remained depressed. The radicals' hopes for a basic reordering of the social and economic structure of the South, beyond the abolition of slavery, died. The results, instead, were the one-party "solid South" and increased racial bitterness.They didn't ask me to mention resources. Do i need them if they didn't ask me to mention them? Thank you! more

Resolved Question: Will the Republicans go down in defeat this Nov? Will the Military go down in defeat like Vietnam?

Regardless of which political party controls the house or senate. The Republicans will run on 'stay the course' and the Democrats will be on all sides of the issue, but it doesn't matter. Right after the elections, a planned withdrawl will commence. We have to get out, it's eating the guts of the Military which won't put up with it much longer. Soldiers on their third or fourth tours -- it can't be sustained. The rest of the world is sick of our crap too -- But Bush is too dense to know that. If we get out quickly, the Repukes can go into damage control mode to try and get the sheep to forget in time for '08 elections. Focus on other things, like denying *homosexuals* equal rights or proposing constitutional amendments to protect the flag. As gas rises to $5, $6 per gallon and beyond, less and less of the sheep will buy the crap Bush is putting out. Will it be fun to see Bush go down in defeat? Will the warmongers cry? more

Resolved Question: Why do women still get to play both cards?

If it comes to doing hard labor or others things along those lines, they are women and shouldnt do work like that. Anytim emoney is involved they are equal and better than men. Also might i add that women defeated the equal rights amendment not men. So all you feminists out there should really work on rallying their own gender before trying to rip our balls off. uh... comments anyone?I appreciate those women who adress themselves independant of the group. Those who make generalizations that women are just better, i think are ignorant more

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