...The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy delivered in 1828 regarding domination of the Americas in 1823. Written and delivered by James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States, the Doctrine laid out fundamental “rules” dictating the activities of Europeans colonists. Specifically, it declared against foreign colonization of - or against - the Americans.Furthermore, it was written in response to the comments and requests that western hemisphere countries had told the United States. Specifically, the “proposal of the Russian Imperial Government” declared by the Russian czar had proclaimed that all the area north of the fifty-first parallel and extending one hundred miles into the Pacific would be off-limits to non-Russians....
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...The thesis of “A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean” is that the United States interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean have done more harm than they have done good. Alan McPherson states that during opening phases of the Monroe Doctrine the United States focused on keeping the European Powers out of Latin America, it was even called the” …[g]ospel of the new continent] . McPherson explains how the United States took the policy of establishing puppet governments in the interest of American businessmen and ideological survival. McPherson wrote this book so to carefully detail and explain the destructive policy that is mostly forgotten by the citizens of the US, because the government would prefer to keep the blunders of our past covered and quiet. McPherson understand that not everyone in interested in the exploits of the American past, so he writes with the intent of educating the curious reader and aspiring intellectual. McPherson believes that the American establishment has involved themselves in the politics of South America to enhance the security and economy of our own nation while sacrificing the same from other South American nations. The American government from our beginning held a policy of de-colonialization and after the...
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...The Truman Doctrine Background, Truman's Speech to Congress, Results The Truman Doctrine and Containment Links Spartacus page An interview with Clark Clifford (1998) Did Truman cause the Cold War? Background Events The Truman Doctrine was a response to a crisis. Behind it lay the Communist/Soviet takeover of many of the countries of eastern Europe by ‘salami tactics’ – which, Truman alleged, was in breach of Stalin’s promises at the Yalta Conference. Then, in February 1947, the British government – which had been helping the Greek government resist Communist rebels – announced that it could no longer afford to keep its soldiers there. It seemed to Truman and his advisers that, of they did nothing, it was only a matter of time before the communists took over YET ANOTHER country. Background Truman’s Speech to Congress, March 1947 On 12 March 1947, President Truman spoke to Congress. His speech is very famous. What he said became known later as the ‘Truman Doctrine’. Truman began by outlining the situation in Greece. ‘Assistance is imperative if Greece is to survive as a free nation’, he told Congress. ‘Greece must have assistance if it is to become a self-supporting and self-respecting democracy.’ Without help, Greece would fall to Communism. Nearby Turkey, he added, was in a similar situation. Getting involved in Greece, Truman knew, would go against the belief of many...
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...world beyond her borders? Spurning the Hawaiian Pear Know: Queen Liliuokalani 2. Why did President Cleveland not want to annex Hawaii? Cubans Rise in Revolt Know: General Weyler 3. What was happening in Cuba that caused Americans to be concerned? Dewey's May Day Victory at Manila Know: Teddy Roosevelt George Dewey 4. Why did Commodore Dewey have such an easy victory over the Spanish fleet at the Philippines? The Confused Invasion of Cuba Know: Rough Riders Teddy Roosevelt San Juan Hill 5. Describe the fighting in Cuba. America's Course (Curse?) of Empire Know: Anti-Imperialist League 6. What were the arguments for and against the annexation of the Philippines? Makers of America: The Puerto Ricans 7. How has U.S. citizenship caused Puerto Ricans to be different from other immigrants? Perplexities in Puerto Rico and Cuba Know: Insular Cases General Leonard Wood Walter Reed Platt Amendment Guantanamo 8. Describe American treatment of Cuba after the Spanish-American War. New Horizons in Two Hemispheres 9. What were the outcomes of the Spanish-American War? "Little Brown Brothers" in the Philippines Know: William Howard Taft Benevolent Assimilation 10. In what way do the Philippines show the good and bad sides of American imperialism? ...
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...firsthand account of the event. Throughout the reading of this speech, I found some keywords that I believed were important and defining them helped me understand the speech more. Belligerent, was a word Charles used to describe our nation which means hostile and aggressive. He also used propaganda frequently throughout the speech which means information in a biased and misleading nature. He also briefly discussed the Monroe Doctrine which is a US policy created by James Monroe in 1823 that states “any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile...
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...Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates covers the American struggle against the Barbary Pirates on the North African coast that harassed shipping that went through the vital Strait of Gibraltar. Brain Kilmeade and Don Yaeger team up to write the book, having previously worked together on another American historical book, George Washington’s Secret Six. Both writers have experience writing various books including a 9 New York Times bestsellers. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates begins in 1785, with the newly established United States trying to maintain peace, grow the economy, and promote the state of the American power across the world. American ships, the Dauphin and the Maria were captured sailing in the Mediterranean Sea by the Barbary Pirates from the North African Coast to enslave crews and the ships and contents within as prizes. Thomas Jefferson and John Adam, key individuals in early foreign policy and United States politics differed on their stances on how to solve the situation; Adams preferred to pay the ransoms and negotiate peace, whereas Jefferson wanted to solve the problem by force. The young United States government struggled to pay expensive tributes that the Barbary States demanded in exchange, but the crews of the Dauphin and the Maria were released after a decade of enslavement. Yet the failed policies of George...
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...In 1825, a group of American businesspeople announced the formation of a canal building company, with interests in constructing a canal system across the Isthmus. This project was to take place in an area now called Panama. The endeavor was filled with controversy. Though the canal itself was not built until the early 1900's every step toward the building and ownership, was saturated with difficulty. Walter LaFeber illustrates the dilemmas in a historical analysis. In his work he states five questions that address the significance of the Panama Canal to United States. This paper will discuss the historical perspective of the book's author, address pertinent three questions and give a critique of LaFeber's work, The Panama Canal. For proper historical analysis one must understand the importance of the Canal. The Panama Canal and the Canal Zone (the immediate area surrounding the Canal) are important areas used for trade. Even before the canal was built there were to large ports on both sides of the Isthmus. Large amounts of cargo passed through the Isthmus by a railroad that connected the two ports. The most important cargo was the gold mined in California before the transcontinental railroad was completed in the United States. It has strategic significance because of its location, acting as a gateway connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. This allows for rapid naval deployment between fleets in either ocean. These two facets make the Panama Canal very important in the region...
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...Timeline Part I NOTE: Before starting the Timeline project please refer to the "Example Timeline Matrix" document. Instructions: Complete the matrix by providing the Time Period/Date(s) in column B, and the Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History in column C. See complete instructions in the Syllabus for the Module 1 assignment entitled, “Timeline Part I.” NOTE: The timeline project does not need to be submitted to turnitin. NOTE: Please write your answers in a clear and concise manner. Limit your submission of the Timeline Part I up to 250 words per topic/subtopic. For example, if a topic is divided into 3 subtopics, you may write a maximum of 250 per subtopic listed. Be sure to cite all sources. |Major Event/Epoch in American History |Time Period/Date(s) |Description and Significance of the | | | |People/Event(s) to American History | |Describe three different American Indian cultures prior to |1200-1900 |The Anasazi lived in the area that would one day | |colonization. | |become Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. | | | |They focused on stonework, making fabrics and | | ...
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...violation of Jackson’s actions. What resulted was the acquisition of modern-day Florida in what historians call the Adams-Onis Treaty while Jackson was acquitted. The two politicians, according to Parsons’s noting of primary source material, notably journal entries, would grow to admire each other. While Parsons notes here how the two were easy to contrast as a “Man of Thought and the Man of Action” (46), Adams and Jackson, respectively, the two would go on to represent opposing political values concerning issues such as Henry Clay’s American System. This difference between the two would not only play out in the two major crises of the time, the Panic of 1819 and the Missouri Crisis, but also in how Adams helped draft Monroe’s famous Monroe Doctrine, which warned Americans of the extension of Old World power in the New World. It is here we see both men making a name for themselves, Adams as a primary politician with a healthy career of politics while Jackson as the backwater, frontiersman of the people who fought for their...
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...Imperialism – Stronger Nations Extend Their Economic Political Or Military Control Over Weaker Territories Global Competition European Expansion In Africa 3 Factors Fueling American Imperialism Desire For Military strength Thirst For New Markets Belief In Cultural Superiority Combined Philosophy Of Social Darwinism & Belief In Anglo-Saxon Superiority(White Man’s Burden) US had responsibility of spreading Christianity and “civilization” to worlds “inferior people” U.S Acquire Alaska 1876 Bought Alaska $7.2 Million Originally called “Seward’s Folly” US takes Hawaii 1850’s- US owned sugar plantations account for about 75% of island’s wealth 1875-1890- Hawaiian sugar production increased by 9 fold 1890- McKinley Tariff eliminates “duty-free” status of Hawaiian sugar 1898 Congress annexes Hawaii The Spanish American War War fever escalates Actions fueled by “Yellow Journalism”- untrue headlines about the war in Cuba between newspaper owners William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer Fuels nationalism & aggressive foreign policy known as jingoism The De Lome Letter 1897- President McKinley tries to solve problems diplomatically, worked at first 1898- New York Journal publishes a letter written by Spanish ministers to the US (Enrique De Lome). The letter called the president weak The insult angered Americans The USS Maine Explodes Feb. 1898- USS Maine explodes in behavior Havana, 260 men killed Newspaper reports Maine was blown up by a Spanish mine/...
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...as the focal point of the Covenant, Article 10 stated that each member had to pledge to “respect and preserve against external aggression of the territorial integrity and political independence of all Members of the League.” This provision of the League of Nations was seen as a direct threat to the power of the Senate because in order to “preserve against external aggression” of the member states, all decisions as to how to deal with aggressor nations would not be convened by the Congress but by the League of Nations. Furthermore, Article 10 was bolstered by Article 16, which articulated that an attack on one member of the League would be akin to an attack on all the members who could then exercise military force or economic sanctions as deemed by the League. Also, the Senate was not given any clarity if it had to act immediately if Article 10 was put into effect, giving it more reason to fear ratification.Since the right to declare war was constitutionally given to the Congress, the fact that the Senate would have had to forgo its inherent rights to the League is why LaFeber deemed it “the obstacle to...
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...APUSH Study Guide 8 A weak Confederacy and the Constitution, 1776-1790 Themes/Constructs: The federal Constitution represented a moderately conservative reaction against the democratilizing effects of the Revolution and the Articles of Confederation. The American Revolution was not a radical transformation like the French or Russian revolutions, but it produced political innovations and some social change in the direction of greater equality and democracy. The American Revolution did not overturn the social order, but it did produce substantial changes in social customs, political institutions, and ideas about society and government. Among the changes were the separation of church and state in some places, the abolition of slavery in the North, written political constitutions, and a shift in political power from the eastern seaboard toward the frontier. The first weak government, the Articles of Confederation, was unable to exercise real authority, although it did successfully deal with the western lands issue. The Confederation’s weakness in handling foreign policy, commerce and the Shays Rebellion spurred the movement to alter the Articles. Instead of revising the Articles, the well-off delegates to the Constitutional Convention created a charter for a whole new government. In a series of compromises, the convention produced a plan that provided for a vigorous central government, a strong executive, the protection for property, while still upholding republican...
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...Chapter 9 The Market Revolution 51. Complaint of a Lowell Factory Worker 1. The female factory worker compared her conditions with those of slaves because she felt like they were being treated like slaves by not being allowed to speak for themselves. She felt that they were awed into silence by wealth and power and was under tyranny and cruel oppression 2. She doubt the sincerity of the Christian beliefs of the factory owners because they talk benevolence in the parlor, compel their help to labor for a mean and paltry pittance in the kitchen. They manifest great concern for souls of the heathen in distant lands and care for nobody else besides their own. 52. Immigrants Arriving in New York City 1. The tone the reporter adopted regarding the immigrants is hostile because of how he describes the immigrants and how they looked. He described them having degraded faces with many stamps of inferiority. 2. The aspirations the reporter thinks are uppermost in the immigrant’s minds is hope, freedom, and a chance to work, and food to the laboring man. 53. A Woman in the Westward Movement 1. Moving west altered tradition expectations of women’s roles by proving that they could endure rough conditions from moving west. They were left to be lonely and the burdens of pioneer life. 2. Mrs. Noble’s main complaints about her situation on the frontier was carrying her infants and not being able to sleep because of thinking about wild beasts. She...
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...Dear Charles, Here's a possible rewrite of your thesis: "This paper will examine Augustine's teachings about 'conferred faith' upon infant during baptism. My claim is that Paul misrepresented Paul's teachings on the family's effect upon the holiness of the child." You'll find the "claim" in chapters 1-14 of Turabian's Manual, which is something that our rubric doesn't bring up, but I think it's a good technique. I notice that you have Greek written in Times New Roman font. I have seen other students do this. I have never been able to figure out how this is done. I notice that when I try to add a letter than it comes out in Latin script. These are quotations that you've pasted. This is amazing. I don't know how they do this! Let me know if you can help me! The only defect in this paper that I want to point out is that much of your paper is not really about Augustine's teaching on infant baptism. All subsequent developments of his teachings really have nothing to do with what happened in Augustine's head. Let's take Pannenberg as an example. He may have followers up there in Lutheran country where you minister. His ideas are influenced by Augustine, but Augustine was not a Lutheran. Some seem to think he was a Lutheran or a Calvinist, but they deceive themselves. You must, of course, take Paul into account because Augustine worked with Paul's writings. Paul was a source that Augustine used—or better, abused or misused, as you and argue. Students find it impossible to focus on one...
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...such invitees, and b. should expect that they will not discover or realize the danger, or will fail to protect themselves against it, and c. fails to exercise reasonable care to protect them against the danger. Section 343A of the Restatement provides: a possessor of land is not liable to his invitees for physical harm caused to them by any activity or condition on the land whose danger is known or obvious to them, unless the possessor should anticipate the harm despite such knowledge or obviousness. Sections 343 and 343A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts preclude liability for a possessor of land where an invitee is injured as a result of a condition whose danger is known or obvious to the invitee, unless the possessor anticipated the injury despite the invitee’s knowledge or the obviousness of the condition. Restatement (Second) of Torts §343A(1). As the cases below illustrate, where a danger is “open or obvious,” the possessor of land does not owe the invitee a duty to take precautions against or warn of open or obvious dangers. Under Pennsylvania law the assumption of the risk doctrine applies to absolve the landowner from liability for injuries sustained if the plaintiff: (1) knows of the risk or hazard, and (2) voluntarily proceeds in that activity. There is substantial uncertainty as to the status of the assumption of the risk doctrine in Pennsylvania. Which party bears the burden to establish these elements is currently the subject of debate in Pennsylvania...
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