resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving Swaraj or self-rule. Gandhi famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed
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technologic advances and our government need to adapt to these changes. The Patriot Act was but into law because our congress believed it was the right course of action to protect our nation’s security. Nonetheless, The Patriot Act undermines one of our most fundamental civil liberties and questions the integrity of our American democracy. Six weeks after September 11, 2001 congress passed a new law named, The Patriot Act (The Uniting and Strengthening America by Proving Appropriate Tools Required
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MARKETS | | 6/9/2015 | | HISTORY In 1775, when the colonists were preparing to go to war with the British, the Continental Congress introduced the Continental currency. However, the currency did not last long as there was insufficient financial backing and the notes were easily counterfeited. Congress then chartered the first national bank in Philadelphia - the Bank of North America - to help with the government's finances. The dollar was chosen to become the
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along with it. There were different opinions on many of these issues, they had to resolve it to make one law. One issue that came along with the making of the constitution was representation, small states wanted the same amount of people in the congress but large states wanted all representation to be regulated by the population of the state. The solution to this issue was that the constitution would create a bicameral legislature which meant that in the House of Representatives, the representation
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marker that would make codes on paper. This was called "Morse Code. Several years later, Congress funded $30,000 to construct a 40 mile experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore. Soon members of Congress witnessed the sending and receiving of the first news dispatched by electric telegraph. This technology was later improved in to the Stock Ticker, which would actually mark down numbers and letters that would reflect stock changes and recordings. Dow Jones & Company, publisher of
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Through the course of American history there are names that stand out, names that represent more than just a person, but represent an era in American history. The list of important and influential figures in American history is too long and numerous to list. Yet there is always one name, one man who stands above all the rest. Abraham Lincoln has come to define the American experience. His beginnings as a poor farmer in Kentucky to his rise in politics to his Presidency, his story fascinates everyone
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in the case are James McCulloch, a cashier from the Baltimore Branch of the second National Bank, the state of Maryland, and Chief Justice John Marshall of the Supreme Court. The case originated in Baltimore, Maryland. The case began in 1816 when Congress established the second National Bank. The banks were found in each state and many of the states worried that a National Bank would compete with local banks. Many of the worried states believed that Congress's decisions to establish the National banks
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Huntington Road, #701 Athens, GA 30606 706-208-1211 E-Mail: info@rankinfoundation.org Website: www.rankinfoundation.org Postmark Deadline is March 1, 2012 About the Foundation Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, was an advocate of women’s rights. A bequest from Rankin’s estate provided the seed money for establishing Jeannette Rankin Women’s Scholarship Fund (JRF). Since 1978, JRF has been awarding scholarships to low-income adult women who have a vision
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The Constitution of the United States by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and 35 others With a Side-by-Side Translation in Simple English by ELizabeth Claire, MA TESOL Editor, Easy English NEWS The Constitution in Simple English ©2010 Elizabeth Claire, Inc. 1 A Note from Elizabeth Claire Thank you for your interest in the Constitution. It is the foundation for the government of the United States. The Constitution was written in 1787. This was
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Goals of the war The goals of the war are to gain wealth and also to gain more authority, territory, and the influence of the states. First continental congress The first continental congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. Breed's Hill The place which the battle of bunker hill took place and where they store the weapon for the battle
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