Why did Congress pass the Civil Rights Act of 1875? Why wasn't the Thirteenth Amendment enough to bring about meaningful freedom for slaves? Why wasn't the 18th Amendment popular in Milwaukee? Why is the 8th Amendment important? Why was the 24th Amendment important to voters?
U.S. legislation in 1919 passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The National Prohibition Act was ratified Jan. 16 and originally vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson, only to be overruled by Congress with a 287...
U.S. legislation in 1919 passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The National Prohibition Act was ratified Jan. 16 and originally vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson, only to be overruled by Congress with a 287...
On Aug. 18, 1920, women were empowered like never before in the United States after the 19th Amendment was passed. After a fight for women's rights that began more than a century before, the Nineteenth Amendment the women's right to vote was ratified to the U.S. Constitution. The act ...
matter. Even the Greeks did not have a completely true democracy, because the city-states often established large numbered councils with rotating memberships to govern on the day to day matters. While democracy advocated the power of the people, it can be used to suppress the rights of some ...
Until the passing of the 22nd Amendment, there was no formal cap on the number of terms a U.S. president could serve. George Washington set an unofficial precedent when he stepped down after two terms in office, but when Franklin D. Roosevelt came into the presidency, he was elected to ...
multiple times using the same contact information. But the docket is also filled with spam comments falsely attributed to people whose names and addresses were taken from data breaches. These comments would appear to come from real people despite being fraudulent, yet AT&T did not mention this ...
Jackson said that a Robert Ahler had stayed in her hotel for 3 weeks, and she thinks she had seen him with a familiar face (Oswald) and left communist propaganda in one of the drawers, as well as a swastika. Underlined by whoever did the investigation, was that he spent $2o a week...
Then came the news that we jailed thousands of so-called terrorists suspects, locked them up without the right to a trial or even the right to confront their accusers. Certainly, we would never stand for that.We did. And now, it's been discovered the executive branch has been conducting...
at the site of the now-deserted Wampanoag village of Patuxet. There they sat for the next few months in crude shelters - cold, sick and slowly starving to death. Half did not survive that terrible first winter. The Wampanoag were aware of the English but chose to avoid contact them for...