Why was the Embargo Act passed? Why was the Quartering Act passed? Why was the Patriot Act passed so quickly? Why is Al-Qaeda against the U.S.? Why were the Nuremberg Trials held in Nuremberg? Why did Americans object to Spanish actions in Cuba?
Why was the Embargo Act passed? Why did Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge become so popular? Why did William Paterson sign the Constitution? Why did Federalists target immigrants in the Alien and Sedition Acts? Why did Congress pass the Enforcement Laws in 1870?
The time change was first instituted in the U.S. during World War I, and then reinstituted again during WW II, as a part of the war effort. During the Arab oil embargo, when Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) stopped selling petroleum to the United ...
The major impetus for the first Navigation Act wasthe ruinous deterioration of English trade in the aftermath of the Eighty Years' War, and the associated lifting of the Spanish embargoes on trade between the Spanish Empire and the Dutch Republic. ...
Americans influenced the US foreign policy yet again as the First Neutrality Act was passed in 1935. By analyzing Document 6, it is clear that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the choices he made were still influenced by isolationist sentiment as he states in his Quarantine Speech that “it...
” so when Congress passed implementing legislation, the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (CPIA) into law, it sought to ensure this “independent judgment” would be maintained by incorporating several procedural and substantive constraints on executive action. These included the ...
on December 7, 1941, Japan launched their attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor and dropped bombs and shot bullets onto the vessels below. There was a 1,800-pound bomb dropped onto the deck of the USS Arizona, which landed in her forward ammunition magazi...
I only had a little bit more than a week in Vietnam, which was definitely not enough to see everything. This is why I chose to explore only the northern part of the country. I spent a few days in Hanoi, cruised aroundHalong Bay, and hiked in Sapa. While I obviously can’t speak...
In February 1959, Fidel Castro became Prime Minister of Cuba, unseating a post-revolution Cuban government that was favored by the U.S. Ironically, the previous Batista regime was defeated in part because of a U.S.-imposed armsembargo. The U.S. has had trade embargoes in place since Cast...
“This was rough. This was pretty intense at times. She started off shaky and regained her footing. But I thought she was going to come out with some of these memorable lines, all the memorable lines were from Donald Trump.” Watters said that ultimately, this debate pro...