Answer: It showed Americans that the war was not actually close to ending based on strong communist attacks in South Vietnam.
The Tet Offensive of 1968 was a turning point, and the influence of the media in reporting on the Tet Offensive was felt in that turning point as well.
The number of American households that owned a television set rose dramatically in the 1960s. In the 1950s, less than 10% of homes had a TV, but by 1966 that had risen to 93% of households. Most Americans now were getting their news from television, and Walter Cronkite was the most trusted anchorman on TV news. When the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive in 1968, Cronkite, known as "the most trusted man in America," offered a television editorial that shaped the nation's mood. Cronkite said in that broadcast on February 27, 1968: "It seems now more certain than ever, that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate. To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory conclusion. ...It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could."
In addition to Cronkite's reporting, there were also images coming from the war front that had shown a "credibility gap" between what the US government had been saying about the war and what was actually happening there.
Answer:
1. Civil Rights movement had its start in the colonial days with the opposition to slavery.
2. Continued into the 1800's with the abolition movement and the Civil War.
3. Slavery ended after the Civil War and AA's enjoyed some rights for a time during the Reconstruction.
4. AA suffered setbacks after Reconstruction. Legalized racism returned to the South with the Supreme Court 1896 ruling Plessy vs. Ferguson.
5. In the 1930's Eleanor Roosevelt strongly supported Civil Rights, but FDR was reluctant to fight too hard for them for fear of angering his southern white supporters.
6. Progress was made in the 1940's:
- Federal ban against discrimination in defense-related work (making weapons for war) led by A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH.
- CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) was founded)
- President Truman's order to DESEGREGATE the armed forces.
- In popular culture: Brooklyn Dodgers is the first Major League Baseball Team to put an AA on its roster: Jackie Robinson.
7. The NAACP began to undermine Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling under the leadership of Charles hamilton houston and thrugood marshell.
Explanation:
C) To protect the Individual From Government Abuse
Answer:
a. open land in the Southeast to American farmers.
Explanation:
Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The purpose of this Act is to "open land in the Southeast to American farmers."
This is evident in the fact that the United States Congress preferred to make more land accessible in the Southeast to white settlers, thereby ensuring that the law or Act made compelled the Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River to move to the western part of the River.
