The Amritsar massacre was a slaughter taken by soldiers of the indian-british army in the city of Amritsar on April 13<u>th</u> 1919. This soldiers in command of the general Reginald Dyer shoot with machine guns to a crowd of thousands of people of differents creeds unarmed who were celebrating the Vaisakhi (Indian new year). The result of this attack let 329 cassualties and 1200 wounded people.
The reactions in the rest of India were specially condemnatory so much for the act itself as for the saids of the general Dyer who told in his report that the people in Amritsar were a potential rebel army and his intention was to punish the disobedience. In Britain the goverment of Lloyd George tried to avoid the spread of the news considering it as a scandal and several politics like Winston Churchill stood agains it while more details were leak like the one that the indian people were unarmed at the time the shoot started.
Nevertheless this actions, a big part of the british government in India approved Dyer´s actions asking not to punsih him if not congratulates him for stopping a possible revolution in the region.
But the most important consequence of this massacre took by the british was that it marks the prelude of the non coperation movement held by Mahatma Ghandi between 1920 and 1922.
John F Kennedy proposed a legislation that later became the Civil rights Act of 1964 . He expressed that civil rights are moral issues and affirmed that the pursuit of racial equality was a just cause. By supporting equality and civil rights movement with his speech on civil rights, he played a crucial role in shaping his legacy as a proponent of civil right. However at the beginning he was afraid that Concerned that dramatic actions would alienate legislators in the heavily segregated American South, so that he supported civil rights and desegregation with caution. Kennedy offered stronger support for civil rights, including the enactment of new legislation that would ensure desegregation in the commercial sector when he felt the pressure of those impatient African-American as a result of the lack of social progress which was leading to further tension.
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The "natural rights" of a man is the rights you're born with. They came from you being born or the constitution. And they are "self-evident" because you don't have to explain what you're doing like when you're getting a house you don't really have to explain why you want that house. (All they might care about is the money you're paying them lol)
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Natural Rights- Things like getting property or a house or something like that.
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