The Spanish American war took place in the year of 1898. One of the leading causes of the war was the blowing up of USS <span>The Maine. In addition, the term yellow journalism used to refer to newspaper stories that may not be true but gain public appeal were growing, and it was causing some exaggeration of stories and Anti-Spanish propaganda. Leading figures of these newspapers are Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. As a result of the war, the US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines, and Hawaii. </span>
<span>t was the rise of large "factories" that caused an increase in pollution during the industrial revolution, since many of these factories relied on coal for power, which produced lots of exhaust. I don't know if this is one of you're answers.
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Until all legally enforced public segregation (segregation de jure) was abolished by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The event I've learned about that could be viewed as a fight for human or civil rights is the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the founding of the SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the founders of this important group.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott started on December 5, 1955, when African American woman Rosa Parks was arrested by the Montgomery Police because she was seated in the white section of the bus and refused to give her seat to a white man.
On January 10, 1957. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. became the first President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), whose headquarters were in Atlanta, Georgia.
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<em>The KKK experienced a resurgence in the 1920s because of its strong ties with the political atmosphere of the 1920s, and its guise of protecting morals and its expanded vigilante justice services beyond the usual Anglo-Saxon Protestantism of blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants, etc, to those they now perceived as lawbreakers like illegal gin runners, unfaithful spouses, corrupt public office holders, etc. They also introduced paid "kleagles" which inspired membership by millions of people.</em>
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<em>During the 1920s, KKK experienced a resurgence by blending of their extreme acts with common acts</em>. With this new methods of administration, they were able to get sponsorship and sympathy from the general white populace, and were no longer seen as masked extremists but rather as a community fraternity organisation. <em>To make them look like they were on the side of the law, the KKK got involved with local vigilante services, and prosecuted many bootleggers and corrupt politicians and even perceived cheating wives, inciting what would appear as a form of moral guidance</em>. However, with all these new reforms and methods, their lynching and persecution of minority groups still remained, and a series of feuds within its political circle led to its demise late in the 1920s
