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at what point in the u.s history do you think people became most concerned about abolishing discrimination based on race?

Vikentia [17]

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"[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse."
<span> - Thomas Jefferson, December 20, 1787</span>

In the summer of 1787, delegates from the 13 states convened in Philadelphia and drafted a remarkable blueprint for self-government -- the Constitution of the United States. The first draft set up a system of checks and balances that included a strong executive branch, a representative legislature and a federal judiciary.

The Constitution was remarkable, but deeply flawed. For one thing, it did not include a specific declaration - or bill - of individual rights. It specified what the government could do but did not say what it could not do. For another, it did not apply to everyone. The "consent of the governed" meant propertied white men only.

The absence of a "bill of rights" turned out to be an obstacle to the Constitution's ratification by the states. It would take four more years of intense debate before the new government's form would be resolved. The Federalists opposed including a bill of rights on the ground that it was unnecessary. The Anti-Federalists, who were afraid of a strong centralized government, refused to support the Constitution without one.

In the end, popular sentiment was decisive. Recently freed from the despotic English monarchy, the American people wanted strong guarantees that the new government would not trample upon their newly won freedoms of speech, press and religion, nor upon their right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures. So, the Constitution's framers heeded Thomas Jefferson who argued: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."

The American Bill of Rights, inspired by Jefferson and drafted by James Madison, was adopted, and in 1791 the Constitution's first ten amendments became the law of the land.

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What series of events and ideological conflicts prompted the cold war? how did the cold war reshape ideas of american freedom? w

fredd [130]

Answer:

What series of events and ideological conflicts prompted the cold war?

Ideological conflicts

Soviet Union already didn't like us before the end of the war

-- Didn't give them atomic bomb

-- We helped them out a year later

Further divided

-- George Kennan: established the "containment" policy

-- Truman Doctrine: we help out non-comm. govts, even if they are led by dictators

-- Marshall Plan: rebuild Europe; further solidified divide

Events

Middle East

-- Soviets in N. Iran, withdrew

-- Soviets set up puppet comm. govts in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria

Military aid sent to combat comm.

-- Greece and Turkey (for OIL!!)

We supported anyone who claimed to be non-communist and built up others

-- Chile, Iran

-- Greece, Spain

Marshall Plan

-- Rebuild Western Europe

1948-49 Berlin blockade

1949 Soviets test first atomic bomb

1949 NATO

-- Creating treaties to stop the spread of communism

1949 China falls to communism

1949 Warsaw Pact in response to NATO

1950 National Security Council

-- Increase in defense spending

1950 GATT

-- Western nations got together to encourage trade between our nations so we could be economically stable and not communists!!!

1950-1953

- 1950 Inchon - MacArthur pushes democratic forces up, China pushes them down again, end up BACK at the 38th Parallel

-- "Proxy war"

how did the cold war reshape ideas of american freedom?

Government agencies like the CIA secretly funded the arts. The Soviets did the same so the U.S. wanted to keep it quiet. This is an example of soft power.

what major domestic policy initiatives did truman undertake?

The Fair Deal asked Congress to do New Deal-ish things like expand public housing, social security.

what effects did the anticommunism of the cold war have on american politics and culture?

Southern Democrats want states' rights to keep certain people to stay suppressed.

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3 years ago

How did the kansas-nebraska act overturned the missouri compromise of 1820 and bleeding kansas?

Sophie [7]

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories ofKansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Actserved to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.

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Terrorists from this nation were responsible for the horrific Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

abruzzese [7]

*Libya* (Gaddafi) took responsibility.

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4 years ago

What was the purpose of the emancipation Proclamation?

sergiy2304 [10]

To settle America and make a new and better place and break away from the harsh British government.

They were more free in spirit.

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