The March on Washington in 1963 was one that was meant to bring attention to the injustice African-Americans faced in the United States. This march, attended by over 250,000 citizens, was hoping to bring about equality in the job search and freedom in general. At this event, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
All of the speeches given that day and the protesting that ensued was all created in hopes that the US Congress would pass the Civil Rights Act. This act, would help to bring legal and political equality to African-Americans all over the United States. This would also help African-Americans from facing discrimination in the workplace and in the hiring process.
After then U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's failed attempts to negotiate an agreement with Germany to end the unrestricted attacks of German submarines on British ships the German Foreign Minister, in what came to be known as the Zimmerman Telegram, invited Mexico to join the war alongside Germany and offered to help Mexico recover the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona territories. The UK intercepted the telegram and passed the information along to President Wilson. America saw this invitation as an act of war and so in an effort to put an end to militarization from foreign opposition U.S. congress called for war on Germany on April 6th, 1917.
Christians wanted to regain control of the Holy Land from Muslims.
In 1896, the Supreme Court decided that separate but equal law was constitutional in the Plessy v. Ferguson case which caused segregation to be legal in America for another 60 years.
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