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Physical evidence was considered in the trials in that: Actual tangible evidence can be touched and picked up that is relevant to the case.
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The Declaration of Independence was issued “by authority of the good people of these colonies.” It was a revolution, you know.
The Pilgrims did not cite any specific authority for the Mayflower Compact. However, they declared themselves to be loyal subjects of the king of Great Britain. The Compact was based on their experience in organizing dissenting churches in England and, I suppose, in the Netherlands, where they had sought shelter from persecution. In some ways it was in keeping with the English common law, which dealt with problems and controversies as they arose, rather than waiting for the government to settle them. But in some ways it was a revolutionary, democratic statement, asserting the colonists’ right to make their own laws.
The fee charged to a person before the could vote was called a poll tax given to African Americans due to the Jim Crow laws.
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I'm a little rusty on my history of this one but, if I remember correctly, being that America was a melting pot at the time, with still a strong sense of identity, the Germans sank a well-known tourist cruise ship, known as the Lusitania. Onboard were over one hundred American citizens. This strongly upset the United States, and Woodrow Wilson tried to avoid getting involved for the longest time, further upsetting his fellow Americans.
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939. It responded to needs for relief, reform, and recovery from the Great Depression.
