Just like president Madero (murdered in a coup d'etat in 1913), the main issues that he faced when attempting to carry out reforms such as the agrarian reform was, on the one hand, the lower classes' impatience for the reforms to take place right away, on the other hand, he met the opposition of wealthy landowners (<em>hacendados; latifundistas</em>), un willing to give back the land they had snatched from small farmers in times of president Porfirio Diaz's administration (1876 - 1911).
In order to enforce his reforms, Carranza first presented a document, "Reforms to the Constitution of 1857," and as these reforms were rejected by many because of their limited scope. Instead, a new constitution was issued in 1917 which features a number of articles devoted the the right of people to free and public education, a working day of 8 hours tops, etc, This new Constitution, issued on February 1917, greatly expanded qualitatively and quantitatively the lukewarm reforms carried out by Carranza
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The Venona Project was an Initiative of the United States government together with the United Kingdom during World War II to intercept and learn about the communications between one of its main allies during that conflict, the former Soviet Union, with its diplomatic, political or military undercover agents; spy networks; or simply influential citizens in the United States.
The project concentrated and deciphered the cablegrams and messages that circulated between Moscow and North America during the war, and potentially "threatened" the national security of the northern country. The project did not get to know each other, or only some American presidents had partial knowledge of it. At first the contents of the messages could not be deciphered, this only happened due to an error of Soviet intelligence, so the content of the messages remained secret until the fall of the socialist camp, in the 1990s, fifty years more late to have been programmed.
The Venona documents comprised three main categories:
- Those that contain reports on the opinions transmitted by American spies.
- Reports of conversations between US and Russian officials.
- Those that provide only a general context or contain little useful information.
A notable case was that of atomic espionage, which led to the execution, in June 1953, of the spouses Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The evidence that led to the accusation of both was not based on the Venona Project, which was not public and was only known to the secret services, but by statements by Ethel's brother. However, that way he could save himself, even if he pleaded equally guilty.
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Voting in elections
Ignoring laws they don't like
Attending city council meetings
I personally think all of them though.
After the Civil War, the economic recovery of the southern United States hinged on trade with the North and moving goods westward via the railroad. But there was a problem. Tracks in the South had been built with a gauge (or track width) of 5 feet but the majority of tracks in the North had a 4-foot 9-inch gauge (more or less).
So after much planning, over a concentrated two-day period in the summer of 1886, the width of thousands of miles of railroad track (and the wheels on thousands of rail cars) in the South was reduced by three inches.
Rolling stock, too, was being prepared for rapid conversion. Contemporary accounts indicate that dish shaped wheels were provided on new locomotives so that on the day of the change, reversing the position of the wheel on the axle would make the locomotive conform to the new gauge. On some equipment, axles were machined to the new gauge and a special ring positioned inside the wheel to hold it to the 5-foot width until the day of the gauge change. Then the wheel was pulled, the ring removed, and the wheel replaced.
To shorten the axles of rolling stock and motive power that could not be prepared in advance, lathes and crews were stationed at various points throughout the South to accomplish the work concurrently with the change in track gauge.
In April, 1619, GOVERNOR GEORGE YEARDLEY arrived in Virginia from England and announced that the Virginia Company had voted to abolish martial law and create a legislative assembly. It became the House of Burgesses — the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown. Present were Governor Yeardley, Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations (or settlements) Burgesses were elected representatives. Only white men who owned a specific amount of property were eligible to vote for Burgesses.
