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US History

US History. Work in pairs. Read and review the following slides and describe their importance to US history and your EOC exam. … In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine , is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail

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US History

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  1. US History • Work in pairs. • Read and review the following slides and describe their importance to US history and your EOC exam.

  2. … In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to “preserve, protect, and defend it.” …

  3. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

  4. • Mapp v. Ohio, 1961 • Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963 • Miranda v. Arizona, 1966

  5. We will stay because in Asia and around the world are countries whose independence rests, in large measure, on confidence in America’s word and in America’s protection. To yield to force in Vietnam would weaken that confidence, would undermine the independence of many lands, and would whet the appetite of aggression. We would have to fight in one land, and then we would have to fight in another—or abandon much of Asia to the domination of Communists.…

  6. That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the United States on such vessel, and land or permit to be landed, any Chinese laborer, from any foreign port or place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such Chinese laborer so brought, and may be also imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year.

  7. *Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives *Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities *Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle *Frank Norris’s The Octopus

  8. “Radical Immigrants Deported” “Bombs Explode on Wall Street” “Palmer Raids Criticized by Congress”

  9. “The annual quota of any nationality shall be 2 per centum of the number of foreign-born individuals of such nationality resident in continental United States as determined by the United States census of 1890, but the minimum quota of any nationality shall be 100.”

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