1. Foreign Policy
In 1839, Spanish slave traders attempted to transport 53 illegally purchased Africans to Havana, Cuba and during this journey one of the Africans, Cinque, killed his captors and took over the ship (Jones et al. ... The vessels, and the goods on board were the property of Spanish subjects in Havana and the "Negroes" in question were certified at that time by a document signed by the Governor General of Cuba to be property of Spanish subjects (Argument of the Government). ... They were kidnapped and illegally carried to Cuba, and detained and restrained on board of the Amistad; there i...
Meanwhile, Miami-Dade County has been populated by Cubans from the Mariel boatlift. It gave Cubans, mostly prisoners of war, an opportunity to flee the dictatorship of Fidel Castro at the end of the eighty's. ... By 1980 however, the pressure of emigration caused the Cuban government to open a port for unrestricted emigration. ... Miami-Dade County was the recipient of the unexpected Cuban refugees that have since then populated Miami and slowly migrating to the north. ... The results of the four counties in Florida, unfortunately, do not guarantee the state government. ...
This want for new territory, would cause boundary issues and fears to arise soon after the Revolutionary War with the fledgling government of the United States. ... Not long after the Revolutionary War, the government of the United States began to want to expand into territories that were occupied by European and Native American peoples. ... This caused some politicians in government to fear that America had a possibility of being taken over. ... The Mexican government knew that the threat of United States' "right to expansion"," with their northern territory, weighed heavily with their p...
It came very close to destroying the American government and culture for good, yet it also saved the country. ... They question whether Lincoln was justified in stopping the South from leaving the Union and whether it was hypocritical for a government to uphold democracy and yet stop people from selecting their own government. ... George Washington refused to be appointed interim King, which would have threatened the whole concept of democratic government that the United States stand for. Roosevelt ended the great depression by implementing government work programmes and helped America win W...
The Gilded-Age, Reconstruction Era and the Age of Imperialism were periods of time that affected the first half of the American 20th century, changing the face of American identity. The American Identity shows a sense of duty by wanting to show everyone else the way to live. America as well wanting...
With this, government work was being given based on merit. ... The Spanish-American War is more a result of the Philippine Revolution and the Cuban War of Independence. After intervening between Cuban and Spanish conflict, the U.S. was then dragged into the Philippine Revolution which incited the Philippine–American War. ...
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. ... Slavery had become such a prominent institution in the South, that by 1850, many Southerners supported the filibustering of Cuba and Mexico believing that the "safety of the South was to be found only in the extension of (slavery)." ... "In the year 1765, that portion of the British Empire embracing Great Britain undertook to make laws for the Government of that portion composed of the thirteen American Colonies. A struggle for the right of self-government ensued, which resulted, on t...
Rejecting the arguments for federal authority or self-government, state sovereignty would empower states to promote the expansion of slavery as part of the Federal Union under the U.S. ... These states agreed to form a new federal government, the Confederate States of America, on February 4, 1861. ...
Rejecting the arguments for federal authority or self-government, state sovereignty would empower states to promote the expansion of slavery as part of the Federal Union under the U.S. ... These states agreed to form a new federal government, the Confederate States of America, on February 4, 1861. ...