However, everything changed when James K. ... William Walker, the Great Filibuster In 1855, William Walker and a rag-tag "army" of mercenaries and pirates landed on the shores of Nicaragua, with the intent of annexing the country for personal gain, the expansion of US interests, and the subjugation and perhaps even the enslavement of Latin Americans, whom Walker himself saw as vastly inferior to whites. ... The William Walker incident also showed an ugly side to US public sentiment of Latin America; all too often, racism or other factors turn US opinion towards that of lack of respect for La...

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As James Ceaser states "It is probably a truism of political speech that if one has trouble defining immediately what a term means, someone else is using it a different way.... In George Washington's farewell address he said that the Constitution "has a just claim to [our] confidence and respect," because it is "the offspring of our choice, uninfluenced and unawed, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers uniting security with energy, and containing, within itself, a provision for its own amendment."16 Moreover William Gladstone described it as "the ...

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NATO's Article 6 states an armed attack occurs when "the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the parties, when in or over these territories or any area of Europe, which occupation of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the treaty entered into force"(James). ... (James). ... Here today we draw together one of the consequences of these events in the disarmament of the British Army of the Rhine"(James). ...

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TEN MAJOR EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE UNITED STATES Over time instances occurred throughout history that affected the United States, for the good and bad. They affected many people emotionally and physically. The following ten events have affected the nation culturally, politically, economically, ...

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