Informative Speech On Puerto Rico

In August, Lee was appointed to the Continental Congress, and with his great oratorical skill he and others began to move American thinking from subservience to independence. “In 1776, Lee offered the Resolution for Independence to the Committee of the Whole at the Second Continental Congress. The resolution declared "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved." By July, the Congress had voted for independence.” ("Richard Henry

The Land of the Free… Well, Except Puerto Rico Whenever Americans think of Puerto Rico, they tend to think first of the beautiful Caribbean vacation destination. Whenever Puerto Ricans think of their island, they see the years of mistreatment and hardship that the island has endured. Puerto Rico has been the property of other countries for nearly five hundred years, but that does not give the United States a right to continue to ignore it. Puerto Rico’s status as a United States commonwealth keeps citizens from playing a part in fixing the political issues within the island. Without representation in the United States federal government nor political independence, Puerto Rico is powerless and silent.

In addition, Schweikart and Allen give detailed descriptions of the battles that happened during the Spanish American War, while Zinn simply states that the “Spanish forces were defeated in three months” (Zinn 309). The authors also explain the end result of the battle, reporting that the United States bought Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, but did not annex Cuba. Schweikart and Zinn’s interpretation is more compelling because they describe all aspects of the war, whereas Zinn only explains a couple of

I believe Reconstruction was necessary because after four long years of war they should move on from it and reunite as one. One thing that was successful was the passing of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment. The Thirteenth Amendment was about slavery being abolished. The Fourteenth Amendment stated that anyone who was born in the United States was considered an American citizen. The Fifteenth Amendment states

Tired of james’ harsh behavior,ben fled Boston in 1723 although he had three years remaining on a legally binding contract with his master. He escaped to New York before settling into philadelphia,which became his home base for the rest of his life. Benjamin franklin also decided to set up his own print shop,which was encouraged by penn. Government William Keith. in 1725,Ben published his first pamphlet,”A dissertation upon liberty and necessity pleasure and pain”,which argued that humans lack free will,and thus are not morally responsible for their own actions.

He served as President of Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777 he was also a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in 1780 “John Hancock”. On August 28, 1775, when congress recessed John finally took the opportunity to marry his fiancee Dorothy Quincy, they had two kids but neither one live to be adults. On July 4, 1776, something big happened in John 's life him and Continental Congress were the only two to sign the original version of the Declaration of independence on that day. The reason John said he wrote his name so big was so John Bull could read it without his glasses, John Bull was the general in England at the time. In October of 1777 John was forced to resign from Presidency because of health problems.

McGirr quotes George K. Statham when she writes “‘the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is about as likely as the repeal of the Thirteenth Amendment, the return of dueling, or gladiatorial combats….The world moves, and it has never yet taken a great moral or social step forward and afterwards retraced its step.’ Five years later, the Twenty-First Amendment broke the Eighteenth Amendment’s record speed for ratification…”(pg.233) Many reasons were given as to why the Eighteenth Amendment was revoked. Mostly because it was more tearing the country down rather than building the country up and America is a country that looks towards the future in moving forward in developing the nation to make it the best country in the world. McGirr concludes onto multiple different points onto why the government revoked the amendment. “Widespread disrespect for law, controversial actions of the Volstead vigilante enforcers, ever more draconian enforcement legislation, and the siren song of nightlife culture experimentation led former supporters to conclude that law was doing more harm than good.”(pg.233) People began to realize the harmful effects of the Volstead Act that was crumbling the nation as Prohibition continued to lose continuously more supporters from 1928. Another reason for loss of especially government support in the Eighteenth Amendment was the economical perspective.

While the Tabilban occupy Afghanistan however, Rahim Khan mentions to Amir that only two weeks after the Taliban took over, “... the Taliban banned kite fighting.” Foreshadowing the start of the oppression, and loss of freedom in Afghanistan as a whole. (Hosseini, 2003, pg. 213) At the end of the book, Amir sees people flying kites in America, “Another half dozen kites had taken flight.” At this point in the book, Amir is finally free. (Hosseini, pg.368) Hosseini uses deformities to symbolize inner goodness in combination with outward appearance. Hassan’s

The proclamation could not be enforced in the areas still under rebellion, but when the Union Army took control of Confederate regions, The Proclamation provided the legal support framework for freeing about more than 3 million slaves in those southern regions. Prior to the Proclamation, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which suggested that escaped slaves were either returned back to their prior masters or held in camps, contraband for their later return. The Proclamation applied only to the slaves in Confederate held lands and thus it did not apply to those in the four slave states in the south that were not in rebellion, nor and lower Louisiana, and excluded those counties of Virginia that were soon to form the state of West

On January 1,1863, he issued the final Emancipation Proclamation. It freed all of the slaves that the Confederacy owned that was not in Union hands One Million slaves in Union territory were still in bondage. Most slaves in the south did not hear of this for months. Now the north was not just fighting to preserve the Union, but it was now to end