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.”

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.

Third, there was the moral issue of Weyler;s treatment of the Cubans, which appealed to American humanitarianism (Schweikart and Zinn 483). 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.

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.

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. By 1778 he recovered from his problem and was given the order as a Major General of Massachusetts Militia.

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.

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

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

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

He thought Mobile was next on the list, and after that, New Orleans. The General twice attempted to reach a peaceful agreement with the Spanish, and after both attempts failed, he ordered, “Turn out the troops.” On November 7, 1814, Andrew Jackson led approximately 4,000 troops into Pensacola where they fought the British and Spanish forces.

Washington and Rochambeau marched an army from New York to Virginia to join with other French forces while de Grasse sailed with soldiers to the Chesapeake Bay and the York River. Because of the precision of the positioning, they were able to capture Cornwallis and his troops. On October 17, 1781, after some resistance, Cornwallis surrendered he and his army of 7,000 men. Though this didn’t win the Americans the war immediately, it put them way ahead of the British. This incident brought forth outcries in England against continuing the war; about two years later, after hardly any significant battles, the Americans and the British signed a final treaty on September 3, 1783.

Four months later, the first participation of the civil war took place on the argued land. The Fort Sumter commander is major Robert Anderson who was a Freedman owner who nevertheless was loyal to the Union. South Carolina army has 6,000 troops by ringing the Harbor, Anderson and his soldiers were cut off from aid and resupplies.

General Daniel Morgan and General Nathanael Greene withdrew towards Virginia after the American victory at the Battle of Cowpens. The combined forces of both Generals and the diagonal travel across North Carolina allowed the American army to retreat without General Cornwallis capturing any Americans. Cornwallis followed closely behind the American army throughout the American retreat. After two years of campaigning in the Carolinas, Cornwallis desired to defeat Greene’s army. After approaching the Dan River, General Nathanael Greene ordered all of the boats on the river to be collected and brought to the same location.

On March 18, 1981, the entire island was listed on the National Register for Historical Places and designated the Kaho`olawe Archaeological District. At the request of then representative/senate candidate Patricia Saiki, President Bush, two weeks before the 90s election, told the Secretary of Defense to immediately cease the use of Kaho 'olawe as a weapons range. During the same period of time, Senator Akaka, was competeing with Mrs. Saiki for the senate seat, introduced legislation to create a Kaho 'olawe conveyance commission. This proposal became part of the 1991 Defense Appropriations Act [PL 101-511, Sec. 8118]. Section 8118 established the Kaho`olawe Island Conveyance Commission to recommend terms and conditions for the conveyance of