The Democratic Republic of the Congo has signed a peace agreement with a government representative, rebel groups, the UN and the U.S. and European Union in order to end the fighting that has been going on for years there and in which 800,000 people have been displaced. The Secretary General of the UN has said that the signing of this treaty is important for the continued support of the UN. Rebel troops will be withdrawing, and other troops from the Congo will be taking their place under the command of the UN to help keep the peace. The treaty, however, did not address one of the main reasons for war in the DR Congo: its natural resources and great wealth (groups have fought for control of the area due to its vast amounts of gold, diamonds and timber). If this issue is not dealt with, it is unlikely that the fighting will come to a real stop.
(bbcnews.com)
The US and the UK have told Kenya that they will withdraw their aid if the crisis that had gripped the country since the presidential election. Since the election, there has been widespread violence in Kenya, and Britain has donated $2 million to helping to fix it, but is not going to go through with its full program to assist the country immediately, and will instead observe what happens in the future before the decide what to do. The European Union may also cut its donor aid; the European Parliament has voted to cut aid to the country. The EU has told the president of the country that unless they try to start settling the problem, aid will be cut for certain. This is a huge problem for the country, which depends upon outside aid for HIV/AIDS prevention, health care, and education. It receives billions of dollars from other countries and private funding. The UK alone has given $330 million since 2001 and was supposed to give $100 million this year. The threat of the withdrawal of aid could hurt Kenya very badly if it actually happens.
(bbcnews.com)
Mauritanian police have announced that there have been arrests made related to the attacks on the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott (Mauritania's capital). At least 7 suspects have been arrested, including an Algerian. An Algerian al Quaeda group has come forth to say that they were responsible for the attack. No further news on what Mauritanian authorities plan to do.
(bbcnews.com)
The President of Chad has announced that he would be willing to pardon the 6 French aid workers convicted on kidnapping charges if the French government requested. The workers were originally supposed to serve the equivalent of their sentences (8 years hard labor in a Chadian prison camp) in France, but France is now assisting Chad in fighting a rebel group (France has about 1,400 troops in Chad right now, and Paris "provided vital information in the face of a week-long assault" on the capitol, according to the President of Chad). The French government sent a pardon request soon after the statement was released.
(bbcnews.com)
Friday, February 8, 2008
Third Draft of Project
Link to notebook: http://www.google.com/notebook/public/04767565420953375744/BDQZ-SwoQn5_jjfoi
Link to Civil Rights Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=ml
I plan to add many more points to the map and elaborate on the points I have already set up. I thought that it would be helpful to have a map of the Civil Rights Movement so thata viewer could see where most of the struggles occurred.
Link to Civil Rights Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?tab=ml
I plan to add many more points to the map and elaborate on the points I have already set up. I thought that it would be helpful to have a map of the Civil Rights Movement so thata viewer could see where most of the struggles occurred.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Histury Project
Here is a link to my big project:
http://www.google.com/notebook/#b=BDQZ-SwoQn5_jjfoi
http://www.google.com/notebook/#b=BDQZ-SwoQn5_jjfoi
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Chapter 29 Section 2 Guided Reading
1) What was the goal of the freedom riders? The goal of the freedom riders was to test the Supreme Court decision banning segregated seating in bus terminals by riding the buses across the South in hopes of getting a violent reaction out of whites in order to convince the Kennedy administration to enforce the law.
2) What was the Kennedy Administration's response? President Kennedy arranged to give the freedom riders direct support, sending 400 U.S. marshals to protect the riders. The ICC and the attorney general also banned segregation in all interstate travel facilities.
3) What was the goal of the march on Washington? They demanded the immediate passage of a civil rights bill that guaranteed equal access to all public accommodations and ave the attorney general the right to file desegregation suits in schools.
4) Who attended the march? Martin Luther King, Jr. and 250,000 people, including 75,000 whites.
5) What was the goal of the Freedom Summer project? To get national publicity which would influence Congress to pass a voting rights act.
6) Who volunteered for the project? Mostly white College students 1/3 of whom were female, volunteered and were trained in nonviolent resistance.
7) What did the role of the violence shown on television play in the march from Selma to Montgomery? The violence horrified viewers and caused hundreds of protesters to come to Selma, and caused President Lyndon Johnson to present a voting rights act to Congress. The march continued with federal protection and there were 25,000 marchers.
8) What did the march encourage President Johnson to do? He presented a new voting rights act to Congress and asked for it to be passed quickly.
9) What did the Voting Rights Act outlaw? It outlawed the literary tests that had disqualified many voters, and stated that federal examiners could enroll voters who had been denied the right to vote by local officials.
10) What did the law accomplish? It caused many more African Americans to become registered voters; for example, the number of African Americans registered to vote in Selma rose from 10% to 60%, and the number of registered African American voters in the South tripled.
2) What was the Kennedy Administration's response? President Kennedy arranged to give the freedom riders direct support, sending 400 U.S. marshals to protect the riders. The ICC and the attorney general also banned segregation in all interstate travel facilities.
3) What was the goal of the march on Washington? They demanded the immediate passage of a civil rights bill that guaranteed equal access to all public accommodations and ave the attorney general the right to file desegregation suits in schools.
4) Who attended the march? Martin Luther King, Jr. and 250,000 people, including 75,000 whites.
5) What was the goal of the Freedom Summer project? To get national publicity which would influence Congress to pass a voting rights act.
6) Who volunteered for the project? Mostly white College students 1/3 of whom were female, volunteered and were trained in nonviolent resistance.
7) What did the role of the violence shown on television play in the march from Selma to Montgomery? The violence horrified viewers and caused hundreds of protesters to come to Selma, and caused President Lyndon Johnson to present a voting rights act to Congress. The march continued with federal protection and there were 25,000 marchers.
8) What did the march encourage President Johnson to do? He presented a new voting rights act to Congress and asked for it to be passed quickly.
9) What did the Voting Rights Act outlaw? It outlawed the literary tests that had disqualified many voters, and stated that federal examiners could enroll voters who had been denied the right to vote by local officials.
10) What did the law accomplish? It caused many more African Americans to become registered voters; for example, the number of African Americans registered to vote in Selma rose from 10% to 60%, and the number of registered African American voters in the South tripled.
Chapter 31 Section 2 Guided Reading
A) How did each of the following create or advance the women's rights movement?
1) Experiences in the workplace: Between 1950 and 1960, the number of women working for wages increased by 40%, but they were paid far less, and this was mostly ignored. President Kennedy appointed the presidential Commission on the Status of Women , which reported that women were paid far less than men on the same jobs, they were rarely appointed to managerial positions, regardless of education, experience, and ability. This showed women just how unequal they were to men in society.
2) Experiences in social activism: In many anti-war and civil rights groups, men were in charge of the activities, and women were given smaller roles, and were ignored by men when they protested this.
3) "Consciousness raising": Women got together to discuss their concerns such as the one mentioned in the above question. They talked about their lives together and discovered that many women had the same problems such as issues with sexism and gender discrimination.
4) Feminism: The belief that women should be economically, socially, and politically equal to men. It became popular in the 1960s.
5) Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: A book that captured many of the reasons that women were dissatisfied with their lives, and helped to make women motivated to work together to improve their situation.
6) Civil Rights Act of 1964: Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender. Created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to handle discrimination claims.
7) National Organization for Women (NOW): Pushed for the creation of child-care facilities that would allow mothers to get jobs and education, pressured the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to more thoroughly enforce the ban on gender discrimination when hiring. Caused the EEOC to declare sex-segregation job ads illegal and made it so that employers could not refuse to hire women for traditionally male jobs.
8) Gloria Steinem and Ms. magazine: Helped to found the National Women's Political Caucus. Created the magazine Ms. which treated contemporary issues from the feminist perspective.
9) Congress: Passed a ban on gender discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. This resulted in several all-male colleges becoming open to women. Congress also expanded the powers of the EEOC and gave working parents a tax break for child care expenses.
10) Supreme Court: Ruled in Roe v. Wade that women had the right to have an abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy.
B) The Equal Rights Amendment would have guaranteed equal rights under the law, regardless of gender. Who opposed this? Why?
Who? Conservative religious groups, political organizations, anti-feminists and conservative Phyllis Schlafly.
Why? They felt that the passage of the ERA would lead to the drafting of women, the end of laws protecting homemakers, the end of the husband's responsibility to provide for his family, and same sex marriage.
1) Experiences in the workplace: Between 1950 and 1960, the number of women working for wages increased by 40%, but they were paid far less, and this was mostly ignored. President Kennedy appointed the presidential Commission on the Status of Women , which reported that women were paid far less than men on the same jobs, they were rarely appointed to managerial positions, regardless of education, experience, and ability. This showed women just how unequal they were to men in society.
2) Experiences in social activism: In many anti-war and civil rights groups, men were in charge of the activities, and women were given smaller roles, and were ignored by men when they protested this.
3) "Consciousness raising": Women got together to discuss their concerns such as the one mentioned in the above question. They talked about their lives together and discovered that many women had the same problems such as issues with sexism and gender discrimination.
4) Feminism: The belief that women should be economically, socially, and politically equal to men. It became popular in the 1960s.
5) Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: A book that captured many of the reasons that women were dissatisfied with their lives, and helped to make women motivated to work together to improve their situation.
6) Civil Rights Act of 1964: Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and gender. Created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to handle discrimination claims.
7) National Organization for Women (NOW): Pushed for the creation of child-care facilities that would allow mothers to get jobs and education, pressured the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to more thoroughly enforce the ban on gender discrimination when hiring. Caused the EEOC to declare sex-segregation job ads illegal and made it so that employers could not refuse to hire women for traditionally male jobs.
8) Gloria Steinem and Ms. magazine: Helped to found the National Women's Political Caucus. Created the magazine Ms. which treated contemporary issues from the feminist perspective.
9) Congress: Passed a ban on gender discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. This resulted in several all-male colleges becoming open to women. Congress also expanded the powers of the EEOC and gave working parents a tax break for child care expenses.
10) Supreme Court: Ruled in Roe v. Wade that women had the right to have an abortion during the first 3 months of pregnancy.
B) The Equal Rights Amendment would have guaranteed equal rights under the law, regardless of gender. Who opposed this? Why?
Who? Conservative religious groups, political organizations, anti-feminists and conservative Phyllis Schlafly.
Why? They felt that the passage of the ERA would lead to the drafting of women, the end of laws protecting homemakers, the end of the husband's responsibility to provide for his family, and same sex marriage.
Chapter 29 Section 1 Guided Reading
1) What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do? It outlawed segregation in public facilities. it said 'all persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement." It was declared unconstitutional in 1883.
2) How did the court rule in Plessy? It ruled that the laws being set by Louisiana that required that there be "equal but separate" facilities in railroads did not violate the 14th Amendment.
3) In what 3 ways did WWII help set the stage for the civil rights movement?
a. The soldiers that were needed for battle created large amount of jobs that were filled by African Americans, Latinos and women.
b. So many soldiers were needed that the armed forces had to abandon their discrimination policies, and nearly 1 million African Americans served.
c. Civil rights groups campaigned for African American voting rights and the ending of "Jim Crow" laws during the war, in response to which FDR issued an order prohibiting racial discrimination by federal agencies.
4) Who argued Brown's case? Brown's case was argued by Thurgood Marshall, and African American lawyer.
5) What did the Brown ruling declare? It declared that segregation in schools was unconstitutional and violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
6) What organization was started to support Rosa Parks? The Montgomery Improvement Association.
7) What did it do? It organized the bus boycott that followed Parks' arrest.
8) How did President Eisenhower respond to the crisis in Little Rock? He put the Arkansas national guard under federal control and ordered 1000 men into Little Rock. The students attended their classes under the watch of soldiers.
9) Who was the president of the SCLC? Martin Luther King.
10) What was the SCLC's purpose? It nonviolently combated segregation and "second-class citizenship."
11)What did the SNCC accomplish, and how? The SNCC helped to raise awareness about their cause and started to convince people that African Americans deserved equal treatment by protesting. They staged a number of "sit-ins" in which they sat down at whites-only lunch counters, and picketed outside of chain stores that had segregated lunch counters.
2) How did the court rule in Plessy? It ruled that the laws being set by Louisiana that required that there be "equal but separate" facilities in railroads did not violate the 14th Amendment.
3) In what 3 ways did WWII help set the stage for the civil rights movement?
a. The soldiers that were needed for battle created large amount of jobs that were filled by African Americans, Latinos and women.
b. So many soldiers were needed that the armed forces had to abandon their discrimination policies, and nearly 1 million African Americans served.
c. Civil rights groups campaigned for African American voting rights and the ending of "Jim Crow" laws during the war, in response to which FDR issued an order prohibiting racial discrimination by federal agencies.
4) Who argued Brown's case? Brown's case was argued by Thurgood Marshall, and African American lawyer.
5) What did the Brown ruling declare? It declared that segregation in schools was unconstitutional and violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
6) What organization was started to support Rosa Parks? The Montgomery Improvement Association.
7) What did it do? It organized the bus boycott that followed Parks' arrest.
8) How did President Eisenhower respond to the crisis in Little Rock? He put the Arkansas national guard under federal control and ordered 1000 men into Little Rock. The students attended their classes under the watch of soldiers.
9) Who was the president of the SCLC? Martin Luther King.
10) What was the SCLC's purpose? It nonviolently combated segregation and "second-class citizenship."
11)What did the SNCC accomplish, and how? The SNCC helped to raise awareness about their cause and started to convince people that African Americans deserved equal treatment by protesting. They staged a number of "sit-ins" in which they sat down at whites-only lunch counters, and picketed outside of chain stores that had segregated lunch counters.
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