1. Were Southern politicians more or ...

1. Were Southern politicians more or less likely to own slaves than other white Southerners?

More likely over 50% in country government and in state legislation owned slaves.

2. Were higher level politicians more likely to own slaves than other politicians?

Yes county government owned 53%  legislation owned 68% .

3. What do these facts suggest to you about the nature of the Southern political system?

That the southern Politics were way different from the North and that they did what their people did no matter if it was right or wrong.

4. How uniform were the proportion of slaves in the population and the proportion of whites owning slave across the South?

They were pretty close most there were at most a 10% or 15% chance that slaves were in the population.

5. Was there a relationship between the number of slaves in a state's population and whether and when it seceded from the Union?

States that succeed 1st in the union had more slaves all across the board and the ones that remained in the union had the least.

6. What material advantages did the North possess on the eve of the Civil War?

Money , People, factories, railroads, input and outputs

7. Do you think material advantages are decisive in the outcome of wars? Why or why not?

yes if you don't have money to produce the materials needed or if you don't have the people to make and use them.

8. Why did troop strength peak in 1863?
The Emancipation Proclamation

9. Do you think that the differences in troop strength were responsible for the war's outcome?

Yes and No because they could have had strengths along with many weaknesses they just knew how to use it to their advantage.

10. How does the cost of the Civil War--in casualties and expense--compare to the cost of other American wars?

The casualty and death rate seemed to be higher then most any other wars but the cost was 3rd or 4th on like list using the union only so if you added the confederate i assume it would be the highest in price too.

11. Why do you think that the Civil War was so lethal?

because it was free northern states fighting against slavery and keeping the southern states as part of the country because they formed their own succession .

12. What was the radical Republican program for reconstructing the Union?
A way to try and better everything by giving free schools, spiting up places by military

13. What were the goals of the radical Republican program?
To make them not go against the Union anymore, To give everyone land and freedom, to protect them.

14. Why was the program unacceptable to President Andrew Johnson?
Because all the southerners were democrats.

15. Why do you think the North failed to follow through with policies that would have secured the rights and economic
status of the freedmen?

16. What were the major political and social achievements of Reconstruction?
prohibited slaver, defined national citizenship, denied confederates the right to hold office, denial of votes based on color or race was prohibited.

1. Use evidence to describe the econ...

1.  Use evidence to describe the economic impact of casino ownership and gambling on Native American tribes.

Only less then 25% off Native American tribes own casinos. People think that because of FoxWoods a famous large casino owned by Native Americans that most Indians are rich. However around 400,000 live in highest poverty so because of gambling the views of Native Americans are way off and some have no money at all.




2.  What is the most significant problem of trying to understand the condition of the modern Native American population?

It is hard to group them all under 1 category of rich/ poor or w/e else because there are so many different tribes in different locations with different living standards.

3.  In what ways are Native Americans a unique minority group in the United States?  Do these reasons seem justified today, or should Native Americans be considered as a "regular" minority group (like African Americans, Asian Americans, women, etc.)?

They have many different tribe names, different locations, different languages and They are just like everyone else there is something different about them but they live in the same country as we do so they should be considered regular minority group.

4.  Please find 4 specific examples of the sorts of events generalized in this paragraph.  For each specific example, include a hyperlink to a website explaining the specific event, and a summary of that event.

1. making treaties with them Treaties between US and Native Americans
   
2. War Cival War + Native Americans
   
3. Increase funding for the BIA BIA
   
4. Allowing gambling operations to be run Casinos
   

5.  What is meant by the phrase 'diseases of the poor'?  What is the relationship between economics and health implied by that phrase?

That poor people usually get more sick and diseases because they can't pay for help and medicine and that they will probably get like germs and infections that are associated with poor dirty people. that if your poor your not going to get good health.

6.  Is John McCain correct in his assessment of the treatment of Native Americans?  Why?

yes he is correct because we see them as stereotype ( dark skin , dirty, rich form gambling) when really we took over thier land when they were here 1st and its pathetic. 

7.  Please define each of the following terms in the context of Native American policy:

• removal- they were removed them form their lands and homes
  
• allotment - dividing and sharing their things with everyone else
  
• termination- ending to war, fighting, ect
  
• relocation- go out west and find new places to live
  
• assimilation- letting different cultures come together to " one big family"
  
• self determination- let them choose their own culture and beliefs.
  

8.  Finally, give a paragraph summary on what self determination means, and why it either is, or is not, the appropriate policy for Native American people with respect to the Federal government.

Self Determination is like having political freedom. The right to choose their own politic and what they believe in without the law or other cultures stopping them or getting involved. I think that the Native Americans don't have to like our politics but just like every other culture and group they are part of it and have to live with it. It does fit them though because we took over and they want their total freedom and own government and choices to be made by them and not by us or our government.

Research Project

Carla Brandon and I would like to go to 2 cemeteries near where we live doucument/ video/ pictures of them because they are small. Then do background research about the time period, families, and why they died if there is a common time period or age.

History Essay

America tried to make countries such as Cuba and the Philippines more humane in the late 19th and early 20th century. When looking at the 3rd world countries, their wealth and power status can not compete against countries like the United States. America went to the Philippines and refused to leave because of rivalry and power that is an example of imperialistic nation. The United States went over to foreign countries to educate them using Christianity when there are many different religions. The United States has religious freedom so why try to Christianize other countries and take away their freedoms, this is just another act of imperialism. Racism in the early 20th century was popular in the United States against African Americans and the Filipinos were darker skinned and were not like Americans. The United States has taken over countries for the wrong reasons
and in humanely they are imperialistic.

President McKinley said that one night ideas came to him one being " That we could not turn them over to France or Germany, our commercial rivals in the orient-- that would be bad business and discreditable." He doesn't have faith in the Filipinos to fix themselves so instead of letting another country try to help them he wants to stay and not lose the power. The senator Albert Beveridge in 1900 spoke and said " The pacific is our ocean.......the Philippines give us a base at the door of all East." The United States doesn't seem to care about making the country humane it is looking for bargains and deals using the location of it. The strong outlast the weak when necessary but going into other countries to help gain East territory is wrong.

Educating a country that lacks it is a humane thing to do but when it comes to religion that's not education that's more forceful. President McKinley planned to " ..uplift and civilize and Christianize them..." America can help out other countries and not push Christianity on them. The United States has religious freedom and many different religious groups so trying to force other countries to one religion is a power act. To help educate them it took a war and deaths from the United States and the Filipinos. If the United states was there for humane purposes why would they fight.

The main issue between America and other countries in the 19th and 20th century was racism. Senator Albert Beveridge said " senators must remember that we are not dealing with Americans or Europeans ... but orientals." The Filipinos are darker skinned and foreign compared to European people or American people. A random volunteer stated " Our fighting blood was up and we all wanted to kill niggers.." and on average two people a day were getting killed by being lynched or burned just in the United States. When a country is killing its own people because they are
different they will have ambition to kill as many others as they can like the Filipinos. In 1901 a Philadelphia Ledger reported that " ...and have taken prisoners people who held up their hands and peacefully surrendered, an hour later ....... stood them on a bridge and shot them down." The United States killed many innocent people who were different from them that is not a humane thing to do.

The United States went into not only the Philippines but also into other 3rd world countries like Cuba. Many innocent people were killed because of their skin color and ethnicity in the early 1900's. Racism was popular to Americans and they proved that when they killed the Filipinos. America was power and resource hungry and having territory in the East helped them out with easy access to China. They also were able to get across the religion of Christianity by going into weak countries and forcing a common religion upon them. Due to all of these things America in the late 1800's and early 1900's can be described as imperialists.

Research Project 4th quarter

Me and a few other people are going to make the " American Century" movie trailer taking clips from other movies to represent the early 1900's up to 1999.

My research project

The Descision to Use Atomic Weapons

       The Decision to Use Atomic Weapons
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A People's War?
Howard Zinn

         Still, the vast bulk of the American population was mobilized, in the army, and in civilian life, to fight the war, and the atmosphere of war enveloped more and more Americans. Public opinion polls show large majorities of soldiers favoring the draft for the postwar period. Hatred against the enemy, against the Japanese particularly, became widespread. Racism was clearly at workThis could be a fact but im sure hating hte japanese for bombing us was not a racism act it was because of what they did we didn't know who we could trust. -Destiny Long 3/15/10 1:18 PM . Time magazine, reporting the battle of Iwo Jima, said: "The ordinary unreasoning Jap is ignorant. Perhaps he is human. Nothing .. . indicates it." ....      
        The bombing of Japanese cities continued the strategy of saturation bombing to destroy civilian morale; one nighttime fire-bombing of Tokyo took 80,000 lives. And then, on August 6, 1945, came the lone American plane in the sky over Hiroshima, dropping the first atomic bomb, leaving perhaps 100,000 Japanese dead, and tens of thousands more slowly dying from radiation poisoning. Twelve U.S. navy fliers in the Hiroshima city jail were killed in the bombing, a fact that the U.S. government has never officially acknowledged, according to historian Martin Sherwin (A World Destroyed). Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, with perhaps 50,000 killed.
       The justification for these atrocities was that this would end the war quickly, making unnecessary an invasion of Japan.It is clear he doesn't think that the Japanese  should have been bombed i think the 1st was necessary but not the 2nd.  -Destiny Long 3/15/10 1:20 PM  Such an invasion would cost a huge number of lives, the government said-a million, according to Secretary of State Byrnes; half a million, Truman claimed was the figure given him by General George Marshall. (When the papers of the Manhattan Project-the project to build the atom bomb- were released years later, they showed that Marshall urged a warning to the Japanese about the bomb, so people could be removed and only military targets hit.) These estimates of invasion losses were not realistic, and seem to have been pulled out of the air to justify bombings which, as their effects became known, horrified more and more people. Japan, by August 1945, was in desperate shape and ready to surrender. New York Times military analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote, shortly after the war:

The enemy, in a military sense, was in a hopeless strategic position by the time the Potsdam demand for unconditional surrender was made on July 26.
       Such then, was the situation when we wiped out Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
       Need we have done it? No one can, of course, be positive, but the answer is almost certainly negative.

       The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, set up by the War Department in 1944 to study the results of aerial attacks in the war, interviewed hundreds of Japanese civilian and military leaders after Japan surrendered, and reported just after the war:

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945, and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.

       But could American leaders have known this in August 1945? The answer is, clearly, yes. The Japanese code had been broken, and Japan's messages were being intercepted. It was known the Japanese had instructed their ambassador in Moscow to work on peace negotiations with the Allies. Japanese leaders had begun talking of surrender a year before this, and the Emperor himself had begun to suggest, in June 1945, that alternatives to fighting to the end be considered. On July 13, Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo wired his ambassador in Moscow: "Unconditional surrender is the only obstacle to peace.. .." Martin Sherwin, after an exhaustive study of the relevant historical documents, concludes: "Having broken the Japanese code before the war, American Intelligence was able to-and did-relay this message to the President, but it had no effect whatever on efforts to bring the war to a conclusion."
       If only the Americans had not insisted on unconditional surrender- that is, if they were willing to accept one condition to the surrender, that the Emperor, a holy figure to the Japanese, remain in place-the Japanese would have agreed to stop the war. That is another opinion because yes maybe japan would still be up but we took what we thought was a necessary punishment at the time. -Destiny Long 3/15/10 1:24 PM 
       Why did the United States not take that small step to save both American and Japanese lives? Was it because too much money and effort had been invested in the atomic bomb not to drop it?He is questioning the reasons why and in his opinion he thinks maybe it is because we spent to much money building it which i might agree with him. -Destiny Long 3/15/10 1:26 PM  General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, described Truman as a man on a toboggan, the momentum too great to stop it. Or was it, as British scientist P. M. S. Blackett suggested (Fear, War, and the Bomb), that the United States was anxious to drop the bomb before the Russians entered the war against Japan?
       The Russians had secretly agreed (they were officially not at war with Japan) they would come into the war ninety days after the end of the European war. That turned out to be May 8, and so, on August 8, the Russians were due to declare war on Japan, But by then the big bomb had been dropped, and the next day a second one would be dropped on Nagasaki; the Japanese would surrender to the United States, not the Russians, and the United States would be the occupier of postwar Japan. In other words, Blackett says, the dropping of the bomb was "the first major operation of the cold diplomatic war with Russia.. .." Blackett is supported by American historian Gar Alperovitz (Atomic Diplomacy), who notes a diary entry for July 28, 1945, by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, describing Secretary of State James F. Byrnes as "most anxious to get the Japanese affair over with before the Russians got in."
       Truman had said, "The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians." It was a preposterous statement. Those 100,000 killed in Hiroshima were almost all civilians. The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey said in its official report: "Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets because of their concentration of activities and population."
       The dropping of the second bomb on Nagasaki seems to have been scheduled in advance, and no one has ever been able to explain why it was dropped. Was it because this was a plutonium bomb whereas the Hiroshima bomb was a uranium bomb? Were the dead and irradiated of Nagasaki victims of a scientific experiment? He thinks now that the 2nd bombing was maybe just a test to see how they would work and who better to try it out on then the japanese which i dont think the 2nd bombing should have happened but it did. -Destiny Long 3/15/10 1:27 PM Martin Shenvin says that among the Nagasaki dead were probably American prisoners of war. He notes a message of July 31 from Headquarters, U.S. Army Strategic Air Forces, Guam, to the War Department:

Reports prisoner of war sources, not verified by photos, give location of Allied prisoner of war camp one mile north of center of city of Nagasaki. Does this influence the choice of this target for initial Centerboard operation? Request immediate reply.

The reply: "Targets previously assigned for Centerboard remain unchanged."
       True, the war then ended quickly. Italy had been defeated a year earlier. Germany had recently surrendered, crushed primarily by the armies of the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, aided by the Allied armies on the West. Now Japan surrendered.

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About three hundred Marines gripped t...

 About three hundred Marines gripped the side of the small knoll, Hill 120. The horseshoe-shaped line was the last defensive position before Henderson Field. John Mielke recalls their last stand.

We got together and were holding a position on the reverse slope of the ridge. At that time, there was a moment of panic. Around the base of the ridge, some paratroopers were retiring from their position because they knew we were there. They were calling out the password. One of the things you fear more than anything else is panic.(Not dying or being mutilated, but panic. All they know is fighting; farmers and merchants alike, and the one thing above all they fear is panic and dear.) -Chelsea Meade 2/25/10 1:43 PM We were cussing them out and giving them a real hard time. As they moved along, I felt sorry for them. I wasn't afraid. Fortunately, they were turned around [by the officers], and many of these men returned to their holes and died there. (It's a terrible thing to look forward to. With only a gun and hole as your constant companion, save for the cloud of gunpowder that could only provide moments of coverage. To return to a hole and die there. ) -Chelsea Meade 2/25/10 1:43 PM 

Then they [the officers] said, "Fix bayonets! And move up." We were going to cover the spot they were evacuating. I was the low man on the squad. I was an ammunition man, so I followed the men up the ridge. The squad leader set up his position, and the other ammunition man who was a bit older than me said, "John, I'll take care of you." That wasn't the case. (It's sad to think that all the men had were eachother, and even that wasn't much of anything at all. That even when the hour of darkness was vast upon them; all they had were themselves to die alone) -Chelsea Meade 2/25/10 1:44 PM  We left together, but I saw him for just a few moments, and we lost each other in the darkness making it up the ridge. I got up there and had this rifle with no sling on it, and this was awkward.

Most people were down in a prone position facing the ridge, throwing grenades as fast as they could throw them. As I came up there, I saw two men struggling. One was a big guy and the other was a small guy. I tackled the small guy. Like a bag of newspapers, I threw him down the ridge, and he went tumbling off into the darkness. The guy that was on top was a paratrooper. He had been bayoneted by the Japanese.

We were bringing in cases of grenades. I spent the night bringing grenades to the men and throwing them. It was like a bad dream: men firing BARs, Springfields; there were cases of empty grenades all over the place. There weren't many of us left standing. By daylight there were wounded and dead all over the ridge. (I couldn't imagine seeing the sight of the entire ridge covered in bodies. I wouldn't know what to do.) -Chelsea Meade 2/25/10 1:44 PM I think that the panic comment is different then what i would have thought but it is understandable that panic does happen in hard scary situations like these. To know that most everyone died by morning is sad and they died alone without anyone with them.  type here -Destiny Long 3/14/10 4:11 PM 

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Dave Taber was one of "Horse Collar" ...

Dave Taber was one of "Horse Collar" Smith's communicators who fought bravely among Sweeney's men. Six of the seven men were casualties that night.

    
    We were on top of the ridge near the command post. Major Bailey came up and made an eloquent speech. He said something like this: "All you fellows have buddies and friends that have been wounded and killed, and it will all be in vain if we lose the airfield. Now let's get out, hold the line, and save the airfield. If we lose the airfield, we're going to lose the island." That was about the gist of it. It was quite dramatic and got everybody moving. I thought to myself it was almost like something out of a movie.

    I was with a close friend of mine, Ike Arnold. (Ike's name was really Herman Arnold, but I called him Ike.) We each had five or six grenades. We went out. I'm not sure what happened, but somehow we got separated from some of the other guys. In fact we were a little too extended, I guess. When the Japs attacked, we were throwing grenades. There was a lot of shooting going on, a lot of action: rifle fire, grenades moving so fast. Anyway, we were throwing grenades down the ridge, and then all the sudden Ike talked to me. [Choking up, Taber said, "I'd rather not go through this," but then continued.] He called me Tabe. He said very calmly, "Tabe, I've been hit." I turned to him. He was off to my side a little, and I said, "Where?" He said, "In the throat." He no more than said that, and he was dead. He must have been hit in the jugular vein or an artery. Blood just gushed out. I had my arm underneath him, across his back, and I lowered him down to the ground. [crying] There's nothing you could do. He was a very good friend of mine. I looked around, and I was all by myself.

    I thought to myself that I better get back and make contact with the others. I didn't know whether to crawl back or walk back because there was danger both ways. We'd been told what to do in these cases. I acted without even thinking. I decided to stay on my feet. It was pitch dark. I was walking a little bit, and all the sudden I heard something behind me and along comes a grenade right through the air and the fuse is burning! Before I knew what I was doing, I fell on my face away from it. As I was going down, I turned to see where the grenade was falling; it fell in between my feet. I had sharpnel between my feet and legs. I was a little stunned but got up. I was in shock, and nothing was bothering me. I'm walking along slowly and heard a Japanese voice behind me and he was talking to me. He must have thought I was a Jap going up in front of him. I had a .03 rifle and I swung around and shot, and he dropped as I kept on going. I finally got back [to the CP], and one of the first people I ran into was Horse Collar Smith, who was wounded.

1. I don't know how I would handle being away from the rest of my troops surrounded by a bunch of enemies.
2.Having my friend beside me knowing they just got killed would not only be hard but it would be even harder to be okay with it and run away for safety leaving them there.
3.Going back in the pitch dark would be hard to not knowing what you might step on or come across. -Destiny Long 3/14/10 3:07 PM

JKF e-mail

I know that in November 1963 JFK was on his way from the airport to Dallas Texas to give a speech and while driving down the streets shots were fired hitting him in the neck and head , and then he fell over into his wife's lap. Oswald was accused of killing him but he was shot by Jack Ruby.

I would like to know your point of view on weather you think Oswald acted alone or if it was a conspiracy against the president?
I also need to know the impact it had on you and the country as a whole at the time with details of what you can remember that day.

I was a junior in high school when President Kennedy was shot. One of the teachers made the announcement in study hall and we were all shocked. I remember going to my friend's house after school and watching the news coverage on T.V. We cried while watching it. The whole country cried a lot because he was loved by many people. I believe that there was a conspiracy and that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. Many things were covered up too quickly, such as the car that the President was riding in was cleaned up very soon after the shooting. There was no chance for the authorities to check it over. Kennedy was a very popular president and the whole country was very sad when he died.

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The fear of this would be great for everyone at this time period because they haven't seen anything so powerful and have so much of an impact. To know that something un herd of can cause a lot of damage and not knowing if it could be dropped near you would keep people in constant fear. Now we know that it could cause such a crater and probably hit from New York to the most of Maine wiped out. It would be like someone telling you there is someone who could kill you that your near everyday and not know who the person is and if they will ever kill you. It is something important because people don't wanna die and they are not very educated on the greatness of these new type bomb. Also at the beginning of the Cold War everything was a race with Russia who also had control over weapons and were in a race with us for everything we did. The Cuban missile crisis didnt help either knowing that their are bombs pointed that could take out florida and other parts of the southern united states.

Local Hisotry quater 3

I am going to ask my great grandma if i can interview her on video and if not just voice record.

Research project

Chelsea and I are going to go around common places and im going to record chelsea singing and the reactions on peoples faces

Emit Till

The murder was individual because he chose to say something to the white girl when he knew it was wrong so the two white men attacked him for that. It was also Institutional because it was 2 races against eachother and when his mother wanted the coffin open so everyone could see what what had happend to her son major government figures asked her to close it. She wants the coffin open for the world to see what had happend to her son even though he looked so horrible, she wanted this to be an important show to all african americans about how limited they were and how they were treated. She is saying that instead of hating on the white men for what they did wrong she will use her time to get justice and work hard to help others since her son didn't make it. She would rahter stop all of this and see justice one day then back away because of what happend to her son and let these men win.

Carter Speech

What is the real threat to America, according to Carter, and is that threat still with us today?

That we have a major moral crisis and why are we doing things like take gas from the middle east which is causing more inflation when we have more oil than they do. The bigger picture though is Democracy because the people are loosing confidence and faith which is what builds America. If we start to solve energy problems then America would be taking the 1st step down the right path to true freedom.

What carter says about American society and analyze America today against critique.

He says that we are more about what we own and our status than what we do. More then half of the united states do not vote and Americans working force is dropping. We have htough figured out that goods can't fill the emptiness that people hold. The media and schools are teaching about the government as a warning and truth, which isn't happiness to us.


Energy Crisis Obama vs Nixon agree, disagree.


Carter wants foreign oil usage to stop and under his presidency he wanted us to use not only less oil but slowly stop using foreign oil. Obama Has almost the same idea only he wants to find different resources to use other than oil and foreign oil. It all comes down to not depending on everyone else and finding your won resources

Bill Clinton

The presidency of Bill Clinton 1st term

   1992 to 2000

 

Bill Clinton

• Born 1946 in
  Hope, Arkansas
• Third youngest President
  
  
  
  
• 1st Baby Boomer President (Born after WWII)

• Attended Georgetown University, Yale Law School,Oxford University(England)

• Married Hillary in 1975
• Daughter Chelsea born in 1980

• At age 32, Elected Governor of Arkansas, 1978

• Defeated in 1980
• Re-elected Governor in 1982 and served 10 years
• Ran for President in 1992 for the Democratic Party
• The 1st Democrat President in over 12 years-Defeated incumbent Republican George H.W.Bush and Independent Ross Perot--won 43% of the vote

• Pushed for Homosexual men and women to be allowed to serve in the military---Congress later implemented "Don't ask,Don't tell" Policy

• Created first official website in 1994
• Signed the Brady Bill (Gun Control) into law 
• Clinton supported the Controversial North America Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) allowing for free-trade between the U.S.,Canada and Mexico: This Bill passed the house and senate

• Scandal-White House "Travel Gate"--Inappropriate use of travel funds

• Perhaps the most controversial of Clinton's Domestic
  Legislature Agenda was pushing for a National Healthcare Plan-The task
  force would be led by First Lady, Hillary Clinton

• 1994 Congressional Elections---Republicans win big in the House and Senate
  

 

 

Bill Clinton-2nd term

 

-The end of Clinton's first term

 saw the Republican Party win a

majority in the House and Senate

 

-Democrat Bill Clinton began to drop

more of his liberal agenda

• 
  National Health Care
  
  
  
• 
  adopted more moderate positions
  
• 
  Welfare reform
  
• 
  Tax cuts for lower income families & small businesses
  

 

-In 1996 - Clinton ran for re-election

 defeating Republican Bob Dole

Overwhelmingly with 70% of the Electoral vote

 

Scandals

 

-"White Water" Scandal - Faulty real-estate

dealings in the 1970's & 1980's by both Bill and Hillary

-Voted to impeach Clinton (only the 2nd U.S. President to be)

-Charges of Perjury and Obstruction of Justice (Starr report)

 

-Lied about relationship to Monica Lewinsky

in a sworn deposition during a sexual

harassment lawsuit ( Paula Jones)

 

The Senate

-Concluded the 21 day trial

on Feb.12,1999 voting 'No'

to impeachment

 

Foreign Policy

-The U.S. intervened in many areas

of the Globe (militarily) during the 1990's

 

-Clinton's Foreign Policy was based on

Wilsonian "Idealism", or Collective Security (as opposed to Balance of Power)

(Former President Woodrow Wilson)

• -Somalia 1993 (begun by George H.W.Bush) "Black Hawk Down"
  
• -Used U.S. Troops to keep Peace in the former Yugoslavia
  
• -Bosnia (1995)
  
• -Kosovo(1995) 
• -Haiti-1995

 

Other details of the Clinton Presidency

• -Appointed 2 Judges to Supreme Court (Breyer/Ginsberg)
  
• -China most favored Nation trade Status-1996
  
• -Clinton issues 144 Pardons & 36 commutations on his last day of office
  
• -Budgetary Surplus under President Clinton