LAD #34 Brown V. Board of Education

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Started because Linda Brown's father was enraged because his daughter had to walk a mile to school when there was a white school 7 blocks away. He appealed to the NAACP, who wanted to challenge segregation in schools. They lost in the lower courts because the courts followed the Plessy V Fergunson precedent. When they got to the supreme court, it took them a year to finally come to a decision in favor of Brown and the NAACP. This didn't get rid of segregation in places like restraunts, but it removed all segregation in schools, which was a great start.

LAD #33, Truman Doctrine

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The Truman Doctrine called for aid to be given to the Countries of Greece, and Turkey. The aid would not only be $00 million dollars, but also military advisers to be spent to the two countries. The reason the US wanted to do this was to prevent these countries from falling to the USSR as communist nations.

LAD # 28 Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

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It was the first bill made to combat child labor. This bill didn't necessarily say that children couldn't work, but said that products were banned that were made by companies that employed children or didn't follow certain guidelines. This Bill was eventually destroyed in the Hammer v. Dagenhart Supreme Court case, because it infringed on the government control of interstate commerce.

LAD #27 Wilson's First Inaugural

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He started by saying that congress and the president have become Democrats, meaning the nation s ready for change. He said that money and greed brought evil, which has tainted the natural goodness of Americans. Now that America was seeing this taint, it was time to restore America to its original good. He finished with saying that he wasn't going to destroy but restore, that partisan's didn't win but humanity, and that it was a day of dedication, not triumph; meaning that he is going to take the evil away, but not alter the whole country.

LAD #26 Clayton Anti- Trust Act

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The Clayton Anti- Trust Act did just what it said, it made trusts illegal. This meant that companies could not only combine together, but also couldn't do things like fix prices. It said that this included all monopolies not only in the states, but also in territories.

Lad #17 Emancimation proclamation.

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It clearly says in the beginning that any slave in the states would be freed, and this protection would be protected by soldiers. He said that also people should try to not resort to violence. And finally said that the states that had seceded musty also follow this new law.

LAD #16 Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

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Abraham Lincoln opened his speech by saying he will not interfere with the issue of slavery, because he didn't feel he had the right to according to law. He also said that if slaves escaped, they should be returned. He also said that he understood that people wished to amened the constitution and that is was their right to do so. He finally addressed the issue of seceding, were he said the government wont assail you, and if you break away, you will be the aggressors.