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|Emancipation Proclamation | |Emancipation Proclamation | ||
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* declared that the slaves in states in rebellion were free | |||
** note that the Proclamation did not free slaves in the several slave states that were not in rebellion, but Lincoln felt he did not have the power to do that | |||
** the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865 fully abolished slavery | |||
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|Abraham Lincoln | |Abraham Lincoln | ||
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|Gettysburg Address | |Gettysburg Address | ||
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* important statement about the purpose of the war: | |||
** to uphold the values of equality and liberty in the Declaration of Independence | |||
** to affirm democracy ("''government of the people, by the people and for the people''") | |||
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|Woodrow Wilson | |Woodrow Wilson | ||
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|"Fourteen Points Speech" | |"Fourteen Points Speech" | ||
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* declared that people around the world deserved international guarantees of | |||
** "self-determination" (deciding their own form of government) | |||
** protection from invasion from other countries | |||
** free trade and free passage in the oceans | |||
* called for the formation of a "League of Nations" to implement these ideals | |||
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|Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) | |Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) | ||
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|"We have nothing fear but fear itself" speech | |"We have nothing fear but fear itself" speech | ||
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* FDR's 1st inaugural address in 1933 | |||
* declared that as bad as things were in the economy due to the Great Depression | |||
** that the nation could come together to fix it | |||
** and that only fear of change would stop that | |||
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|Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) | |Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) | ||
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|"A day that will live in infamy" speech | |"A day that will live in infamy" speech | ||
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* speech given after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec 7, 1941 | |||
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|John F. Kennedy (JFK) | |John F. Kennedy (JFK) | ||
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|"Berlin Wall speech" | |"Berlin Wall speech" | ||
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* after the Russians constructed a wall to separate East (Russian controlled) from West Berlin (American controlled) | |||
** the built the wall to keep people from fleeing (escaping) East Germany | |||
* Kennedy declared that he would support the West Berlin people ("I am a Berliner") | |||
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|Lyndon Johnson | |Lyndon Johnson | ||
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|1964 | |||
|"Great Society speech" | |"Great Society speech" | ||
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* declared that the US should not have poverty | |||
* called for a "war on poverty" through Federal programs designed to assist the poor and prevent poverty in general and also to support education | |||
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|Martin Luther King | |Martin Luther King | ||
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|1963 | |1963 | ||
|"I have a dream speech" | |"I have a dream speech" | ||
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* at the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, MLK discussed his vision of a nation that respected people of all colors | |||
** and that would no longer separate or treat people differently based on the color of their skin | |||
** thus "I have a dream..." | |||
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|Ronald Reagan | |Ronald Reagan | ||
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|"Tear down this wall" speech | |"Tear down this wall" speech | ||
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* Reagan gave a speech in West Berlin that challenged the Soviets (Russian communists) to "tear down" the Berlin Wall that separated East from West Berlin | |||
* the idea was that all walls or other forms of barriers that the Soviets had built to protect communism and keep people from escaping it should come down | |||
* two years later, the Berlin Wall was brought down as the Soviet Union collapsed | |||
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