Oath of Citizenship

over Reconstruction. It prevents Southern Congressional delegates from coming back, overrides Johnson’s veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau, passing it in February 1866, passed the Civil Rights Bill in 1866, despite Johnson’s veto once again, giving citizenship to African Americans who sought to get rid of the Black Codes. The priority of Congress now being the prevention of southern states overturning laws passed during Reconstruction, such as the Civil Rights Bill. This lead to the 14th Amendment…

Founded on December 5, 1492 by Christopher Columbus, the island of Hispaniola was originally inhabited by the Taíno Arawak people. Ayiti, which means “mountainous land,” is a name used by its early inhabitants; the Taino-Arawak people, who also called it Bohio, which denotes “rich villages,” and Quisqueya, which signifies “high land.” The said Taínos were South American Arawaks, with Taíno meaning “the good” or “noble” in their language. Many of the Taíno-Arawak people are extinct but, there are…

own way, but as a matter of fact they are only insignificant issues in comparison with Sectarianism. Rebecca Solnit (2010) said in her story “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary” that citizens are not only the people who only carry the citizenship of a certain country... Indeed, true citizens are the people who wish prosperity for their fellow associates in land as they wish for themselves. What interests…

Japanese Internment Camps Many events happen around the world, but most of them aren 't taught in history. We all know about Stalin 's Russia, who sent people who opposed his rules and judgements to Siberia. Then there is Hitler 's Germany, who targeted Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped for not being Arian. What about America? What has happened in our own country that we have repressed and why have they been forgotten? In World War II we created Japanese Internment Camps. The camps were first…

Luckily, Benjamin Franklin’s physician was waiting for him and had Thomas Paine carried off the ship. Thomas Paine became a citizen of Pennsylvania soon after by taking an oath of allegiance, but he couldn 't enjoy it much because it took him six whole weeks to recover after the journey! After recovering his health he became the editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine in January 1775, one of his first jobs he was good at and…

However, the interrogator can interrogate the suspect about unrelated crimes. Fourteenth Amendment A person’s rights, privileges, citizenship; as well as due process and equal protection is considered, The Fourteenth Amendment. This Amendment prohibits the states from denying any U.S citizen the rights that are guaranteed to them under the U.S Constitution. These rules are equally applied…

them back when the war ends, either.” Head of the Western Defense Command Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt said, “The Japanese race is an enemy race, and while many second and third generation Japanese born on United States soil, possessed of United States citizenship, have become ‘Americanized,’ the racial strains are undiluted.” People held the irrational fear that even though they knew these people, they didn’t really know them. They were afraid that they had been hiding secrets and were secretly…

2.3. Reconstruction: North and South Reconstruction as one of the most intense and controversial periods in American history began during the Civil War and lasted until 1877. It was the first American experiment as a democratic nation, trying to resolve burning issues which had caused the Civil War in the first place, most of all social status of former slaves and citizens' right after reuniting the nation. Also, big problem was political and racial justice. After resolving the question of…

During his inauguration as the new president-elect, he did not just take the oath but offered an inauguration speech, which is customary for this position. On this occasion, the president’s address highlighted the spirit of hope and reconciliation to the American people. The new president looked into the issues Americans faced both…

When South Carolina first held a convention to consider secession, they voted unanimously to leave the Union and by February 1, they had six followers; Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. These states then formed the Confederate States of America. The secession is very symbolic of the divide that was already present between the North and the South. It showed who was for the Union and who was against it. If the Confederate States of America would have been any weaker…