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Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the
The women tended the crops and took general charge of village affairs while the men were always hunting or fishing. And since they supplied the moccasins and food for warring expeditions, they had some control over military matters. As Gary B. Nash notes in his fascinating study of early America, Red, White, and Black: "Thus power was shared between the sexes and the European idea of male dominancy and female subordination in all things was conspicuously absent in Iroquois society."
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It was the new politics of ambiguity-speaking for the lower and middle classes to get their support in times of rapid growth and potential turmoil. The two-party system came into its own in this time. To give people a choice between two different parties and allow them, in a period of rebellion, to choose the slightly more democratic one was an ingenious mode of control. Like so much in the American system, it was not devilishly contrived by some master plotters; it developed naturally out of the needs of the situation.
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It was borrowed time anyway-the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls.
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That April, the Senate had adopted the Thirteenth Amendment, declaring an end to slavery, and in January 1865, the House of Representatives followed.
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strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. . .
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Racism was becoming more and more practical.
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grievances of the lowest classes mingled with
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Tyranny is Tyranny let it come from whom it may.
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Truman claimed was the figure given him
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Catholic Church, expelled all the Jews,
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children forever.
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Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the