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Boston Tea Party

2007-03-12T03:43:59Z

Miranda-g-r:

The Boston Tea Party (Dec. 16, 1773) was when Sam Adams led other patriots in an Indian disguise to board British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbour. This occurred three years after the [[Boston Massacre]].

The cause of the Boston Tea Party was the 1764 Sugar Act taxing sugar, coffee and wine; the 1765 Stamp Act taxing legal contracts, newspapers, letters, playing cards and all printed materials; the 1767 Townshend Acts taxing paints, paper and glass; and the 1773 Tea Act authorizing the East India Tea Company to sell a half million pounds of tea in the Colonies with no taxes. This Tea Act gave the East India Tea Company a monopoly by underselling American merchants, and the Boston Tea Party was a rebellion against that.

U.S.S. Maine

2007-03-12T03:42:08Z

Miranda-g-r:

The U.S.S. Maine was an American ship that blew up for unknown reasons in the harbour of Havana, Cuba, in February 1898. This killed 266 American sailors and incited the Spanish-American War, because Spain was blamed for the explosion.

In April, Congress wrote:

"The abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three
years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked
the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a
disgrace to Christian civilization...

Resolved...the people of the Island of Cuba are, and of right ought
to be, free."

Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders captured Santiago, Cuba, in July 1898.

This war lasted only six weeks and the treaty ending the war was signed on December 10, 1898.

Verrazano, Giovanni da

2007-03-12T03:41:32Z

Miranda-g-r:

Giovanni da Verrazano
By:Andrew Narduzzi
Verrazano was born in Tuscany, Italy in 1485. He was a Florintine explorer and sailed under the French flag. He was the first of the Europeon explorers to see New York and Narragansett bays. The Italian Historical Society of America played a big part in having a bridge going from New York Harbour to Staten Island and Brooklyn named The Verrazzano Narrrows Bridge. The society is also responsible for the placement of the Verrazzano Monument at Battery Park in New York.

Attack on Pearl Harbor

2007-03-12T03:40:54Z

Miranda-g-r:

President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] declared, "DECEMBER 7, 1941- a date which will live in infamy- the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan."

350 Japanese aircraft attacked a military port of the United States at Pearl Harbour on that day. The Japanese sunk five American battleships and three destroyers. The Japanese destroyed 400 planes. American casualties were over 3000.

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President Roosevelt continued, "No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might, will win
through to absolute victory ... We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people,
our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence
in our armed forces- with the unbounding determination of our people-
we will gain the inevitable triumph- so help us God."

But the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. omits those final words "so help us God," and omits any other reference to God on the Memorial.

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World Trade Center

2007-03-12T03:39:31Z

Miranda-g-r:

The World Trade Centre included two 110-story towers at the southern tip of Manhattan constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the government of New York, at the insistence of Nelson and David Rockefeller. There were unique in their government ownership for the purpose of leasing to private companies engaging in world trade. Yet few of the tenants were actually trade organizations, and instead the offices were filled mostly with investment banks and large law firms.

The towers became a symbol of American capitalism and world domination, and a target for Islamic terrorists. In 1993, Muslim terrorists detonated a massive truck bomb in an underground parking lot with the goal of knocking the towers over and killing its capacity of 25,000 workers. This attempt failed, killing only a few, but caused smoke and evacuation of the building.

On the morning of September 11, 2001 (9-11), fundamentalist Muslim terrorists hijacked airplanes from Boston and flew one airplane into each tower, killing instantly all aboard the airplanes and on the floors of the impact. The attacks occurred on or before about 9 am, the beginning of the workday for many Manhattan workers, and the towers were therefore not filled to capacity. Many evacuated, but the towers collapsed from the ensuing fire before all could leave. 2,749 died from this attack, including hundreds of firefighters who rushed into the buildings in the hope of rescuing trapped workers.