Is a revolution a negative or a postive event?
Do revolutions have to be violent?
Why do groups bond together to create a revolution?
Do revolutions have a single leader or many?
What are the different causes and effects of violent and peaceful revolutions?
History has shown that peaceful revolutions are more successful than violent revolutions in the areas of gaining popular support, developing a positive image, and creating lasting effects.
Peaceful
Civil Rights Movement
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Brunner, Borgra, and Haney, Elissa. "Civil Rights Timeline." Infoplease (2007). Web. 29 Sep. 2010.- Dec. 1955- Rosa Parks calmly refuses to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, AL.
- 1957- MLK Jr. becomes the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference that he helped create
- SCLC focused on nonviolence and civil disobedience
- 1961- "Freedom riders" travel through the South to test anti-segregation laws involving interstate travel
- 1963- March on Washington with "I Have a Dream Speech"
"civil disobedience." The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.© 1994, 2000-2006, on Infoplease.© 2000–2007 Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease. 30 Sep. 2010
- Civil Disobedience- refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust
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- 1964- The poll tax is abolished for voting
- 1964- July 2, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed which prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin; also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation.
- Voting Rights Act of 1965 makes it easier for Sothern blacks to vote
- 1968- President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing
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Smith, Adam. "Protestant Reformation Timeline." SocyBerty (30 Jan. 2010). Web. 30 Sep. 2010.
- 1517-Luther posts his 95 Theses on the Wittenberg church
- 1521-1522- Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German
- 1525-William Tyndale translated the New Testament in English
- 1534-John Calvin converts to Protestantism
- 1541-Calvin published “Institutes of the Christian Religion”
- Indulgences-granted full or partial remission of the punishment of sin
- Guilt was not enough for sinning; penance must be practiced
- Popes would authorize Brothels, or prostitution houses, for church funds
- April 1521- Diet at Worms= Luther stood before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the German princes and refused to recant unless proven wrong by the Bible or by clear reason
- Luther believed that salvation could be achieved simply by beleiving and trust in God
- Ulrich Zwingli wanted a reform of the city-state Zurich in which both priests and Christian magistrates would conform to the will of God
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- 1521- Luther is excommunicated
- 1550's-Calvinism takes over as the dominant Protestant religion in Europe
- Protestantism arises
- Various religions develop around the world
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Curry, Andrew. "We are the People." Spiegel Online International (9, Oct. 2009). Web. 1 Oct. 2010.
- Oct. 9, 1989- Leipzig hosted the largest protest demonstration in East German history: Between 70,000 and 100,000 peaceful demonstrators
- They carried nothing but candles and banners reading "We are the people."
- The Stasi (secret police of Germany) planted plain clothes officers in the crowd to cause trouble, but they were all quickly surrounded and neutralized by protesters chanting "no violence."
- East Germans frustrated that they couldn't leave the country
- 1980's- Monday prayer meetings in Leipzig were attracting hundreds, and then thousands, of people - the largest regular meetings in Germany.
- The peaceful protests grew
- By Oct. 23, 1989, a little less than two weeks before the Berlin Wall came down, more than 300,000 people filled Leipzig's city center, carrying candles and banners
- Elections held in the German Democratic Republic are influenced and corrupted by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)
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- Led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
Discover Germany. "From Peaceful Revolution to German Unity." Discover Germany. Web. 1 Oct. 2010.
- The SED Politburo (the executive committe for different communist political parties) resigns
KKK
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Simkin, John. "USA History: Civil Rights 1860-1980." Sparticus Educational (2 Oct. 2010). Web. 29 Sep. 2010.
- The first KKK began forming branches in 1866, following the end of the Civil War
- Originally wanted to stop black people from voting
- 1870-North Carolinian, Tennessee, and Geogian governments became run by white supremecists
- Black businessmen were attacked along with other black Americans and sympathetic whites
- The KKK often used lynching and bombing to make statements
- 1960, Mississippi- 42% of the population was black, but only 2% were registered voters
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- April 20, 1871- Ku Klux Act became a law, allowing the president to suspend the writ of habeus corpus in counties where disturbances occurred
- Jackson, Kenneth T. (1967; 1992 edition). The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915–1930. Oxford University Press. - The NAACP and othe organizations spoke out against the Klan and contributed to its downfall
JRank. "D.C. Stephenson Trial: 1925 - "i Am The Law In Indiana", In A Pullman-car Drawing Room, A Secondary Staphylococci Infection." JRank (2010). Web. 1 Oct. 2010
- 1925-The conviction of David Curtis Stephenson (Grand Dragon (state leader)z of the KKK in Indiana) for murder caused the image and popularity of the Klan to suffer
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ThinkQuest. "World War II: The Homefront." ThinkQuest (1998). Web. 2 Oct. 2010.
- The Aryan race was a rationale for the Holocaust, as the systematic weeding out of Jews
- Hitler believed that the Germans represented the highest breed of all of the Aryans, a mythological race of blonde haired, blue eyed supermen and women.
- Violently and forcefully invaded most of Europe
- Sept. 29, 1941- Nazis murder over 33,000 Jews at Kiev
- June 1942- Mass murder of Jews at Auschwitz
- Hitler ordered the execution of all British captured commandos
- Apriil 1943- SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm
History Place. "World War II in Europe." The History Place (1996). Web. 2 Oct. 2010.
- 1945- Adolf Hitler commits suicide
- Aug. 6 and 9, 1945- Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Nuremberg war crimes trial begins
- Much of Europe is destroyed
- Over 52,000,000 people died
- The Third Reich falls
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Kelly, Martin. "Top Five Causees of the Civil War." About.com (2010). Web. 2 Oct. 2010.
- The southern states' economies primarily focused on agriculture and farming rather than industry
- Slaves were seen as economic necesscities for harvesting cotton among other cash crops
- The southern states believed in powerful state governments rather than federal
- The Union had a larger population, better railroad transportation, and more factories
- Southern slaves aided Union members
"Confederacy: Search for Recognition and Support." The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.© 1994, 2000-2006, on Infoplease.© 2000–2007 Pearson Education, publishing as Infoplease.03 Oct. 2010
- England and France didn't recognize the Confederacy due to its support of slavery and the fact that they had enough cotton
History Place. "U.S. Civil War: 1861-1865." The History Place (1996). Web. 2 Oct. 2010.
- Dec. 20, 1860- South Carolina secedes
- April 12, 1861- Ft. Sumter is attacked by the Confederates
- May, 1865- Last Confederate forces surrender
Davis, Burke. "The Price in Blood! Casualties of the Civil War." Home of the American ivil War (11 Jan. 2004). Web. 2 Oct. 2010.
- A total of over 620,000 Americans died in the war
- The States stayed united
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