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What are some facts about the Hoover Dam?

The Hoover Dam has improved local tourism. Its original purpose was to generate electricity, and it also controls floods and helps with irrigation. The Hoover Dam provides power for more than 1 million people. It creates electricity as 300,000 gallons of water run into the generators every second.\nLake Mead, the largest man-made lake in the United States, is the result of Hoover Dam. The lake is 550 miles long and 590 feet deep. There is enough water in Lake Mead to flood the entire state of New York. This lake provides water to much of Southern California, including Anaheim and San Diego, as..

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On what day of the week was Kennedy shot?

The man who shot Kennedy was later identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, a former Marine in the United States Marine Corps. It was determined that he acted alone in the assassination. He was later killed by Jack Ruby during his transfer to the county jail. Oswald was only 24 years old at the time of his death.

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What was the Korean War?

Twenty-one countries of the United Nations contributed to the defense of South Korea. The U.S. constituted 88 percent of the military force fighting on behalf of South Korea. The fighting ended in July 1953 when an armistice agreement was signed. The agreement established a 2.5-mile-wide fortified buffer zone between the north and south. The war is viewed as both a civil war and a proxy conflict in the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. While it did not commit forces to the conflict directly, the Soviet Union did provide strategic planning, weapons and materials for both the North..

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What did the cotton gin do?

Cotton grew well in the American South, but it was labor-intensive, requiring long, backbreaking days in the summer and tedious work removing seeds from cotton in the winter. A typical cotton picker could process a pound of harvested short-staple cotton, the most common type, per day. A hand-cranked cotton gin, in contrast, could remove the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton a day.\nThis invention radically changed the American economy. Southern cotton farmers planted larger crops, while Northern textile factories grew up to take advantage of the sudden cheapness of cotton. By 1860, the American S..

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Who is Ernest Green?

With the help of a donor, Green enrolled at Michigan State University, where he was active in the civil rights movement and became a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. Green graduated from the East Lansing school with a bachelor of arts degree in 1962, and he obtained a master's degree in 1964.\nIn 1965, Green became involved in employment law at the Adolph Institute, working to aid minority women in career development. Green then directed the A. Phillip Randolph Education Fund from 1968 to 1976 and served in the Labor Department under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.\nAs of..

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Why did Martin Luther King get arrested?

As the newly-elected leader of the NAACP, Dr. King was first arrested in 1955 while supporting the Montgomery bus boycott. This boycott would lead to the United States District Court declaring segregation on buses unconstitutional. In 1963, Dr. King was arrested at a rally in Birmingham, Ala. while protesting against segregation at lunch counters. The letter he wrote during his 11-day imprisonment argued that "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," and set the tone for the civil rights movement by inspiring like-minded people to join him in uniting against injustice. In Februar..

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Where did the "I Have a Dream" speech take place?

Martin Luther King actually improvised much of what has become this famous civil rights address. He appeared to be reading his speech up to a point, and then he stopped for a moment. Mahalia Jackson said to him, "Tell 'em about the dream." At that point, King seemed to abandon his written notes and began speaking extemporaneously. The repetitive words "I have a dream" were part of the improvised portion of the speech.

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What was the CCC during the Great Depression?

The CCC (organized under Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration) was sometimes called "Roosevelt's Tree Army", and most of the organization's work focused on conservation and reforestation. During the day, CCC members performed hundreds of outdoor tasks, including planting trees, digging ditches, maintaining beaches, stocking lakes with fish and surveying. At night, CCC men returned to camp and took classes. More than 40,000 men learned how to read as a result of enrolling in the CCC.

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Did Albert Einstein write a book titled "God vs. Science" in 1921?

Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist most known for his general theory of relativity and his mass-energy equivalence formula. His religious beliefs were not that of a personal God, but he followed Spinozism, which sees God as a singular self-existing substance.\nIn 1940, Albert Einstein penned an essay titled "Science and Religion," but there is no evidence to suggest the "God vs. Science" argument was his work.

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Why did Jackson win the election of 1828?

Jackson narrowly lost the election of 1824. Although he had won the popular vote, he did not receive sufficient votes in the electoral college. His main opponent, John Quincy Adams, secured the electoral vote by promising another candidate, Henry Clay, the position of Secretary of State as a reward for turning over his share of the electoral votes. This became known as the Corrupt Bargain. In response, Jackson was nominated for the next election in 1825, three years early. The supporters of Jackson, Calhoun and their ally Martin Van Buren formed a coalition to create the Democratic Party.\nThe..

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