... (Huff 380). Between 1933 and 1936, the alphabet agencies of the New Deal spent $34,780,966 in Charleston and the county and pumped 6.6 million additional federal dollars into the Navy Yard between 1933 and 1939, thereby saving the county's economy from collapse. Funds from the FERA permitted the city to hire hundreds of out-of-work Charlestonians who opened new ... built low cost housing. The first housing project was the University Terrance apartments in Columbia, near the University of South Carolina. The federal government had planned to close the Charleston Navy Yard in 1933; now it...

• Word Count: 2580
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... government was founded. Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime of things that are not a crime." Abraham Lincoln (9:3) In 1919, we ignored the profound words of a former president and proceeded to pass the 18th Amendment--forbidding the manufacture and consumption of alcoholic beverages. What became of the prohibition ... ...

• Word Count: 7034
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... government was founded. Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime of things that are not a crime." Abraham Lincoln (9:3) In 1919, we ignored the profound words of a former president and proceeded to pass the 18th Amendment--forbidding the manufacture and consumption of alcoholic beverages. What became of the prohibition ... ...

• Word Count: 7038
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). On August 28, 1963 more than 250,000 people, both black and white, gathered at the Washington Monument and Walked to the Lincoln Memorial. The march dramatized the struggle for jobs and freedom, and to try to force congress to pass a pending civil rights bill. The key speaker for the march was Martin ... ...

• Word Count: 6511
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... began thousands of years ago in China where the people had little regard for the psycho-active side effects of the plant (Richardson 41). During the seventeenth century, the English navy had a huge demand for hemp rope, since it was stronger than the rope of other materials, and ordered the colonists of Virginia and Maryland to grow it in order to ... ...

• Word Count: 3551
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate