six nations

Examples of six nations in the following topics:

• The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

  • The Six Nations council at Buffalo Creek refused to ratify the treaty, denying that their delegates had the power to give away such large tracts of land.
  • The general Native confederacy also disavowed the treaty since most members of the Six Nations did not live in the Ohio territory.

• American Indians and the New Nation

  • The newly established US national government initially sought to purchase land from American Indians by treaties, but states and settlers were frequently at odds with this policy.
  • The Six Nations council at Buffalo Creek refused to ratify the treaty, stating its delegates did not have the power to give away such large tracts of land.
  • The general American Indian confederacy also disavowed the treaty, as most members of the Six Nations did not live in the Ohio territory.
  • Washington developed a six-point plan for this assimilation process that included:

• Yalta and the Postwar World

  • The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.
  • Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe, an essential aspect of the USSR's national security strategy.
  • Furthermore, the Soviets had agreed to join the United Nations, given the secret understanding of a voting formula with a veto power for permanent members of the Security Council, thus ensuring that each country could block unwanted decisions.
  • Roosevelt obtained a commitment by Stalin to participate in the United Nations.
  • Its purpose was to decide whether Germany was to be divided into six nations.

• Women in the Early Republic

  • Lucy Stone met with Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and six other women to organize the National Women's Rights Convention in 1850.
  • This national convention brought together for the first time many of those who had been working individually for women's rights.
  • Twenty-six-year-old Matilda Joslyn Gage, one of the eventual leaders of the movement, presented her first speech at the 1852 meeting.
  • When she rose to her nearly six-foot stature and gave an oration that became known as the "Ain't I a Woman?
  • Anthony founded the first national organization for women, the Woman's National Loyal League.

• Social Justice

  • In the years between 1889 and 1920, railroad use in the U.S. expanded six-fold.
  • With its innovative social, educational, and artistic programs, Hull House became the standard bearer for the movement that had grown, by 1920, to almost 500 settlement houses nationally.
  • According to the 1900 US Census, one in every six children between the ages of five and ten were engaged in "gainful occupations" in the United States.
  • In 1908 the National Child Labor Committee hired Lewis Wickes Hine, a sociology professor who advocated photography as an educational medium, to document child labor in American industry.
  • Over the next ten years Hine would publish thousands of photographs designed to pull at the nation's heartstrings.

• The Agrarian and Populist Movements

  • By 1876, the organization was diminishing in national importance.
  • The National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union, formed in 1889, embraced several originally independent, and sometimes secret, organizations, including the National Farmers Alliance, The Colored Farmers' National Alliance, and the Cooperative Union.
  • In that year, twelve national farmers organizations were represented in conventions in St Louis.
  • The six largest had an approximate membership of five million individuals.
  • the irrigation of the semi-arid West, adopted as national policy in 1902

• The Flowering of Black Freedom Struggle

  • Speakers included all six civil-rights leaders of the major activist organizations.
  • Before Freedom Summer, the national news media had paid little attention to the persecution of black voters in the Deep South and the dangers endured by black civil rights workers.
  • On June 21, 1964, the Freedom Summer got national attention when three civil rights workers disappeared .
  • Only six blocks into the march, state troopers and local law enforcement, some mounted on horseback, attacked the peaceful demonstrators.
  • The national broadcast of the lawmen attacking unresisting marchers' provoked a national response.

• Government During the War

  • Republicans in Union Congress enacted national reforms.
  • The latter established a system of national banks in 1863, and promoted development of a national currency backed by bank holdings of U.S.
  • In February 1861, the six states that had seceded at that point formed the Confederate States of America and unanimously elected Jefferson Davis as president and Alexander Stephens as provisional vice president.
  • Davis was elected to serve a six-year term without the possibility of reelection.
  • Two Congresses sat in six sessions until March 18, 1865.

• The League of Nations

  • At its largest, from September 1934 to February 1935, the league counted 58 nations as members.
  • The league held its first council meeting in Paris in January 1920, six days after the Versailles Treaty came into force.
  • Harding, continued American opposition to the League of Nations.
  • Members of the Commission of the League of Nations in Paris, France, 1919.
  • Identify the creation, goals, and limitations of the League of Nations.

• Roosevelt's Second Term

  • Roosevelt stunned Congress in early 1937 by proposing a law allowing him to appoint up to six new justices.
  • In the November 1938 midterm election, Democrats lost six Senate seats and 71 House seats.
  • When the Sino-Japanese War broke out that year, public opinion favored China, and Roosevelt found various ways to assist that nation.
  • In October 1937, he gave the Quarantine Speech aiming to contain aggressor nations.
  • Congress did set up the nation's first peacetime draft.