List on theon the thousands of deaths. Or than 300,000 people die each year. The electrocardiograph has aided in the study of heart disease. Cancer results in the death of 100 35,000 people in the United States annually. Malaria is still an important look Health Program problem. This mosquito Borne Disease has more than 2 million cases annually. Having aent is malarial chill. We need to prevent mosquito breeding. We can provide breeding places for mosquitoes and by eliminating all piles insofar as possible. In certain regions, effective Mosquito Control has been dusted. This has been done by trucks. And by airplanes, according to the conditions met with. Method effective employed is the killing of larvae by the removing of stagnant water. Also, keeping mosquitoes out of the home. That was a short look at one of our many programs available in its entirety on our website at cspan. Org history. American history tv, exploring our nations passed every weekend on cspan3. Week, American Histo
Happen right away. The role of the radicals becomes more assertive after the end of the war. After lincoln was assassinated, president johnson takes over and has an even more lenient view than lincoln of how the Southern States are going to be readmitted, and he is pushed constantly by the radical republicans. In a short time, roughly for five years, they pass a series of constitutional amendments and also laws that bring about the equality of africanamericans in the south and that starts with the passage of the 13th amendment. That is ratified later that year, banning slavery, outlawing slavery once and for all in the u. S. But that was following with major legislation might the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which extended Citizenship Rights to the freedmen and constitutional amendments like the 14th amendment. The 15th amendment that guaranteed Voting Rights and also a series of reconstruction acts that divided the south into military districts. They gave power to Union Generals to run t
It has to do with the role of congress during the civil war, and in the decade after. During the civil war, there was a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of africanamericans, and wanted to create a society in the south after the war that was a multiracial society. These were radicals in the house like thaddeus stevens, the chairman of the ways and means committee. A very powerful leader. Also people like henry winter davis, eliza washburn. In the senate, people like Charles Sumner and benjamin wade. And they really drove the agenda and pushed the Lincoln Administration not only to prosecute the war more vigorously, but to have a reconstruction after a war that was not so lenient toward Southern States and was going to ensure that Political Rights were extended to africanamericans. Ms. Elloitt the war ends in 1865. I have you get to be first africanamerican members of congress . It does not happen right that day. Mr. Wasniewski it did not happ
Their friends got together and bought them a house which was , a very, veryold nice street, and that is where he lived his last years, and that is where he died. Announcer talk about those years. How long was it, and what was he doing at that time . Le he died in 1924, and he mainly took care of himself. He was in terrible physical shape after the stroke he suffered, and many went to see him, as much as she would allow, because his doctor did not want him over taxed with visitors, and he was a very excited type man about affairs of state and what he had accomplished, so people were admitted, and pretty much he stayed at home. He would go out for a drive, but he was a very sick man. , edither so his wife wilson, lived for a while after him, so what happened to the house after he died . Did she stay in washington . Sheseale she stayed, and was just before the bridge dedicated. It was absolutely intact, and the National Trust has maintained it as a house museum, sort of based on smiths fa
minutes. thank you for inviting me here tonight, and i am astounded how many people have shown up for this event. it all has to do with george thomas, i am sure, and his comments yet on hold the appreciated virtues, and i will talk a great deal about them tonight. .. is certain in this he was always reluctant to do it, and so am i. if but i trust, if i channeled his marshall courage and falso trammel george corrade haifa the i will do okay tonight, so trammel i will. i was thinking on my way over here tonight, that it is some 43 years ago when i was just out of high-school that i helped organize the first i believe it was the first community teach men against the war in vietnam. [applause] it was held about a mile from here in chelsea ps11 on july 30, 1965. i recently came upon the hand littered flier that i did put out of that event and a framed it. why do i think of that now? because it was a way of speaking truth to power. and there was another kind of power that scholar