Examples of Ohio Gang in the following topics:
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- Known as the "Ohio Gang," President Harding and his political associates
caused financial and political scandals in the 1920s.
- Harding's election as U.S. president, friends and colleagues from the
Ohio area moved to Washington, D.C., and made their headquarters in a house on
K Street, an area famous for political connections and clout.
- Eventually known
as the "Ohio Gang," the financial and political scandals caused by
these men – in addition to Harding's own personal controversies – severely
damaged Harding's personal reputation and eclipsed his presidential
accomplishments.
- Albert
Fall was a member of the so-called Ohio Gang that also included Attorney
General Harry M.
- In addition to involvement in Teapot Dome, the Ohio Gang was believed to have
been behind recurring acts of cronyism and corruption, including storing bootleg
whisky inside the White House.
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- A Republican from Ohio, President Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher.
- However, Harding is also remembered for rewarding friends and political contributors, referred to as the Ohio Gang, with financially powerful positions.
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- A segregationist sign at a restaurant in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1938.
- A white gang looking for African Americans during the Chicago Race Riot of 1919.
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- Sometimes criminal organizations force people to do business with them, as when a gang extorts money from shopkeepers for "protection."
- Gangs may become "disciplined" enough to be considered "organized."
- An organized gang or criminal set can also be referred to as a mob.
- A distinctive gang culture underpins many, but not all, organized groups; this may develop through recruiting strategies, social learning processes in the corrective system experienced by youth, family, or peer involvement in crime, and the coercive actions of criminal authority figures.
- The term "street gang" is commonly used interchangeably with "youth gang", referring to neighborhood or street-based youth groups that meet "gang" criteria.
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- Colonial settlement in the Ohio Country became a primary cause of the French and Indian War.
- The Ohio Country (sometimes called the Ohio Territory or Ohio Valley by the French) was the name used in the 18th century for the regions of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and in the region of the upper Ohio River south of Lake Erie.
- In the 17th century, the area north of the Ohio River had been occupied by the Algonquian-speaking Shawnees.
- In the 1720s, a number of Native American groups began to migrate to the Ohio Country.
- After initially remaining neutral, the Ohio Country Indians largely sided with the French.
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- In a conflict subculture, youth learn to form gangs as a way to express frustration about the lack of normative opportunity structures in their neighborhood.
- Thus, gangs become a subculture of their own, in contradistinction to the normative, peaceful model of youth behavior
- In 1960, Cowan and Ohlin published Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs.
- New initiates into the gang will learn how to engage in conflict or gang activities to express frustrations by watching gang leadership.
- Thus, gangs become a subculture of their own, in contradistinction to the normative, peaceful model of youth behavior.
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- Different theories explain the Vedic Period, c. 1200 BCE, when Indo-Aryan
people on the Indian subcontinent migrated to the Ganges Plain.
- Foreigners
from the north are believed to have migrated to India and settled in the Indus
Valley and Ganges Plain from 1800-1500 BCE.
- Vedic
Civilization is believed to have been centered in the northwestern parts of the
Indian subcontinent and spread around 1200 to the Ganges Plain, a 255-million
hectare area (630 million acres) of flat, fertile land named after the Ganges
River and covering most of what is now northern and eastern India, eastern
parts of Pakistan, and most of Bangladesh.
- From approximately 1000-500 BCE, the development of iron axes and
ploughs enabled the Indo-Aryans to settle the thick forests on the western
Ganges Plain.
- The Ganges Plain is supported by the Indus and Ganges river systems.
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- There were two primary types of labor systems seen on plantations: the gang system and the task system.
- The gang system was the more brutal of the two, forcing the slaves to work until the owner said they were finished and allowing them almost no freedom.
- The gang system was much more efficient because it allowed continuous work at the same pace throughout the day, never letting up or slowing down.
- The task system, on the other hand, was less harsh and allowed the slaves more autonomy than the gang system.
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- Debs, the Socialist Party
presidential candidate in 1904, 1908 and 1912, was arrested in June 1918 for
making a speech in Canton, Ohio, denouncing military conscription and urging
listeners not to take part in the draft.
- A white gang searching for African-Americans during the Chicago race riots of 1919.
- Debs speaks to a crowd in Canton, Ohio, 1918.
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- In this treaty, the Iroquois Confederacy ceded all claims to the Ohio territory, a strip of land along the Niagara river, and all land west of the mouth of Buffalo creek.
- The general Native confederacy also disavowed the treaty since most members of the Six Nations did not live in the Ohio territory.
- Many of the Ohio Country natives, including the Shawnee, the Mingo and Delaware tribes rejected the treaty.
- 1785 Treaty of Fort McIntosh with Wyandotte, Delaware, Chippewa and Ottawa leaders for lands in Ohio
- 1786 Treaty of Fort Finney with Shawnee leaders for portions of Ohio