One America Initiative

Examples of One America Initiative in the following topics:

• Clinton and Domestic Policy

  • Clinton's domestic policies included One America, reforms of the criminal justice system, and the implementation of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and DOMA.
  • President Bill Clinton announced One America in the 21st Century: the President's Initiative on Race.
  • The One America Initiative addressed race and diversity in schools; one of the model counties of diversity in schools was Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse school districts in the country.
  • One of the most noted sections was the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
  • One America in the 21st Century staff with President Clinton in June 1998

• Spanish Exploration

  • The voyages of Christopher Columbus initiated European exploration and colonization of the American continents that eventually turned Spain into the most powerful European empire.
  • This gave them control over Africa, Asia, and eastern South America (Brazil).
  • After Columbus, the Spanish colonization of the Americas was led by a series of soldier-explorers called conquistadors.
  • This caused labor shortages for plantations and public works and so the colonists initiated the Atlantic slave trade.
  • Outline the successes and failures of Christopher Columbus during his four voyages to the Americas

• Migration to North America

  • America was inhabited by humans long before the first European set foot on the continent.
  • The beginning of civilization in America occurred during the last Ice Age when the nomadic, ancestral peoples of the Americas—the Paleo-Indians—migrated into the current-day continental United States and Canada.
  • Some genetic research indicates secondary waves of migration occurred after the initial Paleo-Indian colonization but prior to modern Inuit, Inupiat, and Yupik expansions.
  • One of the earliest identifiable cultures was the Clovis culture, with sites dating from some 13,000 years ago.
  • The Clovis culture permeated much of North America and parts of South America.

• Disease in the New World

  • European exploration and invasion of the Americas brought with them many foreign diseases, causing widespread depopulation among indigenous cultures.
  • This death toll was initially overlooked or downplayed because once introduced, the diseases raced ahead of European invasion in many areas.
  • One of the most devastating diseases was smallpox; other deadly diseases included typhus, measles, influenza, bubonic plague, cholera, malaria, mumps, yellow fever, and pertussis (whooping cough).
  • While disease swept swiftly through the densely populated empires of Mesoamerica, the more scattered populations of North America saw a slower spread.
  • One of these factors was warfare.

• Promoting Public Welfare and Income Redistribution

  • One of the most well-known initiatives to improve public welfare in times of need was President Franklin D.
  • President Roosevelt's program was called the New Deal and is partially credited with lifting America out of the Great Depression.
  • Johnson assisted with the implementation of his Great Society initiative.
  • He did so through the establishment of programs such as Medicare and Medicaid-- federal programs that exist to the present day that ensure certain levels of health care coverage for America's poor and elderly.The Great Society initiative further established educational programs such as the National Endowment for the Arts and generally deployed the executive bureaucracy to better welfare programs for the American public at large.
  • Liberals and conservatives are divided on the merits of the law, but regardless of one's political assessment of the law, it speaks to the government's attempts to improve the wellbeing of the public.

• Central America

  • Declassified documents show that the Reagan administration supported para-military groups in Central America in multiple genocidal campaigns.
  • The School of the Americas has since been criticized concerning the human rights violations performed by a number of its graduates.
  • One of the primary goals of the United States was to undermine Nicaragua's successful independent development and democratic reforms as a key strategy in containing the spread of Soviet influence.
  • Official seal of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, also known as the School of the Americas
  • -based School of the Americas trained the Latin American Armed Forces in torture and assassination techniques to combat "radical populism".

• The Declaration of Independence

  • One of the first essential acts of the second Continental Congress, once it determined it would seek independence, was to issue a declaration to King George III confirming its separation.
  • The Independence Day of the United States of America is celebrated on July 4, the day Congress approved the wording of the Declaration.
  • It was initially published as a printed broadside that was widely distributed and read to the public.

• Components of a Note

  • The principle equals the initial amount of credit provided.
  • A One Hundred Dollar Confederate States of America banknote dated December 22, 1862.

• Social Class in the U.S.

  • Whether wealth is distributed among discrete tiers of society or along a continuum, the disparity between America's poorest and wealthiest individuals is apparent: the top 1% of Americans hold 40% of the country's wealth.
  • One social class model proposed by sociologists posits that there are six social classes in America.
  • Class culture is thought to affect everything from the manner in which people raise their children, to how they initiate and maintain romantic relationships, to the color in which they paint their houses.
  • In other words, one's membership in a particular social class is based on their educational and career accomplishments, and class distinctions, therefore, are not rigid.
  • In other words, there is inequality in America, with some people attaining higher status and higher standards of living than others.

• New Approaches to the Developing World

  • Kennedy administration in 1961–1963 saw both diplomatic and military initiatives in Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and other regions amid considerable Cold War tensions.
  • Kennedy's most well known act regarding Latin America was the Alliance for Progress, which aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America.
  • Economic assistance to Latin America nearly tripled between fiscal years 1960 and 1961.
  • Between 1962 and 1967, the U.S. supplied $1.4 billion per year to Latin America.
  • Kennedy firmly believed in the U.S. commitment to Israeli security, and he recognized the ambitious Pan-Arabic initiatives of Egypt's leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser.