Treaty of San Francisco

Examples of Treaty of San Francisco in the following topics:

• American Indian Rights

  • Many of the demands of the movement related to the U.S. government's obligation to honor its treaties with the sovereign American Indian nations.
  • For 19 months, from November 20, 1969 to June 11, 1971, the group Indians of All Tribes (IAT) occupied the Alcatraz penitentiary off the coast of San Francisco.
  • According to the IAT, the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) between the U.S. and the Sioux should have returned all retired, abandoned, or out-of-use federal land to the American Indian people from whom it was acquired.
  • In 1972, AIM activists marched across the country on what was called the Trail of Broken Treaties.
  • During this time, AIM developed and publicized a 20-point list to summarize its issues with federal treaties and promises.

• Attempts at Disarmament

  • Additionally, all the major powers, except the U.S., committed to disarmament in both the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations.
  • The conference resulted in three major treaties: Four-Power Treaty, Five-Power Treaty (more commonly known as the Washington Naval Treaty), and the Nine-Power Treaty.
  • The treaties were also registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on the same day.
  • Germany formally recognized its new western borders acted by the Treaty of Versailles.
  • Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California

• References

  • San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Society.
  • Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning.
  • San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • Transformation Theory of Adult Learning.

• Bibliography

  • S. (1962) A History of the Adult Education Movement in the USA, New York: Krieger.
  • S. (1970, 1980) The Modern Practice of Adult Education.
  • Applying modern principles of adult education, San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
  • S. (1989) The Making of an Adult Educator.
  • An autobiographical journey, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 211 + xxii pages.

• The Sand-Lot Incident

  • The Sandlot refers to an outdoor gathering place near San Francisco City Hall where Denis Kearney often spoke out against Chinese laborers.
  • During the Long Depression , he became popular by speaking to unemployed people in San Francisco, denouncing the railroad monopoly and immigrant Chinese workers, known as Coolies .
  • Kearney began his working life as an ally of employers.
  • In July 1877, when anti-Chinese violence occurred in San Francisco, Kearney joined William Tell Coleman 's vigilante Public Safety Committee as a member of Coleman's "pick handle brigade. " By August 1877, however, Kearney had been elected Secretary of the newly formed Workingmen's Party of California , and often directed violent attacks on Chinese, including denunciations of the powerful Central Pacific Railroad , which had employed them in large numbers.
  • At an outdoor gathering place near San Francisco City Hall, known as "The Sandlot", he regularly spoke in front of crowds that numbered as many as 2,000 people.

• The Nativist Response to Immigration

  • The League was founded in Boston and had branches in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.
  • Arthur on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868.
  • After being forcibly driven from the mines, most Chinese settled in enclaves in cities (mainly in San Francisco), and took up low-end wage labor such as restaurant work and laundry just to earn enough to live.
  • The San Francisco riot of 1877, also called the "Sand-Lot Incident," was a two day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California, by the city's majority white population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 24, 1877.
  • Twenty Chinese-owned laundries were destroyed in the violence, and San Francisco's Chinese Methodist Mission suffered smashed glass when the mob pelted it with rocks.

• Pinckney's Treaty

  • Pinckney's Treaty between Spain and the United States defined the boundaries of the Spanish colonies of West and East Florida.
  • Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed on October 27, 1795, and established formal intentions of amity between the United States and Spain.
  • Among other things, the treaty ended the first phase of the West Florida Controversy, a dispute between the two nations over the boundaries of the Spanish colony of West Florida.
  • The Spanish acquired Florida and the southern coast along the Gulf of Mexico in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
  • Analyze the political circumstances leading up to and following the signing of the Pinckney's Treaty

• Gold Fever in the West

  • A San Francisco newspaper stated, "The whole country... resounds to the sordid cry of gold!
  • The population soared to over 200,000 in 1852, mostly in the gold districts which stretched into the mountains east of San Francisco.
  • San Francisco saw hastily erected housing—often docked ships whose crews had headed for the mines.
  • The wealth from silver, more than from gold, fueled the maturation of San Francisco in the 1860s and helped the rise of some of its wealthiest families, such as that of George Hearst.
  • Between 1847 and 1870, the population of San Francisco exploded from 500 to 150,000.

• Polk and Expansion

  • The Oregon Treaty of 1846 divided the Oregon Country along the 49th parallel, as in the original US proposal.
  • Although there were many who still clamored for the entire territory, the Senate approved the treaty.
  • The main interest was San Francisco Bay, as an access point for trade with Asia.
  • As part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war, Polk achieved his goal of adding California to the United States.
  • The Mexican Cession (in red) was acquired through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War.

• Gay and Lesbian Rights

  • Many gay rights groups were founded in Los Angeles and San Francisco, cities that were administrative centers in the network of U.S. military installations and the places where many gay men suffered dishonorable discharges.
  • In 1966, the city became home to the world’s first organization for transsexual people, the National Transsexual Counseling Unit, and in 1967, the Sexual Freedom League of San Francisco was born.
  • The most famous event in the gay rights movement took place not in San Francisco but in New York City.
  • In 1977, Harvey Milk became California’s first openly gay man elected to public office, although his service on San Francisco’s board of supervisors, along with that of San Francisco mayor George Moscone, was cut short when he was killed by disgruntled former city supervisor Dan White.
  • The events varied from a highly political march of three to five thousand in New York and thousands more at parades in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago.