Examples of privateer in the following topics:
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- His goals in South Carolina were to recruit and arm American privateers to join French expeditions against the British in the western Atlantic and Caribbean.
- Angered by Genêt's audacity in recruiting privateers in blatant violation of American neutrality, Washington confronted Genêt in the presidential mansion in Philadelphia.
- Genêt protested and continued to direct his privateers to capture British ships, threatening the United States' position in the war between France and Britain.
- Genêt continued to defy the wishes of the U.S. government, sending American recruits to capture British ships and rearm them as privateers.
- With his mission and life of public service officially over, Genêt relocated to New York and lived the rest of his life as a private gentleman farmer.
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- Still, the question of whether they
were politically American or still harbored loyalties to their native countries
brought about a widespread push for "Americanization" of immigrants, which
included efforts by the government and private organizations to ensure they embraced
full, long-term assimilation into American society.
- The privately
operated Committee for Immigrants in America helped fund the Division of
Immigrant Education within the Bureau of Education.
- The most significant private organization
in this effort was the National Americanization Committee (NAC), which operated
under the direction of Frances Kellor, who in 1909 served as secretary and
treasurer of the New York State Immigration Commission before becoming chief
investigator for New York State’s Bureau of Industries and Immigration from
1910 to 1913.
- The National Americanization Committee, led by Kellor, was one of the most significant private organizations working toward Americanization.
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- Conservatives feared the New Deal meant socialism; Roosevelt noted privately in 1934 that the "old line press harps increasingly on state socialism and demands the return to the good old days. " However, the New Deal's record also came under attack by New Left historians in the 1960s for not attacking capitalism more vigorously, nor helping blacks achieve equality.
- Social programs in the United States compromise a set of programs that are designed to subsidize the needs of the general U.S. population, but with various eligibility requirements and provided by various organizations: federal, state, local agencies, and private organizations.
- In 2002, total U.S. social welfare expenditure constitutes roughly 35% of GDP, with purely public expenditure constituting 21%, publicly supported but privately provided welfare services constituting 10% of GDP, and purely private services constituting 4% of GDP.
- The American welfare state was designed to address market shortcomings and do what private enterprises cannot or will not do themselves.
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- Second, in each colony a wide range of public and private business was decided by elected bodies, especially assemblies and county governments.
- Americans spent a great deal of time in court as private lawsuits were very common.
- Government officials are subject to the law the same as private citizens.
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- Classical liberals agreed with Adam Smith that government had only three essential functions: protection against foreign invaders, protection of citizens from wrongs committed against them by other citizens, and the building and maintaining of public institutions and public works that the private sector could not profitably provide.
- Protection of individuals against wrongs normally meant protection of private property.
- Through peaceful, harmonious trade relationships established by private merchants and companies without government interference, mutual national interest and prosperity would derive from commercial exchange rather than imperial territorial acquisition (which liberals saw as the root of all wars).
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- In contrast to the Republicans, the liberal Democrats opposed all banking schemes and strenuously denounced private banks and Wall Street.
- The compromise, based on the Aldrich Plan but sponsored by Democratic congressmen Carter Glass and Robert Owen, allowed the private banks to control twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks and placed controlling interest in a central board to be appointed by the president with Senate approval.
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- Some ministers solved their problems by encouraging parishioners to become devout at home, using the Book of Common Prayer for private prayer and devotion (rather than the Bible).
- However, the stress on private devotion weakened the need for a bishop or a large institutional church of the sort Blair wanted.
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- Indeed, within weeks of taking office, Ballinger reversed some of Garfield's policies, restoring 3 million acres to private use.
- In August, speaking at the annual meeting of the National Irrigation Congress, Pinchot accused Ballinger of siding with private trusts in water power issues.
- In 1908, Ballinger stepped down from the GLO, and took up a private law practice in Seattle.
- After this congressional investigation, Ballinger was cleared of any wrongdoing, but some continued to criticize him for favoring private enterprise and exploitation over conservationism.
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- Republican Motherhood, while maintaining women's role in the private sphere, gave women more rights to education.
- Greater educational access included making subjects of classical education (such as mathematics and philosophy), which were once studied only by males, integral to curricula at public and private schools for girls.
- Although the notion of Republican Motherhood initially encouraged women in their private roles, it eventually resulted in increased educational opportunities for American women, as typified by Mary Lyon and the founding in 1837 of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later renamed "Mount Holyoke College").
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- On the evening of March 5, Private Hugh White, a British soldier, stood on guard duty outside the Custom House on King Street.
- As the evening progressed, the crowd around Private White grew larger and more boisterous.
- A non-commissioned officer and six privates of the 29th Regiment of Foot were sent with fixed bayonets to relieve White.
- When they reached Private White on the custom house stairs, the soldiers loaded their muskets and arrayed themselves in a semicircular formation.