39 résultats pour "alabama"
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Alabama (state) - geography.
indentations along the coast are measured, the state’s shoreline is 977 km (607 mi) long. It includes the shores of Mobile Bay, an inlet 56 km (35 mi) long at the mouthof the Mobile River. Barrier beaches partly block the entrance to the bay, leaving narrow openings on either side of Dauphin Island. Dauphin and other islands alongAlabama’s coast west of Mobile Bay are separated from the mainland by Mississippi Sound. D Climate Alabama has a humid subtropical climate, with short, relatively mild...
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Alabama (state) - USA History.
indentations along the coast are measured, the state’s shoreline is 977 km (607 mi) long. It includes the shores of Mobile Bay, an inlet 56 km (35 mi) long at the mouthof the Mobile River. Barrier beaches partly block the entrance to the bay, leaving narrow openings on either side of Dauphin Island. Dauphin and other islands alongAlabama’s coast west of Mobile Bay are separated from the mainland by Mississippi Sound. D Climate Alabama has a humid subtropical climate, with short, relatively mild...
- Birmingham (Alabama).
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René Depestre, ALABAMA
le mot " Alabama" avec un de ses mots a lui car ça ne s'est pas passe en réalité. Par contre du Vers 15 a 19 les faits sont réel et sont gravés dans l'histoire et dans la mémoire des gens. L'auteur veut nous faire comprendre que la liberté est bien réelle : " C'est le nom que je lis sur leurs lampes brisées ", le fait que la lampe se brise, ses frères noirs peuvent s'échapper; car la lampe, comme une prison, les renferme. Cela nous montre que ce passage a une connotation réelle, nous permettent...
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RÉGION DES ÉTATS-UNIS: AlAbAMA
AlAbAMA Sur les champs de coton Pays au x plaines fertil es, l'A labama es t u n État ty pique du Sud américain , marqu é p e ndant long te mps par un duo indissociable qui a fait Sfl ri ch es se: esclav age et cu ltu re du coton . P etit État du Sud des États Unis , l'Alabama est entouré au nord par le Tennessee, à l'est par la Géorgie , à l'ouest par le Mississippi et au sud presque entièrement par la Floride -la baie de...
- Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, Jean-Baptiste (1680-1768), explorateur français du Canada et administrateur colonial, fondateur de Biloxi, dans le Mississippi et de Mobile, en Alabama.
- Alabama, depuis 1819, État du sud des États-Unis.
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- MIRACLE EN ALABAMA
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Cole (Nathaniel Adams , dit Nat « King »), 1919-1965, né à Montgomery
(Alabama),
pianiste
et
chanteur
américain.
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)\HDLN0000100147 Cole (Nathaniel Adams, dit Nat King) Pianiste de jazz et chanteur américain * 17.3.1919, Montgomery, Alabama + 15.2.1965, Santa Monica, Californie Remarquable pianiste, Cole fonde en 1939 le très élégant King Cole Trio qui réunit Oscar Moore à la guitare et Wesley Prince à la basse. Mais c'est surtout son talent de chanteur qui lui assure le succès dans les années 1950. Grâce à sa voix caressante et veloutée, il devient l'une des plus grandes vedet...
- Appalaches, ensemble de plateaux et de montagnes de la partie orientale de l'Amérique du Nord s'étendant sur 3 500 km de l'Alabama à Terre-Neuve (2 700 km sur le seul territoire des États-Unis).
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La lutte des Noirs américains pour les droits civiques
La Cour suprême ordonne l'intégration immédiate dans les écoles de Little-Rock. Les autorités ferment les établissementsscolaires plutôt que d'obtempérer. Pendant l'année scolaire 1958-1959, en vertu d'une décision du gouvernement Faubus,les quatre écoles secondaires de Little-Rock sont fermées. Juillet 1959 La commission scolaire de Little-Rock accepte l'inscription d'une quarantaine d'élèves noirs. 21 avril 1960 Adoption par le Congrès d'une nouvelle loi sur les droits civiques portant...
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College Football Bowl Games.
1995 Alabama 24Ohio State 17 1996 Tennessee 20Ohio State 14 1997 Tennessee 48Northwestern 28 1998 Florida 21Penn State 6 1999 Michigan 45Arkansas 31 2000 Michigan 37Florida 34 2001 1 Michigan 31Auburn 28 2002 Tennessee 45Michigan 17 2003 Auburn 13Penn State 9 2004 Georgia 34Purdue 27 2005 Iowa 30Louisiana State 25 2006 Wisconsin 24Auburn 10 2007 Wisconsin 17Arkansas 14 2008 Michigan 41Florida 35 1. In 2001 its name was changed from Citrus Bowl to Capital One Bowl. . Champs Sports Bowl.Year Winn...
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Alabama - Facts and Figures.
Native Americans 0.5 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 1.6 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 1.7 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 73.6 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 9 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 465 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 293 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 15.2 percent (2006) Numb...
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Georgia (state) - geography.
B Rivers and Lakes Most of the rivers of Georgia drain eastward to the Atlantic Ocean proper or southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few flow northward to the Tennessee River, which isa major tributary of the Mississippi River. Most of the rivers flowing to the coasts are navigable by barges and small craft as far upstream as the Fall Line. The major river flowing to the Atlantic is the Savannah River, which, with the Tugaloo River, one of its headwaters, forms most of the state’s eastern bo...
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Georgia (state) - USA History.
B Rivers and Lakes Most of the rivers of Georgia drain eastward to the Atlantic Ocean proper or southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a few flow northward to the Tennessee River, which isa major tributary of the Mississippi River. Most of the rivers flowing to the coasts are navigable by barges and small craft as far upstream as the Fall Line. The major river flowing to the Atlantic is the Savannah River, which, with the Tugaloo River, one of its headwaters, forms most of the state’s eastern bo...
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- Van de Graaff Robert Jemison , 1901-1967, né à Tuscaloosa (Alabama), physicien américain.
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Gold - chemistry.
producers of gold during this period. Spain's domination in South America resulted, in the 16th century, in a large increase in gold produced in the New World; someresulted from simple seizure of gold from the Native Americans, who had long mined the metal. In the same century Mexico contributed about 9 percent of the totalworld production. Gold was discovered in Australia in February 1851, and rich fields were found there. By the middle of the 19th century the United States produced a considera...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
disorder that local white officials would be forced to end segregation to restore normal business relations. The strategy did not work in Albany. During months ofprotests, Albany’s police chief jailed hundreds of demonstrators without visible police violence. Eventually the protesters’ energy, and the money to bail out protesters,ran out. The strategy did work, however, in Birmingham, Alabama, when SCLC joined a local protest during the spring of 1963. The protest was led by SCLC member FredShut...
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
disorder that local white officials would be forced to end segregation to restore normal business relations. The strategy did not work in Albany. During months ofprotests, Albany’s police chief jailed hundreds of demonstrators without visible police violence. Eventually the protesters’ energy, and the money to bail out protesters,ran out. The strategy did work, however, in Birmingham, Alabama, when SCLC joined a local protest during the spring of 1963. The protest was led by SCLC member FredShut...
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Protests in the 1960s - U.
E Youth Culture Young people played an important role in the movements for social change during the 1960s. Numbers alone made them important; more than 76 million babies wereborn during the post-World War II “baby boom.” In addition, these young people spent more years in school and were more affluent than previous generations. In theearly 20th century, most young Americans had moved quickly from childhood to adulthood. In the 1920s only 1 in 5 Americans graduated from high school, and almostal...
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Civil Rights Movement in the United States - U.
The Great Depression of the 1930s increased black protests against discrimination, especially in Northern cities. Blacks protested the refusal of white-owned businessesin all-black neighborhoods to hire black salespersons. Using the slogan “Don't Buy Where You Can't Work,” these campaigns persuaded blacks to boycott thosebusinesses and revealed a new militancy. During the same years, blacks organized school boycotts in Northern cities to protest discriminatory treatment of blackchildren. The bla...
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African American History - U.
In their day-to-day lives, slaves and servants shared similar grievances and frequently formed alliances. Advertisements seeking the return of slaves and servants whohad run away together filled colonial newspapers. When a slave named Charles escaped in 1740, the Pennsylvania Gazette reported that two white servants, a 'Scotch man' and an Englishman, escaped with him. Sometimes interracial alliances involved violence. During Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, slaves and servants took up armsagainst Na...
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Florida - USA History.
accidentally introduced into the region in the 1880s, and it spread with alarming rapidity throughout the upper reaches of the river. The plant is very difficult toeradicate, and it has also clogged the channels of other Florida rivers. To increase drainage of the Everglades, which drain naturally to Florida Bay and the Gulf ofMexico, a number of drainage channels and canals have been built across southern Florida. Among the rivers flowing from the peninsula to the Gulf of Mexico are the Suwanne...
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Grand oral du bac : LA GUERRE DE SÉCESSION
La guerre de Sécession L'UNION •• LA CONFÉDÉRATION écession avant Fort Sumter . écession après Fort Sumter • • • 'États non esclavagistes --ttats esclavagistes e Principales batailles naissance du Kansas comme État: les Sudistes font triompher le principe de libre choix des nouveaux États, ouvrant ainsi les terres de l'Ouest à la coloni sation des planteurs esclavagistes mais provoquant la grande colère des abolitionnistes et des fermiers...
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la littérature américaine de1860 à 1945
des "dime novels" romans populaires "à quatre sous" aux ventes vertigineuses, comme ceux de Alger, qui racontent toujours la même histoire : un héros noble qui se hisse tous seul au dessus de sa condition d'origine, récompensé pour sa vertu et généreux dans sa réussite . Le succès de ses ouvrages illustre la conviction des américains que le capitalisme donne à chacun les clefs de son succès, libre à lui d'en profiter ou non . Les ouvrages didactiques de Carnegie ( The Gospel of Wealth par exempl...
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Indianerkriege - Geschichte.
Einige Stämme lehnten die Umsiedelung ab, woraufhin erneut Kriege ausbrachen. Die Versuche der Stämme der Sauk und der Fox, Anfang 1832 in ihre Heimatgebietezurückzukehren, endeten im Black-Hawk-Krieg in Illinois und Wisconsin und im Bad-Axe-Massaker vom 3. August 1832, in dem die meisten Indianer ermordet wurden, alssie gerade über den Mississippi nach Iowa ziehen wollten. Gleichzeitig wurden die Cherokee aus Georgia und die restlichen Creek aus Mississippi und Alabama vertrieben.Im zweiten Sem...
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Andrew Johnson.
As senator, Johnson continued to work for a homestead law, and he was disappointed when President James Buchanan vetoed the homestead act of 1860. On theslavery issue, Johnson still followed the orthodox Southern line, but with no great enthusiasm. He voted for the resolutions proposed in 1860 by Senator Jefferson Davisof Mississippi to implement the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, which stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States. C1 Presidential Electio...
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Andrew Johnson
As senator, Johnson continued to work for a homestead law, and he was disappointed when President James Buchanan vetoed the homestead act of 1860. On theslavery issue, Johnson still followed the orthodox Southern line, but with no great enthusiasm. He voted for the resolutions proposed in 1860 by Senator Jefferson Davisof Mississippi to implement the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, which stated that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories of the United States. C1 Presidential Electio...
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Andrew Jackson.
against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...
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Andrew Jackson
against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...
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Andrew Jackson - USA History.
against a resolution praising President George Washington’s administration. Jackson claimed that Washington’s policy toward Native Americans was too lenient and thatJay’s Treaty, concluded with the British under Washington’s administration, was too damaging to American interests. After one year in the House, Jackson was elected to fill out an unexpired term in the U.S. Senate, the other chamber of the Congress of the United States. He servedfrom September 1797 to April 1798 and then retired to p...
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Segregation in the United States - U.
acts of discrimination. Writing for the court, Justice Joseph Bradley declared: “When a man has emerged from slavery, and by the aid of beneficent legislation ... theremust be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of a mere citizen, and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws, and when his rights as acitizen, or a man, are to be protected in the ordinary modes by which other men’s rights are protected.” Rather than being the “special favorites” of the law, blac...
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Religion et société aux USA depuis 1890 (histoire)
sont pas le pays le plus religieux du monde, mais les Américains sont près de deux fois plus nombreux que les autres habitants des pays développés et 2 fois ½ plus nombreux que les Français. Deuxième approche Doc 2. L’appartenance des Américains à une Église1 7 5 0 5 % 1 7 8 0 2 0 % 1 8 6 0 3 5 % 1 9 0 0 5 0 % 2 0 0 5 7 0 % AdriennLherm,,"ReligionnettlaïcitééauxxEtats-Unis",,Duumodèleeaméricainnààlaasuperpuissance,,Séminaireenationall,,Directionndee l'enseignementtscolaire,,2005,,ennlign...
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Précocement indépendants, nés des courants migratoires les
plus variés fondus grâce au melting-pot, épris de libertés
démocratiques, persuadés de la supériorité du capitalisme libéral,
dotés de ressources abondantes, les États-Unis conservent leur
rôle de superpuissance.
suprême s'appelle la « Court of Appeals », les cours d'appel prennent le nom de « Appelate Courts » et les tribunaux de première instance, celui de « Supreme Courts ». Il n'existe pas de vraie hiérarchie entre les tribunaux fédéraux et les tribunaux des États de l'Union. Toutefois, en cas de divergence profonde sur un point de droit important entre les différents États, la Cour suprême des États-Unis peut accepter de juger une affaire sur pourvoi contre une décision de Cour suprême d'un...
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American Civil War.
free state to keep the balance in the Senate. It also provided that slavery would be excluded from the still unorganized part of the Louisiana Territory. A line was drawnfrom Missouri’s southern boundary, at the latitude of 36°30’, and slavery would not be allowed in the territory north of that line,with the exception of Missouri. B Compromise of 1850 Agitation against slavery continued in the North. The South reacted by defending it ever more strongly. The Mexican War, by which the United Stat...
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American Civil War - U.
free state to keep the balance in the Senate. It also provided that slavery would be excluded from the still unorganized part of the Louisiana Territory. A line was drawnfrom Missouri’s southern boundary, at the latitude of 36°30’, and slavery would not be allowed in the territory north of that line,with the exception of Missouri. B Compromise of 1850 Agitation against slavery continued in the North. The South reacted by defending it ever more strongly. The Mexican War, by which the United Stat...
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...