BUILDING YOUR INTELLECT FACT BY FACT
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“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” - Harriet Tubman
HISTORY
15. Railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia went out on strike against Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for cutting their wages.
14. The United Nations was created by 50 nations in San Francisco in 1945.
13. Andrew Johnson became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Congress had to over ride Johnson’s veto of civil rights legislation for the benefit any citizens left out of power by the original constitution.
12. Reverend Roger Williams was a Puritan minister in Salem that was exiled to Rhode Island by the Massachusetts Governor in 1636 for his belief that forced religion was wrong.
11. Mary McLeod Bethune started what is now Bethune –Cookman with a few young girls in a room.
10. Booker T. Washington started The Tuskegee School in an old barn with borrowed money.
9. The Mayans played a game similar to basketball.
8. President Lyndon B. Johnson is responsible for: The Civil Rights Act, HUD, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Job Corp, VISTA, Upward Bound, Project Head Start, etc.
7. The first Statue of Liberty was a woman with broken shackles down around her feet.
6. The American revolution started in 1775 with “the shot heard around the world.”
5. Your neighborhood school has to provide you with materials if you home school your child. Your child can also participate in the school’s extra curricula activities.
4. Most of the people from the 9th ward in New Orleans are still not back home.
3. Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved is based on a real account.
2. The layout of the Mall in Washington DC was heavily influenced by African philosophy.
1. The “untouchables” of India can now vote and serve in Parliament.
DEFINITIONS
15. Abstractionism is the view that the mind gets some or all of its concepts by abstracting them from concepts it already has or from experience.
14. The Theory of Human Nature says that there is a natural human character as there is a natural form to a particular plant or a natural form to a particular animal.
13. Divine Right is the belief that kings derive their power from God and that subjects are to obey the kings as they obey God.
12. Abstract Art compromises non-figurative art.
11. Absolutism in its political sense is a description of government without constitutional restrictions.
10. Absolute Space is the reference frame against which the motion of the body in space is to be measured.
9. Gaia Hypothesis claims that all animals, plants and humans contribute to the system which has checks and balances to ensure the continuance of life.
8. Fantastic works of literature are concerned with the intrusion of the supernatural, uncanny or mysterious into real life.
7. Ability is the power to perform an act.
6. Balance theory is the position that people prefer to hold consistent and compatible beliefs while avoiding those that are inconsistent and incompatible.
5. Activism is a theory of political tactics.
4. Michael Bakunin (1814-76) thought that human beings should remove institutions that distort human beings natural tendency to be sociable and co-operative.
3. Capital logic is the theory that the form and character of political institutions are determined by those of economic ones.
2. Dadaism was the attempt to undermine art itself by using iconoclastic and revolutionary means to subvert conventional taste.
1. Empiricism is the emphasis on sense-experience rather than reason or intuition as the basis for either some or all of our knowledge.