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https://padlet.com/magnus_bohn_joergensen/z0cgmz3ubiso

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you can buy a rifle and/or a shotgun when you turn 18, but you can drink alcohol and buy handguns at 21

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The first episode of "When They See Us" is about 5 African American boys, that were in Central Park with many other boys. The boys were making trouble and doing stupid stuff in the park. The same time as the boys were in the park a woman got raped and left to death. The police suspects the five boys for the rape, even tho they don't really have any proof. In court they make the boys lie, just so they can make semselves guilty for the crime. They hit and shout at the boys and they keep them in for hours without food, sleep and many of them without their parents.
The way the police are discriminating the boys i by hitting and shouting at the boys, only because they were black. We don't think they would do it to wealthy white kids, because their parents could sue the police.

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By Martin Luther King Jr. is a famous speech from a demonstration against racism.  Martin was talking about how he wishes that everyone could be like brothers and sisters. a famous quote from the speech is "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." which is a philosophy that many people can still use today as inspiration.

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In 1989 a woman called Tresha Meili was found raped and beaten up in the central park, New York. She was in coma 12 days after the assault. 5 boys was acused for the crime, even though none of them did it. Their dna did not match the dna of the boys who actually assulted Meili. The boys were forced by the police to confess that they were behind the crime. One of the boys said that he could hear the cops beat up his friend in the room next to the one he was sitting in, and that a cop told him that he was next, unless if he confessed that he committed the crime on camera.
Today they are all in prison for attempted murder, rape, assault and robbery.

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1619 | The first African slaves arrive in Virginia
1787 | Slavery is made illegal in the Norrthwest Territory. The U.S Constitutions states that Congress may not ban the slave trade until 1808.
1793 | Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin greatly increases the demand for slave labor.
1793 | A federal fugitive slave law is enacted, providing for the return slaves who had escaped and crossed state lines.
1800 | Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved African American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia. The conspiracy is uncovered, and Prosser and a number of the rebels are hanged. Virginia's slave laws are consequently tightened.
1808 | Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa.
1820 | The Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
1822 | Denmark Vesey, an enslaved African American carpenter who had purchased his freedom, plans a slave revolt with the intent to lay siege on Charleston, South Carolina. The plot is discovered, and Vesey and 34 coconspirators are hanged.
1831 | Nat Turner, an enslaved African American preacher, leads the most significant slave uprising in American history. He and his band of followers launch a short, bloody, rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. The militia quells the rebellion, and Turner is eventually hanged. As a consequence, Virginia institutes much stricter slave laws.
1831 | William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing the Liberator, a weekly paper that advocates the complete abolition of slavery. He becomes one of the most famous figures in the abolitionist movement.
1846 | The Wilmot Proviso, introduced by Democratic representative David Wilmot of Pennsylvania, attempts to ban slavery in territory gained in the Mexican War. The proviso is blocked by Southerners, but continues to enflame the debate over slavery.
1849 | Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective and celebrated leaders of the Underground Railroad.
1850 | The continuing debate whether territory gained in the Mexican War should be open to slavery is decided in the Compromise of 1850: California is admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories are left to be decided by popular sovereignty, and the slave trade in Washington, DC is prohibited. It also establishes a much stricter fugitive slave law than the original, passed in 1793.
1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. It becomes one of the most influential works to stir anti-slavery sentiments.
1854 | Congress passes the Kansas-Nebraska Act, establishing the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. The legislation repeals the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and renews tensions between anti- and proslavery factions.
1857 | The Dred Scott case holds that Congress does not have the right to ban slavery in states and, furthermore, that slaves are not citizens.
1859 | John Brown and 21 followers capture the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. (now W. Va.), in an attempt to launch a slave revolt.
1861 | The Confederacy is founded when the deep South secedes, and the Civil War begins.
1863 | President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring "that all persons held as slaves" within the Confederate state "are, and henceforward shall be free."
1865 | The Civil War ends. Lincoln is assassinated. The Thirteenth Amendment abolishes slavery throughout the United States. On June 19 slavery in the United States effectively ended when 250,000 slaves in Texas finally received the news that the Civil War had ended two months earlier.

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"This is America" by Childish Gambino talks about the gunproblems in america as well as the racism against black people.

"In the Ghetto" by Elvis Presley talks about gun problems and that the government ignore the people in the Ghetto's.

"America"from the west side story, is about how discrimation in America. It has a focus on the ups and downs about travelling to the US.

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Martin Luther King  was born on the 15th. of January in 1929. He was an african-american man who fought for black people's rights in USA. He was the creater of The Civil Rights Movement. Today he is seen as one of the most influential persons in USA's history. In 1968 he was shot dead on a motel in on april 4th. 1968.

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The Civil Rights Movement was a non-violent war against rasism in USA. The war was from the blacks side fought with speeches, demonstration ect., while the government used power to fight the rebels. Martin Luther King was the creater of the 20 years long war. It began in 1940 and ended in 1960.

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The CIA has many secrets, that even the government don't know about. If CIA wanted to make terror attack on US ground, they could easily do that. The CIA is known for having a lot of involvement in wars and has a lot of interest in them as they make a lot of money from it.

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A lot of people think that Al-Queda was behind 9/11 and no one behind them - just a "regular" terror attack.

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Bush as a president had a lot of vacation time and was "irresponsible" as a leader. His face did not change when he was informed that the towers were struck. He kept on reading for the kids he was reading for. He, as most people (especially Americans) wanted more money, and a great way to get those quickly, was war.

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a short summary of 9/11 conspracy theories

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a short summary of 9/11 conspracy theories

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The Pearl Harbor surprise attack was the Japanese's who bombed Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was a harbor on hawaii The reason for this bombing was that USA had a lot of troops and other military stuff stuffed up on Pearl Harbor. At first it was a banging succes. 2335 soldiers died as well as 68 civilist and 1178 people were wounded. But this attack brought USA into the 2.WW which in the end tilted the balanced to the favour of the allies.

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The Waco incident was a cult clashing with the outside world. A religious cult called "the branch Davidians" was lead by David Koresh (also called the reincarnation of Jesus christ). The cult had for a long time been "bullied" and treated poorly by Koresh for quite a while. David Koresh was having intercourse with people left and right because he claimed that "god told me to".
Quite a load of people got suspicious when David Koresh started buying heavy arms, bombs and other weapons for the cult.
in 1993 the ATF (a police focused on tobacco and guns) started a raid at the ranch that the davidians lived in. this turned bad when the cult started shooting back, and the FBI were called. this "war" went on for a while and it ended in the ranch being set on fire.

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Kennedy was the president of the USA from 1961 - 1963. He was assasinated on Elm Street, Dallas. He was driving with a lot of protection, but was shot from a window in a Dallas County Administration Building on the 6th floor. He was first shot in the neck, but did not died from this shot. The second shot was right through his head and he died of this shot. The murder isn't founded yet, but the main suspect is Lee Harvey Oswald but he was shot by a guy called Jack Ruby. It is still a mystery who killed J.F. Kennedy.

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9/11 was a terror attack on the twin towers where 2 planes were hijacked and were used to fly into the twin towers where loads and loads of people worked. 2.977 people died, and more than 6.000 people were wounded. It was the deadliest terror attack in world's history.
the reason for the attack is still not uncovered, although huge amounts of theories have sprung from the event
the whole ordeal had a great impact on the US citizens and on the country as a whole. The trauma from the damage is still visible today, everyone know where they were when 9/11 happened

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Environment
- Abuse
- Drugs
- assault
- Outcast / no friends
Mental state
- Self harming thoughts
- depression
- lack of sympathy
- Rage / anger
- pressure from school
Access to weapons
- guns at home
- free guns in the bank
- guns everywhere basically

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Michael is a documentaryfilm instructor and writer. he is known for his satire and strong political opinions. Michael Moore is a very known man and has a networth of 50 million $.

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Columbine High shooting                (what, when, why and consequenses?)

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Columbine High shooting                (what, when, why and consequenses?)

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The columbine  high shooting was a school shooting in the state Colorado. It took place in 1999 the 20. April. It was Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold who shot and killed 12 students and 2 teachers, while 24 other students was injured. The reasons for these 2 boys to become school shooters is bullying, depression, suicide thoughts and revenge.

The consequenses of the school shooting was huge. 12 dead people and a whole land in shock.

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The mormons is an ancient religion in USA. Nowadays the religion gets a lot of media attention due to the fact that there are a lot of prejudices about the the religion. They believe roughly the same as christians did in the 18. hundreds, though they do have some slight "modifications". The founder of the Mormon religion Josef Smith was an average man that decided to make a few differences to the christian church, as an attempt to turn peoples beliefs to a nicer religion. Josef smith published the "book of mormon" which is pretty much the Mormon version of the bible. In the mormon church they value family and connections a lot. The mormon religion is very new, as it was founded in 1830.

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a group of people with George Fox as their leader invented a new kind of cristianity. Fox meant that many people did not live up to the cristian "laws" written in the bible even though they claimed themselves as cristians. In the age of 19 Fox became a religious activist and quickly maintained his position as a person the government feared because of his meanings. E.g he meant that there was a piece of god in every single person so therefore everyone was equal. This controversial meaning was an eyeopener fro a lot of people. A lot of people agreed with Fox and became activists with him.

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in the 16th century when technology was advancing at a rapid pace, the once unobtainable books where in the grasps of the "peasants" (not church overlords). When people started to get their fingers in copies of the Bible, they learned that the pope and his men had lied about the content of this book. they started a group of their own, called the Anabaptists. The pope did not like the fact that they started to drift away from his grasps, and he demanded that his men would put them to jail or execute them.

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America's involvement in the first world war started in 1917, when the American government was provoked by the Germans attacks on their trading ships on the way to Great Britain. When several of their ships were either bombed by marine mines, or shot down by submarines. The Germans sent a telegram to Mexico, asking them to attack America. America was warned by the British and they started to attack the Germans.
America helped out the allied forces of France, Britain, Italy and Russia. The Americans and their new team succeeded and won the war together.

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The US joined the war very late compared to other countries that already was a part of the war. The US joined the war when Pearl Harbour got attacked by Japan there were loaded with a bunch of planes and bombs. USA joined the Allied forces which was England and alle the countries that were against the Nazis and in the end tilted the balance in favour of the allied.

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The Civil War was a war between the northern
and the southern states. The war began in 1861 and ended in 1865. The president back then was Abraham Lincoln.

The war was based on the big slavery problem. The southern states wanted the slaves, but the north  did not want them.
They wanted Afro Americans to be 'free'.

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The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.

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The Cold War was s  conflict between USA and The Sovjet Union. The conflict was about how to rule a country - about if you should be communists or capitalists. It took place from 1947 - 1991. People were very nervous 'cause nuclear weapons were involved. It was called a Cold War because they didn't attack each other.

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KINDER EGGS
- In USA Kinder Eggs are illegal because the government mean it is to dangerous, but guns are legal even though there are a lot more dangerous. The American government are scared that kids would swallow the toy capsule in the middle.
THE SCHOOL SYSTEM
- The teachers have a classroom and then the students are going around the school in different routines, which means they don't have a main class. That means that they don't have these "ingroups" that we in Denmark take for granted. That means that a lot of kids feels left out because they don't have these ingroups and it makes it harder to make new friends because they don't spent a lot of time socializing with each other.

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When USA promised people land in America for free, a lot of poor and outcasts took the chance to get a fresh start in America. But because it was mainly poor people and outcasts with different religions the US had to accept every type of religion. That is why there is a lot of different churches in America and there is no state religion.

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The shootings are often "performed" by late teens (between 15-20 year-olds). The Schoolshooter stumbles upon a gun, and "borrows" or buys it and then use it to shoot students and teachers in a school. they quite often end up in a suicide. The people responsible are often kids who got bullied at their highschool, or teens being bullied.

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- 9/11
- Waco
- J F Kennedy's assasination
- Teen pregnancies
- Pearl harbour bombing
-The Columbine Shooting

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Racism:
There's always been a big difference between the races in the States. It's getting better and better, but in the early days of America the diffrences were major. For example had the white people every thing while the black people were slaves and didn't have anything.

There was an amounges civil war between the southern states and the northern states in the early 1860s. The president by then was Abraham Lincoln

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The "American dream" concept, was that people from other countries could come to America, get some land and start from scratch. Because of the fact that everyone was welcome a lot of minority groups came to Amerca because in Europe they were hunted down because of their religion.

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In the US there is a very big gab between rich and poor. Unlike in Denmark, it is very difficult to break the social inheritance, simply because in Danmark you get a lot of help from the state, but in USA you pretty much have to do everything by yourself because of a lot of reasons. E.g you don't go to school for free in the USA so your parents have to pay for it. So if your parents don't have the money to pay for your education, you can't get an education which often means you can not get a highly paid job, which means you can't pay for childrens education and then you are in a bad cyclus.

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There aren't a lot of teen pregnancies in the US, but there are some. For a couple of years ago it became "in" to have a baby in high school, which was a big problem because after the high school, the parents often didn't educated themselves further than high school, which means that they would get a low wage job, which means that they can't pay for education for their child, which means that the child will get a low wage job and the social heritage is getting worse and worse for every generation.

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The second amendment says that "any man/woman that is at their right, shall not be infringed to carry arms". which means (in a more easy-to-understand manner) that any person that are not mentally challenged can carry weapons, they cannot be held back from buying and owning weapons.

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There is a lot of minority groups in USA. We have linked some of them to this box.

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The constitution is the set of laws that were made when the US was formed. There are 27 ammendments in USA. The ammendments all has its own themes, e.g. the 2. ammendments is about the rights to bear armes. The reason Americans have the rights to bear armes is because when USA was formed, the people who came to America were hunted down in Europe for being different, so they required the right to bear arms to defend themselves. They also required freedom of religion, which is the reason USA don't have a statereligion.

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The American political system is very different from many other countries. The system is buildet up a way so every state have their own election. In these states they guy who get the most votes wins some points from that state. It is different how many points you get from each state, so a lot of presidents, including Donald Trump had a strategi. It was about to faw upon the big states who gave a lot of points in the political system that would make the chances of becoming president bigger.

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J. F. Kennedy: 1961 - 1963

Donald Trump was the first orange President from 2017 - present

Barrack Obama: 2009 - 2017
Barack Obama was the first black president of America. We was a Democrat.

Ronald Reagan: 1981 - 1989

Abraham Lincoln: 1661 - 1665

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In the beginning, USA was just a big piece of land inhabited by the "indians" a.k.a. natives.In 1526 the Spanish people made a voyage and tried to make a colony in what's now known as california, but they either died from desease or abandoned the camps.

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- 3rd biggest country in the world.
- There are 50 states in USA
- There are 327,2 mil. people in USA.
- The capital is Washington DC, District of Columbia (basically in Maryland)
- The largest city of America is New York City, New York. The number of the population in New York City is about 8.6 million people.