A July 2009 Gallup Poll found only 30 % Americans thought the Fed was doing a good or excellent job, a rating even lower than that for the Internal Revenue Service, which drew praise from 40 %.

By law and Southern social convention, household heads were adult, white propertied males, and all white women and all African Americans were thought to require protection and guidance because they lacked the capacity for reason and self-control.

" Before this study, it was thought that the Cuban Ivory-billed were descended from mainland woodpeckers, either introduced to Cuba by Native Americans or accidentals that flew to the island themselves.

As early as the period of the American Revolution, many white members of American society thought that African Americans could not succeed in living in ‘ their ’ society as free people.

Webster thought that Americans should learn from American books, so he began writing a three volume compendium, A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.

The rise of feminism, LGBT social movements and the end of colonial rule and of the political exclusion of such minorities as African Americans and sexual minorities in the developed world has led to feminist, postcolonial, and multicultural thought becoming significant.

Adams thought that the vote for independence would be commemorated ; he did not foresee that Americans — including himself — would instead celebrate Independence Day on the date that the announcement of that act was finalized.

** Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there ( no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp ; all U. S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid ).

Powell desperately wanted to go to the Far East to help the fight against Japan because " the war in Europe is won now, and I want to see the Union Flag back in Singapore " before, Powell thought, the Americans beat Britain to it.

He quoted an observation that Americans thought their country was " a unique society ... where God has put together all nationalities, races and interests of the globe for one purpose -– to show the rest of the world how to live ".

The book also sought to instruct the English, who thought of themselves as vastly superior to the Native Americans, that they were mistaken.

Some traditional diplomats quaked at the thought of thousands of young Americans scattered across their world.

When she began work on this project in 1873, most Americans thought the U. S. would never again face a calamity like the Civil War, but Barton finally succeeded during the administration of President Chester Arthur, using the argument that the new American Red Cross could respond to crises other than war.

The parents are either immigrants or first-generation Americans who felt like outsiders, and assimilation was the key thought — they gravitated to black music and baseball looking for an alternative culture.

Those bodies were identified as Tsarevich Alexei and one of the four grand duchesses, generally thought by Russians to be Grand Duchess Maria and by Americans to be Grand Duchess Anastasia.

It is thought the majority of Valparaíso's people have non-Spanish European background, such as: British and Irish, Australians and New Zealanders, North Americans ( U. S. or Canadian ), Croats and Bosnians, Dutch and Belgians, French, Germans, Greeks, Italians, Portuguese and Scandinavians.

In a Talking to Americans segment on the Canadian mock television news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes during the 2000 American election, comedian Rick Mercer posed as a reporter and asked several people ( including then-Texas governor George W. Bush ) what they thought of " Prime Minister Jean Poutine " and his endorsement of Bush for president.

He also was ordered to create a self-sustaining colony at Roanoke Island and thought it had the potential to be a model for a new society in which African Americans would have freedom.

Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft, the Minister of Aviation, in 1961 thought about a joint European project, the main intention being not to waste the ( advanced ) development of the rocket, and not to leave space exploration to the Americans and Russians.

Some thought Nixon used it as part of the Southern strategy ; others claim it was Nixon's way of dismissing the obvious protests going on around the country, and Nixon's attempt to get other Americans not to listen to the protests.

Not all Americans who believed that the United States was a divinely favored nation thought that it ought to expand.

Native Americans are thought to have resided in the area for at least 11, 000 years.

Nineteenth-century Americans thought differently.

The Moral Majority sought to mobilize conservative Americans to become politically active on issues they thought were important.

Grant, as commanding general, immediately had to contend with Maximilian of Mexico and the French army which had taken over Mexico under the authority of Napoleon III, which the Americans felt to be a violation of their Monroe Doctrine.

On visiting Corsica in 1943, General George S. Patton commented on how the Free French forces had liberated the birthplace of Napoleon, and promised that the Americans would liberate the birthplace of Lafayette.

* The Americans gain several victories, on the water, as Napoleon engages the British attention.

In doing so, a French vessel appears, and neither the Americans nor the British know that Napoleon has surrendered, the French monarchy has been restored, and France is now at peace with Britain.

In the desperate war against Napoleon, the British believed that they could not afford to abandon impressment: offending the Americans was seen as a much lesser evil than losing to Napoleon.

However, after the Civil War in the United States had ended, the North Americans forced Napoleon III to withdraw his troops.

The Soviets were threatened because the Americans might have been able to make a nuclear first strike possible.

He suggested that from the data one might conclude that, on average, Asian Americans are more intelligent than white Americans.

In 1946, U. S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark authorized Hoover to compile a list of potentially disloyal Americans who might be detained during a wartime national emergency.

The Americans and the Lakota nation ( whom the Americans called Sioux or " Teton-wan Sioux ") had problems when they met, and there was a concern the two sides might fight.

Wise, wrote about how Native Americans might think of the reliefs: " We give you corn, you cheat us of our lands: we save your life, you take ours.

In 1835, the English poet William Wordsworth described the Lake District as a The painter George Catlin, in his travels through the American West, wrote during the 1830s that the Native Americans in the United States might be preserved

" Calhoun rejected the belief of Southern Whigs such as Henry Clay that all Americans could agree on the " opinion and feeling " that slavery was wrong, although they might disagree on the most practicable way to respond to that great wrong.

Where Americans might write " Symphony # 5 ", the British are more likely to write " Symphony No. 5 ".

" David S. Reynolds hails the man who " killed slavery, sparked the civil war, and seeded civil rights " and Richard Owen Boyer emphasizes that Brown was " an American who gave his life that millions of other Americans might be free.

After Stillman's defeat, American leaders like President Jackson and Secretary of War Lewis Cass would not consider a diplomatic solution ; they wanted a resounding victory over Black Hawk to serve as an example to other Native Americans who might consider similar uprisings.

During their retreat from Quebec, the Americans carefully took or destroyed all ships on Lake Champlain that might prove useful to the British.

He hastened to create an alliance with the Americans from fear that they might jointly attack France with the British.

Nelson hoped that a grassroots outcry about environmental issues might prove to Washington, D. C. just how distressed Americans were in every constituency.

In his last years Joseph spoke eloquently against the injustice of United States policy toward his people and held out the hope that America's promise of freedom and equality might one day be fulfilled for Native Americans as well.

The Soviet scientist's great fear was that he might be intentionally being fed with false information by the Americans.

Thus, even African Americans who might have descended from free families could not get an exemption to literacy tests, which in practice were highly subjective, with registrars who discriminated against black voters.

A key to identifying the geographical area in which boogie-woogie originated is understanding the relationship of boogie-woogie music with the steam railroad, both in the sense of how the music might have been influenced by sounds associated with the arrival of steam locomotives as well as the cultural impact the sudden emergence of the railroad might have had on newly emancipated African Americans.

" Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Don Lavoie note, " Americans in Alaska and Hawaii could very easily be excluded from the U. S. government's defense perimeter, and doing so might enhance the military value of at least conventional U. S. forces to Americans in the other forty-eight states.

With an inevitable Republican victory, Abernathy said that he felt that he had to endorse Reagan, so that African Americans might gain some respect in that political party.

And, as the show landed a pair of Emmy Awards in that first year ( the show itself, for Best Kinescope Show ; and, Berle as Most Outstanding Kinescoped Personality ), Uncle Miltie ( he first called himself by that name ad-libbing at the end of a 1949 broadcast ) joked, preened, pratfell, danced, costumed, and clowned his way to stardom, with Americans discovering television as a technological marvel and entertainment medium seeming to bring the country to a dead stop every Tuesday night, just to see what the madcap Berle might pull next.