Mar 15, 2022 · Looking at items from the 2022 legislative session. On March 10th, the 2022 legislative session came to a close. In this month’s column, I will be highlighting a few items relevant to Snohomish County, including “fixes” to police reforms, transportation investments, and the addition of 2 judges that came from the legislature this year.
Mar 01, 2022 · Legislative committee reverses course, endorses legal defense fund for Maine’s lobster industry. If approved, the bill would provide about $900,000 a year to …
Mar 25, 2022 · The General Assembly wrapped up the longest “long” session in North Carolina’s history. Legislators began the session on January 13, 2021, and adjourned today, March 11, 2022. The session was a total of 423 days. Today, the House had its 199 th legislative day, and the Senate had its 197 th legislative day.
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The North produced 17 times more cotton and woolen textiles than the South, 30 times more leather goods, 20 times more pig iron, and 32 times more firearms. The North produced 3,200 firearms to every 100 produced in the South.Aug 23, 2017
By 1863, however, the Northern military plan consisted of five major goals: Fully blockade all Southern coasts. This strategy, known as the Anaconda Plan, would eliminate the possibility of Confederate help from abroad. Control the Mississippi River.
In the North, people wanted a stronger national government that would make the same laws for all the states. Slavery - Most of the Southern states had economies based on farming and felt they needed slave labor to help them farm. The North was more industrialized and much of the North had made slavery illegal.
The North had an industrial economy, an economy focused on manufacturing, while the South had an agricultural economy, an economy focused on farming. Slaves worked on Southern plantations to farm crops, and Northerners would buy these crops to produce goods that they could sell.Jan 4, 2022
The North was better prepared to fight and win the civil war at its outbreak in 1861. It had much greater industrial capacity, much larger manpower and a government infrastructure already in place. It had a much larger railway system and a better equipped army and navy.Nov 27, 2021
Anaconda plan, military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
The North wanted the new states to be “free states.” Most northerners thought that slavery was wrong and many northern states had outlawed slavery. The South, however, wanted the new states to be “slave states.” Cotton, rice, and tobacco were very hard on the southern soil.
In the United States, Southern Unionists were white Southerners living in the Confederate States of America opposed to secession. Many fought for the Union during the Civil War....Did all Southerners support the Confederacy?StateWhite soldiers serving in the Union Army (other branches unlisted)Georgia2,5003 more rows•Dec 5, 2021
The North was not only fighting to preserve the Union, it was fighting to end slavery. Throughout this time, northern black men had continued to pressure the army to enlist them.Feb 6, 2022
The North had an industrial economy, an economy focused on manufacturing, while the South had an agricultural economy, an economy focused on farming. Slaves worked on Southern plantations to farm crops, and Northerners would buy these crops to produce goods that they could sell.Dec 1, 2021
The North was anti- slavery while the South was pro-slavery during and before the war. 2. The North was more densely populated than the rural South.
About 90 percent of the nation's manufacturing, and most of its banks, were in the North. The North had geographic advantages, too. It had more farms than the South to provide food for troops. Its land contained most of the country's iron, coal, copper, and gold.
Congress, is responsible for making the country’s laws. The members of the two houses of Congress—the House of Representatives and the Senate—are elected by the citizens of the United States.
In addition to writing and passing laws, Congress also has various other powers, including the power to declare war. Congress also creates an annual budget for the government, levies taxes on citizens to pay for the budget and is responsible for making sure money collected through taxes is used for its intended purpose.
Among the unique powers of the House of Representatives are impeaching a federal official and proposing all tax legislation.
As the framers designed it, the Senate is more insulated from contact with the electorate than the House , and its members are expected to make decisions based more on experience and wisdom rather than ever-changing public opinion.
After a bill is introduced, a small group or committee meets to research it, ask questions and make additions or changes. The bill then heads to the floor of the House or Senate for debate, where other representatives or senators can propose additional amendments or changes.
Constitution sought to build the foundations of a strong central government. But they also wanted to preserve the liberty of individual citizens, and ensure the government didn’t abuse its power.
In contrast to the House—where representation is proportional to population—each state has two senators, regardless of size. This system of equal representation in the Senate benefits smaller states, as they have a disproportionate influence relative to their size. Recommended for you.
Although the approved social studies standards will go into effect in the 2021-2022 school year, Board Chair Eric Davis stated that in August the Superintendent will present the Board with proposed changes of how to develop social studies standards, which could lead to revisions of the current standards.
SB 654: K-12 COVID-19 Provisions ( primary sponsors: Senators Deanna Ballard, R-Watauga; Don Davis , D-Pitt; Michael Lee, R-New Hanover) was modified and passed by the House 74-34 and is scheduled for a Senate concurrence vote on Monday, June 14, but the Senate is not expected to concur with the House changes. The following House committee modifications lengthened the bill from eight to 20 pages:
SB 355: Government Transparency Act of 2021 ( primary sponsors: Senators Norman Sanderson, R-Pamlico; Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick; Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth) requires local boards of education (as well as counties, municipalities, community colleges, State agencies, etc.) to not only maintain the date and general description of the reasons for each promotion, but also for each demotion, dismissal, transfer, suspension, separation, or other change in position. An employee can appeal to not have the date and description of their promotion, demotion, etc. disclosed if the information is protected by an applicable confidentiality law, like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or the American with Disabilities Act. Click here for an official bill summary. NCSBA opposes SB 355, and we are currently working with other employer groups on this issue.
On Monday, Judge David Lee signed an order to implement the 52-page Comprehensive Remedial Plan that was submitted by the State Board of Education and DPI earlier this year, addressing the State’s constitutional obligation of providing every student with the opportunity to a sound, basic education.
HB 159: Education Law Changes ( primary sponsors: Representatives John Torbett, R-Gaston; Hugh Blackwell, R-Burke ) was modified and approved by the Senate Finance Committee and referred to the Senate Appropriations/Base Budget Committee. The new version of the bill deletes the section on school nutrition programs’ operating balance and replaces it with a report on school nutrition programs. Senator Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, sponsored the amendment and said that he felt more information was needed on the funds, balances, costs, etc. of school nutrition programs before the Senate agrees to such a controversial change. During a prior committee meeting, NCSBA requested that the section be removed from the bill and referred to it as an unfunded mandate. Even though the section was removed, DPI and other advocacy groups are determined to have the section put back into the bill, meaning that the issue is far from over. HB 159 still has a few more committees to go through, as well as a Senate floor vote and a concurrence vote in the House.
SB 582: High School Adjunct Instructors/CC Prep ( primary sponsors: Senators Jim Burgin, R-Harnett; Kevin Corbin, R-Macon) was signed into SL 2021-48. This bill allows higher education faculty members to qualify as adjunct instructors for K-12 core academic subjects, fine and performing arts, and foreign language courses if they meet State Board of Education (SBE) criteria (currently can only teach K-12 core academic subjects). It also allows an individual who holds a bachelor’s or graduate degree, attends a community college or educator preparation program, and completes at least one semester of teacher preparation to contract with a LEA to teach high-school level courses related to the individual’s specialized knowledge or work experience. Click here for an official bill summary.
For K-12 public education, the Senate budget appropriates: $10.4 billion in FY 2021-2022 (3.7% increase) $10.5 billion in FY 2022-2023 (0.9% increase) Click here for summaries of Senate budget education provisions. Click here for a summary of Senate budget education appropriations. Click here for the Senate budget bill.
T hroughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the Northern and Southern regions of the United States struggled to find a mutually acceptable solution to the slavery issue. Unfortunately, little common ground could be found. The cotton-oriented economy of the American South continued ...
In the late 1830s and 1840s , however, the Northern abolitionist movement became stronger than ever before, and arguments about the legality of slavery in America's western territories resurfaced. The citizens of the North and the South were forced to turn their attention back to slavery once again.
Southerners became particularly skeptical of federal power because they worried that the national government might someday try to outlaw slavery over the objections of individual Southern states.
By 1850, the deadlock over slavery in America's western territories had become a crisis. People living in California, New Mexico, and other western lands did not want any delays in being admitted into the Union, but it appeared that there was no way for the North and the South to bridge the division between them. As their frustration grew, Southern policymakers started discussing the possibility of secession from the Union. Georgia congressman Robert Toombs (1810–1885), for example, said: "I do not hesitate to avow before this House and the country, and in the presence of the living God, that if, by your legislation, you seek to drive us from the territories of California and New Mexico, purchased by the common blood and treasure of the whole people . . . thereby attempting to fix a national degradation upon half the States of this Confederacy, [then] I am for disunion."
The cotton-oriented economy of the American South continued to rest on the shoulders of its slaves, even as Northern calls for the abolition of slavery grew louder. At the same time, the industrialization of the North continued. During the 1820s and 1830s, the different needs of the two regions' economies further strained relations between ...
The Louisiana Purchase was a very sound investment for America, since the land would eventually make up all or part of thirteen states (Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Louisiana, Kansas, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming).
The first comprehensive rules of government passed were the Articles of Confederation, which were ratified (legally approved) in 1781. Under the terms of this document, the individual states held most of the country's legislative power. The Articles of Confederation also provided for the creation of a central or federal government to guide the nation, but this government was given so little authority that it was unable to do much.
Congress declared martial law in the territories, dispatching troops to keep the peace and protect former slaves. Congress also declared that southern states needed to redraft their constitutions, ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, and provide suffrage to blacks in order to seek readmission into the Union.
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts. … The act became law on March 2, 1867, after Congress overrode a presidential veto.
In early 1866, Congressional Republicans, appalled by mass killing of ex-slaves and adoption of restrictive black codes, seized control of Reconstruction from President Johnson. … The 14th Amendment also reduced representation in Congress of any southern state that deprived African Americans of the vote.
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) granted black men the right to vote.
The Congressional Reconstruction Act of 1867 organized the south into 5 military districts, and the states had to have a military leader from the north (Marshall law). They also had to get rid of the black codes,and ratify the 14th amendment.
The Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868, was the second of three Reconstruction Amendments. The three main clauses of amendment are the “Citizenship” clause, the “Due Process” clause, and the “Equal Protection” clause.
The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 divided the South into five military districts and outlined how new governments, based on manhood suffrage without regard to race, were to be established.