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The Me Too movement still struggles with getting laws passed in certain areas of the United States. The U.S. government has not passed any laws for sexual harassment and abuse because Congress is holding out on it. Because no laws are not being passed, the movement stands up and continues to fight for social change.
In November 2017, nine middle-school aged girls organized together and spoke out about an abusive teacher in their school, saying they got the idea from the "Me Too" movement. The teacher was dismissed and referred to law enforcement. UNICEF's Amanda Westfall said the teacher likely would have gotten away with it just a few years ago. [105]
USS Me-Too, a United States Navy patrol boat; Me-too drug, a drug containing an active pharmaceutical ingredient that is structurally very similar to another; Me Too!, a children's book by Mercer Mayer; Me Too, volume 5 of Donald Jack's series The Bandy Papers
This definition has overlaps with that provided by the Historical Thinking Project which includes significance as one of its six key concepts of historical thinking: "A historical person or event can acquire significance if we, the historians, can link it to larger trends and stories that reveal something important for us today". [25]
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
It lasted from the 15th through 19th centuries and was the largest legal form of unfree labor in the history of the United States, reaching 4 million slaves at its height. [citation needed] Slavery and involuntary servitude were made illegal through the thirteenth amendment, except as punishment for a crime. [1]
Chicano poetry is a subgenre of Chicano literature that stems from the cultural consciousness developed in the Chicano Movement. [1] Chicano poetry has its roots in the reclamation of Chicana/o as an identity of empowerment rather than denigration.
During the Great Depression, the US government sponsored Mexican Repatriation programs, which were intended to pressure people to move to Mexico, but many were deported against their will. 355,000 to 500,000 individuals were repatriated or deported; 40 to 60% of them US citizens - overwhelmingly children.