The Gilded Age (the Late 1860s - 1890s) was the time period following the Civil War that brought in much-needed Industrial, populous, and economic growth for the United States of America. Although this period garnered essential evolution, this state-wide technical progression brought upon political, economic, and social issues with it. Problems of the era included âPolitical Machinesâ, marginalizing the vote...
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Jon Meachamâs âThomas Jefferson: The Art of Powerâ takes a look into the life of the 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. However, his story does not begin there, Jefferson was a well-known individual before his presidency. He was a man of culture, philosophy, and politics. Jefferson defied the original thinking of having to be either a person...
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Although slavery was prominent hundreds of years ago, it is important to continue to dig in to the history that allowed us to be in the current success we have accomplished today. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was the daughter, sister, and wife of influential protestant ministers (p 245). She was an abolitionist with a powerful narrative that brought light to...
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In March 1861, President Abraham Lincoln was faced with one of the most difficult decisions in the history of the United States, which would decide the fate of the Union. When Americans elected Abraham Lincoln as the nationâs first Republican president in November of 1860, there was already tension between the North and the South because of their differing views...
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Slavery in America started in 1619 when pioneers brought over African Americans to Jamestown, Virginia. The slaves came to Jamestown to destroy the tobacco houses. The slaves sent to various settlements, for instance, South Carolina, to destroy the cotton houses. Slaves were people who worked for no remuneration. This made the landowners make more profit from their territories since they...
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A lot of people can recall the term âslaveâ or âslaveryâ. The moment a person enters grade school theyâll learn a significant amount of the history of slavery. We are taught from a young age about African Americans being subjected to horrifying labor and conditions in the early 17th and 18th century. In reality, most of us donât even know...
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The term withdrawal or secession had been utilized earlier in 1776. South Carolina startled partition after the Continental Congress tried to tax each and every colony based on the number of the entire residents that would comprise slaves. Approved by the U.S. Congress, the Kansas-Nebraska Act permitted people in the provinces of Kansas and Nebraska with their consent to permit...
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Thomas Jefferson has long been casted in a positive light as one of the nationâs most accomplished and esteemed founding fathers, yet not all of Jeffersonâs actions are worthy of warranting such praise. There were often times when Jefferson appeared to renege on his preached virtues, which may cause some to characterize as hypocritical, but Jefferson never strayed too far...
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The Bacon Rebellion is a revolt caused by the settlers of Virginia in 1676. It was a war fought by the native against white colonizers. The revolt caused hundreds of dead whites and Native Amricans in Virginia and Maryland. In the process, Virginiaâs capital Jamestown was burned down by Nathaniel Bacon and his followers. The leader of the rebellion was...
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It seems as if it was just yesterday that I was another normal boy, born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. My mother was conceived in Hampshire County while my dad in Rockingham County, both of them from average families and were considered the norm of the populace. My mother, who departed from me to the heavens, when I...
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Civil War & Reconstruction, 1861â1877 In 1861, a historical time that America faced a great crisis. The southern and northern states of the nation had become divergent politically, economically, and socially. The southern states remained to be agricultural lands, whereas the states of the north had developed rampantly in industries and commercially. Of more essence to this uniqueness, the demon...
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There is a big question about the true intentions of Spanish policy towards indigenous peoples, as they claimed that their main intention was to add the continent of South America under the rule of the Spanish Crown, which would mean that they would be subjects of Spain. Therefore, it would be against the law to force them into slavery. But...
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Slavery had an insurmountable impact on the US for a number of reasons like creating a larger conflict among the people who had lived in the north who were against slavery and the people who had lived in the south who for the most part favored it. This eventually would lead to civil war and later would give African Americans...
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The story is built around the descendants of Maame, an Asante woman in eighteenth-century Ghana. She escaped from the fated land where she was a slave, to an Asante household leaving behind her newborn baby who is later known as Effia. Maame later got married to a great Asanteman and gave birth to another child called Esi. The two half-sisters,...
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Did you know that some researchers have charged that the WPA interviewers edited out parts they found unimportant, but were critical to the enslaved person: religion, cruel plantation owners, lynchingâs, runaways, punishment and stories about serving in the Union Army. The formerly enslaved were more open and honest when the interviewer recording their stories was African-American. However, WPA only hired...
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