Slavery - Events That Effected Slavery
.... large stretch of wilderness between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. After 1800 settlers began to clear and plant on the land. Many of these settlers brought slaves with them. One of the crops which they planted was cotton. When the slaves had to pick the cotton it would prick them and slow the picking down tremendously. Then a man named Eli Whitney invented a machine called the Cotton Gin. The Cotton Gin cleaned the short sticky fibers of the upland cotton. Metal teeth simply pulled t .....
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Slavery - Life On The Plantations
.... guns, or any kind of weapon was not allowed. Forced separation of family members was a constant, dreadful threat (Foster). "It was de saddes’ thing dat ever happen to me," one slave recalls of the sale of her sister, whom she never saw again (qtd. in Foster). Blacks received harsher criminal sentencing than whites, regardless of the crime (Cowan and Maguire 5:17). Marriage between slaves was not legally recognized, but owners encouraged it because a more stable environment was created. Married co .....
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Slavery - Slave Resistance
.... they were betrayed almost from the beginning, the cell system stopped slave owners from discovering the magnitude of the resistance. Ironically, the night before the attack, officials were informed of the entire plot by a house servant. They then made preparations to thwart the attempt, and the entire operation was terminated. Denmark Vesey was tried and convicted along with 67 others. Thirty-five of his followers, including Denmark Vesey were then executed. His conspiracy frightened Southerners, beca .....
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Slavery - Slavery And Human Decency
.... went for days without eating, and in turn this caused their work pace to slow. According to Collier, plantation slaves worked sixteen-hour days in the summer, and were only given three pounds of bacon or pork and roughly twelve quarts of cornmeal a week (26). Many slave owners or overseers would peruse the plantations and lash out at any given slave particularly because they simply weren’t working hard enough. Although historians believe that not all slave owners were cruel, but they have no doubt tha .....
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Slavery - Southern White Slaveholder Guilt
.... pains above and beyond law and custom, it is most likely that these actions are to alleviate feelings of guilt. This is because we may assume any deliberate actions taken by any man are usually taken because he assumes they will benefit him in some manner. And if such an action is costly (money-wise), then it must have some allure in terms of personal happiness. So to show guilt, we will set forth examples of open confessions of guilt, deviant behavior, and uncommonly good treatment of slaves.
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Slavery - The Anti-Slavery Effort
.... opinion, just went too far is a man named John Brown. Brown’s anti-slavery efforts are most well-known for his raid on the Us weapons arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, 1859.
Brown was born on May 9th 1800 in Torrington, Connecticut, and grew up in Ohio. During his adult life Brown had trouble holding down a steady job due to business reverses and and charges of illegal practices which followed him from the 1820’s and on, but by the 1850’s he became deeply intertested in the slavery issue.
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Slavery - Underground Rail Road
.... a Quaker of Thomas Garrett who was known for helping about 2,700 slaves escape to freedom. Former slaves were also active rolls in the Underground Railroad. One of these was an important well known black slave named Harriet Tumbman. Harriet was a runaway slave who helped many blacks escape and she became known as the \"Mosses of her people\" She served in the civil war she served as a nurse, cook, scout, and spy.
Most runaway slaves were young, male, unattached and highly skilled. When the slaves trave .....
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Slavery - Underground Rail Road
.... making them less dependent on slave labor. The South, however had rich fertile land mostly used for farming. Huge plantations were cleared and needed to be worked. The people of the area tended to be more genteal, and seemed not quite adjusted to hard work, but more of giving orders. The idea of telling people how to do their work just seemed to fit all too well into this scenario.
The railroad didn\'t have a certain location. Slaves had been running since the 1500\'s on their own. When the idea .....
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Teddy Roosevelt
.... the Vice Presidency was still better than no job at all so when the nomination came he was happy to except it. Platt had arranged things so well, that by the time the convention rolled around, Hanna could do nothing to stop Roosevelt\'s nomination. Hanna was furious at the convention believing that the rest of the party had gone mad. When someone asked Hanna what was the matter, he retorted, \"Matter! Matter! Why, everybody\'s going headlong for Roosevelt for Vice President. Don\'t any of you realize th .....
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Tenskwatawa
.... undisturbed food sources. They established a new village at the point where the Wabash and Tippecanoe Rivers meet in northwestern Indiana. The settlers called it Prophet\'s Town while the Natives named it Tippecanoe. During the following years Tenskwatawa served as a major leader in the village, greeting incoming representatives who wished palaver and dealing with them personally. For a very long time the majority of people, both American and British viewed him as the main authority figure in the village. .....
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Thanksgiving
.... the words of Frank James in his 1970 speech: \"Today is a time of celebrating for you... but it is not a time of celebrating for me. It is with a heavy heart that I look back upon what happened to my people. When the Pilgrims arrived, we, the Wampanoags, welcomed them with open arms, little knowing that it was the beginning of the end\".
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The Bay Of Pigs Invasion
.... had only decided to leave Cuba on Thursday after \" ... a suspected betrayal by a fellow pilot had precipitated a plot to strike ... .\" Whatever the case, the planes came down in Miami later that morning, one landed at Key West Naval Air Station at 7:00 a.m. and the other at Miami International Airport at 8:20 a.m. Both planes were badly damaged and their tanks were nearly empty. On the front page of The New York Times the next day, a picture of one of the B-26s was shown along with a picture of one .....
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The Constitution
.... split into two houses: the senate and the house of representatives. This was one of the ways which the constitution gave an unreal power to the people. The house is the only part of the government which is directly elected by the people. This made the people think they were getting a direct say in the government, but that wasn’t true because everything done in the house would have to go through the senate which was run by the elite. throughout the years congress has constantly expanded their powers throug .....
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
.... left, along with the American investors. There was so much opposition to Castro’s developments that he created a Committee for Defense of the Revolution out of fear of invasion from the US, internal guerrilla uprisings, and black marketing "counterrevolutionary activity". Castro improved life in Cuba with communism; he managed to solve the problem of unemployment, put in place universal schooling, provided free dental and medical services, almost completely rid of malaria and polio from his count .....
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The Hindenburg
.... partially because of its fame. Many theorists were attracted to the idea of sabotage. An incendiary device could have been positioned at the place the fire started. There was an access ladder from the keel as well as a ventilation shaft to fan the flames(124). The most attractive aspect of the sabotage theory is timing. Had the airship arrived on time at six o\'clock in the morning a bomb timed for after seven p.m. would not have caused the horrifying casualties(125). In the absence of any real evid .....
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