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- 1571: History Of Railroads
- ... another one crossed southern Ontario between Niagara, N.Y., and the Detroit River. During the 1850s north-south routes were developed both east and west of the Alleghenies. It was not until after the American Civil War, however, that a permanent railroad bridge (as distinguished from a temporary wartime structure) was constructed across the Ohio River. After the Civil War the pace of railroad building increased. The two Pacific railroads-one, the Union Pacific, building westward from Omaha, Neb.; the other, the Central Pacific, building eastward from Sacramento, Calif.-had been started during ...
- 1572: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- Many changes violently shook America shortly after the Civil War. The nation was seeing things that it had never seen before, its entire economic philosophy was turned upside down. Huge multi-million dollar trusts were emerging, coming to dominate business. Companies like Rockefellers Standard ... front, mob bosses controlled the cities, like Tammany Hall in New York. Graft and corruption were at an all time high while black rights sunk to a new low. Even after experiencing freedom during the Civil War, their hopes of immediate equality died with the death of Lincoln. Groups like the KKK drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a ...
- 1573: One Of The Six Basic Principles Of The Constitution: Federalism
- ... delineated in The Federaalist, a series of papers written through 1787 and 1788, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. The major problem of federalism however, was resolved in the U.S. by the Civil War. In the nineteenth century, the success of the American federalist system led a number of other countries to institute federalist systems. Modern federal governments include Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Switzerland, the former USSR ... return,the federal government would assume full responsibility for the Medicaid program. One of the most important features of the American federation lies in the impossibility of the member states to abandon the federation. The Civil War affirmed, there is no right of sucession. As you know, federalism produces a dual system of government in the United States. Given this complex arrangement, it should come as no surprise that competition, ...
- 1574: The FBI and Its History
- ... 1935. During the early period of the FBI's history, its Agents investigated violations of some of the comparatively few existing federal criminal violations, such as bankruptcy frauds, antitrust crime, and neutrality violations. During World War I, the Bureau was given responsibility for espionage, sabotage, sedition, and draft violations. Passage of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act in 1919 further broadened the Bureau's jurisdiction. The Gangster Era began after passage ... a federal kidnapping statute. In 1934, numerous other federal criminal statutes were passed, and Congress gave Special Agents the authority to make arrests and to carry firearms. The FBI's size and jurisdiction during World War II increased greatly and included intelligence matters in South America. With the end of that war and the advent of the Atomic Age, the FBI began conducting background security investigations for the White House and other government agencies, as well as probes into internal security matters for the Executive Branch. ...
- 1575: Justice in Orestes
- Justice in Orestes Aeschylus is primarily concerned with the nature of justice. In the trilogy The Oresteia, the Akhaians evolve from an older, more primitive autocratic form of justice, to a new concept of civil justice devised by Athena. He confronts the contrast between the old and new orders, the lives of the members of the House of Atreus, and the serious moral questions that Orestes' crime presents. The case ... cannot be dismissed. Clytaemnestra is one who upheld the laws of the Furies. Agamemnon's murder of Iphegenia at Aulis was pure outrage. "Yes he had the heart to sacrifice his daughter , to bless the war
" (Agamemnon lines 222-223) Agamemnon killed his own blood relation in order to sail for Troy. This too, is a terrible crime, seemingly of the same weight as Orestes' act. Clytaemnestra believed she was justified ... definitions of justice. The ancient gods support Clytaemnestra and her actions, while Zeus, by means of Apollo, supports Orestes. The clash between deities sets the stage for the emergence of a new form of justicecivil justice. The ancient law of retaliation, which states that blood must be paid for with more blood, is enforced by the Furies. This task was given to them by Destiny at the dawn of ...
- 1576: Octavian Augustus
- ... The allies were angry that they were not considered citizens of Rome. They had benefitted little from Roman expansion even though their citizens had served in the military. After a very bloody campaign, the Social War, as it was called, eventually ended when the allies were defeated. The Senate, however, decided to grant citizenship to the allies (Hanes 1997). This move expanded the Roman state to all of Italy. As the ... military success, Sulla was elected consul in 88 B.C.E. After completing his term, Marius tried to stop Sulla from taking any military command. Sulla countered by marching his troops on Rome (Hanes 1997). Civil war broke out. Sulla led his troops to victory and became dictator. After killing many of his opponents, Sulla tried to change Rome back to its days of Republican government. When he felt he had ...
- 1577: Billy Sunday
- ... product of his times and an example of the culture and morals of middle America. On the other hand, Sunday took many stands against popular beliefs, and he persuaded multitudes to join him in a war against many of the modernistic ideas of the time that he saw as evil. As he once summarized his opinion so well, What this world needs is a tidal wave of reform (Sunday Satan 24 ... 1872, Mrs. Sunday and her parents were so impoverished that they could not feed and clothe all the children. Thanks to a state senator, they re assigned to one of Iowa s three well-run Civil War Soldiers Homes located in Glenwood, about a hundred and fifty miles from the Sunday homestead. Billy remembered the departure this way: When we climbed into the wagon to go to town I called out, ...
- 1578: Medicine In America
- ... encouraged the medical community to look into research more. Members of the medical community began to research more into specific fields of medicine. For example, anatomy became much more detailed from 1776 to 1865. The Civil War produced enormous amounts of experience in dealing with wounds afflicted in battle. While disease spread rapidly through overcrowded urban communities, farmers faced vulnerable months during early settlement. Medical institutions were based mainly around the larger ... the general establishment consisted mostly of people tending to their not so serious ailments by themselves. Quack medicine still remained prosperous well into the twentieth century. Due to the quick spread of disease after the Civil War, the government became more involved in helping citizens. They began to require physicians to report cases of infectious disease, as well as fund institutions of health education. Bureaus such as the Childrens ...
- 1579: Booker T. Washington
- ... engrafted upon it at the time. (4) Booker T. Washington was engulfed in labor throughout his adolescence and young boyhood days, joining his step-father in working in salt furnaces and coal-mines after the civil war. Of course the labor force in this country was predominately slaves, and after the civil war black people were paid little money to do some of the same work. The whole machinery of slavery was constructed as to cause labor, as a rule, to be looked upon as a ...
- 1580: Slavery - Life On The Plantations
- ... rye, and barley because they were considered unsuitable to handle it (Katz 4-5). Field laborers cared for equipment and kept gardens in shape (Ploski and Williams 1437). When the need for soldiers arose during war, some blacks enlisted into the militia, either willingly or by force from the master (Cowan and Maguire 5: 17). Masters kept food, clothing, and shelter at bare minimum to reduce costs (Starobin 7). Often workers ... history forever. Works Cited Cowan, Tom, and Jack Maguire. Timelines in American History. New York: Perigee Books, 1994. David, Paul, et al. Reckoning with Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Foster, Stephen T. The Civil War Collection. New York: New Viewpoints, 1974. Katz, William Loren, ed. Slavery to Civil War. Vol 2. New York: Franklin Watts, 1974. Ploski, Harry A., and James Williams. Reference Library of Black America. Vol 5. ...
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