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- 1761: Women Rights
- ... and she started the fight for her rights as well asall women's rights. Within the next week of her decision she held a convention in Seneca Falls called, "A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Stanton created a list to present called "Declaration of Sentiments" which stated areas in life where women were treated unjustly. (*1) After the second day of the convention, every resolution on her declaration was passed except the one that called for women the right to vote. As time passed, however, many conventions were held all the way up to the Civil War. Women just like Stanton, such as Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Sojourner Truth traveled throughout the country lecturing and organizing for the next fourty years. A 72 year battle includes many speakers, political ...
- 1762: Brown Vs. Board Of Education
- ... precedent that the doctrine of "separate but equal" was not applicable to the educational system. Aside from the various Supreme Court cases regarding education, there were many important issues residing during this time period. The Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum, America launched their first satellite, the Second Red Scare was picking up pace, the Korean War began, and we had the entry of the Counter Culture. In addition, racial boundaries were being broken in athletics, with Jackie Robinson entering the Major League of Baseball, and in literature, with many black authors ... broadened to junior high and elementary schools. However, in the case of Hobson v. Hansen, the destruction of the tracking system was ordered. The 1960s marked an era with increased awareness of racial issues and Civil Rights. The Civil Rights Movement was in full swing. Martin Luther King, Jr. And Malcolm X became strong political leaders. The deep south was the last to integrate their school system in the 1960s. ...
- 1763: The Influence of Henry David Thoreau on Mohanda K. Gandhi
- The Influence of Henry David Thoreau on Mohanda K. Gandhi Henry David Thoreau, the writer of “Civil Disobedience” influenced many to take a stand. Thoreau stated that people should refuse to obey any law they believed was unjust. In 1846 he refused to pay poll taxes because he wanted to express his opposition to slavery as it became an issue in the Mexican War, he spent a night in jail for his refusal. Thoreau never thought of jail time as punishment, and he wanted other leaders and readers to think the same. Thoreau also wrote Walden, at his personal ... book was mainly about people living in harmony with nature. The main objective of Thoreau was to blow the whistle on slavery. Henry David Thoreau influenced Mohanda K. Gandhi, an Indian leader who was a civil rights leader. Gandhi’s life was guided by a search for truth. Gandhi would not allow the government to rule what he thought was wrong, which was the base of Thoreau’s idea. While ...
- 1764: Hiram Ulysses Grant
- ... Military Academy at West Point in 1843 where he had enrolled under the name of Ulysses Simpson Grant. He was assigned to Jefferson Barracks, MO, where he met Julia Dent. They married after the Mexican War in 1848. Grant served in the Mexican War under the name of Gen. Zachary Taylor and Gen. Winfield Scott. In 1854 while stationed at Fort Humboldt, California, Grant resigned his commission because of loneliness and drinking problems. He spent the following years in ... Missouri. He moved to Galena, Illinois, in 1860 where he worked in his father’s leather shop. Grant was appointed colonel and soon afterward brigadier general of the Illinois volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War. Grant wanted to fight for the Union. He was an officer of dogged determination and won a series of brilliant victories. On one occasion, the commander of a Confederate fort asked on what ...
- 1765: Canadian Confederation
- ... Britain was giving to this idea of Confederation in British North America. Great Britain no longer wanted to be concerned with nor did they wish to provide the financial assistance to support Canada in any war. By the 1860’s railways were being hailed as an answer to economic problems. Those people in the Maritimes who supported Confederation argued that a transcontinental railway would improve among the colonies and would also ... their economic problems, they became more afraid of incidents that were occurring in the United States. In recent years the United States had taken over a great deal of land in North America. During the war of 1812 the Americans had invaded and occupied parts of the colonies. After the rebellions of 1837 a number of border raids on Canadian settlements had taken place. Now in the 1860’s the American Civil War was raging and it appeared that the North would be the winner over the South. Since Britain was a supporter of the South, would the North, if victorious over the British in the ...
- 1766: Norman Rockwell
- ... special skill in detail to capture and portray illustrations that accurately reflected the emotions felt in the hearts of Americans at the time. Rockwell made several illustrations exhibiting events like the Great Depression and World War I. In fact during the second World War Rockwell was motivated by President Roosevelt himself to create one of his greatest projects, The Four Freedoms Paintings, illustrating each of America’s fundamental freedoms and revealing the reason behind the United States’ participation in the war. This Four Freedoms Project is one that reflects Rockwell’s great generosity and kindness as a person. Rockwell agreed to this project and devoted much of his time to this great endeavor not because ...
- 1767: The Battle of Gettysburg
- The Battle of Gettysburg Fought July 1 through July 3, 1863, considered by most military historians the turning point in the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg was a decisive engagement in that it arrested the Confederates' second and last major invasion of the North, destroyed their offensive strategy, and forced them to fight a defensive war in which the inadequacies of their manufacturing capacity and transportation facilities doomed them to defeat. The Army of the Potomac, under the Union general George Gordon Meade, numbered about 85,000; the Confederate army, ...
- 1768: KKK
- By: Misty Wood E-mail: woodmisty@hotmail.com Despite the civil rights amendments being passed over 40 years ago, racism continues to thrive in America. A good example of this is the southern-based organization called the Ku Klux Klan. Immediately following the Civil War, this group came about during the Reconstruction Era. Because of the ratification of the 13th amendment, ending slavery in the south, the KKK emerged with a cause that has yet to be put to ...
- 1769: Miyamoto Musashi
- Miyamoto Musashi I. Introduction During the ancient period of Japan there existed a time of war and power struggles. There were many people who followed the Bushido code or way of the warrior. These people were called samurai. Of the countless men who devoted their lives to the Bushido code there ... Tadashima Akiyama. Tadashima was challenging anyone who would accept his challenge to a duel. Musashi accepted and killed Tadashima with just one swing of his sword. During this time period Japan was in a bloody civil war to unite the country. The two sides were Shogun Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Musashi joined ranks with Shogun Hideyoshi in hopes of fame and riches. In one huge battle called the battle of Seki ...
- 1770: Evolution Of Canada
- ... missionaries penetrated the interior, and French officials made peace with the Indians, thus encouraging French immigration. Seeking a share of the lucrative fur trade, the British in 1670 established the Hudson's Bay Co. Continental war between France and England extended to the New World, and the 1759 defeat of French commander Montcalm brought the fall of Quebec; the 1763 Treaty of Paris gave Canada to Britain. In 1791 a constitutional ... 40 years were marked by trade and expansion. Alexander Mackenzie, the first white man to cross the continent, reached the Arctic in 1789 and the Pacific in 1793. The United States invaded Canada during the War of 1812, which ended in a stalemate with the Treaty of Ghent. French Canadians demanded political reform, and in 1840 Upper and Lower Canada were joined and self-government approved. Border questions between the United ... line. A movement to join the isolated colonies spread across the continent was spurred by promises to build a railway system linking the provinces and to provide future protection against US invasion, especially during the Civil War, when there was anti-British feeling in the United States. In 1867 the British North America Act joined four provinces--Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick--and provided for a parliamentary system. ...
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