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- 1991: David Belasco
- ... New York City, where he spent most of his life. For several years he was the stage manager of the Madison Square Theater, for which he wrote plays, Achieving popularity with May Blossom (1884), a Civil War love story. It was followed by Lord Chumbley (1888), a domestic drama featuring a comic Englishmen. In 1893, written with Franklyn Fyles, was The Girl I Left Behind Me, a popular Indian melodrama. In 1895, Belasco had his first smash hit as a playwright , director, and independent manager. His Civil War melodrama, The Heart of Maryland, became a runaway success in New York, in London, and on tour across the U.S.. Belasco wrote the play as a showcase for the particular talents of ...
- 1992: Mahatma Gandhi: Man Of Peace
- ... even got to the point of threatening to burn the house down. The superintendent of police had to disperse the crowd, while Gandhi slipped out the back disguised as a Indian constable. In 1906 A war broke out due to a Zulu uprising. This war was the main staging ground for Gandhi s life of servitude towards humanity. The white South Africans would leave the wounded Zulu to die, and it was up to Gandhi and his make-shift team ... 1908, he served two weeks of a two month sentence. He later regarded prison as, A good place to relax and catch up on some reading(gold 48). His main weapon against the Europeans was civil resistance. To him this meant not passively accepting injustice but actively, although nonviolently, opposing it by openly breaking the law and willingly suffering the penalty of doing so(Living Buddhism 03). His second act ...
- 1993: Slavery and the Underground Railroad
- ... That man was Tice Davids, a Kentucky slave who decided to live in freedom in 1831. The primary importance of the Underground Railroad was the on going fight to abolish slavery, the start of the civil war, and it was being one of our nation's first major anti-slavery movements. The history of the railroad is quite varied according to whom you are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to ... live their lives free. Some of the escaped fugitves met up with previuosly escaped friends and family and formed communities. Others found a haven in the Native Americans with whom they intermarried and reproduced. The civil war began and others found shelter with the Union Army. The slaves soon found out that freedom did not mean freedom from work, but they were happier because they now made their own decisions. ...
- 1994: Thomas Jefferson
- ... to dislodge them from the northwest posts. Jefferson's policy was not pro-French, but it seemed anti-British. Hamilton was distinctly pro-British, largely for financial reasons, and he became more so when general war broke out in Europe and ideology was clearly involved. In 1793, Jefferson wanted the French Revolution to succeed against its external foes, but he also recognized that the interests of his own country demanded a ... invoking the authority of the states against laws that he regarded as unconstitutional, his resolutions were in the tradition that finally led to nullification and secession. But they were also in the best tradition of civil liberties and human rights. President: First Term Jefferson's victory over John Adams in the presidential election of 1800 can be partially explained by the dissension among the Federalists, but the policies of the government ... situation permitted him to follow served to reduce rather than increase the burdens of his countrymen, and it contributed no little to his popularity. Dispute with the Judiciary Jefferson restored the party balance in the civil service, but he was relatively unsuccessful in his moves against the judiciary, which had been reinforced by fresh Federalist appointees at the very end of the Adams administration. In the eyes of Jefferson and ...
- 1995: Did Napoleon Preserve Or Pervert The Gains Of The Revolution
- ... federalist Girondins. What Napoleon admired were the Jacobins strong centralized government, their commitment to deal decisively with the problems facing the fledgling republic, and their attempt to forge a strong stable France while winning the war against its enemies. Napoleon clearly felt, like the Jacobins, that an energetic centralized state was essential to consolidate the advances achieved by the Revolution and, at the same time, he wished to bring about the ... consent, and conceived in the interests not of any particular faction but of France as a whole. Napoleon is generally credited with having consolidated the gains of the Revolution With the exception of fathering the Civil Code, Napoleon perhaps gloried more in his reputation as consolidator of the Revolution than in any other one title. In this sense he can be credited with having saved the Revolution by ending it. Had ... common scheme of justice, the Napoleonic Code. The Legion of Honor was also intended to foster equality, as well as reward talent. The establishment of the Legion of Honor, which was the reward for military, civil, and judicial service, united side by side the soldier, the scholar, the artist, the prelate, and the magistrate; it was the symbol of the reunion of all the estates, of all the parties. The ...
- 1996: Segregaton in the United States
- ... a crop owner and first President of the U.S. had many slaves to work on his plantation. In later years slavery was abolished from the northern states. Slavery was a main factor in the Civil War. During that war Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation proclamation declared slaves free in the still rebellious Confederate states, which led to the Thirteenth Amendment (the abolition of slavery). Later the fourteenth and fifteenth amendment were passed to ensure ...
- 1997: Morrison's Beloved: A Review
- ... across the years. For instance, World Wars, Holocaust, and the depression to name a few. Morrison throughout Beloved offers realism of the times and consequences that occurred with the slaves. Morrison paints a picture post -Civil War life that leaves many black people lost in America. Blacks after the civil War emerged all across the South with no place to go. The South was in ruins in every sense and the Black freed slaves were confused. They had been separated from their families, lost ...
- 1998: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
- ... a new organization incorporated in Georgia in 1915, called Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Membership was open to native-born, white, Protestant men, the Klan was thought to be patriotic. After World War I the Klan expanded rapidly In addition to preaching white supremacy, it attacked non-Protestants, aliens, liberals, trade unionists, and striking workers. Like its predecessor, the new Klan burned fiery crosses and employed violence to ... for a membership. A 1924 estimate of its membership was as high as 3 million. In 1944 the Klan formally split up when it was unable to pay taxes owed the federal government. After World War II, widespread public sentiment developed for the suppression of the organization. It broke down into numerous, independent units. The Klan opposed the civil rights movement that gained force in the late 1950s, The Klan again rose up, and was believed to be involved in many incidents of racial violence. After passage of the U.S. Civil Rights ...
- 1999: Scarlet Letter- Hester Prynne
- ... by David Reynolds, expressed Hester as a heroine composed of many different stereotypes of females from the time period Hawthorne was writing. Hawthorne created some of the most skeptical and politically uncommitted characters in pre-civil war history. Reynolds went on to say, His [Hawthorne's] career illustrates the success of an especially responsive author in gathering together disparate female types and recombining them artistically so that they become crucial elements of ... keep his identity a secret and Dimsdale was in enough control to keep Hester from telling that he was her partner in sin. These are both examples of common stereotypes of women during the pre-civil war period.
- 2000: Capitalism In America
- ... time the U.S. Constitution was written, it was generally assumed that only property owners should have the right to vote and participate in government. The "Free Labor" thinking of the Republican Party before the Civil War was basically a form of the capitalist work ethic. It meant that if 1) you were free yourself; 2) your country was "free"; and, 3) there was no slave labor to take your livelihood, you ... lead them to believe) that the poverty and economic decline of the South were probably due to laziness and that this indicated that the North should be able to easily defeat the South. But the Civil War proved that Southerners were not "lazy;" it was the slave system (lacking science and industry) that caused many of the economic problems there. The capitalist "work-ethic" also caused Northerners to overlook the ...
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