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- 1561: British Rule of The American Colonies
- ... Rev War Archives, Part 1. Prelude to Revolution 1763 to 1775. The History Place. http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm Works Cited Blum, John M. The National Experience. Fort Worth: Hartcourt Brace College Publishers, 1993. Higginbotham, Don. The War of American Independence. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. Miller, John C. Origins of the American Revolution. London: Oxford University Press, 1943. America Online, Research and Learn, History, American ...
- 1562: African - American Civil Rights
- ... vast power of the black churches, blacks now had an unprecedented, powerful tool to combat the forces of southern democrats in favor of segregation. Less organized was the sit-in movement sparked by four black college freshmen in Greensboro, North Carolina. Nonetheless, the sit-in spread like wild fire throughout the south as many previously segregated businesses wielded under the increasing pressure. At the end of the decade, southern black students ...
- 1563: Labor In America
- ... 1918, because of federal prosecutions and a national sentiment against radicalism which began in 1917. In the early years of the 20th century, a powerful reform movement called Progressivism swept the country. Its leaders were college professors, ministers, journalists, physicians and social workers. Their goal was to improve conditions for all Americans. They wanted to make the political system more egalitarian. They also wanted to make the nation's economic system ...
- 1564: Native Americans and the American Dream
- ... care of, you have to make the choice between graduating high school, and supporting your family." In her high school class she was one of seven to graduate, and the only one to go onto college. Luckily for Ben, he did not have to make such a choice. Overall, Native Americans lack certain circumstances that were crucial factors in Ben Carsons ability to achieve the American Dream. They do not ...
- 1565: Civil War
- ... York: Doubleday, 1963 Foote, Shelby., The Civil War, Vol. 3. New York: Random, 1974 Garraty, John Arthur, The American Nation: A History of the United states to 1877, Vol. 1, Eighth Edition. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995 Miers, Earl Schenck, The Last Campaign. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1972 Korn, Jerry, Pursuit to Appomattox, The Last Battles. Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1987
- 1566: Native American Genocide
- ... That sordid history begins in the 1800s, when the newly formed U.S. officials slaughtered thousands of Native Americans by what amounted to germ warfare. In the mid-1700s Lord Jeffrey Amherst, for whom the college and the Massachusetts town are named, had sent disease-bearing blankets as "peace offerings" to a hostile Indian tribe near what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, triggering an epidemic. The blankets had covered the bodies of ...
- 1567: The American Civil War
- ... York: Doubleday, 1963 Foote, Shelby., The Civil War, Vol. 3. New York: Random, 1974 Garraty, John Arthur, The American Nation: A History of the United states to 1877, Vol. 1, Eighth Edition. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995 Miers, Earl Schenck, The Last Campaign. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1972 Korn, Jerry, Pursuit to Appomattox, The Last Battles. Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1987
- 1568: The Women's Civil Rights Movement
- ... 1747. She was a leader in the fight for women's rights to own property and for divorce laws more favorable to women. Lucy Sten, who was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree. Susan B. Anthony. She devoted her life to the temperance movement, (against alcohol) and the abolition cause (against slavery). She fought for women and black males to have the right to vote. She was ...
- 1569: The Battle of Gettysburg
- ... line just blow the crest of Little Round top, facing the Rebels west and south. To the left stood the 20th Maine, lead by the thirty-five-year-old Colonel Joshua Chamberlain. Chamberlain was a college professor and minister of the gospel, but was turning out being a good deal of a soldier. Along with Chamberlain were his two brothers, one a lieutenant, the other a member of a charitable organization ...
- 1570: The War Between the States
- ... s stroke a few years later and his eventual death in 1838, would reduce his family to genteel poverty. To help make ends meet, Maumer Juno took in ironing. Despite a lack of money for college, young Charles managed to obtain a good education. Details about Charles' schooling are sketchy, but the polished prose of his surviving letters reflects a practiced hand and a cultivated intellect. Charles' admission to the South ...
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