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- 4751: History After 1820
- ... the Second Great Awakening. Evangelists such as Charles Gradison Finney preached into the 1830's and early 1840's and helped spring the beginning of the new religion the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In 1841, newly elected President Harrison gives an hour and forty-five minute speech in freezing weather. He developed pneumonia and died a month later, and became the President with the shortest time in ... River. General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Rebel forces, takes his army on the offensive on September 17, 1863 at the Battle Antietam. Having 24,000 causalities this battle was called the "bloodiest one day of the War". The General Lee had a peculiar problem in this battle, he had lost his battle plan. By chance a Union soldiers had found it and returns it to General McClellan, commander of ... General Meade eliminate 1/3 of Lee's army making a total of 50,000 causalities within those three days. This became the turning point of the War in favor of the Union. The next day General Ulysses S. Grant becomes an Union hero when defeats General Hudson in the Battle of Vicksburg. The Union gains control of all of the Mississippi River and divides the Confederate territory. Lincoln makes ...
- 4752: The Battle of Monocacy
- ... s men down Buckeystown Road to find a crossing on the Monocacy and break the union line. The confederates broke the union forces and attacked Wallace’s left side. Some of the heaviest fighting, that day, took place at a fence between the Worthington and Thomas Farms. The union forces fought fiercely to hold their ground but the 15,000 confederate troops were just too much for them. General John Gordon ... three pronged attack led by Terry, York, and Evans. This attack pushed Rickett’s men back towards the National road where they were joined by exhausted troops who had been fighting Ramseur and Rodes all day. The confederates had now gained control of this situation. By the late afternoon of that day, the union forces were retreating towards Baltimore. Over 1,294 union men were dead, wounded or captured. Early, now, had a wide-open trail to Washington. It cost him between 700 to 900 men, ...
- 4753: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... she had wrought mischief upon her neighbors even as her “disembodied shape” had tormented the girls. She was sentenced to be “hanged by the neck until dead” on the tenth of June, and on that day the sheriff took her in a cart to Salem’s Gallow’s Hill and so hanged her (Robbins 63). Following the death of Bridget Bishop, accusations of witchcraft escalated, but the trials were not unopposed ... any person; and do hereby declare that we justly fear we were sadly deluded and mistaken...We do heartily ask forgiveness of you all...” (Robbins 64) On January 14,1697, which had been declared a day of prayer and fasting in repentance of sins in the whole of Massachusetts Bay, Samuel Sewall publicly acknowledged personal guilt for his actions as a judge of the witchcraft trials and asked for the forgiveness ... community (S.W.T.Wh. 2). In conclusion, Marion L. Starkey, a modern onlooker into the past occurrences of these infamous witch trials sets a tone that is probably the most common opinion of the day: The reign of terror that swept Salem Village in 1692 is still the most celebrated of all witch hunts. It was tragedy of individuals, which underlined as sharply as has any event in history ...
- 4754: I Have a Dream
- I Have A Dream A speech such as the one Martin Luther King Jr. delivered to the 200,000 people in Washington D.C., was designed to serve a specific purpose. He wrote the speech to deliver his ideas on a different society in which all races of people can live together in harmony. All of these people ... a sense of urgency to want to correct this social problem. He tells the people to go home and let freedom ring. Let it ring from every village, hamlet, and city to speed up the day when all god’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, “Free at last ...
- 4755: Is FDR to Blame for the Bombing at Pearl Harbor?
- ... ill- prepared for the attack that ultimately took an intense toll on the American navy, that could’ve been prevented had the President warned the U.S. troops. At the end of that awful December day eighteen ships had been sunk or damaged. Later on, the navy was able to repair six of them. Nearly 200 airplanes were destroyed, and had been shot down or forced to crash. Along with the ... bombing, the US experienced a human loss of 2,403 lives. Approximately half of those soldiers were on board the Arizona, an enormous battle ship that was bombed and sunk in just minutes. The next day FDR delivered his war message. Did FDR accomplish his goal? Maybe, now the US could do something about the rise of Japan, however was it worth the 2,403 lives sacrificed on that day? It is illegitiment to say that FDR could have prevented the bombing and it’s effects on the American soldiers and Navy, it would be humanly impossible for anyone to do so. But if ...
- 4756: Decision Of The Bomb: Drop It Or Not?
- Decision Of The Bomb: Drop It Or Not? August 6, 1945, is not a day to be forgotten. It marks the world's first use of an atomic bomb, which was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US Military. In total, more than 140,000 people were ... world. The load of guilt caused by me being the person responsible for the death of thousands of Japanese and being responsible for this huge tragic devastation would’ve deeply devastated me, given endless nightmares day after day; but the pride I would’ve felt of lavishing my duties as president and protecting MY country, would make me the savior of thousands of American lives. And this solely is enough to construct ...
- 4757: Comparison of The American Revolution and the French Revolution
- ... the cause of freedom, resistance from the Court and special interests proved too powerful, and Turgot was removed from office in 1776. "The dismissal of this great man," wrote Voltaire, "crushes me. . . . Since that fatal day, I have not followed anything . . . and am waiting patiently for someone to cut our throats."3 Turgot's successors, following a mercantilist policy of government intervention, only made the French economy worse. In a desperate ... than they had been under Louis XVI. Eventually, every citizen was technically guilty of crimes against the state. The desire for absolute equality resulted in everyone's being addressed as "citizen," much as the modern-day Communist is referred to as "comrade." Education was centralized and bureaucratized. The old traditions, dialects, and local allegiances that helped prevent centralization, were swept away as the Assembly placed a mathematical grid of departments, cantons ... colonies were concerned. A sense of restraint pervades this whole period. In the Boston Tea Party, no one was hurt and no property was damaged except for the tea. One Patriot even returned the next day to replace a lock on a sea chest that had been accidentally broken.7 This was not the work of anarchists who wanted to destroy everything in their way, but of Englishmen who simply ...
- 4758: Jews in America and Their History
- ... they were diverse. The garment district in New York today was made from the meticulousness, the sweat, and the determination of the Jews. Low pay, long hours, and disgusting working conditions characterized the average working day. Labor unions fought for these workers' rights and eventually won. There are stories of men in the Lower East Side of New York who started to sell rags from a cart, and slowly moved up ... of the American Zionist movement was almost completely East European at first, many of its leaders came from the older German group. By 1915, Zionism began to attract prominent American-born figures, such as Louis D. Brandeis, who is most famous as being the first Jew to serve on the Supreme Court. Brandeis and his associates added a distinctly American note into Zionism, rejecting the belief that the diaspora was a ...
- 4759: Women of the Civil War
- ... the riot. Southern newspapers ridiculed the Yankee soldiers and commended the courage of the ladies. Women Spies and Traitors During the civil war, many women used their gender to disguise treasonous activities they committed every day. Women were excused from punishment for acts that would have warranted death in a male. The most famous woman spy of the Civil War was Bell Boyd. Bell first defied Union authority when she was ... aid associations sprang up all over the country. There were 91 in Alabama alone. The first priority of associations, was sewing. In Charlottesville, the women gathered at the town hall every morning and sewed all day, ceasing only to pray. Even though the women were exhausted, they were proud that they could do something for their country. Lucy Wood said, “Our needles are now our weapons.” During the summer months, the ... a lady had to be educated and of the upper class. Even though the matrons were needed, people did not warm to the idea of female authority. Pheobe Yates Levy Pember said on her first day as matron, doctors and surgeons greeted her presence with “horror” because she was the beginning of unwanted “petticoat government.” In time, men became less opposed to women athority. Nursing helped to expand society's ...
- 4760: Civil War Timeline
- ... North with 50,000 Confederates and heads for Harpers Ferry, located 50 miles northwest of Washington. The Union Army, 90,000 strong, under the command of McClellan, pursues Lee. Antietam Sept 17, 1862 - The bloodiest day in U.S. military history as Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Armies are stopped at Antietam in Maryland by McClellan and numerically superior Union forces. By nightfall 26,000 men are dead, wounded ... re-elected president, defeating Democrat George B. McClellan. Lincoln carries all but three states with 55 percent of the popular vote and 212 of 233 electoral votes. "I earnestly believe that the consequences of this day's work will be to the lasting advantage, if not the very salvation, of the country," Lincoln tells supporters March to the Sea Nov 15, 1864 - After destroying Atlanta's warehouses and railroad facilities, Sherman ... begin a general advance and break through Lee's lines at Petersburg. Confederate Gen. Ambrose P. Hill is killed. Lee evacuates Petersburg. The Confederate Capital, Richmond, is evacuated. Fires and looting break out. The next day, Union troops enter and raise the Stars and Stripes. Lee Surrenders April 9, 1865 - Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House ...
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