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- 12211: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... somehow disturbing to the social order and conventions of the time were denounced as witches. Some of the accused had previous records of criminal activity, including witchcraft, but others were faithful churchgoers and people of high standing in the community (S.W.T. Chr. 2). Prisons were filled with more than 150 men and women from towns surrounding Salem. Their names had been cried out by tormented young girls as the ...
- 12212: Cuba, Castro, and the United States
- ... refuse to handle the crude petroleum that the Cubans were receiving from the Soviet Union. The companies such as Shell and Standard Oil had been buying crude from their own plants in Venezuela at a high cost. The Cuban government demanded that the refineries process the crude they were receiving from Russia at a much cheaper price. These refineries refused at the U.S. advice stating that there were no provisions ...
- 12213: The 50s Was A Time of Change
- ... and or pneumonia. Today we all have at least one TV, most of us have more. We can live out in space for months at a time, and there are computers in every classroom in school. In the 50s opportunities were very scarce for women and minorities. Today there are laws for equal opportunity employment. Important world issues were very different in the 50s, than now in the 90 ...
- 12214: Impact of the Spanish American War
- ... noon the next day the Sierra Maestra range in Cuba looked like a low, Faint- blue fence, and two hours later it resembled a forbidden green wall. It was beautiful. Its battlements, eight thousand feet high, stretched to the east for a hundred miles. The mountain Ojo del Toro looked like a friendly beacon. Three miles offshore, Sabio ordered the sails furled, the anchor dropped. He passed hand lines and bait ...
- 12215: The History of the Pony Express
- ... orphan, because it was a dangerous job. They had to be very good riders, and able to shoot good. And they must not fear Indian attacks. Every rider had to ride sixty miles at very high speed. He had to travel the 60 miles with six different ponies and in six hours. Every day except on Sundays a rider left Missouri at 12 oclock. The rider in Sacramento arrived at ...
- 12216: The Battle Of Gettysburg
- ... would never again attempt an offensive operation of such proportions. Meade, though he was criticized for not immediately pursuing Lee's army, had carried the day in the battle that has become known as the High Water Mark of the Confederacy. The war was to rage for two more terrible and tormenting years but the Confederacy never recovered from the losses of Gettysburg. And through the deepening twilight of Confederate military ...
- 12217: Bacons Rebellion
- ... area and moving inward. The tidewater gentleman or Jamestown elite taxed and controlled the Jamestown elite meaning that they dominated all of the taxation and trades so the were able to tax these men very high and exploit money from them causing these lower class people to be poorer. However in the dog eat dog cycle were the Indians were cheated and taken advantage of by the Frontiersman and these men ...
- 12218: The Turning Point of the Civil War
- ... retreat to better ground southeast of Gettysburg. Although the Confederates won the day, Ewell made the mistake of not allowing General Hill to force the Union forces further back leaving the Union troops with the high ground.(McPherson 324-325) On the following day, July 2, General Meade, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac arrived, along with the majority of the army. He formed his forces in the now ...
- 12219: The Spanish-American War
- ... a matter of days all the men needed had enlisted. New Mexicans were eager to serve for a variety of reasons. Some eastern newspapers suggested that New Mexico might side with Spain because of its high proportion of Spanish-speaking citizens and its first Hispanic- surnamed governor under American rule, Miguel Otero. New Mexicans wanted to demonstrate to the rest of the country that the territory was doing its part on ...
- 12220: The Manhattan Project
- ... a reactor at Chicago in late 1942, the prototype of five production reactors erected at Hanford, Wash. These reactors manufactured plutonium by bombarding uranium-238 with neutrons. At Los Alamos the plutonium was surrounded with high explosives to compress it into a super dense, super critical mass far faster than could be done in a gun barrel. On July 16, 1945 at 5:29 AM the first atomic bomb was detonated ...
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