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- 2321: The Trail of Tears
- ... in that they succeeded in removing the Cherokee from the state, but not completely from the east. This would bring on a great supporter of the Cherokee people, a white man by the name of John Ross. John Ross campaigned heavily for the Cherokees. Ross was part of the immigration management committee. Ross persuaded General Scott to approve a budget for the captive Indians of seventeen cents per Indian per day. This was ...
- 2322: A Discussion on the Myth and Failure of Reconstruction Following the Civil War, and How This Failure Impacted and Changed America
- ... didn't start out to use violence, it soon found that many Negros were not frightened by just words so they turned to beatings, lynchings, and even murders.(Tindall 468) The Klansmen murdered State Senator John Stephens of Caswell County, North Carolina whose county had a majority black population.(Trelease 166) In Alamance County, North Carolina, Klansmen hanged the leading Negro Republican from a tree on the courthouse lawn.(Trelease 166 ... of the Civil War, 130 years ago. Bibliography Carter, Hodding. The Angry Scar. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1959. Craven, Avery. Reconstruction, the Ending of the Civil War. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.1969. Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction: After the Civil War. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1961 Tindall, George Brown and David E Shi. America, A Narrative History. New York, Norton & Company, 1993. Trelease, Allen W. Reconstruction, The Great ...
- 2323: The Boston Massacre
- ... two balls entering his back. ? Samuel Maverick, 17 years old, mortally wounded, he died the next day. ? Patrick Carr, mortally wounded, died on the 14 day of march. ? Christopher Monk, 17 years old, dangerously wounded. ? John Clark, 17 years old, dangerously wounded. ? Mr. Edward Payne, merchant, standing at his door, wounded. ? John Green, dangerously wounded. ? Robert Patterson, dangerously wounded. ? David Parker, dangerously wounded.9 Captain Preston and seven of his soldiers were then arrested and tried for the crimes. Why did the fire bells ring out without ...
- 2324: Early National Literature
- ... National Literature The years from the adoption of the Constitution (1787) to the period of Jacksonian nationalism (1828-36) mark the emergence of a self-consciously national literature. The poet Joel BARLOW, who was, like John Trumbull, one of the Connecticut Wits, greeted the new United States with his epic The Columbiad (1807), a reworking of his earlier The Vision of Columbus (1787). Philip Freneau wrote lyric poetry that fused the ... 1855), The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), and Evangeline (1847). But Longfellow and his contemporaries succeeded best in public poetry intended for recitation. Still powerful are Longfellow's The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1863), John Greenleaf WHITTIER's "Barbara Freitchie" (1863), and Oliver Wendell Holmes's "Old Ironsides" (1830). Edgar Allan POE stood apart from literary nationalism and represented a gloomier side of romanticism. As a reviewer, he was a ...
- 2325: The Beginning of the Civil War
- ... these measures was waged in Congress. Clay won the support of some influential Union men, including Stephen Douglas and Daniel Webster (Stated on COMPTONS ENCYCLOPEDIA ONLINE.). Congress debated this issue for many, many months. John C. Calhoun, now nearing death, was carried into the chambers and had his speech read aloud to Congress. In his speech, he said that the only way to avoid Civil war would be for the ... War hero. But many Southern Whigs refused to vote for Scott. Pierce won the election by a landslide. The nation now approaches the election of 1860. Southern moderates formed the Constitutional Union party and nominated John Bell. The Democrats nominated Stephen Douglas. Abraham Lincoln was nominated by the Republicans. Although Lincoln received only about 40% of the popular vote, his victory was a landslide (Stated in THE AMERICAN NATION, pg. 355 ...
- 2326: 1775-1900: The History of the Buffalo Soldier
- ... Caesar Ferritt, Samuel Craft, Lemuel Haynes, and Pomp Blackman. One of the most distinguished heroes o the Battle of Bunker Hill was Peter Salem who, according to some sources, fired the shot that killed Major John Pitcairn of the Royal Marines. But Peter Salem wasn't the only Black hero during the Revolutionary War. Another Black man, Salem Poor, also made a hero of himself at Bunker Hill. Because of his ... in that battle, thirteen Black soldiers received Congressional Medals of Honor in one day. "In all, twenty Negroes received the medal in recognition of gallantry and intrepidity in combat during the Civil War." (Mullen 23) "John Hope Franklin estimates that the Black mortality rate in the Army was nearly 40 percent higher than among white soldiers. This was partially due to unfavorable conditions, poor equipment, bad medical care, and the rapidity ...
- 2327: Causes of the Great Depression
- ... no position topay off the debts. Their gold had flowed into the U.S. during and immediately after the war in great quantity; they couldn't send more gold without completely ruining their currencies. Historian John D. Hicks describes the Allied attitude towards U.S. loan repayment: "In their view the war was fought for a common objective, and the victory was as essential for the safety of the United States ... stocks on margin, one could buy stocks without the money to purchase them. Buying stocks on margin functioned much the same way as buying a car on credit. Using the example of RCA, a Mr. John Doe could buy 1 share of the company by putting up $10 of his own, and borrowing $75 from his broker. If he sold the stock at $420 a year later he would have turned ...
- 2328: Civil War - Monitor vs. Merrimack
- ... Buchanan. After all the modifications were complete, the ship was rechristened the CSS Virginia, but the original name the CSS Merrimack is the preferred name. The USS Monitor was the creation of Swedish-American engineer, John Ericsson. The ship was considered small for a warship, only 172 feet long and 42 feet wide. Confederate sailors were baffled by the ship. One was quoted describing her as ". . . a craft such as the ... entire crew. Like the CSS Merrimack, the USS Monitor was expected to sink, it was referred to as "Ericsson's Folly" (DesJardien 2). The only individual willing to take command of the ship was Lieutenant John Worden. The battle at Hampton Roads was part of the Peninsula Campaign that lasted from March to August of 1862. There was a total of five ships engaged in the battle. From the US Navy ...
- 2329: The Anti-Vietnam Movement
- ... The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of France's war against the Viet Minh. Later, the presidencies of Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy increased the US's political, economic, and military commitments steadily throughout the fifties and early sixties in the Indochina region. Prominent senators had already begun criticizing American involvement in Vietnam during the summer ... New York: Grove Press, 1985. Lewis, Lloyd B. The Tainted War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. Meyerson, Joel D. Images of a Lengthy War. Washington, DC: Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data, 1986. Schlight, John. Indochina War Symposium. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1986. Small, Melvin. Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. Spector, Ronald H. "Researching the Vietnam Experience" Historical Analysis Series. April1984: 30 ...
- 2330: World War 2 and Executive Order 8802
- ... intern. As Black leaders were considering future actions, over one-hundred-thousand Japanese men, women, and children were being rounded up across the country and taken to interment centers. One of my ex-co-workers, John Nishimi, was held at camp Manzaner. It is estimated that over $400 million were lost to these citizens as they were forced to sale both homes and businesses, and taken to various interment camps throughout ... the flamboyant Adam Clayton Powell Jr. became only the forth Black member elected to congress during the twentieth century(3). Southern congressional members indicated that his election was a disgrace to the governing process. Representative John Rankin of Mississippi vowed to never sit by Powell. He would later regret these comments. Whenever they were in chambers together, Powell would make a point to sit next to Rankin. On one occasion, Powell ...
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