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- 7401: Causes Of The Civil War
- ... a free state. Another par t of the compromise was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which provided for the return of runaway slaves to their masters. But many free states in the Union passed personal liberty laws in an effort to help the slaves escape. Many Northerners set up underground railroads where the runaway slaves could hide and get food and be directed to Canada for freedom. This angered many ...
- 7402: The Trancontinental Railroad
- ... new settlers, tension rose between the Indians and the Americans. One newspaperman wrote, “Wild Indians held back our countries development” (Blumberg 91). Another representation of what Americans felt towards Indians was expressed in Samuel Bowles writing, “ We know they are not our equals: we know that it is our right to the soil, as a race capable of its superior improvement is above theirs” (Blumberg 91). The Native American tribes were ...
- 7403: The Telescope
- ... in their forties, when they can no longer focus on letters held at a comfortable distance from the eye. Magnifying glasses became common in the thirteenth century, but these are cumbersome, especially when one is writing. Craftsmen in Venice began to make small disks of glass, convex on both sides that could be worn in a frame-spectacles. Because these little disks were shaped like lentils, they became known as “lentils ...
- 7404: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... Little Rock Central High School incident. That same year he signed a Civil Rights Act. He signed yet another in 1960. The President was a strong believer in the Civil Rights movement throughout his term, writing once in a letter, “There must be no second class citizens in this country.” Eisenhower was also in office when U.S. entered the space age with its first successful launching of a satellite into ...
- 7405: The 1960s
- ... the thoughts of many Hippies. They say: How does it feel How does it feel To be without a home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone?(Harris 69) These lyrics expressed Dylan's personal thoughts to what was happening to him. He did feel "like a rolling stone" and so did his peers. His simple but meaningful lyrics are what made him so popular and successful. Many Hippies considered ...
- 7406: Is The Mind And Body Unified O
- ... do they function separately? That is what we are going to try and determine now by looking at both perspectives with the help of Descartes and some of his philosophical ideals as well as some personal thoughts. The body is sometimes in complete control of us without our knowledge. The example that demonstrates this ideal is the autonomic nervous system in our bodies. The autonomic nervous system is what allows us ...
- 7407: 20s And 30s
- ... of its strife by the late 1920s. There was a great separation between high culture and pop culture in the 1920s. Ernest Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, leaders of the ex-patriot movement, dominated individualistic writing. Poetry became more experimental led by writers such as T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings. Classical music was also dominated by modernism. This featured a 12-note scale and a lack of melody and ...
- 7408: Jimi Hendrix Report
- ... For example a song called "Freedom," had discussed Jimi's feelings on the Vietnam War and how he once wished someday world peace could occur. He had said that it was by far his most personal album. Fans liked the new band, even though they really couldn’t tell the difference between the bands. In the year of 1969 the famous concert Woodstock occurred in Woodstock, NY. Woodstock was a music ...
- 7409: William Penn
- ... with Quaker leader George Fox. When they got there, the construction from the plans of Penn's was already in progress. 8 In 1682, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn. He came upon his own personal ship, Welcome, along with William Bradford, Nicholas Waln, and Thomas Wynne and other less known men.9 Now they had many established colonies in Pennsylvania and a strong belief system with which build a state ...
- 7410: Colonial Women
- ... were performed by women, and most domestic goods and food were prepared and created by women. Women performed these tasks without having any legal acknowledgment. Although women had to endure many hardships, their legal and personal lives were becoming less restricted, although the change was occurring at a snail’s pace. Life for the colonial woman was a mix of imprisonment and freedom in their marriages, homes, and in the American ...
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