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- 7211: Civil War: Northern Attitudes
- ... general (and later president) Ulysses S. Grant, who had moved from St. Louis, Missouri, to Galena, Illinois, in 1860. In the southern part of the state, some Illinoisans who sympathized with the South created a short-lived movement to found a separate state allied with the Confederacy later in the war, and secret societies opposed to continuing the war also flourished in Illinois. In the presidential election of 1864 Illinois again ...
- 7212: Civil War The Color Bearer Tra
- ... politics, it must at last go under." The War Begins Events would prove Whilden correct. On December 20, 1860, delegates to the so-called Secession Convention, meeting in Institute Hall in downtown Charleston, only a short distance from Charles Whilden's boyhood home on Magazine Street, unanimously adopted the Ordinance of Secession, taking South Carolina out of the Union. The bombardment of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor four months later heralded ...
- 7213: Maifest Destiny
- ... The problem was that Great Britain could not control weather or not the colonist expanded out west or not. The colonists wrote it off as manifest destiny. The Trail of Tears is possibly the saddest stories in American history. Native Americans were forced to leave their land and travel the 800-mile journey west to find new land and a new home. Nearly one quarter the population did not survive that ...
- 7214: Evangilista Torricelli
- ... vacuum is still often employed. Another discovery was the law of efflux of a liquid, through a small opening in the wall of a vessel. He also constructed a number of large objectives and small, short focus, simple microscopes. His literary contributions are noted for their conciseness, clearness, and elegance. His manuscripts have not all been published and are carefully preserved at Florence. The following have appeared in print: "Trattato del ...
- 7215: E.E. Cummings
- ... in 1894 and died in 1962, wrote many poems with unconventional punctuation and capitalization, and unusual line, word, and even letter placements. Cummings' most difficult form of prose is probably the ideogram; it is extremely short and it combines both visual and aural elements. There may be sounds or characters on the page that cannot be said or cannot carry the same message if pronounced and not read. Four of Cummings ...
- 7216: Commander In Chief Franklin De
- ... he knew to be. An example of how he exercised this power is after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor when he asked for an enormous amount of military equipment to be produced in a short time. One of his lieutenants replied that this amount was not attainable using the current factories available for building this equipment. He took the figures back to the same men that gave them to him ...
- 7217: Industrial Revolution
- ... Electricity improved lighting, and communications. The telephone and telegraph were the first devices that enabled the public to communicate. With the progress in technology, radio waves were discovered. Now, messages could be sent in a short amount of time. There were also developments made in science. Marie Curie discovered radioactivity which could be used as a power source, which led to the discovery of the atomic bomb. In the 1850's ...
- 7218: Comparison Of Creation Of Whit
- After reading the stories, "Creation of the Whites" and How America was Discovered, it revealed that they each describe whiskey as one of their newfound "treasures." In each story, the whiskey was transported over to a new land by ...
- 7219: Creation Story Of The Iroquios
- The Native American Indian tribe called the Iroquois contributed greatly toward America. They have many stories about the world, and how things came to be the way they are. They have one story about the creation of the world. They use oral traditional elements in this story which is represented by ...
- 7220: Covenanted Governments
- ... that people again tacitly got together and formed a body of government to which they transferred some of their power. Power was transferred because of the need for security and to make life less nasty, short, solitary, poor, and brutish. The fundamental difference here is that Hobbes believed that power was transferred to a sovereign individual. Yet this individual wasnt an autocrat, they were made of the people and therefore ...
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