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- 1061: Joan of Arc As A Leader
- ... was one of the truly greatest leaders of all time. He led the United States to victory during the civil war (1861-1865), which was the greatest crisis in U.S. history. Lincoln helped end slavery in the nation and helped keep the American Union from splitting apart during the war. (Rolka,1994,213) An excellent example of bad leadership would be the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iraq and Iran were ...
- 1062: Mark Twain: Early American Subversive?
- ... racist novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Fin" and "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". Hannibal is a benchmark for the American societys' views of Twain's writings. Tom Sawyer's antics are preferred over stories of slavery and racial strife. It further demonstrates an unwillingness, by design, to address racism past or present. We have a similar aversion to acknowledging the bloody origins of our "shared History" with the Philippines. Mark Twain ...
- 1063: Martin Luther King's Life
- ... was a powerful protest. Over 250 000 white and black people alike shared the same beliefs as Martin Luther king, to fight for civil rights and justice for man. The Hundredth anniversary of abolition of slavery in the United States was also a reason for the march on Washington. This vivid show of love and justice for ones country lead to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The act would look ...
- 1064: John Wilkes Booth
- ... the family plot in Baltimore. John Wilkes Booth became an important part of U.S. history because he was the first person to assassinate a U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth approved of slavery and sympathized with the south in the civil war and believed that Lincoln was responsible for the war.
- 1065: Aaron Burr Jr.
- ... money in the bank. He had been in the city six months when he was elected to the State Assembly. During the second session of the Assembly, he supported a motion for the abolition of slavery in New York, and was made chairman of a committee to revise the laws of the Empire State. But, at the end of his term, he returned to law. Colonel Burr became one a leader ...
- 1066: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... in virgin areas of research were making significant finds rapidly. Yet progress was slowed by short-sighted men who failed to see greatness. Aberham Lincoln was a revolutionary in his time with his views on slavery and forgiveness of the South. Yet his death was the result of one man's refusal to accept what was once a proud and rich land reduced to tatters- left to ruin because of her ...
- 1067: The Life of Charles Dickens
- ... liberal political ideas. He returned to England deeply disappointed. He wrote two books expressing how he felt about the US. These books mainly criticized the US for not having a copyright law, the acceptance of slavery, and the vulgarity of the people. These books were American Notes for General Circulation (1842) and The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844). Chuzzlewit was a big failure, but many critics believed it was ...
- 1068: Thomas Jefferson
- ... to 1781. During this brief private interval (1781-1783) he began to write the Notes on the State of Virginia, which was published in 1785. In this document there are some of his opinions on slavery. From 1783 to 1784 he was a member of the Continental Congress. While Jefferson was secretary of state from 1790 to 1793, Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury, defeated the movement for commercial discrimination against ...
- 1069: Muhammad
- ... One of these clans, the Banu Qurayza, was accused of plotting against Muhammad during the siege of Medina; in retaliation all of the clan's men were killed and the women and children sold into slavery. Two years later, in the oasis of Khaybar, a different fate befell another Jewish group. After defeat they were allowed to remain there for the price of half their annual harvest of dates. Since AD ...
- 1070: Alexander the Great
- ... took the city by storm and razed it, sparing only the temples of the gods and the house of the Greed lyric poet Pindar, and selling the surviving inhabi¬ tants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in crushing the revolt of The¬ bes brought the other Greek states into instant submission. Alexander began his war against Persia in the spring of 334 BC by crossing the Hellespont (now ...
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