... is being born that leads to the industrial revolution. In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. The Erie Canal is born, which is the biggest construction project in the western world in the last 4,000 years. It is over 300 miles long, dug entirely by hand, without a single qualified engineer. But, the people of United States of America is not about to let ... nature stand in the way. Consequently, the land doesn't always cooperate. A wall ... Slave buyers did not consider slaves as human beings. Buyers demand to buy the most fertile slaves for breeding. T...

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... , and with a 270-pound weight tied to his neck, thrown in the Tallahatchie River. A few days a boy fishing from the shore found later "Till- in the river. The woman's husband J.W. Bryant and his brother-in-law Roy Milam were charged with kidnapping and murder. The trial was held in a segregated courthouse on September 23, 1955. The all-white jury found Bryant and Milam not guilty. Emmett Till lost ... away with no punishment. Most of the young African American children were never safe in the south another case the bombing of a church during a Sunday service, which left four innocent teen...

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... 12, 1809 in Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln grew up working on farms with his father. At the time the Lincoln family did not have money for the children to go to school. Abraham was very interested in education and bettering himself. He would barrowed books from his neighbors and read the bible. Abraham did want to fallow in his fathers footsteps and become a farmer. Abraham and ... his father disagreed about his future. When Abraham was 22 years old, he was a legal adult and moved out of his ... which lead the beginning of the civil war. The begging of the war cause Texas, Arkansas, Virgini...

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... May 10, 1838 in a log cabin in Bel Air, Maryland. Which is not so far from Baltimore, Maryland. Being the 9 out of 10 children he would soon be known as one of the tragedians of his time. "The Booth family name in the nineteenth century was strongly identified with the American theater scene;" http://www.nps.gov/foth/booth.htm His father was also known at one time as ... the back of his head. . Lincoln died on April 15, 1865. Booth jumped from that platform on the bottom floor and broke his left ankle. Ignoring his pain he went on to the stage and said "Sic Semper Tyrannis (Thus always ...

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... . Grant spent two years on the Pacific Coast. He missed the birth of his second child. He had even tried a few business adventures while in the Oregon territory to help supplement his army income so he could bring his family to join him. All these business deals were unsuccessful and he could not afford to bring his wife and children to California. He missed Julia ... failed because crop prices were low and his health was poor at this time. He also peddled firewood to help support his family. By this time he had two more children. In l859 Grant sold the farm and moved to St Louis. A rela...

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... casualties of the war, 200 dead many wounded. G. Subpoint: 23 September 1862, the Battle of Woodlake is a decisive victory for Americans troops. While the Woodlake fighting is in progress, Dakota Indians opposed to the continuation of the war take control of 269 Americans captives held war the Chippewa River. H. Subpoint: 26 September 1862, Dakota friend release American captives. American army marches into Dakota camp and take 1,200 Dakota men, women, and children ... into custody. Over the next weeks, an additional ... ...

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... wrote the infamous poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". In Mexico, Langston visited is multi-racial father who didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing. Therefore, to prove his father wrong, Langston traveled around the world and wrote several novels, poems, plays, essays, and children's books. Nevertheless, while on the train, Hughes saw the ever flowing Mississippi River. "The muddy Mississippi made Hughes think of the roles ... in human history played by the Congo, the Niger, and the Nile, down whose water the early slaves were once sold," (Harris). "The sense of beau...

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... , in cases not a few, sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father. I know of such cases The master is frequently compelled to sell this class of his slaves, out of deference to the feelings of his white wife" (Douglass 14). Another custom in slavery, probably also out of deference to the feelings of the white wife, is to part children from their mothers at a very early age. Frederick was ... in 1877 with his wife, Anna, and it became a station on the underground railroad system. They were the first black family to live in the Anacostia River neighborhood. He lived the...

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... depended on geography and they wanted to control over Mississippi River because it would enable the North to penetrate deep into the South and keep the Confederacy from resupplying its western forces. The South planned to capture Washington, D.C., capital of the North and won the European aid. In April, 1862, General McClellan's troops left northern Virginia to begin the Peninsular Campaign. By May 4, they occupied Yorktown, Virginia. At Williamsburg ... required states to extend equal citizenship to African Americans and all people were born naturalized in the United States.) Then Fift...

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... , Abraham's mother died, and only a year later his father remarried. Mrs. Sally Johnston was a widow who had three children. She was a very kind and loving mother. She took Abraham as one of her own. Thomas and Sally had no children during this second marriage (The History Place). The family continued to reside in Indiana. Abraham also attended A.B.C. schools here. It was said that recalling all ... of his schooling combined, Abe probably did not have more than one year of education. Everything that he knew he had taught himself ... their homestead in Indiana and headed for Illinois. Th...

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Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the U.S (1861-1865) who brought the Union to victory in the Civil War. He was a very strong man and he suffered many personal hardships, including the loss of three of his children, and the mental instability of his wife. Even when faced with all of these hardships, he led our United States to victory, although at great personal loss. Lincoln was born ... a job on a cargo ship. He settled in New Salem on the Sangamon River, where he worked at various odd jobs. In 1832 he became Captain of a group of soldiers going to fight in...

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Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the U.S (1861-1865) who brought the Union to victory in the Civil War. He was a very strong man and he suffered many personal hardships, including the loss of three of his children, and the mental instability of his wife. Even when faced with all of these hardships, he led our United States to victory, although at great personal loss. Lincoln was born ... a job on a cargo ship. He settled in New Salem on the Sangamon River, where he worked at various odd jobs. In 1832 he became Captain of a group of soldiers going to fight in...

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... raised by his grandparents Betsy and Isaac Bailey. Isaac and Betsy were not thought to be of relation. Isaac was a free man and a sawyer, while Betsy was an owned slave, but she kept her own rules. Her owner trusted her to watch over and raise the children of the slaves until they were old enough to begin their labor. She was allowed to keep her ... own cabin, and to farm food for the children and herself. It was not an easy job. While all of the mothers were busy working in the fields of their master, Aaron Anthony, she was busy watching over their ... infants. Betsy Bailey was quite ...

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... pair of trousers for winter, one pair of stockings, and one pair of shoes" (p. 247). Children and those whose clothes deteriorated went naked until the next year. Slaves could never be at mental rest either. Douglass gives an example of a slave who unknowingly tells his master that he is being treated poorly, and as a result, is sold "down the river." Slaves, in return, often argued about the superiority of their ... also claims that slave masters protect their female slaves "from the despotism of their husbands." The slaves" master supposedly protects the women from their husbands" lus...

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... years old when his first published volume, Poems, appeared in 1821. Poems included, in addition to "Thanatopsis,", "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood," "Green River," and "To a Waterfowl." From then until his death, Bryant was known as one of the most distinguished poets in the United States. 4. James Russell Lowell was born in 1819 and died in 1891. During Lowell's lifespan ... of 72 years, one of his many accomplishments was becoming the professor of modern languages at Harvard after Longfellow retired. He began as a poet ... Gardiner, Maine, his childhood home. Born in Head Tide...

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... on the Mississippi River. The plantation would come to be known as Brierfield Plantation. Davis came to be the owner of one-hundred and seven slaves. One of his closest friends was also one of his slaves, a man by the name of James Pemberton.(Chadwick 179) Davis was remarried in 1845 to the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner. Her name was Varina Howell. With his new wife he had five children, three ... sons and two daughters. All three of his children died before the age of twenty-two ... .(Man 134) The same year that he ... ...

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... families; brothers, fathers, children who had settled in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, or they themselves had migrated from areas such as Tennessee and Virginia. This gave reason for Kentucky to stay neutral, because they were truly a state of brother against brother. Kentuckians had ties to both the president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate States of America president, Jefferson Davis, each of which had Kentucky roots ... for this was more geographical reasons than political reasons. Kentucky was rich with waterway access. Access from the Cumberland and Tenness...

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