...Harriet Tubman's unwavering dedication to the freedom of enslaved individuals and her important role in the Underground Railroad make her one of the most remarkable figures in the fight against slavery. An achievement is something that is successfully done and leaves a legacy. Tubman has fulfilled things that weren't reachable in that period. From nursing in the Civil War to caring for disabled individuals, her determination to help people is admirable in U.S. History. So what was Harriet Tubman's greatest achievement? Underground Railroad work was Tubman’s greatest achievement, but spying, nursing, and caregiving deserve honorable mention. Three important achievements of Harriet Tubman were nursing, spying, and serving as a caregiver in the...
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...Harriet Tubman: Early life, main accomplishments, and legacy. The hero of the underground railroad is Harriet Tubman. Harriet was an influential figure during the fight to abolish slavery. It all started with her early life, leading to her main accomplishments and her after-life legacy. Harriet inspired many generations and people across the world. Harriet’s legacy is her bravery to escape from slavery and pursue abolishment. She will forever go down in history for her fight for freedom. As a child, Tubman grew up in Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet was originally named Araminta Ross, which she later changed to Harriet Tubman after getting married. Tubman was one of nine children born to Harriet “Rit” and Ben Ross, enslaved people owned by two different families on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. At the age of six, Tubman began to work as a house servant for the Brodess family, who owned Tubman for the majority of her life. The Brodess family would make Tubman work in dangerous, miserable conditions. While Tubman was twenty-five and still enslaved, she married a free black man named John Tubman and later took the last name Tubman. While Tubman was just a teenager, she was severely injured. Tubman’s owner, who was...
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...In the autobiography, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton, events in Harriet Tubman’s life are highlighted throughout and the legacy she left. From when she was born in Maryland around 1820, up to when she was referred to as a powerful spirit on her deathbed. So many events are highlighted in Harriet’s life such as her escape from slavery, helping others escape, and helping her family out as well. Throughout Harriet Tubman’s life, she showed her heart to help others and showed great strength and bravery during the time she worked on the Underground Railroad. In the biography, Tubman’s life showed her heart for others in need throughout her life. One example of her heart for others is when she went back for her family...
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...Zarra Schmidt Mrs. Walker English 10H 20 February 2024 The Life of Harriet Tubman Who is Harriet Tubman? Many would say she was an escaped slave who helped others like her gain freedom using the Underground Railroad. However, she is so much more than that. Harriet Tubman is not only a role model for all women who want to make a difference in the world and have all odds stacked against them, but also, a determined, strategic, and powerful person. She has faced many trials and tribulations over the course of her long, eventful lifetime. As she once said, "I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had the right to, liberty or death; if I could have one, I would have the other.”(Dawson). Her early life, accomplishments,...
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...Historical content: Harriet Tubman was famous for her involvement in the Underground Railroad and helped save slaves escape to freedom in the mid to late 1800’s. The Underground Railroad was a term for a secret network of houses where runaway slaves could stay, overnight, on their journey north by road and tunnels to freedom. Because of Tubman’s expert knowledge of the routes and different towns across the south, when civil war broke out in America, she was a great use to the Union army in their efforts to win. It was her great success in helping slaves escape to a free life that led her people to know her as the “Moses of her people.” The two main historical events that helped this to occur was Congress passing the Fugitive Slave Act (1850) and the Civil War (1861-1865). Backed by the Union army, Tubman became instrumental in rescuing many slaves from a number of plantations in the south. She quickly gained notoriety and was connected to other respected abolitionists of the time, like John Brown. She was so successful at freeing slaves that slaveholders offered money, called a bounty, for her capture. After the end of the Civil...
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...1000 Real GMAT Sentence Correction Questions 1. 1 A “calendar stick” carved centuries ago by the Winnebago tribe may provide the first evidence that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them on systematic astronomical observation. (A) that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them (B) of the North American Indians who have developed advanced full-year calendars and based them (C) of the development of advanced full-year calendars by North American Indians, basing them (D) of the North American Indians and their development of advanced full-year calendars based (E) that the North American Indians developed advanced full-year calendars based 2. A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes. (A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump (B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping (C) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump (D) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump (E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities 3. A collection of 38 poems by Phillis Wheatley, a slave, was published in the 1770’s, the first book by a Black woman and it was only the second published by an American woman. (A) it was only the second published by...
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...___________________________ LIVING HISTORY Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon & Schuster New York • London • Toronto • Sydney • Singapore To my parents, my husband, my daughter and all the good souls around the world whose inspiration, prayers, support and love blessed my heart and sustained me in the years of living history. AUTHOR’S NOTE In 1959, I wrote my autobiography for an assignment in sixth grade. In twenty-nine pages, most half-filled with earnest scrawl, I described my parents, brothers, pets, house, hobbies, school, sports and plans for the future. Forty-two years later, I began writing another memoir, this one about the eight years I spent in the White House living history with Bill Clinton. I quickly realized that I couldn’t explain my life as First Lady without going back to the beginning―how I became the woman I was that first day I walked into the White House on January 20, 1993, to take on a new role and experiences that would test and transform me in unexpected ways. By the time I crossed the threshold of the White House, I had been shaped by my family upbringing, education, religious faith and all that I had learned before―as the daughter of a staunch conservative father and a more liberal mother, a student activist, an advocate for children, a lawyer, Bill’s wife and Chelsea’s mom. For each chapter, there were more ideas I wanted to discuss than space allowed; more people to include than could be named; more places visited than could be described...
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