...Diana L. Arias November 4, 2012 U.S. History to 1877 The Role of John Brown in the Civil War You know how they say for every action there is an equal reaction, well that holds very true in John Brown’s case. For every action he took against slavery there was an equal reaction, or a far worse reaction from his opponents (pro-slavery supporters). What led John Brown to his actions in trying to end slavery? What was the equal or far worse reaction from his pro-slavery opponents? This first action was not taken by John Brown but by Congress and the action was not anti-slavery but pro-slavery the action was The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, was passed by the United States Congress on September 18th 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern free soils. This was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a slave rebellion. It declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their owners/masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. After this was passed by Congress, there was an equal reaction on part of John Brown, he founded a militant group to prevent the capture of runaway slaves, and he called it The League of Gileadites. In the Bible the Mount Gilead was the place where only the bravest of Israelites would gather together to face an invading enemy. Brown on leaving Springfield in...
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...According to the US History Scene website, the Articles of Confederation gave the states full ruling power over themselves on any matter that was not explicitly mentioned by Congress; and that was where all of the Articles of Confederations’ problems began. Because the states had so much self-governing power, there were problems with economic disorganization, legislative inefficiencies, and a lack of central leadership (Brackemyre, n.d.). The US History Scene website told me that there were three main organizational problems. First was the fact that they could not levy taxes to raise funds. The states were permitted to create taxes to pay for their self-government, and to pay the government the fees owed, but the government itself was not allowed to create taxes to pay off the military and other debt incurred during the Revolutionary war. This was a problem because even though the states were supposed to pay the government monies based off of their land value, often it was not paid. Next was fact that the government had little control over trade. The only control granted was in regards to the Natives, and only then if it did not infringe with the states. The government dealt with foreign treaties (as long as they were not trade related), and the states had complete control over all things trade related (except treaties). This caused problems because each state did what was best for them, and there was no unity as a country. The third and final problem was that there was no universal...
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...chapter of US History through 1877 was a good starting point to keep my attention because it is something that I have been fascinated with beforehand. I used the artwork from this chapter because it is beautiful and seems to tell an excellent story of migration and the survival skills that were needed in this day in age. I researched more about the Spanish conquistador and was able to read on "Came Men on Horses: The Conquistador Expeditions of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Onate". This book speaks of any myths that may have been written or spoken of about the way the conquest of America. The Spanish was the first Europeans to enter the America Southwest. Stories about the city of Gold is what lured in a lot of people in hopes of riches. The conquistadors were fighting the decision to search for the city of gold or not. They did not want to have the burden on their shoulders of not attempting to search for it, and someone else find it if it deemed to be true. There were seven cities that were expected to contain gold for the conquistadors to search out. The conquistadors depended on navigation when it came to their needs of survival. This would be of great service to them when it comes to finding their way to their destination and making it back home safe, their distance traveled. Not knowing where they were going makes me appreciate the technology that we have now and the fact that we know what the world looks like. The navigation that would help us find our...
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...Conflict of Morals: God’s Principles vs. Colonist Values History 202 Dr. Dawn Dyer October 17, 2013 Word Count: 1527 The Puritans and Quakers both are viewed historically as religiously significant people who aspired to make religion the forefront of their lives. Both had high standards to live by, with the one main goal being to establish their own religious principles based on the way they sought fit to honor God. It seems clear that both the Puritans and the Quakers desired a society of discipline in both religious practice and principle. Less clear, however, are the difficulties both had to maintain the discipline to live up to their high standards. Evidence suggests that important beliefs, attitudes, and behavior of the colonists conflicted with both societies’ religious ideals: many of which are presented in John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity. The beliefs of the Puritans initially were toward the carrying out of God’s responsibilities, but eventually faced a conflict. The Puritans did not break with the Church of England, but instead sought to reform it. Aboard the Arbella, John Winthrop had written a sermon that pointed out their Christian duties and obligations. If they fulfilled their duties and obligations, they would be blessed; if not, they would be punished. Winthrop stated that the Lord expected a strict performance of the articles of the covenant.1 If they neglected the articles, the Lord would break out in wrath.2 The Puritans faced an enormous...
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...Jose Rizal at the University of Santo Tomas Gian Linardo Mari T. Estrella Enrolment at the University of Santo Tomas Even if Rizal liked painting much, he was not then intending to make art as his profession. He was not yet certain of what course to pursue. In his Memorias de un estudiante, he says that he was still undecided then about the university career he would follow as the school year 1877-1878 is nearing. Different authors of Rizal give different answers on what and who influenced Rizal in opting what course to take. It is the question of who made the final choice, he himself, his mother, his father, his brother or the Jesuits. Rizal tells us that his mother was worried about him pursuing a university career in Manila because of her ingenuity, or possibly her motherly instinct. His mother Teodora feared that Rizal would come to a bad end just as the fate of ilustrados before like Father Burgos. Buthe does not say in memorias de un estudiante, he did not specify what her mother preferred for him. His brother Paciano discouraged him from taking law, because of the belief that Rizal would not be able to practice that profession due to the political conditions that time. In his memorias de un estudiante, he recalls: “I enrolled in Metaphysics because, aside From the fact that I had doubts about the career I should follow, my father wanted me to study it (Metaphysics).” Very likely, Don Francisco had pictured Rizal having a career in Civil Law. And due to this, Don...
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...Grace Lee Boggs, the recently deceased activist, educator and great advocate for oppressed people throughout the world. Mr. Jones showed the class memorabilia from historical figures of Detroit like the great labor activist Mary Ellen Riordan and former mayor Coleman Young. The film room and the room with boxes of materials are booth refrigerated to help prevent deterioration of archives. The library contains over 12,000 book titles and different resource materials, vertical files, union activities, conventions, meetings etc. political organizations documents. The audio visual department has 1,000’s of photographs and movies related to the labor movement and the history of Detroit. Visiting the Reading Room where researchers peruse the documentation to use for the writing of history, was amazing as I felt that so mush history that has been documented and disseminated was started right in the Reading Room. As...
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...FOUNDATIONS First-Year Seminar (GEC 101) (choose 1, 2 credit hours, 1st semester on campus) GEP 101 First Year Foundations UHC 110 Freshman Honors Seminar Written Communication & Info Literacy (GEC 102) ENG 110* Writing I (#) Oral Communication (GEC 103) COM 115 Fundamentals in Public Speaking (#) GEC 104 3 3 NATURAL WORLD at least 1 course from each box, 7-9 total credit hours 2 different course codes, at least 1 with a lab Life Sciences (3-4 credit hours) BIO 100* Biological Sciences for Educators (lab) BIO 101 Biology in Your World BIO 111* Understanding Bio Sys Through Inq. (lab only) BIO 121* General Biology I (lab) BMS 100 Concepts & Issues in the Life Sciences BMS 105 Concepts & Lab in the Life Sciences (lab) BMS 110* Intro to Biomedical Sciences (lab) BMS 111* Intro to Lab in Biomedical Sci (lab only) GLG 115 Life of the Past Physical Sciences (3-5 credit hours) AST 113 Modern Astronomy AST 114 Survey of Astronomy AST 115 Basic Astronomy (lab) CHM 107 Chemistry for the Citizen CHM 108* Chemistry for the Citizen Lab CHM 116* Fundamentals of Chemistry CHM 117* Fundamentals of Chemistry Lab GLG 110 Principles of Geology (lab) GLG 171 Environmental Geology GRY 135 Principles of Weather & Climate (lab) GRY 142 Introductory Physical Geography (lab) PHY 100 Survey of Physics (lab) PHY 101* Physics by Inquiry for Educators (lab) PHY 123* Introduction to Physics I (lab) PHY 203* Foundations of Physics I (lab) 4(3-3) 3(3-0) 1(0-2) 4(3-3) 4(4-0) 4(3-2) 4(3-2) 1(0-2)...
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...American history from 1877: How the Great Depression compare to The Current Economic Recession affecting the US American history from 1877: How the Great Depression compare to The Current Economic Recession affecting the US. Introduction In 1929s, a global depression hit countries with market economies. Despite the fact that the Great Depression was moderately gentle in some nations, it had very severe effects on others, especially the America. In the United States, the great depression went down in history as one of the worst economic crisis, which left a deep-seated situation, leading to joblessness, starvation and homelessness for over a decade in the US. The Great Depression in America also led a great global depression, as typically each industrialized economy including Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, France, and others, was completely destructed. Various economists and the media have often linked the current economic crisis that heightened in 2008 to the great depression which occurred decades ago. Looking at the implications of the great depression and what is happening today, clearly there are several direct similarities between the two economic crises. Through a brief analysis of the two economic scenarios, this paper hence aims to show how they are related. What are the similarities with the current financial crisis? Some of the similarities between today’s economic situation and the Great Depression of 1920s include: High rates of unemployment- Economic forces...
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...Unit I: Essay Exam: Reconstruction & Rise of Industry US History Since 1877 Professor Valdenia Winn February 14, 2013 According to Dictionary.com, radical means: 1. Of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference. 2. Thoroughgoing or extreme, especially as regards change from accepted or traditional forms. Historians identified Congressional Reconstruction as “radical” because of how the South tried to elude the Thirteenth Amendment. Because of these extreme circumstances the federal government had to intervene, which at that point made it radical to most historians. The root of the problem was slavery and the problem solver was the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The Thirteenth Amendment prohibited slavery. The Fourteenth Amendment established national citizenship for persons born or naturalized in the United States. It also prohibited the states from depriving citizens of their civil rights or equal protection under the law as well as reduced state representation in the House of Representatives by the percentage of adult male citizens denied the vote. The Fifteenth Amendment forbade states to deny citizens the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or “previous condition of servitude”. Another problem solver was the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau, which was there to aid former slaves get on their feet and supervise “all relief and educational activities relating to refugees and...
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...Timeline Part II NOTE: Before starting the Timeline project please refer to the "Example Timeline Matrix" document. Instructions: Complete the matrix by providing the Time Period/Date(s) in column B, and the Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History in column C. See complete instructions in the Syllabus for the Module 3 assignment entitled. “Timeline Part II.” NOTE: The timeline project does not need to be submitted to turnitin. NOTE: Please write your answers in a clear and concise manner. Limit your submission of the Timeline Part II up to 250 words per topic/subtopic. For example, if a topic is divided into 3 subtopics, you may write a maximum of 250 per subtopic listed. Be sure to cite all sources. Major Event/Epoch in American History | Time Period/Date(s) | Description and Significance of the People/Event(s) to American History | 1) The evolution of the institution of slavery from the Colonial Period to the 1860s. | 1619-1860 | At first, slaves could earn their freedom. When they did, slaves tended to own their own slaves. This is how it was up until 1750 when Georgia legalized slavery. Slavery was more needed in the south than the north due to the climate and ability to grow more crops. (Webmaster, 2011) Around 1808, the importation of slavery ended due to the rise in births. Blacks then made up 20% of the American population. | 2) The socio-cultural impact of the abolitionist movement including: a) The effect of...
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...Targeted Violence Less than one percent of full-blooded Native Americans are left in the United States Reading Watsons Go to Birmingham, I saw a history of violence that had happened long ago. Overall, I think targeted violence is the worst kind of violence over random violence. First, there are many stories throughout us history where Natives were targeted with violence. Native Americans have protested their rights but, yet they were met with targeted violence. For example, Dakota Access Pipeline, where many Native Americans fought to keep the oil from running through their land. Still they were met with violence by being arrested, shot with rubber bullets, shot by water cannons, tear gas, all of this is being used...
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...UNITED STATES HISTORY HIS 2223 INTRODUCTION The Ordeal of Reconstruction (1865-1877) 1. The student will be able to define the major problems facing the South and the nation after the Civil War. 2. The Student will be able to distinguish the differences between the Presidential and Congressional approaches to Reconstruction. 3. The student will be able to explain how the blunders of President Andrew Johnson and the South led to radical congressional reconstruction. Politics in the Gilded Age (1869-1889) 4. The student will be able to describe the political corruptions of the Grant Administration. 5. The student will be able to analyze the disputed Hayes-Tilden election of 1876 and indicate how the Compromise of 1877 averted possible bloodshed. 6. The student will be able to explain why the politics of the Gilded Age was generally so low. The Westward Movement (1865-1890) 7. The student will be able to describe the final phase of frontier settlement in the “Great West”. 8. The student will be able to discuss the final removal of the Indians to the West. Industry Comes of Age (1865-1900) 9. The student will be able to describe how the economy came to be dominated by giant “trusts,” headed by Carnegie and Rockefeller. 10. The student will be able to analyze the social changes brought by industrialization, especially upon the working men and women?. ...
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...Postal workers were part of the eight separate craft unions, including the NALC (National Association of letter carriers). Postal workers are considered federal workers and so they do not really have much say in the organization. Executive orders are given in terms of pay raise and who gets to be the postmaster. For example, if a postmaster simply didn’t like the way an employee looked or has a personal issue with an employee, he/she could fire the employee if he pleases. It was really difficult for a worker to walk up to management to state complains or concerns. The U.S post office department’s management at the time lacked organization and was outdated. The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was a ground breaking two-week strike, which started on March 18, 1970. At this time, postal workers were not allowed by law to engage in collective bargaining especially in issues concerning wages. The postal strike of 1970 focused on higher wages and better working conditions, postal workers first started getting hit with wage decreases back during the depression of the 1930s. Government workers at that time got a 25% wage cut under the executive order by Franklin Roosevelt. As stated above, things were done by executive order or acts of congress pertaining to government workers including postal workers. The wages been paid at that time was not enough for employees to fend for their family and so most workers were living with the aid of government support like food stamps. According to Tara...
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...and systematic basis. These interactions provoked a variety of responses from Africans. 1. Traditions and Encounters; Jerry H. Bentley and Herbert F. Ziegler; 2006; McGraw-Hill 2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica Inquiry Question: How did Africans react to European imperialism? Part I - Working with Four Source Documents[1] Document #1: From a letter from one African leader to another in German South West-Africa. 1904 All our obedience and patience with the Germans is of no use for each day they shoot someone dead for no reason at all. So, I appeal to you my Brother, not to ignore the uprising, but to make your voice heard so that all Africa may take up arms against the Germans. Let us die fighting rather than die as a result of bad treatment, imprisonment, or some other calamity. (Disaster). Tell all the chiefs down there to rise and do battle. -Source: Samuel Maherero, a leader of the Herero people. Question: What does this source say about how Africans responded to European Imperialism? Document #2: From a speech to chiefs by an African queen mother, 1900 Now I have seen that some of you fear to go forward and fight for our King. If it were in the brave days of old, chiefs would not...
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...Western Expansion: Topics • The Native Americans • Settlement of the West • The Bonanza West • Conclusion: The Meaning of the West The Native Americans: • Life of the Plains Indians • Indian Policy • Finial Battles on the Plains • The end of tribal life • “saving” The Indians • Hellan Hunt Jackson • NA Contributions 1877 is the beginning of “modern” American history. Hayes was president and some feel he is a fraud Most people live on Eastern Seaboard. Many overcrowding. Manufacturing and limited land space. People want to live west but the Indians were there…. In 1867 Horace Greeley urged people in NYC to move west “if you move west you will crowd nobody and not starve” because nobody was there but there were over QMil Natives living in the West. The gold rush started and disturbed the native western population. 1: Life on the plains for NA. 2/3 of them lived on the great plains. It’s one of the most hazardous at the time. They knew how to survive. The plains Indians depended buffalo. They can kill and take only what they need and use the entire kill. The Whites left the carcass. It was used by them for clothes, tools, food, shelter, ect. Before the horse the NA would hunt them by running them over a cliff or scaring them into a trap. The Spanish introduces the horse to them. They discovered that it was a great work and hunting animal. They were migratory and would travel with the food source. Some tribes would be sever thousand people...
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