nurse and saw combat for the first time. At Antietam, she also cared for soldiers there as well. That is where she was labeled the nickname, “The angle of the battlefield”. She got this name for all of her hard work and dedication. After the war of 1865, Clara Barton went to work for the War Department reuniting lost soldiers and helping them find their families. She would also help find out information about the people who were missing. She began to spread her story, telling
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full freedom and land of their own. There were constant hindrances such as race riots and acts of violence against African Americans. There were two senses during the Reconstruction Era: the first covers the complete history of the entire U.S. from 1865 to 1877 following the Civil War; the second sense focuses on the transformation of the Southern United States from 1863 to 1877 as directed by the President with the reconstruction of state and society. Reconstruction was an era in the United States
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contemporary United States. Comprehending major episodes and accomplishments from the past will lead us to understand people’s idiosyncrasies, laws, lifestyles, economic situations and politics in the present world. The Industrialization Era (1885-1900) and the New Deal (1932) are two topics absolutely relevant to appreciate the United States and its people. The following paragraphs will persuade the readers to agree how the Industrialization and the New Deal played essential roles in American’s
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How far was the 1890s the most significant Turning point in trade union & labour rights in the period 1865-1992? The 1890’s had been a turning point for the development of trade union ad labour rights, however it could be said that the period of the 1930’s and the New Deal could be proved as a more significant turning point as well as the start of the period for the development of trade union and labour rights. The 1890s was the time trade unions begun to develop and start to threaten the
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Test 1 Key Terms: * 13th Amendment: 1865, abolishes slavery. * 14th Amendment: 1868, ensures equal rights and protections to every person born or naturalized in the United States. * 15th Amendment: 1870, prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on race. * Radical Republicans: Believed that the federal government should guarantee certain basic rights that would provide freed people with a measure of economic opportunity, and some went further to suggest that meaningful economic
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America's Post-Civil War Growing Pains This paper will address the period from Reconstruction through widespread industrialization in the Western United States during the time period of 1865 – 1900. 1. Identify at least (2) two major historical turning points in the period under discussion. The year 1865 began an era of presidential reconstruction. Upon Lincoln’s assassination, Andrew Johnson became president. During this time he unveiled his plan for Reconstruction: (1) scrapping the “40-acres-and-a-mule”
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throughout American History. They were brought to America as slaves and had no say at all in their relocation or even separation from their families. Most African Americans today are the descendants of captive Africans held in the United States from 1619 to 1865. In the past, African Americans were referred to and self-identified as the American Negro. Our history is celebrated annually in the United States during the month of February which has been designated as Black History Month. (http://en.wikipedia
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Americas Post Civil War World History Katherine Nelson The turning point of the reconstruction period during 1865-1900 includes the rise of industrilizaion and the surge of immigration in the United States. During the time of the reconstruction period the north and west states was able to see growth in their economy. The United States was considered the worlds most dominit ,economical,industrial and agricultural. The income for nonfarm workers started
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As stated by John Winthrop in the 17th Century, Americans have committed the cardinal sin of putting their own good ahead of the common good of the nation. However, Americans of different races, classes, and genders have experienced a variety of obstacles in maintaining their own good. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these obstacles caused conflicting and changing meanings of individualism, community, and freedom according to Foner, Plunkitt, Etulain, Buder, Gilfoyle, Bernstein
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SAN JUAN DE GUIMBA: A BRIEF HISTORY It was the 20th of February 1865 when a group of Ilocano settlers in wooden carts and horsebacks arrived at a vast forested plain northwest of the Binituan River in Nueva Ecija. They cleared the land and started planting the loamy soil with the rice seeds they brought with them. They called the new land San Juan de Guimba in honor of the patron saint the settlers brought from Ilocos, and of the pot-making industry called “gebba” which they used to do in the old
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