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- 1551: Abraham Lincoln
- ... elected the South seceded from the nation stating that Lincoln would be the reason why slavery would end. Lincoln’s presidency thus began on a note of disunion and discord. Civil War started when Lincoln refused to adhere to the south’s demands to have slavery legalized everywhere (Stefoff 85). April 1865 was a month of triumph and tragedy. It was the ...
- 1552: Roger Williams
- ... radical religious beliefs and political theories-he denied the validity of the Massachusetts charter, challenged the Puritans to acknowledge they had separated from the Church of England, and declared that civil magistrates had no power over matters of conscience-alarmed the Puritan oligarchy, and the General Court banished him in 1635. In the spring of 1636 he founded Providence on land ... trusted friend of the Native Americans, he often used his good offices in maintaining peaceful relations with them. But he was unable to prevent the outbreak of King Philip's War, in which he served as a captain of militia. Williams, though he remained a Christian, disassociated himself from existing churches. His writings, reprinted in the Narragansett Club Publications, reveal the ...
- 1553: Historical Truth And Imaginati
- ... day out. It speaks of the hopelessness each slave dealt with. It speaks of the social degradation and of the want for common equality. Frederick Douglass lead us to the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation. He was "the underground railroad" that provided freedom for so many slaves. He provides us with historical details that no white man could have given us ...
- 1554: 1984
- ... the idea of totalitarianism. The novels and essays and such written in the 1930s established him as an influential voice of the century. Orwells’ parents were members of the Indian Civil Service; he went to college in London and after wards joined the imperial police. During his service, he wrote his first novel, Down and out in Paris and London (1933 ... him his first fame as a writer. 1984, a story of dictators who are in complete control of a large part of the world after the allies lost in World War II. The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having corrupt thoughts about the governments of Oceania, a ...
- 1555: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... as a gift to the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, and the portrait of one of Ludovico's mistresses, Lucrezea Crivelli. Throughout his life he also served various other roles, including civil engineer and architect (designing mechanical structures such as bridges and aqueducts), and military planner and weapons designer (designing rudimentary tanks, catapults, machine guns, and even navel weapons). Da Vinci, during ... it had holes around the perimeter for a man to extend a weapon through and shoot or stab at his enemy. This tank, however crude, was well adapted to the war conditions that were present at the time Da Vinci lived. Leonardo also invented the world's first automatic assault weapon. His version was a rack of three rows of iron ...
- 1556: Harper Lee: The Author And Her Times
- ... Finch in the story, Miss Lee's father Amasa C. Lee was a small-town lawyer with an unusual first name. The Lee family was descended from the famous Confederate Civil War general Robert E. Lee, and so--like the Finches in the novel--had every reason to take pride in its ancestry. Finally, Lee's mother's maiden name was Frances ...
- 1557: Blood And Belonging
- ... the example of Quebec to illustrate the relationship between nationalism and federalism. He implies that "if federalism fails in Canada it can fail anywhere." If the balance between "ethnic and civil principles" is not maintained in Canada, who is not an impoverished country and has a large, successful economy; then perhaps the modern world has not transcended the grasps of nationalism ... difference of religion, not national identity. However, both countries have evolved since their beginnings and have strong nationalistic tendencies. Both countries are now leaning toward compromise rather than a holy war. As the talks continue for the return of the Golan Heights to Lebanon the Moslem Jew factor still remains tense. Of the recent peace talks is the strip of land ...
- 1558: American Westerns (maverick, T
- American Westerns (Maverick, The Searchers, Unforgiven) The Civil War has ended, leaving more than 600,000 American soldiers dead. In a single decade, from 1860 to 1870, the South's wealth declined 60 percent and that of the North ...
- 1559: Mark Twain
- ... brother's newspapers under various false names. After a visit to New Orleans in 1857, he learned the difficult art of steamboat piloting, an occupation that he followed until the Civil War closed the river, and that furnished the background for "Old Times on the Mississippi" (1875), later included in the expanded Life on the Mississippi (1883). In 1861, Twain traveled by ...
- 1560: The Klan Unmasked
- The Ku Klux Klan has been the most organized of the many different White supremacy groups that came into being after the Civil War. The ill-reputed Knights of the Klan have been involved in countless incidents of human rights violations against blacks and other minority groups in America. Especially in the South, during ...
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