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- 101: Frederick Douglass
- ... blacks. Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights during this period of American history. During the Civil War he helped recruit black soldiers for the Union army, afterwards supporting Reconstruction and campaigning for Republican Presidents. He was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement. Frederick Douglass created a big impact on society. He influenced events greatly by being a great ...
- 102: Frederick Douglass and Slavery
- ... the struggle to overthrow it, as well as the condition of free blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the politics of the Civil War, and the failed promise of Reconstruction the followed. As a child, Douglass was taught how to read by Sophia Auid. She was drawn to the questioning mind of Douglass. Her husband however, put a stop to ...
- 103: W.E.B Du Bois
- ... E.B. wrote many books while most notably The Souls of Black Folk that was a collection of essays promoting black leadership in the government. His other works include Black Reconstruction, Dusk to Dawn, and The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois. Later, Du Bois believed that the United States could not solve its racial problems and that the only ...
- 104: Charlemagne
- ... tradition with the rediscovery of Roman tradition, Byzantine art and oriental innovation. (Boussard 157) Charlemagne was a enlightened leader who restored the roots of education and order Medieval Europe. His reconstruction of the power of the Pope, the growth of the monasteries - in particular those given to the education of priests and general population, and revival of art and architecture was ...
- 105: The Life of Jack London
- ... 18, 1906 the boat was going to be ready to set sail, but a huge earthquake shook the Bay Area. The boat was not destroyed, but had been damaged. The reconstruction of the Snark began. On April 23, 1907 Jack and Charmain set sail. Before the boat reached Hawaii it began to leak. The engine was ruined and the crew of ...
- 106: The Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- ... Grant's victory at Five Forks forced Lee to abandon and surrender on April 9, 1865 (O'Brien, Steven. 1991). The Civil War was now over. Grant helped with the reconstruction of the South and this comes to show he played a major roll in re-uniting the North and the South. After the Civil War, Grant was elected president on ...
- 107: John Maynard Keynes
- ... A little later he then headed the British delegation to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, the Bretton Woods Conference. There he promoted establishment of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund. Keynes ideas have profoundly influenced the economy since World War II and many consider his “General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” one ...
- 108: Biography and History: Harriet Jacob's The Life of a Slave Girl
- ... case, it is very difficult to detach yourself from the main subject matter, that is, yourself. Yet it must remain a story, and the story at its heart is a reconstruction of facts from the memory of the author. In the case of Harriet Jacobs, it was also important that she make sure the readers understood slavery from a woman's ...
- 109: Frederick Douglass and Slavery
- ... the struggle to overthrow it, as well as the condition of free blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the politics of the Civil War, and the failed promise of Reconstruction the followed. As a child, Douglass was taught how to read by Sophia Auid. She was drawn to the questioning mind of Douglass. Her husband however, put a stop to ...
- 110: Robert E. Lee
- ... any way. Lee accepted the post and headed for the college campus in Lexington. The strain of putting the poverty stricken college back on its feet and the problems of reconstruction took its toll, and Lee's health began to fail. He died on October 12, 1870, and was buried beneath the college chapel. Analysis Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee ...
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