Bull snake was found on August 5, 2801 near the mouth of Niobrara River, Nebraska. It was a large yellowish snake with 41 or more black, brown, or reddish-brown body blotches, dark line from eye angle of jaw. Didn’t eat the snake didn’t want to harm them.…
Lincoln's bodyguard, John Parker, left Ford's Theatre during intermission to drink at the saloon next door. The now unguarded President sat in his state box in the balcony. Seizing the opportunity, Booth crept up from behind and at about 10:13 pm, aimed at the back of Lincoln's head and fired at point-blank range, mortally wounding the President. Major Henry Rathbone momentarily grappled with Booth, but Booth stabbed him and escaped. After being on the run for 12 days, Booth was tracked down and found on a farm in Virginia, some 70 miles (110 km) south of Washington. After refusing to surrender to Union troops, Booth was killed by Sergeant Boston Corbett on April 26. Doctor Charles Leale, an Army surgeon, found the President unresponsive, barely breathing and with no detectable pulse.…
Index cards should be created for the following key terms including time period relevant, definition, and significance in historical time period…
In 1811, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh, with the help of a comet and an earthquake, convinced some of the Upper Creek towns of the Muscogee to turn against the white civilization they had begun to embrace. This led to one of the worse massacres on American soil. The Battle of Fort Mims was orchestrated by William “Red Eagle” Weatherford, and, as news of the massacre spread, Americans found themselves in a war against the angry Creek. Although the massacre at Fort Mims served to ignite war with the United States, was this really the beginning? What happened to make William Weatherford and his Red Sticks attack Fort Mims and what was the outcome? Although accounts of the massacre at Fort Mims served to ignite war with the United States and the Creeks, the militia attack at the Battle of Burnt Corn angered the Red Sticks, which is what ultimately led to the slaying of approximately 300 people that day at Fort Mims.…
Clarence Seward Darrow was born on April 18, 1857, in Farmdale, Ohio, the fifth of Amirus and Emily Darrow's eight children. His father, after completing studies at an institution for training members of the priesthood had lost his faith and became atheist living within a strongly religious community. (The Darrows were politicly diffrent; they were Democrats in a strongly Republican area.) The elder Darrow worked as a carpenter and coffin maker. His mother, who died when he was fifteen, was a strong supporter of women's rights. From his parents Darrow received a love of reading books and a weak attitude toward religion.…
During the Western Expansion, white settlers moved west for numerous reasons. They were motivated to find new land, Gold, and Stuck upon the belief of Manifest Destiny. This attitude helps fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico. In doing so, Native Americans faced harsh conditions and were treated horribly. The Great Plain Indians endured the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890, killing of the Buffalo, and many acts such as the Dawes act and Homestead.…
Wounded Knee was a terrible event in US history. It showed how the US government didn 't understand the Native Americans and treated them badly and unfairly.…
Rose O’Neal Greenhow, she engaged in an affair with prevailing Northern politicians, utilize her daughter to send information to the Southern generals. She provided information that allowed confederate forces to win the First Battle of Bull Run. When she was a young girl, one of her family’s slaves murdered her father. From that point on, Rose O’Neal Greenhow strongly opposed the movement to abolish slavery and grant equal right to black Americans. She continue with her life to marry a wealthy Southern men and move to Washington D.C. During this time, Greenhow developed a wide circle of friends that included many important political figures. Meanwhile, the Northern and Southern regions of the country had been arguring about many issues, including…
Despite hailing from vastly different cultures, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Yojimbo share a curious collection of similarities. Though the protagonists relate only on a thin wire of heroism, the unconventional setting, themes of violence, and mistreatment of the protagonist are present in both productions.…
In 1978, over 900 people drank flavor-aid laced with cyanide and sedatives in Jonestown, a settlement in Guyana. This phenomenon of so many people poisoning their children then themselves under the direction of just one man, Jim Jones, seems hard to believe. Although it is technically a suicide, the people were by no means emotionally stable enough to all make this decision willfully. Jim Jones carefully planned this massacre, which is shown through his treatment of the members of his temple, his mental state, and the timing in which everything was carried out.…
In Virginia the first battle of the Civil War was fought, near Manassas, Virginia railroad junction, after which the battle is called (or First Bull Run, named after the flowing stream on the battlefield, if of the Union point of view). The armies in this first battle were not prodigious by later Civil War principles. The Federal services under Brigadier General Irvin McDowell were well thought-out into four divisions, of about 30,000 men. These divisions were commanded by Tyler, Hunter, Heintzelman, and Miles. The Confederate command structure was to some extent more unmanageable, including two "armies", with no division structure and thirteen independent brigades under Bonham, Ewell, Jones, Longstreet, Cocke, Early, Holmes, Kershaw, Evans, Jackson, Bartow, Bee, Smith, and a cavalry brigade under Stuart. The Confederate Army of the Potomac was under the command of Brigadier General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, and the Army of the Shenandoah was controlled by Brigadier General Joseph E. Johnston. These two forces would be equivalent to McDowell's strength.…
Did you know that John Wilkes Booth’s original plan was to kidnap Abraham Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. Booth snuck into the presidential booth and shot Lincoln in the head with a pistol. Escaping Booth broke his leg, but worked through the pain. Booth was captured 12 days later. The morning of April 15, Abraham Lincoln died. The assassination of Lincoln shocked the country. He was the first president to be assassinated. Even though John Wilkes Booth was desperate, the assassination of him was unjustified because John Wilkes Booth didn't have to kill him for his stand on politics and no power over the decision for Lincoln to win the election.…
According to the text, Sitting Bull was a strong leader and embodied many admired traits of the Lakota Sioux. Utley says that Sitting bull was "… the admired epitome of the four cardinal virtues of the Lakotas: bravery, fortitude, generosity and wisdom" (34). Sitting Bull was also said to have three different personalities, all which contained traits of leadership in different ways. First, he was known to be an excellent hunter and warrior. Utley explained that Sitting Bull was "laden with honors" and "deliberated and rewarded with high rank by his people" (35). In addition to that, Sitting Bull was known as "The Holy Man, suffused with reverence and mysticism" (35). In combination with both of those personalities, he was also regarded as a "good tribesman, a man of kindness, generosity, and humility… wise counselor, and leader" This shows that he was a strong leader within his culture and was seen as successful within this respect.…
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice” (Abraham Lincoln Quotes article title). When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated the nation was affected in many ways. The union and confederates did not known how to get the nation back together. Two ways that Lincoln's assassination affected the nation was that the original plan for reconstruction changed and his death created a larger time period of racism, segregation, and discrimination.…
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier sits near the center of Arlington National Cemetery and is the final resting place for unidentified soldiers from wars fought by the United States. It has a lot of history, and significance to the country.…