immortalize her in history. She went on to lead at least 70 slaves to freedom‚ befriending some other abolitionists you may recognize like Frederick Douglass‚ Thomas Garrett‚ and Martha Coffin Wright. Harriet made many contributions in her time‚ she did so much for the war against slavery. What she pulled off was remarkable‚ it was
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Luther wanted reform we must look at what happened before the events of 1517‚ when he protested the sale of indulgences (an indulgence was the act of praying or giving money to the church‚ so you would spend less time in purgatory). Around the 1500’s the Church was very powerful due to the money they collected from taxes and also the land they owned‚ because they owned 20 per cent of all the land in Germany and 25 per cent of all the land in England. Since the church was this rich many people wanted
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forced out of their homes and went on the Trail of Tears. America could not stop there though. The greed and thirst for conquest grew rapidly like a beast. Soon Americans began to settle in Texas which was in newly independent Mexico. Americans did not follow the rules that went along with their comfy home in Mexico. Texas began to separate from Mexico and conflict fired up along the Rio Grande. With dictator Santa Anna in charge Mexico fought Texas. At the battle of San Jacinto Santa Anna was
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as Ceres‚ Scotland on September the 14th‚ 1742. He was one of seven children‚ his parents where William Wilson and Alison Landall. James attended the Universities of; St. Andrews‚ Glasgow‚ and Edinburgh. Although he never finished his studies‚ and did not obtained a degree‚ in any of the Universities. When he first left Scotland he headed to British America in 1766. Soon afterwards he move to Pennsylvania‚ and at The Academy of Philadelphia‚ (now the University of Pennsylvania)‚ He petitioned there
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Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist artist‚ arguably one of the best during the best American Modernist during her time. She is known for her contribution to art history‚ inspired by the artist around her drive to explore new realms brought about a revolutionizing movement in the field of art. She is widely known for her 1952 painting‚ Mountains and Seas and its landmark achievement of innovative techniques and paint pouring style. Not a stranger to trying new techniques and
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received her doctorate (O’Connor 2014). She was only one of two women students in the university at the time (Dick 1981). Noether kept pursuing her studies of mathematics even though society was preventing her from doing so. Her perseverance showed how ambitious and hardworking she is as an individual. In addition‚ her dedication to her studies even when being prevented from doing so is astounding. These qualities she possessed seem to be a common trait for women who pursued science in the early
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owned to 2% losing a large percent to richer families and foreigners. Diaz continued his path and more and more land was lost to the Rich and U.S investors. And although there were many disgruntled people there were very different view among them on how things should change causing three groups to rise wanting different things but all opposed the rule of
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government pamphlets‚ books and currency. As his business grew‚ he became increasingly involved in civil affairs. He established a lending library when books weren’t widely available‚ and that remained the largest U.S. public library until the 1850’s. Between 1765 and 1775 he wrote 126 newspaper pieces‚ most of which tried to explain each side to the other. He had very diverse professional interests‚ one of them being a prolific writer when he founded the American philosophical society. He was the
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The Reformation in England began rather political‚ opposed to religiously later on‚ because of a dispute between the king and the pope (Nelson). The source of this dispute was that the king was expected to produce a male heir to the throne. England did not have the Salic law‚ which in France this law forbade female heirs to the throne‚ though England had just surfaced from a prolonged civil war‚ the Wars of the Roses‚ so a new male bloodline was needed to maintain the throne and prevent resumption
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108). A local clergyman wrote and published an entire pamphlet that More’s school was the downfall of all good things. He continued to say that with the school closing‚ Miss More was not the evangelical radical that everyone thought she was. She did not stand up to the local authorities. The local clergyman believed “… More should have ‘defended her own cause’ and ‘that her apologists‚ with more zeal than judgement‚ have hurt her…” (Demers 107). This was later found to be untrue. Others believed
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