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    Susan B. Anthony

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    Susan B. Anthony Susan Brownell Anthony was the pioneer and key spokesperson for the 19th century women’s suffrage movement. She was and activist‚ reformer‚ teacher‚ and lecturer. Anthony was born in South Adams‚ Massachusetts‚ 15 Feb.‚ 1820. The second of eight children‚ Susan learned to read and write at age three. In 1826‚ when she was six years old‚ the family moved to Battenville‚ New York. Susan attended a local district school‚ where a teacher refused to teach her

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    Fight‚ or Flight? In 1820‚ the binding force that held America together for nearly 100 years had started to collapse. After 41 years of crumbling down‚ the force had broken‚ leading to the Civil War - the bloodiest war in the history of wars - and the darkest part of American History. Thousands of civilians‚ including 65‚000 Texans‚ went forward to serve in the Confederate military. Unfortunately‚ 1 in 5 of every Texan soldier that went to fight died. But‚ in the first place‚ why did Texans fight

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    Ch. 12 1) Among the primary reasons that young farm women moved from the farms to work in textile mill towns in the early 19th century was: To escape farm life and earn wages 2) The history of Lowell epitomizes this transition: Self-sufficient farm families to urban wageworkers 3)In the pre-industrial system‚ a boy who wanted to learn a trade Entered a formal apprenticeship system 4)The organization of a family business in the pre-industrial era was Patriarchal 5) If you lived in Boston

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    treaty. * KI dies may 8‚ 1819‚ significant for missionaries because they came in march 20‚ 1820 when war had cooled down. * Ka’ahumanu was Kamehameha’s favorite wife of 20+‚ however Keöpüolani was Kamehameha’s highest ranking wife and mother of Liholiho (KII) ‘Ainoa * Liholiho (KII) became Mö’ï after KI’s death * Kuhina nui is a girl chief. Christianity * Missionaries arrived march 20‚ 1820 * Viewed Hawaiian people as foolish‚ uneducated. * They respected the monarch but

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    Slave and land ownership became more concentrated‚ so more and more white people were forced to leave the land and move to urban centers in search of work. By 1860s a sharp contrast between the developed North and the rural South developed. Similarly to the economic growth‚ the period from 1820 to 1840 was a time of significant political developments. The previous qualifications for voting rights by the amount of property owned were abolished and a direct methods of selecting

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    The ^American Spirit United States History as Seen by Contemporaries Ninth Edition Volume I: To 1877 Houghton Mifflin Company Boston New YorkContents 1 2 Preface xxi New World Beginnings‚ 33‚000 B.C.-A.D.1769 1 A. The Native Americans 1 1. Visualizing the New World (1505‚ 1509) 1 2. Juan Gines de Sepulveda Belittles the Indians (1547) 3 3. Bartoleme de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552) 4 B. The Spanish in America 6 1. Hernan Cortes Conquers Mexico (1519-1526) 6 2. Aztec Chroniclers Describe the

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    In the south‚ agriculture was the big business. Cash crops were grown‚ often using slave labor‚ on big plantations and small farms throughout the south. Cotton‚ tobacco‚ and food crops (rice‚ Indian corn) were all grown to some extent‚ but cotton was by far the most profitable. In the first half of the nineteenth century‚ manufacturing was taking root in the North. Among the first industries to grow was textiles. Northern textiles were made from Southern cotton. Southern cotton fueled the South’s

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    Ms. Florence Nightingale was originally born in Italy‚ Florence on May 12‚ 1820. Her mother was Frances Nightingale‚ and her father was William S. Nightingale. Florence only had one sister by the name of Frances Parthenope Verney. As they grew up together Florence herself became a nurse and her sister became an English writer and journalist. Her childhood was a very active one. At a young age she was very active in philanthropy‚ caring for the ill and poor people. By the time she was 16 she knew

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    citizenship by exploiting the legal systems. The Supreme Court judges denied his request stating that no individual with African blood could become a citizen of the United States (Epperson‚ 32). The same decision overruled the Missouri Compromise of the year 1820 which has constrained slavery in specific territories of the United States. Scott’s owners moved him from Illinois and then to Wisconsin‚ both of these areas were part of the Northwest region that had banned slavery. Therefore‚ when Scott made it back

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    Slavery has played an important and crucial role in the development of the United States because key leaders‚ and many others stood against it‚ it was a long hard fight‚ and it’s still impacting us today. November 6th‚ 1860 the sixteenth president‚ Abraham Lincoln was brought into office. This created uproar in Southern states who were anxious Lincoln would abolish slavery. Though he never actually came out and said he was against slavery‚ southerners thought his actions said it all. The biggest

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