The so-called "Indian Wars" took place roughly from 1864-1890 (from the Sand Creek Massacre to the Battle of Wounded Knee). It was really less of a war than a long series of skirmishes‚ battles‚ and massacres. At first‚ the Indians actually had the advantage because their arrows could be fired more rapidly than a muzzle-loading rifle. The invention of the Colt .45 revolver (the six-shooter by Samuel Colt) and Winchester repeating rifle changed this. Notably‚ one-fifth of the U.S. Army out West
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Published (1852) March 4th 1853- March 4th 1857 Franklin Pierce Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) March 4th 1857-March 4th 1861 James Buchanan Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)‚ Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) March 4th 1861-April 15th 1865 Abraham Lincoln Homestead Act (1862)‚ Battle of Antietam (1862)‚ Freedmen’s Bureau created (1865)‚ Surrender at Appomattox (1865) April 15th 1865-March 4th 1869 Andrew Johnson March 4th 1869-March 4th 1877 Ulysses S. Grant Transcontinental Railroad opened (1869)‚ Whiskey
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1. Jamestown‚ 1607 2. First Africans brought to Virginia‚ 1619 3. Mayflower Compact‚ 1620 4. Great Migration of Puritans to Massachusetts‚ 1630s and 1640s 5. Roger Williams established Rhode Island‚ 1636 6. William Penn established Pennsylvania‚ 1681 7. Salem witch trials‚ 1692 8. James Oglethorpe established Georgia‚ 1732 9. Jonathan Edwards sparked the Great Awakening‚ 17349 10. The French and Indian War‚ 1754-63 11. Proclamation of 1763 12. Stamp Act‚ 1765-66
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The United States became an industrial power by tapping North America’s vast natural resources‚ including minerals‚ lumber and coal‚ particularly in the newly developed west. Industries that had once depended on waterpower began to use prodigious amounts of coal. Steam engines replaced human and animal labor‚ and kerosene replaced whale oil and wood. By 1900‚ America’s factories and urban homes were converting to electric power. Dependence on fossil fuels (oil‚ coal‚ natural gas)‚ which powered machines
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Labor leader and advocate of legislative labor reform‚ Samuel Gompers was globally recognized for being a cornerstone in the sustaining legacy that is the American Federation of Labor. Gompers was born to a Jewish working class couple in London on the 27th of January in 1850. His childhood was short lived‚ for he was forced to mature early on. After only four years of receiving an elementary school education‚ Gompers was taken in and apprenticed to a shoemaker at the age of ten. He would quickly
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The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution The Clash of Cultures on the Plains The West‚ after the Civil War‚ was still largely untamed. It was inhabited by Indians‚ buffalo‚ coyotes‚ Mexicans‚ and Mormons. The American Indians found themselves caught in between their own traditions and the westward-pushing white man. Indians fought one another as with the Comanche over the Apache‚ the Chippewa over the Cheyenne‚ and the Sioux over the Crow‚ Kiowa‚ and Pawnee
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Movement The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was a labor union organized by African American employees of the Pullman Company in August 1925 and led by A. Philip Randolph and Milton P. Webster. This paper will discuss the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) founders‚ the issues that caused its fight for organization and recognition‚ the Pullman Company‚ the American Federation of Labor and the affect on the labor movement and the affect on the civil rights movement. First
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came to find work in order to support their family. If forced to choose between living in a town with inhumane living conditions known as Packingtown or live in a town where everything was ran and owned by George Pullman‚ I would pack my bags and move into Pullmans model town. I choose Pullman because of its living conditions‚ the culture of the town‚ and opportunities for women even if they were not ideal. Packingtown was notorious for its awful and inhumane living conditions and working conditions
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describe the treatment of workers at the turn of the 20th century. This was all in the hands of some powerful industrialist we refer to as "robber barons". There can be no mistaking their motives: wealth. It portrays men like Vanderbilt‚ Rockefeller‚ Pullman‚ Ford and cruel and ruthless businessmen who would stop at nothing to achieve great wealth.They cared little about the lives and treatment of those that worked under them‚ and reside in their towns. They were in many cases accused of disregard of
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Union chartered by the American Federation of Labor. Pullman porters were men who George Pullman hired to work on railroads as porters on sleeping cars. After the American Civil War‚ Mr. Pullman found former slaves to work on his sleeper cars. Mr. Pullman was inspired to design better railcars for passengers that had sleeper berths for the passengers after he slept all night in his seat on a train trip from Buffalo to Westfield‚ NY. The Pullman Company was one of the largest employers of African
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