Harriet Tubman is a great example of an extraordinary women in women history because of her actions that have affected our present lives. She served in the Underground Railroads during the 1850’s. But not many know how she escaped slavery around 1849 and she also helped the Union during the Civil War. To them she helped cooked‚ was a nurse‚ she helped spy for the Union‚ and she was the first women to lead a military expedition. She and Colonel James Montgomery planned a raid to free the slaves in
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Not all historical figures want to be an icon‚ such as Rosa Parks. Unlike a few other Civil Rights Movement members‚ Parks didn’t like the spotlight‚ but‚ that didn’t stop her from making a stand. School segregation was a major problem that African Americans had to face growing up. Segregation is the act of separating races‚ genders‚ or ethnic groups by designating various public spaces-such as schools or buses-for the use of one race‚ ethnicity‚ or gender group alone(Education Staff). When segregation
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some difficult decisions. Some of them‚ which caused wars and a lot of hate towards the British‚ and some that strictly affected the British colonies‚ which caused a lot of issues. The Seven Years war had a strong effect on the British Empire because it put the British in a lot of debt and they needed a way to get out of debt‚ which was one of the major consequences of the American Revolution. With the corruption that followed after the Seven Year war with the empire and
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people of Afghanistan have been affected by the political events from World War I to present day. In 1979‚ Soviet troops entered Afghanistan to establish a communist regime in Kabul. The Soviet soldiers took over major cities and highways‚ angering lots of Afghans. The people of Afghanistan felt they belonged primarily to their specific clan or ethnic group and secondarily to the government or a country. A majority of Afghans did not like the new communist regime because many of the laws went against
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The American Civil War had an impact on everyone in the country. Women were no exception. Phelps defines Civil War by saying‚ “Civil war exists when two or more opposing parties within a country resort to arms to settle a conflict or when a substantial portion of the population takes up arms against the legitimate government of a country.” Many people today do not realise the effect that women had on this war. Without them‚ the war could have had a very different outcome. Women held an array
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the south by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation and was the president during the bloodiest war in history‚ the Civil War. Through a rough childhood of poverty and his mother passing away at the age of nine‚ he was able to become a lawyer through self education and eventually become part of the Illinois Legislature. In January of 1863 President Lincoln issued a war measure during the American Civil War to proclaim the freedom of slaves within 10 rebellious states. When the proclamation was issued
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helped to shape‚ advance‚ and rebuild the United States around the Civil war took place in the 1800s. This was known by many as The Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was the beginning of the shift towards factories‚ industries‚ and machine produced goods. The Industrial Revolution called for new tools‚ technologies‚ as well as changed ways of transportation and communication. All of these new inventions would improve how work was able to get done and the way Northeastern society functioned
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speech‚ he made a bet in the belief that he might satisfy both sides: abolitionists and people who did not support racial equality and recruit as many votes as possible so that he could win the election.
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“They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in The Civil War” focused its attention around about 250 individual ladies who disguise themselves as men and fought along with their counterpart in the Civil War. Commonly‚ when you think of women and war together in the early years‚ your mind would center around them being self-sacrificing nurses‚ romantic spies‚ and brave women that would maintained the home front the absence of their men. The idea of the gender roles does not tell the entire story that
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You have a question that requires a book size answer something we do not have so let me do it this way. Lincoln was reluctant to issue an Emancipation Proclamation but you would have thought from what one is taught in class these days this was his primary concern. He issued the proclamation to save the Union making impossible for foreign Governments to intervene on behalf of the Confederacy. Even though the English supported (indirectly) slavery‚ they like other countries were officially against
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