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    operated by the Long Island Railroad Company that is organized in the state of New York. A large crowd of people was gathered at the station that morning. Approximately five minutes after arriving at the station‚ Ms. Palsgraf was standing near a scale on the platform with her daughter several feet away from where the explosion would occur. Two unidentified males rushed to board the train as it was leaving the station. One of the males successfully boarded the

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    The Reverse Underground Railroad was the pre-American Civil War practice of kidnapping free black men in free states and transporting them to slave states to be sold. It was called the Reverse Underground Railroad because it’s purpose was the opposite of what the Underground Railroad tried to achieve‚ which was a network of abolitionists who smuggled black slaves into free land‚ generally in Canada. The kidnapping of blacks was considered a dirty business. Kidnappers physically abused and psychologically

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    Strike the iron when it is hot: What we ingrain in young minds determine the future for them and the generations to come. As the world wakes up to decades of sheer recklessness in destroying world’s resources and to the clarion call towards sustainability‚ it is high time the discussions on the same enter the schools and colleges for future generations to understand the urgency of the issue and take right steps in their careers. As they say “strike the iron when it is hot”. What started in 1975 as

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    Between 1860 and 1877 there were numerous events that amounted to a Revolution. During this time period the United States went through a constitutional and social reform that was Revolutionary. Secession and reconstruction are two events that effected the United States constitutionally. These two events amounted to a revolution in the sense that it changed the United States drastically. With reconstruction and secession came numerous bills and acts that either tried to keep the Union together

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    Many of the facts surrounding the Underground Railroad changed between researchers because they must make their own conclusions based on the evidence that they do have. The most common inconsistency I saw was about the exact time and who was involved. I found author Henrietta Buckmaster to have the most convincing explanation of it. She explained the base facts about what it was and how it worked‚ but then went into more depth about who was involved and why they were involved. I found her explanation

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    Reconstruction officially lasting from 1865 to 1877 began as President Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to reunite the nation after the civil war. President Johnson continued Lincoln’s agenda initially but differed in terms of advancing civil rights for the newly freed. One of the biggest issues of Reconstruction was to grant equal rights to every American’s‚ especially for the African Americans. Even though slavery was abolished after the civil war‚ many Southerners‚ including Johnsons‚ were still against

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    ships and the national roads. The North was the site of more than 100‚000 manufacturing plants‚ against 18‚000 south of the Potomac River‚ and more than 70 percent of the railroads were in the Union. This gave the North the majority of the advantage with the use of the rail system‚ the only down fall was the South’s railroad systems were newer. 75 percent of the total lines that Confederacy had at the being of the Civil War were newer‚ been constructed in the 1850’s. Leading only the Northwestern

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    Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Company Issue: Ms. Palsgraf‚ a customer of the Long Island Railroad Company‚ was injured one day while awaiting her train. Her injury was sustained as two railroad employees assisted another passenger onto a train and the other customer’s package which contained fireworks (concealed) fell onto the rails as a result of the assistance provided by the company’s employees. Consequently‚ the fireworks caused an explosion when it came into contact with the rails and

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    The Impact of the Underground Railroad in American History To begin‚ when the topic of American history is brought up‚ people do not tend to bring up slavery and how it has impacted our country by once splitting it into two. Instead they bring up how our country gives independence and freedom to its citizens. This was not always the case though in 1619 the first slaves were brought to Virginia by the Dutch to help boost production of tobacco and other important crops. These African American people

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    about disabilities also offers discussion in classrooms that are related to cross-cultural as well as cross-curricular literature. The story Secret Signs: An Escape Through the Underground Railroad by Antia Riggio‚ which is about a boy who is Deaf‚ but also during a time during the Civil War and Underground Railroad. This story not only addresses cultural understanding my emphasizing the importance of the Deaf culture‚ but also discusses the Civil War‚ making this book a guide for the topic of disabilities

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