Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who was involved in the fight to end slavery. She established the underground railroad‚ which was a way to get slaves safely to the north.Harriet Tubman was born between 1820-1825‚ but it is not certain the exact day or year.She was born in Dorchester County‚ Maryland. Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Harriet Ross and went by the nickname “Minty”. She was born to enslaved parents and had 10 siblings. When she was young‚ she was beat very often by her
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working as a steamship captain‚ Vanderbilt he started a business for himself in the late 1820s‚ and then became one of the country’s largest steamship operators. During this time he gained a reputation for being
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Racism has been a problem in America for centuries. From slavery‚ to Jim Crow laws‚ to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson‚ racism always has been‚ and will always be a problem. In her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Hurston talked about racism and showed how it affected the life of the main character‚ Janie. Their Eyes Were Watching God took place in the 1890s‚ a period of violent racially motivated crimes and segregation. This segregation played a huge role in people’s lives‚ in
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According to‚ "Is There A History of Sexuality?" sex has no history but sexuality does. Sex is natural in order to keep reproducing our species sexual activity has to be performed by a male and a female. Depending on your cultural and religious background it plays a role on individual sexual behavior. Michael Foucault thought of sexuality as‚ “set of effects produced in bodies‚ behaviors‚ and social relations by a certain deployment’ of “a complex political technology.”David M. Halperin author
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1800’s. Populations in both the North and the south grew tremendously. The main increase from the North was largely due to the many immigrants that flooded the coastal cities. Around 2.8 million immigrants came into the United States between 1850 and 1860. This great increase in immigrants further fueled the industrialization of the Northern states. The new source of labor was cheap‚ and therefore‚ slavery became‚ in the eyes of the North‚ un-needed (Williams). During this same time period‚ there
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What were some of the causes of the Civil War? One thing that caused it was States v.s Federal Rights . Economic and Social issues‚ and the election of Abraham Lincoln. When President Lincoln was elected in 1860‚ south Carolina issued its Declaration of the causes of succession. They believed that Lincoln was against slavery‚ and was in favor of Northern interests. Before Lincoln even became president seven states had already seceded from the union. The states was Florida‚ South Carolina‚ Mississippi
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Many factors caused the lead-up to the Civil War. The country’s tension was high before the Civil War began for many different reasons that contributed to the Civil War. The tension was high due to many massacres and laws that even heightened the tensions between the North and the South states. South states believed heavily in slavery and wanted to keep slavery around strongly and firmly since the South depended on slaves to do agricultural work. However‚ the North believed that slavery was bad and
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The Civil War in America‚ Cause and Consequences The Civil War in the United States of America is one of the most frequently studied wars of any in American History. This terrible war put brothers from the North against brothers from the South and the result was both awful and catastrophic. When counting the dead and wounded on both sides‚ including the destruction of houses‚ farms‚ and the livelihood of people on both sides‚ the Civil War was the most terrible and bloodiest war in American
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pattern for the operation of society as a whole iii) Manifest functions is the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern iv) Latent functions is the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern b) Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) compared society to the human body. c) Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) expanded our understanding of the concept of social function by pointing out that any social structure probably as many functions‚ some more obvious than others. d) Social
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slavery’s abolition. After the war end a new U.S constitution counting each slave as a three-fifths of a person for the purpose of taxation. In 1808 domestic trade flourished and the slavery population in the U.S tripled over the 50 years. In 1860 it reached 4 million with more half in living in the cotton producing of the south. In the south about one-third of the southern population are slaves. Cost of the slaves lived in a farm or small plantations. many people (masters) owned less than
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