Up to 3,000 men fought and the sea battle featured 12 Roman galleys—a truly impressive event, attended by people from all over Italy. When the Colosseum was finished, the Romans asked themselves: what better way to celebrate the building’s capability than to flood the Colosseum and hold a massive naval…
The Colosseum appeared to be a splendid construction from the outside. There were sculptures of divinities and gods in each of the vacant arches on the second and third tiers. The statues were composed of metal and marble, with gold on the exterior layer in certain cases. The Kongresshalle,or “Congress…
CLASS. Medieval tailors constructed clothes for a small segment of the population. Their work was heavily bound by tradition and limited resources. They were hired to create all types of clothing, from underwear to silk gowns. Did people sew in Middle Ages? Sewing is an occupation which is usually the…
Were there steps the students could have taken other than filing a lawsuit? Yes, the students could’ve worked out a compromise with the principal/school before jumping to such drastic measures. If you are unsure whether to file in state or federal court, or which state to file the suit in,…
New York’s “Newspaper Row”, showing the first skyscrapers built in the late 19th century: (l to r) World Building, Tribune Building, 150 Nassau Street, Times Building. Progression of Buildings and Skyscrapers in the late 1800s and early 1900s. British engineer, Sir Henry Bessemer creates a process in which pig iron…
The stocks were bought and sold on stock exchanges, of which the most important was the New York Stock Exchange located on Wall Street in Manhattan. Throughout the 1920s a long boom took stock prices to peaks never before seen. From 1920 to 1929 stocks more than quadrupled in value.…
The movie Lincoln inspired a Mississippi citizen to push the state to correct a clerical error that kept the state from officially ratifying the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. What year did slavery end? The House Joint Resolution proposing the 13th amendment to the Constitution, January 31, 1865; Enrolled Acts…
In the early 1800s, the L’Hermitage plantation stretched across hundreds of acres along the Monocacy River near Frederick, Maryland. Ninety of the 108 plantation residents were enslaved human beings, making it the region’s largest enslaved population. Where was the largest market for slaves? The city of New Orleans was the…
Pittsburgh’s population was some 2,400 people; 64 of them were slaves. When did Pittsburgh stop slavery? On March 1, 1780, the Pennsylvania Assembly passed “An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery,” which deemed that no child born in Pennsylvania could be a slave. Was there ever slavery in Pennsylvania?…
Cotton became the major cash crop and large numbers of African slaves toiled on plantations owned by the planter elite. On the eve of the Civil War in 1860, enslaved persons made up more than half of Middle Florida’s population. Where did slaves work in Florida? On March 3, 1845,…