Black codes and Jim Crow laws were laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of black voters. Beginning in 1867, they formed a coalition with carpetbaggers (one-sixth of the electorate) and scalawags (one-fifth) to gain control of southern state…
Central Pacific Railroad, American railroad company founded in 1861 by a group of California merchants known later as the “Big Four” (Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles CrockerCharles CrockerCharles Crocker (September 16, 1822 – August 14, 1888) was an American railroad executive who was one of the…
Various royal, colonial, state, and federal governments established the first claims to land in what is now the United Statesthe United StatesIn its noun form, the word generally means a resident or citizen of the U.S., but is also used for someone whose ethnic identity is simply “American”. The noun…
Vikings. Columbus was probably not the first European to reach America. … Columbus. By the time of Columbus,Europeans had traveled to the East and explored many parts of Asia. … Magellan. … Later Voyages. … Spanish Colonies. … English Colonies. … French Colonies. … Other Colonies. … The First Successful…
Who were the ’liberals’?what ideas were supported by them? (i) Politically, they demanded constitutionalism with national unification, nation-state with written constitution and parliamentary administration. (ii) Socially, they wanted to rid society of its classbased partialities and birth rights. Who were the ’liberals’?what ideas were supported by them? (i) Politically, they…
Martha Ballard (1734 – 1812) Dorothea Dix (1802 – 1887) Mary Seacole (1805 – 1881) Mary Todd Lincoln (1818 – 1882) Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910) Clarissa Barton (1821 – 1912) Linda Richards (1841 – 1930) Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845 – 1926) Elizabeth Grace Neill…
Democracy, as you may have known, is a form of governance where people decide. They decide on how to be ruled, who should rule for how long. Due to this feature, people in a democratic country enjoy a lot of freedom. They can work freely and perform well in whatever…
The first civilization in Mesoamerica was that of the OlmecOlmecCharacteristics. Olmec colossal heads vary in height from 1.47 to 3.4 metres (4.8 to 11.2 ft) and weigh between 6 and 50 tons.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Olmec_colossal_headsOlmec colossal heads – Wikipedia. They lived from 1200-400 BCE. There are very few written…
The Native people of New Zealand are the Māori People. They are referred to as the tangata whenua. Māori were settlers originally from eastern Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand on a boat between 1320 and 1350. The first people to arrive in New Zealand were ancestors of the Māori.…
King Sargon of AkkadSargon of AkkadSargon of Akkad (/ˈsɑːrɡɒn/; Akkadian: 𒊬𒊒𒄀 Šarrugi), also known as Sargon the Great, was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC. He is sometimes identified as the first person in…