Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin located in Hodgenville Kentucky on the twelfth of February in the year of 1809. His parents were Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Lincoln had one older sister (Sarah) who was born in 1807. Three years after Abraham was born, his mother gave birth to a baby boy they named Thomas. The family was faced with devastating turmoil when Thomas died while he was still an infant. When Abe was nine years old he was kicked in the head by a horse, which caused his family to believe him to be dead. He survived, but his mother died a few months later of milk sickness. Thomas, Abraham’s father, remarried one year later to a young woman named Sarah Bush Johnston. Sarah was a widow who had three children of her own. Abe became extremely fond of his step mother and developed a great deal of affection towards her. In the years 1820-1822 Lincoln briefly attends school. In 1824 Lincoln began to plow and plant for his neighbors. During the fall and winter seasons he would attend school. Lincoln constantly borrowed books and read during any opportunity possible. On January twentieth of the year 1828 Sarah, Abe’s sister, passes away during childbirth. Three months later Lincoln takes his first trip to New Orleans on a flatboat caring farm produce. During this trip Abe experiences a slave auction and is attacked by seven black men attempting to rob him. In March of 1830 Abraham and his family move to Illinois, a two hundred mile journey, and settle along the Sangamon River. Once again Abraham Lincoln’s father moves, but this time Abe ventures to New Salem, Illinois. He remained there working as a clerk in the village store. The owner of the store also allowed Lincoln to sleep in the back. While in New Salem, Lincoln also began to participate in a local debating society. Two years after his family had moved to Illinois Lincoln found himself as the candidate for the Illinois General Assembly. He enlists in the Black Hawk war one month later. He was elected Captain of his rifle company, but was forced to reenlist as a private after that company was disbanded. During his three months of service he never fought in a battle. On August sixth he lost the election for the Illinois General Assembly. Lincoln was hit with another blow when the store that he worked at went out of business. He and his partner, William Berry, deci...
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...an Cousin”, John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln in the head shortly after 10:00p.m on April 14, 1865. At 7:22 the next morning the sixteenth president of the United States was pronounced dead. His assassin was shot and killed in a tobacco barn eleven days later, never being put on trial. On May fourth, 1865 Abraham Lincoln was laid to rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery, located near Springfield, Illinois. Although Lincoln was not alive to see it, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 31, 1865 that abolished slavery.
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Harriet Ross Tubman was an African American who escaped slavery and then showed runaway slaves the way to freedom in the North for longer than a decade before the American Civil War. During the war she was as a scout, spy, and nurse for the United States Army. After that she kept working for rights for blacks and women.
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Servitude has been present in America since 1619 and has affected the lives of countless Americans. Slavery was the underlying cause to the American Civil War, which led to tremendous consequences within the United States. Slaves were being sold to work on cotton farms in the southern parts of the United States where cash crops generated money. Many of these slaves tried to escape from slavery, and were unsuccessful. However, Harriet Tubman was one of the few people to individually accomplish freedom and escape the horrors of enslavement. She is a remarkable individual who accomplished incredible tasks through her own bravery, intelligence, and strength. She is acknowledged as one of the most influential and passionate women in American history. Motivated by her own unjust past, Harriet Tubman became an active abolitionist, a respected conductor in the abolitionist movement known as the Underground Railroad, and served as a nurse and a spy in the American Civil war.
In 1821, Harriet Tubman became one of the foremost activists for slave freedom in history. Born into slavery, she grew up hearing poems and songs, like “Go Down Moses”, which inspired her to become a Moses for her own people, once she had escaped slavery herself. By means of the Underground Railroad, a network of people dedicated to helping runaway slaves to freedom, Harriet eventually escaped to Philadelphia.
However, a reward was set for them and the brothers returned. Harriet kept it moving on the path to freedom. In order for Harriet to help rescue others she had to experience freedom on her own before helping free her people. Harriet Tubman wanted to achieve the goal of freedom for herself and her people. Through her learning of freedom she had to build relationships on her journey with different abolitionist and conductors. Upon her reaching to Philadelphia she met conductors of the Underground Railroad who helped her get to Philadelphia to safety. While being in Philadelphia she realized that it was not as safe as it was set to be, but she had to keep traveling until she reached full
The 1800’s were a bad time for the United States. A new country and already we had vastly differing opinions on one topic: slavery. People were on one extreme or the other, resulting in heated debates and fights over laws and regulations. A revolutionary of her time and an escaped slave, Harriet Tubman was singlehandedly the most effective Underground Railroad “conductor” there ever was. If it were not for her, many slaves would never have been freed from the institution of slavery. Rebellious and set on attaining her freedom from a young age, she never let anyone keep her in her “place.” The 11th child in a family and illiterate her entire life, she managed to set over 300 slaves free in a period of about ten years.
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Throughout the 19th century slavery was prevalent in the United States. African Americans were treated harshly and unequally and struggled tremendously to achieve social and political equality. The North and South fought back and fourth about free and slave territories which eventually led to the civil war. Harriet Tubman was an African American woman born into slavery. She was an abolitionist,humanitarian and Union spy, who desperately believed that all slaves should be free. Tubman took extreme risks in trying to get slaves to safety through the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman’s contributions as the conductor of the Underground Railroad and her role in the Civil War had crucial influence in the emancipation of slaves. Her perseverance helped lead to social equality between Whites and African Americans and changed the history of the United States. Harriet Tubman was an American icon who’s bravery and heroic actions led to great impacts throughout America.
Harriet Tubman was a selfless woman, who devoted her life to save others. Many other slaves from the South escaped to freedom in the North like Tubman. Many of these people stayed where they were free, frightened to go anywhere near the South again. However, that was not Tubman, she was different. She wanted everyone to have the feeling of freedom that she had newly discovered. Harriet was known “to bring people of her race from bondage to liberty,” (S Bradford et al 1869). Harriet Tubman was known as a hero to lots of people during the Civil War.
According to Roni Neff, Marie Spiker, and Patricia Truant, up to 40% of all food produced in America is thrown away (Neff, Spiker, & Truant, 2015, p.2). This wasted food is worth hundreds of billions of dollars that is lost each year in the United States alone, and creates many threats to our country. Food waste is an important and widespread issue in the United States because most of the food thrown away is perfectly fine, it could be used to feed the hungry, and the waste hurts the environment.
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Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 to Thomas and Nancy Hawks Lincoln (Fetzer, 311, 312). He had an older sister, Sarah, and a brother, Thomas, who died in infancy (Fetzer, 312). On the farm that Abraham was born, the family spent only two years (Fetzer, 312). They then moved to a farm ten miles away on Knob Creek (Fetzer, 312). It was in Knob Creek where Sarah and Abraham first went to school, learning reading, writing, and arithmetic in a log schoolhouse (Fetzer, 312). Abraham had less than one year of formal schooling, though (Fetzer, 313). He was mainly self-educated, and even made his OVTI textbooks (Fetzer, 313). In 1816, Thomas decided to move the family again (Fetzer, 312). They moved to southwestern Indiana, where Thomas worked