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- 241: The Women's Civil Rights Movement
- ... divorce laws more favorable to women. Lucy Sten, who was the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree. Susan B. Anthony. She devoted her life to the temperance movement, (against alcohol) and the abolition cause (against slavery). She fought for women and black males to have the right to vote. She was arrested when she attempted to vote in Rochester, New York local elections. We built the Women's ...
- 242: The War Between the States
- ... Charleston Mercury newspaper and thehighbrow Russells Magazine and reflecting on the mounting sectional tensions of the prewar years. In a letter to William dated March 26, 1856, Charles complained that the "Government is becoming more abolition every day" and he predicted that the "Union may last a few years longer, but unless a decided change takes place in Northern politics, it must at last go under." The War Begins Events would ...
- 243: Causes of the Civil War
- ... the South's expansion and so Southerners felt that they had no other choice. The United States was divided into three groups by the time the Civil War began: those who believed in the complete abolition of slavery, those who were against the expansion of slavery, and those who were pro slavery. The Republican party was formed in opposition to southern expansion. Their views were Free Soil, Free Men and Free ...
- 244: The Goals and Failures of the First and Second Reconstructions
- ... Transaction Publishers, 1993) p. 148. 4 Ibid. p. 152. 5 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) pp.229-231. 6 Daniel J. Mcinerney, The Fortunate Heirs of Freedom: Abolition and the Republican Party (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994) p.151. 7 Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1988) pp.228-251. 8 The transformation of the goals ...
- 245: Poverty
- ... destination is unachievable when there is no pure government or authority to lead the way. Naipaul relates the reader two similar stories, one in each novel, of two similar presidents and their fights for the abolition of poverty. In A Hot Country, Naipaul shows the raw power a president has over his people, how the followers become brainwashed, and how people lose any hope for progress in the future. Alex Richter ...
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