John Hancock To Hungarian Revolt

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John Hancock

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(1737-1793) A prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence

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Mark Hanna

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The campaign manager of the successful Republican Presidential candidate, William McKinley, in the U.S. Presidential election of 1896. He subsequently became one of the most powerful members of the Senate.

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Warren G. Harding

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He was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death from a heart attack in 1923. He held a conservative stance politically economically, and socially. He released Eugene Debs from prison.

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Harlem Renaissance

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Flowering of African American intellectual life during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Harpers Ferry

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Late on the night of October 16, 1859, John Brown and twenty-one armed followers stole into the town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia . The men--among them three free blacks, one freed slave, and one fugitive slave--hoped to spark a rebellion of freed slaves and to lead an "army of emancipation" to overturn the institution of slavery by force. To these ends the insurgents took some sixty prominent locals as hostages and seized the town's United States arsenal and its rifle works. The insurection failed because John Brown was out of his mind and he was withheld by Robert E. Lee with incredible ease.

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Hartford Convention

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An event spanning from December 15, 1814–January 4, 1815 in the United States during the War of 1812 in which New England's opposition to the war reached the point where secession from the United States was discussed.

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Haymarket Square

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(May 4, 1886) Violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago that dramatized the labour movement's struggle for recognition. Seven policemen were killed and 60 other people were wounded.

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Headright System

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(1618) A systemof obtaining land in colonial times in which one received fifty acres of land for every emigrant to America one sponsored

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William Randolph Hearst

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(1863 – 1951) An American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher.

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Nagaski, Hiroshima

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A couple of lovely Japanese cities that the U.S atomized on the days of August 6 and 9 1945.

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Adolph Hitler

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Declared Chancellor of Germany in 1933. He led the fascist Nazi Germany into WW2 with the invasion of Poland in 1939. He did bring Germany out if a depression, but on the other hand he killd 10 million Jews, Gypsies, Communists, Intellectuals, and Fags in what has come to be known as the Holocaust. Everyone knows who he was. He also had a sweet mustache.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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An American jurist who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures. Schenck v. U.S. He was a supposed progressive.

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Homestead Act

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(1862) One of several United States federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title up to 160 acres of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies.

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Homestead Strike

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An industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. It is one of the most serious labor disputes in US history.The final result was a major defeat for the union, and a setback for efforts to unionize steel.

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Herbert Hoover

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31st President of the United States (1929–1933). In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience. The nation was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith. None of Hoover's volunteer relief efforts helped the country recover from the depression during his term.

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House of Burgesses

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Established in 1619, the Virginia House of Burgesses was the first representative government in North America.

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HUAC

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(1938-1975)The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was an investigative committee in the United States House of Representatives which was meant to look into suspected cases of subversion and disloyalty to the United States government.

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Joseph McCarthy

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(1908 – 1957) An American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. Ultimately, McCarthy's tactics and his inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate.

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Langston Hughes

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(1902 – 1967) An African American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for his work during and about the Harlem Renaissance.

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Hungarian Revolt

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A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. The rebellion was crushed by the sovirt union and Imra Nagy was exexuted.