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began to promote the telephone and improve on the telegraph. Bell made life easier by inventing the telephone so we can communicate from far away. Alexander made the telephone in 1876. Bell sketched out the telegraph to give him an idea of how to make the telephone. The first call on the telephone was on March 10th, 1876. Alexander was born on March 3, 1847, in Edinburgh, Scotland and died on August 2, in Nova, Canada at the age 75. Alexander does very important things like inventing the…

The Era where the Indians and the white people got along came to a crashing end. After the United States started to push the Indians off their land and force them into a smaller territory which we now call an Indian reservation. The interaction between the Indians and the white people did not have the greatest relationship but they were able to live together. The ways the Indians lived and way the whites lived their lives were different which one of the reason why they didn’t get along. The…

Crazy Horse attacked the general in Rosebud valley and forced the general to retreat. Later in summer of 1876, Crazy Horse merged his forces with Sitting Bull’s at Little Bighorn River. At the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeated a battalion of soldiers George. A. Custer’s command. The Battle of the Little Bighorn made whites…

Treaty six was introduced in September 1876 and it lasted until 1898 with the addition of its’ last adhesions. It was signed by Crown representatives and Cree, Assiniboine and Ojibwa leaders on August 23, 1876 at Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan and Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan. The treaty boundaries extend across central portions of present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1876, the Medicine Chest was offered within Treaty 6. It had promised medicine chests on every reserve for those bands that sign…

three, Alexander Graham Bell moved to Canada with his parents. His research on hearing and speech at Boston University further led him to experiences with hearing devices which culminated in Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876. A year later after he moved in with his parents, he started teaching at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes which he established in Boston, Massachusetts.…

April 15th 1865- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Importance: Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and he was the first President to be assassinated. Many believed the reason for his assassination was his willingness to free the slaves and defy what the Confederate States wanted. President Lincoln was assassinated while he watched a play at ford’s theater and died early the next morning. The Vice president Andrew Johnson was too be assassinated in his hotel room…

Constitution: A look at the amendment process and constitutional reform in the 1970’s Texas only has one method for Constitutional change, unlike the U.S. Constitution which has two methods. Article Seventeen, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution of 1876 outlines the process for Constitutional Amendments. Proposed amendments require a two-thirds vote by all members of the House and Senate during a regular or special session of the legislature in order to move forward for ratification by the…

Jack London was an American writer, author and journalist who lived from 1876 to 1916. Some of his famous works include The Sea Wolf and Call of the Wild. Born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, he was raised in Oakland, California, by his mother and stepfather. Jack London is considered to be a great writer. In his teenage years, he worked many different jobs. In his spare time, he read travel books and novels at the library. Eventually, he told his mother a story of what happened one day…

Watts, Tim J. "Bragg, Braxton (1817-1876)." In American Civil War: The Essential Reference Guide, by Roberta Wiener edited: James R. Arnold. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC- CLIO. General Bragg was known as one of the most divisive figures of the American Civil War. He was born in North Carolina in 1817 and decided to attend West Point Military College in 1833. Tim J. Watts tells us that Bragg graduated 5th in his class of 50 in the year 1837. He was also very aggressive and had discipline leading him…

in the 1870’s in Dakota Territory. The chance to get rich was now for the American settlers, but the only problem was a Native American tribe called the Sioux occupied this land. The United States Government saw this as a problem. On January 31, 1876, the government urged the Sioux leader named Sitting Bull, and his people to give their land away to white settlers and move to a reservation. The Sioux decided not to leave, and that this was their land. At this point, the Sioux and the whites…