1876

Texas has had six constitutions as a state since 1836. The current constitution became effective on February 15, 1876; and is the same constitution currently used. It is the second-longest serving constitution in the United States. The United States constitution being the first longest. Since February 1876, the Texas constitution has been amended 484 times and is made up of seventeen articles and 385 sections. The five previous constitutions occurred within a span of forty years. They are: The…

The Texas Constitution: Explaining the Foundations of the Lone Star State The current Texas Constitution is a document, which was accepted on February 15, 1876. It is the seventh written constitution of Texas. It contains sixteen articles and places many restrictions on government. Although it is the supreme law in the State, it also falls under Article IV, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Supremacy Clause. Much like the U.S. Constitution, the Texas Constitution establishes…

General Custer General Custer was known as a Civil War legend. General Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio on December 5,1839. His parents were Emanuel and Marie Custer. Most of his childhood time was spent in Monroe, Michigan where he attended McNeely Norman School. After graduating from high school ,he taught two years of school. After teaching for two years he enrolled to the military academy West Point. After graduating from West Point in 1861 he joined the cavalry unit even though he was…

physiology and speech at Boston University in 1873, he initiated conventions for teachers of the deaf. Throughout his life he continued to educate the deaf, and he founded the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. From 1873 to 1876 Bell experimented with a phonautograph, a multiple telegraph, and an electric speaking telegraph (the telephone). Funds came from the fathers of two of his pupils; one of these men, Gardiner Hubbard, had a deaf daughter, Mabel, who later…

1877 was an informal arrangement between national Democrats and Republicans. The two parties settled the disputed presidential election of 1876 by allowing Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes to become president while permitting Democrats to take political control of southern states Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina. Before the compromise, the election of 1876 lead to violence and bloodshed in the South. However, the national results caused confusion as Samuel Tilden, the Democratic…

it. The Harper’s Weekly cartoon in 1876 shows Ulysses…

1876 marked an important year in the America, that year marked the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the end of reconstruction.That year the election of 1876 officially crushed the American dream for millions of black Americans living in the South. The Civil War the policy of reconstruction was developed for the purpose of reconnecting the eleven states that had left the Union and welcoming the millions of freedmen as full American citizens. In other words it was a new way…

Gold Rush of 1874 lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876?”. One key source chosen to support this investigation is a treaty written in 1868 between the the United States (U.S.) government and the Native American nations of the Dakota Territory regarding ownership and land rights of the Black Hills. The other source is a firsthand account from a Cheyenne woman that lived through and experienced some of the events leading up to the Great Sioux War of 1876. Source A. Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868, PBS…

This investigation examines the historical question of “to what extent did the Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874 lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876?”. The key sources chosen to support this investigation are a book of compiled historical information from the United States Department of the Interior and an interview of a Native American woman that lived through both the Black Hills Gold Rush and the Great Sioux War. These are relevant because one has access to an extensive database of government…

When John Winthrop gave a speech in 1630 aboard a ship called the Arbella,he described a “City upon a Hill”, referencing the Book of Matthew.The town or city that the Puritans would create would be a perfect example of Christianity. An example that other towns and communities would follow and because of that God would bless them. But if they were to go against the Lord or not put all of their effort into it the community it would fail. Today, John Winthrop’s “City upon a Hill” speech is often…