Anti-Federalism

The documents given to my colleagues and I are from two slavery abolitionists , one being Angelina Grimke Weld who was a woman that grew up surrounded by slavery. Watching the pain and suffering of the men and women around her she got a prime example of slavery and its harsh conditions. Angelina is tired of the north turning the other cheek when the issue of slavery is raised so she held a speech in Pennsylvania to raise concern. Along with William lloyd Garrison who was a prominent abolitionist…

The Prohibition Era forever changed history for women in the United States. Prohibition was a period starting in the 1920’s and lasted all the way through 1933. Prohibition led to the eighteenth amendment which was upheld on January 16, 1919, which forebode the transporting, manufacturing, and merchandising of alcoholic beverages. This amendment was in action for fourteen years before the ratification of the twenty-first amendment. The twenty-first amendment, which overturned the eighteenth…

The American civil war was a time of severe devastation. Pinning “brother vs brother”, this war destroyed not only the country’s landscape but also the relationships amongst many. However, from the ashes of this destruction rose heroes willing to fight for what they believed in; freedom. One of these heroes was a man named Newt Knight. Newt was a man who defended his beliefs till the very end, this being said he did not support the beliefs of those for whom he had been forced to fight. With his…

Crotale SAMs. With the advancement of its military, cooperation with the United States to develop an advanced Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) system for assimilation of data to engage targets simultaneously has been vital to anti-air operations. Egyptian Air defense requires technical and maintenance support of existing radars along with Hawk, Chaparral, Sparrow, and the Avenger Air Defense Systems. Egypt looks to procure additional 2D and 3D radars along with…

Do children absorb bias? In recent years, children from Russia and Ukraine, in light of the recent wars between their countries, have been taught that the opponent is evil, although both are of the same blood and ancestry. Other children around the world are being placed in studies which explore this effect of society on their minds. In America, some children participated in the doll experiment, in which two toys were placed in front of them; one black and one white. When asked which doll was…

which began in 1840. Also, there could potentially be four waves now, with all the recent commotion. Anyway, the first wave began in 1840 when two very brave women named Lurcetia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton were told they were not allowed to attend the Anti-Slavery Convention that was being held in London,…

Can one man be the main destruction of an entire nationality ? During the mid 1800’s through the mid 1900’s Jim Crow was that man and along with Jim Crow there were segregation laws, Inequality, and unfair voting rights towards African Americans that has given America a dark history. Dating back to 1865 when segregation first begin to rear its ugly face in American society with miscegenation laws which tried to prevent black and white marriages. Those who did marry had to face life in prison.…

Civil War. In fact, slave narratives written by African Americans had gained more popularity than novels written by African Americans at that time, like those by the renowned Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs. Though perceived as mere means of anti-slavery propaganda by many who supported slavery, these narratives were significant during the 19th century as they began to inspire open discussion about…

“She stripped and flogged me long and severely with the cow- skin; as long as she had strength to use the lash” (Salih, Pg. 16). This was the life of Mary Prince, who grew up as a slave; mistreated for years. This incident was about a jar that accidently slipped from Mary’s hands and broke, but accidents for slaves deemed for cruel punishment, rarely sympathy was given. This makes you wonder how a slave felt during the slavery period, the thoughts running through their head, the fear in their…

In C. Vann Woodward’s book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Woodward talks about the “Twilight Zone” which was the period of myths. Woodward was the first Historian to write about race relations in the time period between 1860 and 1965. Woodward’s purpose of writing this book was to show that segregation even by law has always been prevalent, and to “make the attempt to relate to the origins and development of Jim Crowism to the bewildering rapid changes that have occurred in race relations”…