Army of the Tennessee

Many places that were a part of the Manhattan Project were affected environmentally too. One of which is Oak Ridge, Tennessee which was a town that was made to specifically help out with the project. Although none of the residents knew they were making a bomb during it. The town has much evidence of radioactive contamination. In 1987 tests showed that heavy metals and…

worked with Ross Perot to make HP public, and then started Home Depot with Bernard Marcus which went public in 1981. Number Seven: Oprah Winfrey Our favorite TV show host Oprah was born in a poor family in Mississippi but she won a scholarship to Tennessee State University and became the first African American TV correspondent at just 19 years of age. She then worked for the Oprah Winfrey Show in 1983. Number Six: Shahid Khan Khan came to the US from Pakistan and while attending the…

him with bigamy. Although, Jacksons defenders had claimed that they had believed that Rachel had already been divorced when they married. From the beginning, Andrew and Rachel, were what many had considered a perfect love match. Jackson’s rise in Tennessee politics was meteoric, attesting to his strength of character. In 1795, he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. He was Tennessee’s first congressman, then he became a senator. He gave up his senate post after a year, for a…

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has been a controversial terroristic group over the years in the United States since their inception. They first came into existence in the “South” during radicalization of the “Reconstruction Era.” Actually, during “pre-civil war era,” “segregation of blacks” was the norm, as they were controlled by societal elites. Historical facts depict that this “organization” was originated upon great detestation by the “Klansmen” toward the newly “emancipated freedmen” for…

However, after the course of the war took place, it prompted him to change his mind, thus, resulting in the President to take three major steps, just months before the war ended. Once Tennessee and Missouri illegalized slavery, the U.S. House of Representatives were quick to pass the thirteenth amendment, resulting in the new amendment to become law across the United States. Because of the new law, it removed and lingering doubts about…

In the book Fort Pillow, a Civil War Massacre, and Public Memory Cimprich’s goal is to reveal to readers the importance of Fort Pillow. He does this by portraying the lives of the general’s and soldiers living in or near Fort Pillow, Tennessee. He also briefly describes the massacre that occurred, and has allowed one to see how memories of that event interpreted the succeeding generations outlook. The message that Cimprich is trying to convey is that racism was the center cause of the Fort…

In the time she lived, many believed she was not capable of being successful. They probably thought, she’s just a girl, what could she do? Little did these people know that she would become one of the best in her career. Mary Walker proved these people wrong by being a very important part of history. A civil rights activist that changed the course of the civil war. Mary Walker was born November 26, 1832 in Oswego, New York. She was one of six children; five girls and one boy. The Walker family…

the 1840s? What role did Andrew Jackson play in the Trail of Tears? What does his response to the removal reveal about Jackson’s vision of democracy? Early 1830s, hundreds of Native Americans lived on acres of land in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. However, the Europeans that began to inhabit the western frontier were scared of the Native Americans that they came in contact with. They were scared of what they did not know and they wanted the land that the Native Americans…

African American Speech Maker is an oracle of all the great voice written and heard through the time of the Mayflower until now. In the book of Fitch; how sweet the sound is about the spirit of African American History. It shows that they were some of the greatest speechmaker of their own time. The book speaks of African American speech, tradition, community, ceremony, and rituals and how it gave them the strength to persist in their struggle toward freedom. In Vincent Harding speech he uses…

The effects of the Trail of Tears When we think of the first people in America, whom do we think of? Of course, Christopher Columbus comes to mind. Yet, the first people on land were the native people. Native people were the first people to set foot on this soil, long before any white person. Regrettably, the federal government brutally attacked and removed from the Indians from homelands that they dearly loved. Native people was forced to walk thousands of miles to a specific place “Indian…