First Transcontinental Railroad

Harriet Tubman is known for her proactive role in the Underground Railroad. However, most people don 't know much detail about her life. Her childhood, head injury, escape, and actions during the Civil War are also important aspects of her life. She was born under the name Araminta "Minty" Ross. Both of her parents were slaves. Her mother, Harriet "Rit" Green, was owned by Mary Pattison Brodess, and later on by her son Edward. Anthony Thompson owned Araminta 's father, Ben Ross. Mr.…

Underground Railroad was a large network of people, they helped the fugitive slaves escape to the North and Canada. It was not run by one person or one organization, when actually it consisted of many individuals who had limited knowledge of the whole operation. The idea began near the end of the eighteenth century when George Washington complained one of his slaves escaped by the help of “a society of Quakers, formed for such purposes.” Around 1831 it was dubbed the Underground Railroad for the…

Uncle Tom's Cabin is universally acknowledged that Uncle Tom's Cabin has another name --- Life Among the Lowly. Once, President Lincoln greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe by saying that "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” This book expresses the slavery's life under the influence of temporal society. In people’s mind, African American slaves were squalid. As a result, they treat them surlily and opprobriously. Uncle Tom's Cabin implied the Civil War in…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was written based on the Civil War roughly around the 1800’s. Harriet Stowe wrote this novel due to the amount of tragic behaviors that were taken into place of slavery and the way African Americans were treated in the south. Harriet made her beliefs about how slavery was pure evil and her rebel against slavery all into a story called Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Harriet made all the characters in her novel nonfictional but, everything she…

Abolitionist view slavery in a whole different perspective than whites did. Sinning against the nation, whites were tearing these innocent humans down for their benefit and abolitionist would not stand for such acts. Frederick Douglass had strong view on slavery and disapproved of all the treatment given out to such innocent people. In Douglass’s speech, in 1894 he stated, “”To deny education to any people is one of the greatest crimes against human nature. It is to deny them the means of…

Samuel Zemurray and Madame C.J. Walker were viewed from many for achieving the American Dream, the two embodied the quintessential American success stories of a Russian immigrant and daughter of a former slave. Zemurray and Walker, while they had completely different racial backgrounds, the two ultimately were more similar than not, and battled many of the same hardships. In a time of white privilege, many disadvantages emerged for an immigrant and African American women, the odds were strongly…

brave act. The Underground Railroad was run by thousands of people that thought all people were created equal. The railroad was created in 1810 and helped move thousands of African Americans from the South to the free north of the U.S and Canada. The conception that the Underground Railroad was a well organized, perfectly functioning, utility used to free slaves, is an exaggeration. The railroad was actually a lot more spontaneous. There was not one head of the railroad; there were hundreds of…

woman from the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, created a hope for other slaves freedom by conducting the Underground Railroad. She was a slave herself and she wanted to help other slaves in need. Harriet Tubman risked at least two lives every time she went to save a slave in need of her help, Harriet's and the slave's (sometimes there were multiple slaves). She…

“Reality is wrong.Dreams are for real.” This quote by Tupac Shakur tells us Americans anything is possible and to not let reality tell you any different.Growing up in poverty makes people stronger, wiser, and more appreciative with life. The American Dream is a difference in life, a difference in rights and a difference in the love for your country. In the Poem “Ellis Island” written by Joseph Bruchac, Bruchac explains how his grandparents were two little kids who were looking forward to coming…

Harriet Tubman is a abolitionist women, That was worked hard trying to end slavery. She dreamed every day that slavery will come to a end. She died March 10th 1913. Harriet Was involved in War more. She se out raise funds for the war effort. She became more and more Famous. She tried her best to free the blacks, because she was tired of working for other people and being a slave and she knew the slaves felt the same way she did. Most people looked at her as being Moses because he help a couple…